Daron Blackman

Background

About Daron Blackman

VPN Connectivity including Cisco, Fortinet, SonicWALL Extensive experience from Cisco PIX to ASA firewalls Routing/Switching experience on various platforms including Cisco, Nexus, and HP Extensive experience troubleshooting networking issues down to the workstation level PCI Testing and vulnerability testing and remediation experience Extensive experience with Office 365 migrations, including but not limited to ADFS, DirSync-AAD Sync, advanced PowerShell commands within Office 365, hybrid deployments, and initial analysis of existing setup Port scanning and hardening to only allow necessary ports where applicable Experience with Citrix Xen Server, installation, configuration, and manageability Experience planning and deploying all aspects of a windows network installation implementation Experience planning, maintaining, and implanting networking of multiple site network connectivity including metro connections, MPLS, and VPN connectivity Linux/Unix experience including installation of OS, application, and hardening of applications Windows batch file scripting and PowerShell experience Extensive Windows server experience including Forest/Trust creations and authentication Extensive DR experience, ranging from rebuilding lost switch/router/firewall/server configurations/backup and restoration of data, even while hosting in a temporary location due to loss of client’s physical office Extensive experience with Group Policy and locking down workstations/RDS servers. Windows Azure experience Office 365 implementation and migration experience. Onsite Exchange server installation, maintenance, and support, including Active Sync, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SPF Extensive DNS expertise including the use of Cloud Flare and various technologies available for DNS assistance. Extensive experience installing and managing Microsoft SQL Server ranging from Enterprise Clustering to single instance installations. VMware Automation Powershell Ruby automation