Intro
So you've somehow stumbled upon this site wondering what the heck it is... Well I guess the answer depends more upon what were you expecting to find, Vayl for 14 years was a small northern California consulting firm specializing in IT Sales and Technical Support eventually moving to Solution Artictect roles.
That changed a bit in 2011 as I went to work as a UC Architect for a West coast based Health Care system and then later working as Microsoft employee in Unified Communications. Vayl transitioned to game design and hosting of speciality projects. If you've browsed to the site via seeing the license plate or perhaps the phone numbers or word of mouth this front page may be confusing to you as the various projects are all more subdomain based and thus not visible to the spiders of Bing and Google.
UC Sales Architect
Microsoft Corp 2016-2017 - Quick Start Award Winner, Salesman of the Quarter 1st Quarter 2016
Primarily responsible for articulating Microsoft’s vision and strategy with Skype for Business to drive business transformation with the next generation of enterprise communications for 23 customers in the Northern California region and 6 Global Enterprises.
Architecture and implementation of upgrade from Lync Server 2013 to Skype for Business 2015 for 156,000 users in the US and UK with 2 data centers in a virtualized environment.
Architecture and implementation of Hybrid Lync/SfB 2015 servers to Skype for Business Online for 4 customers totaling 500,000 user accounts, and then oversaw the completion of migration from PoC to final turnover to the existing teams.
UC Systems Architect
Adventist Health 2011-2016 - Senior Exchange Engineer, Senior Lync Engineer, Senior O365 Engineer
Responsible for planning, testing, tuning, configuration and setup of the enterprise O365 (E5 Plan) environment for 61000 User Objects in Exchange, Skype for Business, SharePoint, OneDrive & Azure Services.
Senior Solutions Architect
Vayl Solutions 2004-2011
Senior Consultant for Vayl Solutions covering various contracts including:
Senior Oracle Engineer for Genentech - Optimization and quarterly maintenance for their Oracle 7 systems
Senior Systems Engineer for Pure Gold Enterprises - Redesigned all POS, security & surveillance systems, and web site with a ecommerce system
Senior Network Engineer for Grant Joint Union School District - Mass cleanup/new import of a 87000 object AD environment
Senior Systems Administrator for Coldwell Banker Real Estate – Office 365 E3/Intune Cloud Migration for their office
Senior Systems Engineer for Pride Industries – Architect and Deployed SCCM 2012 System for IR, SR Replacement. Setup and configured SCOM for monitoring and inventory control.
Senior Consultant for Megs County Prosecutors Office – Complete migration of Exchange 2010 data and other on-prem services to Office 365 E4. Migrated entire county agency to Azure, Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint Online services.
2nd Class Petty Officer
Sonar Technician US Navy 2002-2004 - Fastest E1-E5 promotion Navy history at that point
Responsibilities included... protecting this great nation and the folks in it