Samuel DREY

- Same position as EMEA Consultant, but now based in Ottawa,Canada.
- Opportunity to discover Canadian customers, identify their needs and their way of work.
- Position including project management and account management.
Main customers (dedicated): Public Works Canada and Department of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada.

- Specialized in financial sector
- Managed customer and Microsoft reltionship between Microsoft divisions.
- Answer to customer's needs, technical and sales related, and guide through all internal Microsoft divisions, sales (product group, sales management) and technical (developers, support, consulting).
- Manage technical and political crisis for Microsoft and the customer.
- Manage customer's IT development, administration and optimization.
- Detect and develop key projects that will help customers to take the best from Microsoft technologies to reduce their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
Got the ITIL v3 Foundation certification.
> Key customer : Société Générale leading french bank.

Microsoft Consulting Services.
---- project manager
---- partners manager
---- Architect

Key projects :
---- Présidence de la République : Messaging migration from Groupwise + Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 (messaging architect, technical advisor and communication leader for the customer)
---- Crédit Agricole Bank (CALYON) : messaging migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003 (address book synchronization from different organizations - 26 000 entries + mailbox migration)
---- ANPE - architect and technical advisor for a long term mission. Architect for Exchange 2003 - Exchange 2007 migration.

Other projects including but not limited to :
- Thalès company (Mobile messaging architecture design for military communication outposts)
- Crédit Du Nord french bank (Messaging migration and optimization - Exchange 2003)
- NATIXIS french bank (Exchange Server 2007 messaging architect - vision scope/general and detailed architecture/migration project plan designer including resources scaling and timeframe)
- BNP Paribas french bank for an Office Communications Server 2007 Proof of Concept and optimization project
- EFMA (a French organization working with the biggest French banks) for a complete Unified Communications project including an AD, Exchange Server 2007 CCR-based architecture and Office Communications Server 2007 architecture

Consulting and on-site Support mission for Microsoft Windows Server and Exchange Server technologies. An average of 130 missions realized accross Europe (20+ countries visited). The missions were either proactive missions (such as IT audit, optimizations, migrations), reactive (critical issues on IT infrastructures that prevents the companies to work efficiently) and customer trainings.
- ExRap Mentor (helping the US in designing the first Exchange Risk Assessment Program)
- Very first Premier Field Engineer in overall Southern Europe based in Microsoft France

- Case studies, procedure and architecture validations, and technical support on Exchange Server 5.0, 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
- 1 technical publication ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx... )
- 3 days of JTE (technical presentation to 100 customers)

Presales Engineer for partners. Participation on technical meetings, presales consulting. Got the MCSE Certification.