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Helping Business Succeed Through Technology Innovation


About Our Business

Gilham Consulting is a Microsoft Certified Information Technology Consulting firm. Committed to delivering quality solutions, Gilham Consulting collaborates with its clients to help them achieve their highest performance in Microsoft best practices.

We operate in the U.S. and are headquartered in San Diego.

Gilham Consulting helps organizations gain better control and insight over their content, streamline their business processes, and access and share information using Microsoft technology solutions.

Contact us to learn how we can use our expertise to your business advantage.


About The Founder
John Gilham - Principle Consultant
 
As a IT versatilist, with exposure to a variety of industries, I have been in a position to apply technologies in simplified, modular, and well architected manner.  By applying these technological solutions toward business requirements, I have assisted business stakeholders in streamlining their IT operations through cost savings (automation, virtualization, operations, ITIL) and innovation (collaboration tools, business process engineering, knowledge management.).  
 
I have achieved excellence in business and IT integration through leading, managing, and contributing in technology and business automation projects over the past 12 years. I have performed at every level of technology integration including architecture, solution design, and project management.  Solution engagement clients have ranged from Fortune 100 companies to well funded startups all across North America.

My core technical focus is on making Customer's realize the potential of their existing Microsoft platform. However, my business experience allows me to apply these skills on any technology platform or network infrastructure.

My extensive business and technology experience has given me abundant opportunities to identify accurately the suitable technological solutions to business problems.  I have honed my skills to avoid the pitfalls of adapting technologies for technology's sake at an organization to focusing on business goals and end user adoption.

I enjoy the opportunity to assist in shaping an organization's technical directions.

     

 Business & Technical Experience

Work Experience

2006 – Gilham Consulting, Principle Consultant

2004 – GTC Systems, Microsoft Solutions Manager

  • Microsoft solution consulting targeted at small and mid sized businesses.
  • Largest Project – Sempra Energy (9mo) focusing on ITIL/MOF IT management methodology in a Microsoft enviroment and a 15,000 user Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Active directory migration.

2000 – Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Solutions Consultant

  • Developed SMS Automated OS Deployment POC eventually rolled in to the SMS 2003 Deployment pack.
  • Business Desktop Deployment Accelerator solution architect. One year project top optimize Windows deployment experience for customers. Worked with Windows, Office, and SMS product groups to provide customer pain points and improve product deployment and long term management.
  • Enterprise Strategy Consulting with various Fortune 100 companies.
  • East Region Lead for Mobility Solution (1y) and Desktop Deployment Solutions (3y).
  • Largest project – Project lead for KPMG Global 70,000+ user NT 4 to Windows 2000 upgrade project. I lead or participated in the initial team selection, nationwide rollout process consisting of mobile “fly teams”, Windows 2000 image for CD or network deployment, managing 40+ application developers to remediate over 2,000 internal applications for Windows 2000 compliance. 100% project goals completed with 0% data loss for 70,000 user upgrade with my automated user data backup and Windows scripting process. Became KPMG global liaison for 3 months providing best practices on Windows deployment methodology to KPMG’s management and staff globally

1996 – TransNet, Sr. Systems Engineer & Sales Engineer

  • Sr Systems Engineer – Microsoft MCSE+I, Cisco CCDA/CCNA, Novell MCNE+NT, Compaq MasterASE
  • Managed 25+ VOIP network installs (Cisco Phones & PBX Trunking)
  • Project manager of 100+ multi-site network deployments including: managing network and server design, wiring contractors, server install and DR plan, managing customer success criteria, customer liaison to technology vendors and telecoms companies.
  • High availability Compaq server design engineer and install coordination for Colgate, Merck, Johnson & Johnson for one year.
  • Building Merck’s Wintel New Jersey datacenter infrastructure including coordinating onsite installs of over 250+ server racks of server and networking equipment over one year.
  • Mentored junior staff, taught complete MCSE and CCNA training classes to are internal technical staff of 250+, developed service delivery framework as company transitioned to Professional services firm from primarily hardware sales.
  • Largest Project – Managed nationwide project for consultant for Tesseract Schools, a private education company. In 1997, this was one of the first “laptop for every child concept schools” in the country. I managed the full technology integration from the intital sales process, to selecting network and environmental locations for 10 schools during construction, to managing the network/server install, to training faculty on managing local server infrastructure.

1995 – Certified Aggregate Quarry, Laborer

  • Sand and gravel mine
  • Made big rocks in to small rocks
  • Family business

 

Technical Experience

Active Directory, PKI, and Single Sign-On Architecture:

RF Magic & Entropic MNA, Sempra Energy, UCSD Medical Center, Home Depot MNA, Johnson & Johnson MNA, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Earnst & Young, Anderson Consulting, Merck, Phizer, KDC Telecomm, UPS, North Island Federal Credit Union, Microsoft (4y)

Exchange Deployment, Secure Web Access, Mobile Messaging, ISA:

North Island Federal Credit Union, UPS, Phizer, Deloitte & Touche, EAppraiseIT.com, Whitecap Construction, Microsoft (4y), Orange County ROP, Procopio

Windows Infrastructure and High Availability:

North Island Federal Credit Union, Sempra Energy, AME Finiancial, eAppraiseIT.com, Xerox, Kodak, Veridian Data Systems, Contentville.com, Verizon, Microsoft (4yr), MOF Certification, ITIL Fundamentals Certification.

Sharepoint Collaboration & Instant Messaging:

Kalypsys, Procopio, Sempra Energy, Phizer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Microsoft (4y)

Client Deployment & Systems Center (Systems Center, SMS, MOM, Analytics):

UCSD Medical Center, Martha Stewart, Merck, Lucent Technologies, Earnst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, UPS.

Terminal Services & Citrix:

UPS, Kalypsys, Whitecap Construction Supply, GTC Systems – Citrix Platinum Partner (2yr), Microsoft (4yr)

Security, Networking and VOIP

Managed over 100+ network multi site Cisco network installs including network design, coordination and mentoring install teams and vendors, telecom circuit coordination, Transnet – Cisco Gold Partner (3yr), Microsoft (4yr), GTC Systems – Cisco Partner (2yr), CCNA/CCDA (3yr), Cisco PIX (3y), Checkpoint (3y)

 Employers

Expand/Collapse Employer : Gilham Consulting ‎(1)
Principle Consultant, Advanced Microsoft Solutions1/15/2006
Expand/Collapse Employer : GTC Systems ‎(1)
Practice Manager, Microsoft Solutions8/1/2004
Expand/Collapse Employer : Microsoft Corporation ‎(3)
Microsoft Windows Deployment Accelerator10/1/2002
Enterprise Windows Platform Consultant7/1/2001
Enterprise Mobility Solutions Consultant12/15/1999
Expand/Collapse Employer : TransNet ‎(4)
Sr. Cisco Network Engineer & Sr. Project Manager8/1/1998
Sr. Systems Engineer6/1/1997
Sr. Staff Technician6/1/1996
Desktop Technician2/1/1996

 Certifications

Expand/Collapse Vendor : Cisco ‎(2)
Cisco Certified Network Associate2/8/1999
Cisco Certified Design Associate12/7/1999
Expand/Collapse Vendor : Citrix ‎(2)
Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator5/28/2005
Citrix Certified Administrator5/15/2005
Expand/Collapse Vendor : HP/Compaq ‎(2)
Master Accredited Systems Engineer in Clustering and High Availability8/16/1999
Accredited Systems Engineer - Proliant Servers1/21/1998
Expand/Collapse Vendor : ITIL ‎(1)
ITIL Foundations3/19/2002
Expand/Collapse Vendor : Microsoft ‎(3)
Microsoft MCSE5/28/1997
Microsoft MCP3/21/1997
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet3/26/1998
Expand/Collapse Vendor : Novell ‎(3)
Novell Master Certified Novell Engineer3/16/1999
Novell Certified Network Engineer10/17/1997
Novell Certified Network Administrator11/3/1997
Expand/Collapse Vendor : Project Management Institute ‎(1)
Certified Associate in Project Management9/18/2002


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