Greetings and Happy New Year!

I'm looking for someone - either you or someone you may know - to help a small company with the following:

- Root Cause Analysis and remediation recommendations on a server outage when the  Domain Controller lost power;

- Depending on the remediation recommendations, execute plan if company staff doesn't feel comfortable with doing it themselves;

- Follow-on project involving upgrading their Exchange 2003 (I think - really old) to current.

This is a side gig - no benefits, no salary, just beer money (a little more than a six-pack).  The RCA part might be good for 5-10 hours and the Exchange piece???  That's why I need you!  I don't care about your rate as the company is paying you so you need to sell it to the Boss.  I'm here to introduce you.  Speaking of introductions, physical presence in Phoenix is important as the owner is old-school and does business with a face-to-face meeting and a handshake.  The tech work can be done virtually.  Kick-off and final delivery meetings will be in-person.

Client company is a pleasure to work with and they are realistic about what they can do and what they can't do.  The IT staff consist of 2 full-time programmers and the Operations Manager oversees the staff.  The lead programmer handles the Windows Updates, but he is not an Engineer.  Company provides 24x7 service to approximately 100 municipalities and growing, and they place value on supportability, stability and security, which is why they want to upgrade Exchange, and are very interested in the investigating and fixing the cause of the outage.

The company outsourced their infrastructure build to another company who came in, worked magic, and kept the secret sauce a secret.  The relationship deteriorated, and now they have stuff that works, but they don't have all the skills necessary to upgrade it and there is little documentation.  I've been able to manage their Windows DNS because that is not strictly a Microsoft technology, but they need serious Microsoft admin/engineering skills to deal with the Domain Controller and Exchange.

In summary:

I need a Windows Server Engineer in Phoenix that can figure stuff out, document solutions (or I'll document), and work magic without keeping the secret sauce.  A Windows Engineer that speaks Linux would be ideal.

If you are interested, or know someone who is, please respond to george@digitalgridllc.com. 

Cheers!