Kent Pate, Microsoft Practice Director

Kent Pate is Quantam Solutions’ Microsoft Practice Director. He brings over 20 years of experience designing and deploying Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions for both large global companies and domestic state and local governments. Kent has provided guidance to CIOs, CTOs and Directors while leading teams consisting of IT administrators to deliver world class Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions.  Over the years, Kent has been able to develop a unique blend of technical knowledge and problem solving skills with people and communication skills, while maintaining strong leadership and an emphasis on the customer.

Kent also has extensive experience in developing and performing numerous complex migration solutions to assist clients in consolidating their directory and e-mail environments while transitioning to different technology platforms.  He has worked with numerous products and services from countless technology companies, engaging at the CXO level in most cases.

Kent has a wealth of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2012, System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012 R2, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007/2010/2012, Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010, Microsoft Lync 2010/2013,  Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Office 365, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Novell’s NDS, Novell’s GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange, PKI, DNS, DHCP solutions to name just a few.

Kent received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Michigan State University.

Contact Kent Pate at kpate@iQuantam.com or 248.619.3643