Prestigious professional services firm in Chicago is looking for Unified Communications Consultant to support the needs of their growing clientele. The Unified Comunications Senior Consultant is responsible for: Work independently or on a team to build, deploy, and migrate customers to Microsoft Unified Communications Platform including Exchange, Lync, and Office 365 Participate in customer team meetings to gather business and technical requirements for projects Participate in team meetings to discuss ongoing project status and deliverables Apply and share knowledge; contribute ideas and opinions Participate in customer team meetings and lead conversations with senior client personnel to understand business requirements and present technical solutions Convey technical concepts clearly and confidently to non-technical people Understand the development life cycle processes and applies our methodology effectively to client engagements; train and mentor others Develop accurate estimates and project plans for portions of a project; lead team meetings to discuss ongoing project status and deliverables; assist team in meeting project goals and timelines Convert business requirements into sound technical solutions including both high-level architecture and detailed design Architect complex systems that leverage multiple technologies, contain multiple layers, and/or integrate with multiple external systems Manage his or her own work with minimal oversight and proactively communicates status and risks to project leadership Direct the work of others including task management, quality management, and providing developmental feedback Adheres to, communicates and enforces Perficient coding standards; train and mentor others Apply and share knowledge; contribute ideas and opinions Required Skill Set: Exchange 2003/2007/2010 deployment and migration experience Experience deploying and configuring Office Communication Server or Lync Server 2010 Experience with Microsoft Online Services (Office 365 or BPOS) Experience with any of the following a plus: Cisco/Avaya IP Telephony, Quest or BinaryTree migration tools, Lotus Notes and Groupwise migrations Achievement of Exchange or Lync/OCS Microsoft certification(s)