About Nimble
History
In 1993, Richard Sonnier founded Net Partners, Inc. to provide IT
services to Houston organizations. In 2001, Net Partners, Inc. formed
Nimble Services, Inc (Nimble) for this IT services business with
Richard Sonnier as its President. Today, Nimble continues its 12-year
history of excellent service to its loyal customers.

Over its history, the firm has designed and implemented numerous IT
projects. Since 1993, the firm has completed large projects (over 500
hours) for Exxon, Shell, Kraton Polymers, BMC Software, Global Marine,
GlobalSantaFe, Landmark Graphics, GX Technologies, Adams & Reese,
and TIW.
Within the government sector, the firm has delivered projects at
Bonneville Power Administration, a Department of Energy (DOE) agency
and has ongoing projects delivering IT services to the DOE. In
addition, the firm is currently pursuing multiple projects with the
DOE. Each project is valued at over $100,000.00. Furthermore, the firm
is currently pursuing projects with University of Houston and the City
of Sugar Land. In recent activities, the firm has completed initial IT
evaluations for Channelview ISD.
Past Projects
- Active Directory and Exchange Projects
- Design of Active Directory and migration NT 4.0 domain
for an 8000-employee oil drilling company.
- Many Exchange 5.5 and NT 4.0 domain migrations to
Exchange2000/2003 and Active Directory including complex multiple site
migrations
- Integrating Linux and UNIX with Active Directory using
Samba and Bind DNS
- Integrating enterprise application like PeopleSoft and
SilverStream with Active Directory
- Directory synchronization/migration projects with Active
Directory using several commercial packages like Netscape LDAP server,
BindView, Qwest FastLane, and NetIQ.
- Created Group Policies templates for compatible use
across NT 4.0 domain and Active Directory
- Software installation via Group Policies and SMS
- Active Directory automation using VB scripts, LDAP and
LDIF
- Integration of Apple Macs into Active Directory and
Exchange
- Migration of NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2000 Active
Directory and further migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory
- IT Projects
- High availability servers using Microsoft Cluster and
ORACLE databases
- Design of large Exchange environment with over 200 sites
- Implemented clustered PeopleSoft system with clustered
SQL Server
- Design large Citrix and Terminal Server environments
- Backup/restore/disaster recovery implementations for
enterprise systems using NetBackup, Legato, BackupExec and custom
scripts
- Numerous security projects including security assessments
and policy development
- Internet firewalls
- Enterprise performance and application monitoring with
BMC Patrol, BEST/1 and SiteScope
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