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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.
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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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