UC Consultant, SC Cleared.Well versed in working in the pressures of UK Government / Defence estates. Comfortable with liaising with stakeholders from an end-user to technical to senior leadership level. 2016 - 2022 working almost exclusively with legacy OCS / Lync / Skype for Business deployments in secure environments.Deployments and migrations in estates of several thousand users (36k, 30k, 10k in last 5 years).Long time Microsoft experience, including, but not limited to:* UC and IM products from LCS --> SfB 2019, including some voice and hybrid. Exposure therefore to load balancing, proxy and basic voice / video solutions and UC endpoints, (I actually remember the IM product available on the Exchange 2000 CD prior to LCS).* Teams knowledge, esp connectivity with on-prem Skype deployments.* Exchange server design, implementation, upgrade, transition, migration. (5.5 --​> 2016) * Active Directory design, implementation, upgrade, migration (NT4 --​> --​> Windows 2016)* Sound base knowledge of ADFS / AADConnect / DirSync / M365 / O365.* Basic working knowledge of Azure.* Exposure to AWS, VMWare, Hyper-V and their fit within in UC Environments.