Paul Connor Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I am very pleased to join Bell Integration and look forward to the challenges ahead.

London, United Kingdom

• I run a UK Limited Company specialising in IT Consultancy Services (established 1998) and have enjoyed contracting for a large variety of clients including: Royal London
• Barclays
• Schroders
• JP Morgan Chase
• IBM
• Legal & General

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Summary
• Wintel technical lead inside a major data centre migration programmeMy responsibilities:
• Migration of ~1300 Windows and Linux services supporting critical business services across core and DMZ network environments Development of architectural principles and design decisions encompassing migration.
• I played a pivotal role with hands-on migration efforto Physical server migrations: HPE Synergy / BladeSystem c7000 chassiso Zerto Move operations & VMware vSphere 6.5 vMotion + Storage VMotion operationso VMware.
• Royal London runs a vast array of services including: Active Directory; Exchange; DFS-R File Services; Oracle; SQL Server; Certificate Services; Proxy & Reverse Proxy systems; McAfee security products; F5 load.

London, United Kingdom

• Summary
• I joined an ex-colleague at Comic Relief on a pre-agreed short fixed-term contract, supporting business transition from on-premise services to both public cloud (Microsoft Azure) and a selected private cloud partnerMy.
• Azure AD / Office 365 Migrationso Single Sign-On (SSO) / SAML integration with enterprise applications Office 365
• Box
• Freshservice
• Workplace by Facebook

Knutsford, Cheshire, England, WA16 9EU

• Summary
• Upgrade of a range of diverse applications and operating environments to the latest supported standardso Amazon Web Services (AWS) preferred target platform vs. on-premise deploymentTechnical designer for OS and.
• Production of high-level design (HLD) documentation
• Designs to meet operating system, software currency and security compliance requirements
• Governance board presentationsProducts and features of upgrade designs:
• Migration planning leveraging AWS core services: EC2

Working directly for the IBM Chief Architect on a major UK client data centre move and transformation programme my responsibilities included planning, development and design of a number of key technology initiatives.An exciting role with constant exposure to a broad range of leading IBM hardware and software solutions:-Technology Road-map PlanningSoftware.

Transport for London (TfL) manages public transport services across the Capital. A large and diverse organisation (20,000+ users) – I have contributed in-depth across a number of virtualisation and Windows infrastructure solutions:-TfL Enterprise Platform (VMware vSphere) design & implementation- HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosures- HP BL495c Blades; QLogic.

I find myself leaving Barclays on completion of a major and very successful project!Working for Windows Platform Group (WPG), I participated in a number of important business projects, however none as significant as “ATM Refresh” (ATMR). Barclays embarked on an ambitious programme to refresh their entire UK ATM solution – Finextra newswire reported “The.

Barclays Desktop ServicePlus (BDS+) programme formed a huge multi-year investment by the Bank in refresh of its business desktop, and back-end network services. This was an exciting project, introducing brand new, and feature rich network services to the business.I worked closely with many of the core Microsoft technologies and managed implementation of a.

JPMorganChase is a leading global financial services firm. This massive & complex network environment, coupled with high service levels, meant frequent exposure to difficult problems. I worked at a senior level in support of diverse server infrastructure.Although my role was primarily 3rd level infrastructure support, it was particularly interesting to.

Schroders is a global leader in asset management. I was involved in the support of large Wintel Servers. At that time (1998) these servers were quite extraordinary -- each server with 350GB+ storage capacity, 1000+ active user connections, software-mirrored with DR partner servers several kilometres away.I also played a lead role in migration of 500+ HP.

B.Sc, Mathematics, Physics

27 Feb 1984 - 01 December 1987 Prior to 1998, names of graduates are recorded in the Victoria University of Wellington Calendar. Please.

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