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Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Corsham, England, United Kingdom

Swindon, United Kingdom

Swindon, United Kingdom

Provide design, planning and implementation of a new DR solution to service the business and its customers by utilising existing storage and network infrastructure.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Assisting UK SBS with their major upgrade strategy which includes:New tiered VMware clusters to government high security standard IL3New AD forest/domain implementation to high security standards with planned migration of entire business and client network and applications.Implementation of Office 365 services to the business and its clients including Exchange Online and Lync Online

Gloucester, United Kingdom

My initial role was to provide much needed infrastructure and network skills to undertake a full review of the existing UK estate to present recommendations and perform necessary upgrades, rebuilds and implement new solutions. I quickly became involved in infrastructure projects across other territories including US and German offices.Key projects undertaken include:Design, plan, project manage and implement a global on premise upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2013 across 4 sites ensuring site resiliency in UK locations via DAG’s on Windows Server 2012 R2Provide expertise and design assistance on a new VMware vCenter 5.5 cluster in US officeVMware vCenter 5.1 upgrade from 4.1 across 2 datacenters including 12 host rebuilds to standardise host configuration with zero downtimeVMware SRM 5.1 design, installation and configuration utilising existing array replication on Dell EqualLogic SAN's. This enabled the business to reduce the external DR contract by £50,000/yr. Successful delivery of Gloucester office relocation acting as Technical Project Manager responsible for IT budget management, datacentre suite design, new Cisco LAN switch, new Cisco UCM 9.1 VoIP telephony solution (managed prior upgrade of London office Cisco UCM 6.1 to UCM 9.1) and relocation of primary datacentre (8 cabs).Virtualise and rebuild existing Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox CCR Cluster to increase resiliency, reduce risk of system failuresReview of existing IT Infrastructure and processes to document, recommend and implement improvements. Some key projects were: Rebuild existing unstable Citrix Web Interface 5.x server with NLB ClusterDeploy SecurEnvoy Two Factor Authentication (2FA)Review and reconfigure VMware in Germany officeRecommend low tier, high volume iSCSI SAN storage for disk backup and reducing the capacity and IO constraints on the primary SAN storageComplete redesign of Veeam v7 backup topology ensuring entire estate is protected and increase deduplication

Yate, Bristol

Manage Service Desk and Infrastructure teams serving 1100+ users across 30+ sites operating on a private MPLS network, monitor and maintain network protection technologies including firewall, endpoint encryption, web and cloud level email filtering. Maintain Mobile Iron mobile device management (MDM) solution and Blackberry Enterprise/Express Server (BES). Project management of all infrastructure installations and upgrades to core network, office refit/relocation project management, maintain VMWare environment including SRM between CoLo's, maintain Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop / Provisioning environment. Liase with suppliers and negotiate costs

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Manage a small team of technicians. Design, install, configure, secure and support/maintanance all IT systems within the business including Exchange, database server farm, web hosting. Project Management, provide expert advice on IT requirements,