Engineering Lead for Tesco Bank responsible for Active Directory Domain Services, Certificate Services, Federation Servers and Azure Directory Services. During my time at Tesco Bank they were migrating all their services from an on premise data centre to AWS. The role involved the migration of these services to the Cloud and updating standards to ensure FFP.

* Upgrade of AD domains to 2012R2 level.* Evaluation and recomendation of 2012R2 features.* Performance troubleshooting.* PowerShell automation.

• Support of hybrid on premise Exchange 2007\2010 and Exchange online environment including AD Federation Services, Web Application Proxy and AD Connect to provide single sign on.• Support of VMWare and Citrix environments.• Support of Barracuda web filter appliances.• Support of Manage Engine monitoring solution.

Working in the Cyber Security project team as tech lead on three rolesActive Directory Upgrade• Designed and implemented AD upgrade from Windows 2003 to Windows 2016• Global AD estate covering 16 sites across EMEA, APAC and AMER regions• Domain Controllers deployed to AWS locations to meet business requirements.• Upgrade of all AD integrated components to be 2016 aware e.g IBM Security Manger, Dell Password Manager• Providing guidance on best practises and clean-up of AD environment prior to upgrade* Review and reconfiguration of AWS environments to confirm to best practise standards.* GPO consolidation.* PowerShell automation.PKI Upgrade• Existing PKI solution was single tier with Root CA using SHA-1 hash • Designed and migrated to two tier architecture with offline root CA and enterprise subordinate CA using SHA256 hash• New design to support computer based certificate authentication for WLAN accessMonitoring• Migrated existing Solarwinds solution from SNMP to WMI based.• Existing solution essentially only alerted on node up/down• New solution fully application aware e.g services offline, performance metric based providing proactive monitoring

Datacentre Migrations* P2V of all server based infrastructure using Veeam Backup and Platespin software.* Windows XP – Windows 7 VDI migration.* Lotus Notes – MS Exchange migration.* Build out of ESXi 5.5 servers and HP SAN and QNAP storage appliances (iSCSI + NFS).* Building SCCM packages to remove redundant software and apply RLG standard agents.* Tasked with providing DR solution for all server infrastructure migrated.* PowerShell scripting to automate key migration tasks.Virtualisation UpgradeRoyal London Asset Management project to upgrade\consolidate existing infrastructure* Author of high level and low level design to upgrade\consolidate existing infrastructure from v4.x to 5.5 ESXi and backend vCentre. Design included compute, network and storage layers.* Build out of new ESXi servers and HP FC SAN.* Performance analysis of ESX infrastructure to ensure no performance degradation for applications post migration.* Upgrade of Veeam Backup and Recovery solution.* Providing DR replication solution.* PowerCli scripting to automate key migration tasks.* Migrated all RLAM resources to new infrastructre with zero downtime.Solvency IIDue to the Solvency II EU directive RLG initiated a major project to upgrade key finance applications* Working with Oracle\KPMG to integrate RLG on premise applications with applications hosted in Oracle's private and public cloud* Implementing AD Federation Services to allow single sign on to applications hosted in Oracle’s cloud.* Deliver new applications (AutoRek\SAS) from project initiation to production support. Tasks included writing OAT\DR plans and support documentation. Providing handover session with production support teams and writing PowerShell script to automate complex startup tasks.* Designed Dollar Universe automation solution for over 100 integrations to allow for key application workflows. Solution allows the integration of SQL, SFTP and Web Services processes.

• Technical lead on 6 data centre migrations projects.• Technical lead on P2V project which had an aim to virtualise 50% of current estate.• VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix, AD and Windows platform lead for global estate as part of the FTS 3rd line team• Design, upgrade, migration and consolidation of Windows Active Directory domains• Support of 1000 Microsoft SAN attached clusters• Support of over 4000 ESX servers.• Support of over 100 Active Directory domains.• Support of over 50,000 Wintel servers globally.

Provide Wintel\Vmware support\design for the Investment Management line in EMEA

Designed Wintel\Active Directory\Virtualistion solutions to support various large and small scale customers.

Provided support from internal Windows and OS/2 systems.