Daniel King Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, England, Gb

Nottingham, Gb

Home Based

Handling all aspects of application delivery for multiple clients in a variety of different environments. Dealing directly with the customer, delivering large scale migration projects and BAU workflows.• Application Packaging Installshield/MSI/App-V/MSIx• Intune: administration, app deployment, certificates, scripting, configuration profiles• MECM (SCCM): administration, app deployment, queries, reports, powershell• Scripting: vbscript, batch script, powershell• Packaging workflow automation: SCCM/Intune application import and assignment, automatic document generation from MSI, base transform creation, auto-generation of install/uninstall scripts, automatic MSI generation/packaging using WIX/powershell and Winget.• Windows Server: Active Directory, Group Policy

Peterborough

Application Packaging and Discovery for Windows migration project, handling the packaging and migration of all applications within the Travelex estate. Creating bespoke packages for in-house developed applications.• MSI packaging/creation of standards• Application discovery• SCCM application deployment• VBScript• Documentation.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Contracted to provide Technical Discovery and Application Packaging services for a global Windows XP to Windows 7 migration project.• Application discovery• Advice/consultancy on deployment solutions and approaches• Troubleshooting SCCM deployment issues with SCCM team• Application packaging Quality Assurance and remediation• Packaging of applications using Wise, Installshield and Orca• Specialist application remediation for locked down Windows 7 environments• Packaging applications that are too complex for offshore factory• Delivering time-critical application packages to meet project deadlines• Team management in UK and abroad during deployment phase of project.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Microsoft App-V Sequencing and MSI application packaging for a variety of corporate clients. Working on numerous Windows 7 migration projects.• Integral in creating the current Application Packaging Standards.• Developed Capita Packaging Tool to automatically apply standard properties to MSI's and Transforms and to automate repetitive documentation tasks.• Created Capita.cub file to expand the stand ICE checks to include the Capita standards.

Home-based• TUPED in from Phoenix. Integrated quickly into the new systems and processes.• Citrix Application Streaming.• Application Discovery.

Darley Dale

• MSI application packaging for numerous corporate clients including Barclays Bank PLC, Price Forbes, Macquarie Bank, Punch Taverns, Scott Wilson and the Derbyshire Building Society.• Performing other packaging related tasks and consultancy services for various clients, such as application discovery, setting up of change management tools such as Microsoft ACT.• Specialist troubleshooting on-site and undertaking urgent on-site packaging work.• Created numerous process improvements such as:• Customizable, macro based spread sheets to implement and check standards for all clients.• WiseScripts to automate fixing ICE48 and ICE64 errors during the compile process for Wise Package Studio.• Scripts to create SMS templates (.sms files) automatically from the provided MSI.• Scripts to populate the SBC wrap .wse templates with data extracted from the .xls Application Configuration and Release document and the MSI.• Custom ICE checks/.cub files for all regular clients to speed up QA process and make it more reliable.

• MSI Application packaging for a variety of high-profile Capgemini clients including Morley Financial Services, Corus and the Metropolitan Police Service.• Conflict solving packages using the AdminStudio Conflict Solver.• Involvement in creation and implementation of Packaging Standards documentation for the Metropolitan Police contract.• Streamlined the QA process considerably with several process improvements, including writing and maintaining VBscipt macros for an Excel spreadsheet to automatically query MSIdatabases against client standards.• Application discovery.• Quality Assurance (of application packages).

Market Deeping

• Working closely with the C++ development team designing and creating all installation programs from the ground up for use in the consumer market.• Development of the installer dialogs and interface.• Developing numerous Custom Actions using InstallScript for Installshield.• Created a fully automated vbscript driven build process and accompanying documentation to allow the development/testing team to build installations of a flag-ship product from the command line. • Some exposure to C++ and .dll creation for use in MSI custom actions.

• Creating installations for a variety of Serif DTP products sold to private users,schools and companies using both MSI and InstallScript (creating setup.exe styleinstalls).• Bespoke installations for magazine cover disks.• Creation of cut down installations for download.• Software testing and creation of bug reports.