David Lea Email & Phone Number

Accomplished IT messaging consultant with over 20 years technical hands-on experience working across all market sectors for one of the UK's highest awarded Microsoft, VMware, Symantec and NetApp Gold/Platinum PartnersPrimary focus on Microsoft infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Symantec Enterprise Vault, VMware virtualization and NetApp SAN solutions.Excellent implementation, migration, troubleshooting, disaster recovery and documentation skillsCertifications include Microsoft MCITP/MCTS/MCSA/MCSE/MCP, VMware VCP-DV, Symantec STS and NetApp NCDA.

Listed skills include Vmware Esx, Vmware, Microsoft Exchange, Virtualization, and 14 others.

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  M365 Practice Lead

  Phoenix Software Ltd

  Apr 1992 - Present - York, United Kingdom

  Responsible for full life cycle and technical lead on projects through all stages of pre-sales, design, implementation and handover with comprehensive documentation at every stageCustomer sizes range from small organisations to many thousands of users. Projects range from single days onsite to 3-6 month engagements.Pre-sales work to support the sales cycle and ensure customers received unbiased technical advice. Meetings, workshops, presentations, technical demonstrations… Show more Responsible for full life cycle and technical lead on projects through all stages of pre-sales, design, implementation and handover with comprehensive documentation at every stageCustomer sizes range from small organisations to many thousands of users. Projects range from single days onsite to 3-6 month engagements.Pre-sales work to support the sales cycle and ensure customers received unbiased technical advice. Meetings, workshops, presentations, technical demonstrations, conference calls and technical Q&A sessions at seminars. Provide technical input and documentation for proposals and tender responses.Joined Phoenix Software as a founding member of the Helpdesk team then progressed into chargeable customer work as the Consultancy team was founded in the mid ‘90sExperience includes:Microsoft Exchange Server. Vast experience of designing and implementing resilient solutions, system migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, cross-forest moves and mergers/demergers.Microsoft Office 365, ADFS and DirSync. Exchange Online hybrid design, implementation and migration.Microsoft Windows Active Directory. Domain migrations and consolidations, implementation and upgrades. Excellent working knowledge of 'native' migration tools such as ADMT.Symantec Enterprise Vault implementation, upgrade, troubleshooting and server hardware migration since KVS days through to Symantec EV10. Exchange, FSA and Sharepoint archiving, PST migration and Discovery Accelerator. Exchange archiving, including DAGs. Building-block implementation, failover and disaster recovery.VMware ESX Server. P2V migrations, SRM, HA, DRS, virtualization scoping, design and capacity planning.NetApp SAN storage (primarily FAS2000 and 3000 series Filers) and software. Snap products (SME, SMSQL and SMVI), SAN-based replication and failover using SnapMirror, system upgrades and expansion.IP networking, routing, firewall and switch configuration, DNS, secure server publishing via ISA/TMG Server Show less