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London, England, United Kingdom

Hastings

Hastings, England, United Kingdom

• Senior member of the Infrastructure Team, responsible for managing and maintaining the internal VMware estate, servers, storage arrays, and networking equipment. Other responsibilities include mentoring other members of the department, and covering the team manager when he is unavailable. • Technical Architect of a hardware refresh within the primary data centre. HPE Synergy infrastructure and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8440 storage array implemented to replace and consolidate legacy compute, network, and storage devices, VMware 6.7 implementation. • Technical Architect on system and platform design and implementation for the PACS replacement project, the central medical imaging software for the business. Expansion of the existing HPE Synergy infrastructure and 3PAR array, upgrade to VMware 7.0, implementation of Zerto Virtual Replication for disaster recovery, deployment of an overseas PACS in Azure Australia. • Lead technical resource of head office move for 100+ users; planning and implementation of new switches, routers, circuits, data ports, and comms room. • Lead technical resource of an Office 365 tenancy migration of a business acquisition in Ireland; this included separation of an existing on-premises Active Directory estate.

Hastings

Contract to undertake the following projects:• Active Directory upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2016, plus implement synchronisation to Azure AD.• Microsoft Office 365 migration project from on-premise Exchange 2010 environment.• Microsoft Certificate Authority replacement.• Microsoft System System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) implementation• Standardisation and automation of Reporter workstation Windows 7 Enterprise image.

London

Contract as a technical resource on the Data Centre Migration and Transformation project.• Active Directory 2003 to 2012 R2 migration• Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR CU1 multi-site implementation to replace legacy platform• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager implementation to deploy standard Windows Server 2012 R2 SOE and applications• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 multi-site implementation with VMware SRM• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 multi-site AlwaysOn failover cluster implementation• HPE c7000 blade system deployment with BL460c and BL660c ProLiant blades• HPE Virtual Connect integrating with Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches• Technical document writing

Tunbridge Wells

• Member of the Converged Data Centre Team. Responsible for managing and maintaining the global VMware estate, HPE server, blade and SAN environments and Cisco Nexus switches.• Technical Liaison on an internal licensing review of server and Citrix environments.• Lead Technical Architect on the provisioning of a secondary data centre to service additional space and DR capabilities. Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 series switches, OTV, 2000 series FEX switches, FCoE, HPE B22HP FEX modules, HPE c7000 Blade enclosures with BL460 Gen9, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7450 SSD array, array based replication, VMware SRM.• Lead Technical Architect on VMware upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0. Linked data centres, external Platform Services Controllers, vCenter Appliance, vRealize Operations.• Application sequencing with App-V 5.0.• Lead Technical Architect on Citrix XenDesktop upgrade from 7.1 to 7.6. Move from MCS to PVS, PCI-DSS compliance, Windows 2012 R2 XenApp and Windows 10 pooled VDI.

Tunbridge Wells

• Lead Technical Architect on provisioning of a new primary data centre. Cisco 6500 series core switches with Cisco Nexus 5000 series converged switches, HPE c7000 Blade enclosures with BL460 Gen8, HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7400, VMware 5.1 implementation.• Lead Technical Architect on Virtual Desktop project to service 2000 users with expandability. Citrix XenDesktop 7.1, hosted desktop Windows 2008 R2 (XenApp) and persistent Windows 7 VDI. VMware vSphere 5.1 on HP BL460 Blades, Atlantis ILIO local RAM storage. Application deployment with Microsoft App-V 5.0 streaming.• Lead Technical Architect on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) implementation.• Lead Technical Resource on a large system migration from acquisition of Capita Insurance Services totalling 650 staff across two sites. Migration from Exchange 2003 to 2013, Attachmate FileXpress secure file transfer implementation, Avaya to Mitel telephony migration and 500 user desktop to virtual desktop migration.• Application sequencing with App-V 5.0.

Tunbridge Wells

• Fourth line support to the Operations department dealing with escalated tickets and serious issues and outages.• Lead Technical Architect on System Monitoring Solution project. Quest/Dell Foglight for application stack monitoring and Solar Winds for LAN and WAN monitoring.

Bexhill

• Network switch estate upgrade – replaced 75+ legacy Cisco switch infrastructure with HP ProCurve 5400ZL series modular switches.• Implementation of VMWare vSphere 4.1 virtualisation environment.• Upgraded Active Directory from 2003 to 2008 R2 across multiple physical sites.• Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2007 SP1.• Migration of user VPN access from Checkpoint to Juniper SA4500.

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