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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Bexhill