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Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Consultant IT services servicing all markets using Microsoft technologies.

Staffordshire

Assisting CoreAzure's customers with hybrid cloud ARM based IaaS migrations, AD, DNS, ADFS, Azure Site Recovery and all things Azure.

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Providing Microsoft enterprise expertise with Azure, DSC, PowerShell, Automation, ADMT, Clustering and large SharePoint farm migrations.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Providing cloud expertise and mentoring for Azure, Azure AD and ADFS.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Providing technical consultancy and support to Hill Dickinson’s IT Service and Project Management teams.Designing and documenting Active Directory Federation Services, Office 365, Azure Active Directory Sync Services integration with on-premises Active Directory Domain Services.Delivering proof of concept design and environment for SQL Server Analysis Services (SharePoint Mode/PowerPivot)

Manchester, United Kingdom

Providing architecture expertise for EFA Information Exchange – a program to deliver a platform of web based services to education providers on open source technology.Liaising with project managers, IaaS and development providers to define and deliver documented technology designs, project plans and technology requirements to satisfy business requirements.

Liverpool

Providing systems architecture expertise, designs, documentation and deployment of highly available, scalable SharePoint 2013 farms with SQL Server 2012 and K2 blackpearl on Windows Server 2012 and ESXi 5.0. Creation of virtualised duplicate production Active Directory policy environments for Development, Test and UAT in line with developer workflow including SQL 2012 (AlwaysOn), SharePoint 2013, Exchange 2010, IIS 8 and K2 blackpearl.

Bolton, United Kingdom

Providing Windows Enterprise Infrastructure expertise. Designing and building out architecture to support workflow development solutions for K2 blackpearl, SharePoint 2013, SQL Server 2012 & Team Foundation Server 2012.

Designed, documented and deployed two-tier Active Directory Certification Authority on Windows Server 2008 R2.Tuned and documented Active Directory including site replication topology, Recycle Bin, component level restores, DHCP, DNS and DFS/DFS-RIT project support engineer on The Know List Business Project of the Year 2012 and IT Team of the Year awards.File Server cluster installations, migrations and consolidations with DFS/DFS-R.

Winsford, Cheshire

Identification of areas for improvement, defining IT projects, performing and documenting upgrades/improvements for: Active Directory (DNS, Sites, OU, GP, Schema, DFS) optimisation and recommendations, desktop deployment using Windows Deployment Services & MDT 2010. File & Print Server migration, VMWare ESXi 4.1 administration, WSUS migration.Documentation for critical domain services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, OU, Group Policy, WSUS, Firewalls and DFS.

Designing, installing, configuring, maintaining and monitoring the entire enterprise IT infrastructure including server and network hardware, Windows Server Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, Delegation Models, Security, DNS, DHCP, LAN, WAN, Image Build/Deployment, WDS, Switching, Routing, Storage Area Networking, MS Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, Virtualisation, Sharepoint, BizTalk, UTM, Load balancers, DMZ, Web hosting, SSL, IIS, FTP, Apache 2, Linux, RedHat, PHP, MySQL, VBScript, PowerShell...the list goes on and on and on. Most recently, a little SCCM too.

Administering the entire IT infrastructure.

Providing support for a modest sized software development company on Windows NT4 and Exchange 5.5. During my short time (until the company folded) I implemented a Windows Server 2000 domain and Exchange Server 2000, migrated user accounts, computers and mailboxes and migrated all servers to a dedicated server area with UPS' and implemented a new dedicated leased line.