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Bedford

Pure Support was incorporated April 2016, providing IT Architectural Consultancy and Infrastructure Support.

London, United Kingdom

Strategic corporate travel management and services company, a leader in its field with a vision deliver outstanding travel management services to clients. Placed to join Reed & Mackay at their HQ in Farringdon, supporting their rapidly expanding Infrastructure. Assisted with technical takeover and integration after international acquisitions, offices opening in Dubai, Philadelphia and Chicago.Key Achievements:• On boarding of International offices• Implement backup product UniTrends• Implement SolarWinds in Azure• Exchange 2013 Database restructure• Supporting Office 365 Migration• Space Reclamation - VMFS5 Thin Provisioned datastores• Server Patching (WSUS)• Implement Varonis

Luton, United Kingdom

Short term placement to assist and upskill the existing team within large environment. Supporting network Infrastructure throughout EMEA through Cisco Meraki and Server Infrastructure in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Luton, Munich, Paris, Romania, Rome, Slovakia and Stockholm. On-prem Infrastructure support consisted of technologies such as Hyper V 2012 R2, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, System Center 2012 (SCCM/SCVMM/SCOM), Meraki, Sophos and Veeam. Assisted development team with Azure Cloud administration.

Kettering

Recruited to join Esurv Chartered Surveyors during their Infrastructure Remediation Project. Focussing on the architecture and provision of corporate IT services to a company of 1,000 staff of whom around 500 are remote or home workers. Supporting VMware vSphere 6 on both HP and Dell servers with underlined Nimble Storage.Key Achievements:Architect Direct Access solutionMicrosoft Exchange stabilisation and introduction of DR to DAGBackup and Recovery solution with offsite to AWS S3Implement monitoring solution PRTGImplement WSUS on-prem and in AWS EC2Active Directory and Group Policy RemediationSupport DR strategic implementationSupport MDT deployed with WDS

Kettering

On behalf of Pure Support Ltd I have worked with Virtrium since May 2016.Leading elements of a transformation and remediation project for their client e.surv Chartered Surveyors.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Working under Volkswagen AG Headquarters in Germany, Volkswagen FS United Kingdom provides finance and insurance services to customers across the entire Volkswagen Group. The group includes some of the most popular automotive brands including Audi, Seat, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and of course Volkswagen. This role presented exposure to working both in finance and the automotive industries.Key Achievements:- Assisted IT migration to new and purpose built VWFS UK Headquarters (Delaware Drive) - 25 million pound investment, with complete architectural refresh of Infrastructure, focusing on creating a future proof solution. Coordinated vacating IT Infrastructure from existing premises on time without extension to existing building lease agreement.- Migrating various systems that had been outsourced to Germany back to UK – Annual cost saving of £300,000 for UK.- Thin Client refresh for VDI, suitable for upcoming Telephony projects. (Avaya Softphone)- Decommission Windows Server 2003’s Servers project, delivered before the extended support deadline of 14 th July 2015 from Microsoft for all machines.- Temporary VWFS office delivered within 28 days – tasked with the temporary relocation of 100 users to premises outside of the VWFS network at short notice due to rapid growth. Solution found and implemented that allowed large numbers of users to access Citrix from remote site with shared printing capabilities.- Privileged Access Management, segregation of access based on duties and job role, removing domain administrator permissions from 1 st and 2 nd line teams within IT.- Maintaining strong technical skill across the Microsoft/Wintel range of technologies. These skill are used on a daily basis on projects from design, implementation, delivery and transition into mainstream support.

Luton, United Kingdom

Randstad is the second largest HR service provider in the world, operating in 39 countries. During my time at Randstad I completed several major projects within agreed timescales. My greatest achievement during my time at Randstad was the successful delivery of a large migration project which would see all Randstad UK based subsidiaries consolidate onto one IT Infrastructure platform.Key Achievements:- The UK Migration project called for a new Active Directory, Exchange and Desktop environment to migrate3000 users, who originated from 7 different Randstad brands and operating companies. The new infrastructure was created between two data centres, VMWare vSphere 4 was used as the foundation for high availability. Once infrastructure was in place, I designed and then implemented a migration process.Managing four temporary resources during the 6 month migration process. Source environments a mixture of Exchange 2003/2007/2010, along with mixed AD and Citrix environments.- Designing and implementing a Common Desktop Environment based on Windows 2008R2 and delivered by Xenapp 6.5. This includes design, hardware procurement, capacity planning, implementation, testing, release and transition to BAU support.• Supporting and Maintaining the various Active Directory’s for Randstad, two way transitive domain trust’s between 7 operating companies. Ensuring Sites and Services remains up to date and aware of subnets and DC locations throughout data centre relocations.- Incorporated several companies into the Randstad Staffing UK Business before UK merger of all OpCo’s.- Maintaining UK network which had to remain globally compliant for Randstad worldwide.- Introduced Lync 2010 to the organisation from investigation through to implementation.- Ensure effective capacity planning, reporting and monitoring processes are in place to cover all aspects of the Infrastructure.

St Albans, United Kingdom

- Commenced as a Trainee Helpdesk Analyst, promoted after two months to IT Analyst, working on 1st and 2nd Line issues.- Processed and resolved high volumes of support calls from end users both in the UK and US.- Benefitted from huge exposure to many different environments. (outsourced IT company)- Sage CRM to record all support activities which can then be accessed by customers via web interface.- Successfully worked and achieved against a target of 80% completion of calls without escalation