Mark Birchall Email & Phone Number

• Recent Key Projects
• Lead Architect in the delivery of a new Trader Desktop environment for 2000+ UK based Traders with the banks first integration to Citrix Cloud. This included the solutions for hosting across VDI and physical devices.
• Lead Architect for the migration of the primary high-value customer facing Digital App which handles ~3m+ logins per day to hosting in AWS. This was a significant undertaking by the bank as it is first major.
• Lead Architect the banks £250m+ programme to design and replace the billing and onboarding platforms in Barclaycard. The project is a highly integrated platform (to both internal and external services providers) and.

• Lead Technical Delivery Manager with responsibility for managing multiple, concurrent Wintel Infrastructure and Application projects worldwide across the many business portfolios within the bank.Matrix management of.
• Responsible for the managed delivery of core Windows infrastructure for the “day 1” requirements for the new European Data Centre based in the UK. This Data Centre acts as the DR facility for all European banking based.
• Implementation \ Integration of Citrix Server Farms and VMWare ESX Farm environments across multiple UK based data centres to enable Off Shore Suppliers access to Barclays Bank systems for development and production.
• Provide design decisions \ criteria and provide technical solutions to ensure successful delivery into existing production environment.
• 3rd \ 4th Line support for in-flight projects – providing troubleshooting and problem resolution for Wintel Issues.
• Management of multi-disciplined teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Newbury, Berkshire, GB

• Employed at 7 Global’s Data centre in Liverpool as a Senior Technical Specialist/Consultant primarily responsible for designing and delivering project based Microsoft\Intel\Citrix\Virtualisation based solutions for 3rd.
• Technical lead for the design, implementation and support of a new Hosted Microsoft CRM 4.0 environment for resale via a partner network. This environment also included the implementation of Microsoft HMC 4.0 and.
• Implementation and support of Microsoft hosted mail services based on Exchange 2007 and WSS 3.0.
• Design and Implementation of “Sandpit” environments for testing CRM Accelerators and 3rd party vertical applications for hosted CRM partners. These allowed speed for increased development and speed to market for new.
• Project Management, customer consultancy and implementation of Insourcing IT infrastructure projects for external customers to our in-house hosted environment.
• Design, implementation and on-going support of Hosted Citrix XenApp 4.0 and 4.5 environments for various ISP’s. Including Citrix Secure Gateway and Web Interface.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Initially employed as a member of a team to support and manage the Windows Desktop and Server environment. This evolved into managing and implementation of Intel based projects for various application purposes. Below.
• Lead project resource for the successfully migration of Windows NT accounts and Novell Netware infrastructure to Windows 2000 Active Directory, including consolidation of European Windows NT 4.0 Accounts Domains to a.
• Key project team member for the design and implementation of the Windows 2000 Server Infrastructure for a “Greenfield” office in Spain.
• Management of European WINS, DDNS and DFS infrastructure, including integration to US infrastructure. Implementation and management of GPO’s for European domain.
• Worked on the planning, migration and consolidation project for all European Exchange servers, building new servers for Exchange and moving all Exchange storage to EMC based SAN.
• Implementation of Citrix Presentation 4.0 Server Farm and Citrix Secure Gateway for provisioning 3rd party (vendor) access to internal applications.

Glasgow, Scotland, GB

• Originally started at Manweb as a contractor for the Desktop Support Team. After varying projects moved to become a full-time employee working in the 3rd Line Support team which covered both Desktop and Server elements.
• Day to day support of Windows 2000\NT 4\Lan Manager Servers and varying version Microsoft Windows desktop products. This covered the North West\Wales regional sites including site visits and remote support.
• Managed a team of engineers for the rollout of new Desktop Environment across all sites.
• Lead Engineer for the migration of user 30,000+ user accounts to new naming convention for the entire Scottish Power NDS directory.