Paul Symonds Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Various infrastructure projects on behalf of HybrIT ServicesWindows 10 and SCCM engagements: - Windows 10 reference image creation using MDT - Creation of Windows 10, Office 2016 task sequence for both in place upgrades and bare metal builds. - Setup and configuration of Microsoft Operations Management Suite and Upgrade Readiness. - Migration of user profiles and data with USMT - SCCM health check and task sequence remediation.Infrastructure upgrade… Show more Various infrastructure projects on behalf of HybrIT ServicesWindows 10 and SCCM engagements: - Windows 10 reference image creation using MDT - Creation of Windows 10, Office 2016 task sequence for both in place upgrades and bare metal builds. - Setup and configuration of Microsoft Operations Management Suite and Upgrade Readiness. - Migration of user profiles and data with USMT - SCCM health check and task sequence remediation.Infrastructure upgrade project - Domain and forest upgrade to Server 2016 functional level - Design, testing and implementation of 2 tier Microsoft PKI infrastructure - Migration of network policy server onto Server 2016Windows 10 and Azure AD migration project - Migration of user and device accounts from existing Azure AD into a new on-premises AD - Synchronization of on-premises accounts to Azure AD, ensuring that original Azure AD user accounts were not duplicated. - Ensuring hybrid domain joined devices still use Intune conditional access policies after being migrated from Azure AD - Creation of a domain joined, BitLocker enabled Windows 10 task sequence using MDT - Developed user profile migration process from Azure to on-premises AD profiles DHCP migration project - Migration of split-scope 2003 DHCP servers to highly available, load balanced 2012 R2 DHCP servers - Installation and configuration of IPAM services Show less

Hybrit Services

Design, implementation and configuration of public key infrastructure and HSM devices. Implementation of https communication for the SCCM environment.

The Crown Estate

Group Policy rationalisation, troubleshooting slow login times over wireless networks

Colindale

Short term contract to complete a configuration manager installation on a customer site. Tasks performed were:Windows 10 task sequence testing and remediation,Application packaging,Configuration of the application catalog,Implementing https communication between clients and the management point, distribution point and application catalog,Configuring automatic deployment rules for Windows 10, Office 365 and Office 2010 security updates.

Achieved MCSA Office 365 certification in August 2016Achieved MCSE Productivity certification in September 2016Achieved MCSE Messaging certification in November 2016

Croydon, United Kingdom

SCCM Administrator for the EMEA region supporting approx. 10,000 users across 49 countries. Application packaging, deployment and updating of the core application suite including Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Adobe Reader, Shockwave and Flash player. Deployment of windows updates using configuration manager

Woking

Windows 7 migration project. MSI packaging, Windows 7 compatibility testing, importing and deploying packaged applications via SCCM, task sequence build and modification

London, United Kingdom

Application packaging for the UK and US Windows 7 migration project. App-V and MSI packagingSCCM 2012 - Application deployment, Windows 7 task sequence maintenance and development, creating driver packages

Peterborough

Packaging applications using Microsoft App-V and Admin Studio for import and deployment via SCCM.Remediation of XP packages for Windows 7, ensuring packages launched and ran in a locked down user environment

Manchester

Virtualizing applications using Microsoft App-V for deployment in a Citrix Xen Desktop environment

Watford, United Kingdom

Working with a partner to provide business continuity to the client in the event of a server, site or network failure. This includes upgrading their email organization to Exchange Server 2007, their SQL platform to SQL 2008 and providing resilliency for file server data.

London, United Kingdom

Installation and configuration of a new Windows 2008 R2 domain and a new Exchange 2007 email organization.Migration of user accounts, user profiles, workstations, servers and mailboxes from existing Windows 2003 domain and Windows 2003 SBS domain.

London, United Kingdom

Working as part of a team to migrate users to a new domain, providing virtualised desktops and applications.

London, United Kingdom

Part of a team implementing a Provision Networks Virtual Access Server Farm for over 600 offshore based users that required access to the clients desktops and resources.Creation of virtual machine desktop templates, deployment of desktops using templatesApplication packaging using Softgrid 4.2, documentation of packaged applications, deployment of packaged applicationsEnd user support and technical handover to permanent support staff

Part of a team implementing a new Active Directory infrastructure across the clients european offices.Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Domain controllers.Documentation of server builds, Active Directory and Group Policy structure

London, United Kingdom

Responibilities:Providing 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support to approxiamtely 5000 users over 3 sites, resolving service desk calls according to priority and SLA agreements.Server and Network supportBackup and restore of servers and data using Veritas, Bridgehead and native Windows Backup software.Key Project AchievementsMigration and merger of Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 domains into a single Windows 2003 Active Directory domainMigration and merger of two Exchange 5.5… Show more Responibilities:Providing 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support to approxiamtely 5000 users over 3 sites, resolving service desk calls according to priority and SLA agreements.Server and Network supportBackup and restore of servers and data using Veritas, Bridgehead and native Windows Backup software.Key Project AchievementsMigration and merger of Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 domains into a single Windows 2003 Active Directory domainMigration and merger of two Exchange 5.5 organizations into a single Exchange 2003 organizationDesign and deployment of a standardised desktop environment of Windows XP with Office 2003 to over 1000 PCs and laptopsDesign and implementation of domain wide group policy structure and logon script to provide consistent user desktop Show less