Paul Abbott Email & Phone Number

St Helens, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

• Manage all SCCM 2007 and 2012 infrastructures globally spanning multiple continents, with multiple SCCM hierarchies made up from over 370 SCCM servers.• Excellent understanding of SCCM 2007/SCCM 2012 for both design and implementation• Good level of SQL knowledge in both querying and configuration of SQL, I use SQL management studio on a daily basis to query the SCCM database for troubleshooting and reporting purposes.• Regularly create custom reports for the business in SCCM 2007/2012 and SQL Reporting Servers.• Excellent troubleshooting skills using SQL, Server OS and SCCM with a good knowledge of SCCM server logs and excellent knowledge of SCCM client logs.• Good understanding and working knowledge of Adaptiva One Site.• Excellent understanding of WMI and WQL.• Succesfully completed the first clients into SCCM 2012 from SCCM 2007 this involved migrating the all 22,000 workstations and 1600 servers of the UK bank branch network. Since then I have continued to migrate all countries in Africa. When carrying out this work I raised all changes, created the rollout plans and handled all communications with service managers and in country resources. The changes I raised to do this work are now being used as a template by release management for the rest of the Barclays estate.• Regularly build and configure SCCM sites in SCCM 2007 and SCCM 2012 be it a central administration site, primary site, secondary site and any site roles.• On a quarterly basis I create and deploy a task sequence to all servers in the Barclays estate. This task sequence contains many conditions and task sequence variables to determine each of the banks server environments and applies any applications/updates and security updates needed on that server.• Good understanding of builds in MDT and troubleshooting any failures.• Regularly involved in troubleshooting a range of deployment issues that are unable to be resolved initially.• Working knowledge of AppSense.

London, Gb

• Involved managing and administrating multiple SCCM environments with over 300,000 clients (240,000+ workstations and 60,000+ servers)• Training staff on a global basis travelling to Vilnius, Lithuania, Johannesburg, South Africa and any various UK sites.• Solely manage the monthly security patching for all the Barclays workstation and server estate• Migrating clients and servers into a new SCCM 2007 primary site, configuring and implementing new SCCM sites, configuring of Nomad and SCUP.• Regularly manage large scale deployments of applications e.g. planned and managed the rollout of Symantec AntiVirus Protection 11 to 240,000 clients.• In depth knowledge of testing, piloting and sending out detailed communications for deployments• Importing packages and creating complex task sequences with detailed logic/conditions to automate installations.• Creating complex queries for collections and creating SQL reports for management.• Managing multiple maintenance windows and patching schedules across multiple environments• Regularly raise changes and represent them in front of a change advisory board and address questions asked by other technical staff. • In depth SCCM server troubleshooting e.g. inbox, replication issues and boundary issues as well a good knowledge all the logs.• In depth SCCM client troubleshooting e.g. failure of software update/package installs as well an excellent knowledge of all the server and client logs.• Regularly involved with implementing fixes for severity1 and severity 2 issues the bank faces.• Involved with group policy, client engineering and other areas in the test environment to help implement solutions before they go into production.• Involved in automating routine tasks and producing documentation for systems and toolsets.• Use of LANDESK across legacy domains and evaluating clients before they are migrated to SCCM.• Management of Active Directory. • Good working knowledge of 1E Nomad.

• Involved working in a large IT environment and providing 3rd line support and 24/7 on call cover on over 10000 clients and over 300 virtual servers on VMware ESX platform and physical HP Servers. Using HP SIM and ILO to help manage and maintain these servers running different operating systems on different domains.• Implementing Server, Desktop and distributed application Monitoring using SCOM 2007 for the entire environment.• Implemented and Configured Sharepoint 2010.• Client application deployment (scale of 10000+ clients) and asset management using SCCM 2007 R2.• I have created, tested and deployed client builds as well as necessary applications for the entire trust using BDD 2007, MDT 2010, SCCM 2007 R2 and have a very detailed knowledge all these systems.• Deployment of client builds I have created using SCCM 2007 R2 over our network using technologies such WOL and PXE boot over the network.• Managing the updating of our clients and servers using SCCM 2007 R2 software update platform for clients and WSUS for our servers.• Maintenance of active directory 2003, group policy DNS and DHCP.• Managing and maintenance of the all the trust’s antivirus on clients and servers currently using Sophos Endpoint Security.• Deal with a range of Client and Server operating systems daily which are Windows XP SP2 to Windows 7, Windows 2000 to Windows 2008.• Building, configuring and installing server’s (HP/Dell) with different types of configuration.• Managing and taking a lead role on site migrations of servers, clients and users to our domain.• Supporting a range of clinical systems and hospital systems servers running specialised software e.g. Vision, EMIS, Isoft, Docman, Lorenzo, Choose and book, GE PACs.• Regularly undertaking and managing technical projects e.g. currently testing and implementing the rollout of Windows 7 to clients.

• Developing and modifying access databases and excel spreadsheets.• Creating queries for the access databases to pull data from child/parent tables, query parameters and update queries are a few examples.• Creating excel spreadsheets with multiple sheet’s and advanced formula’s that link into access databases/CSV files and perform data manipulation within different sheets containing pivot tables.• Creating macros within access and excel to automate tasks within the spreadsheets and databases. Therefore preventing user error and saving time.• Helping design, modify the intranet site.• Creating presentations and monthly reports with modification of statistical data for monthly meetings.

• Implementing a worldwide Intranet site for analytical data to be put into a LIMS (Laboratory information system) database.• Installing, configuring and implementing Oracle 10g on servers.• Developing a LIMS system called Nautilus – which created automated workflows, written SQL filters to filter analytical samples and results that had been submitted. Created security roles and users within LIMS and Oracle to prevent misuse and viewing of unauthorised data.• Developed a number of access databases for different departments.• Gained ITIL qualification and rolled out the entire project and fully documented project and followed ITIL guidelines.• ODBC client/server configuration.• Fault finding with .NET framework, COM+ Components.• Detailed configuration of IIS.• Created backup procedures to take Oracle database offline and put back online.• Developed and configured a fully working worldwide Intranet site connected to an Oracle database and LIMS software on workstations.

Bsc (Hons), Bsc Hons Information Systems Sandwich; 2:1

A; B; B: C, A Levels

Gcse