I have been working on migration projects to Office 365 for the last 18 months and have been involved in Office 365 tenant to tenant migrations, Google Workspace to Office 365 migrations, IMAP to Office 365 migrations using various migration software including BitTitans MigrationWiz, SkyKick and Microsoft Migration Manager. These have ranged from a handful of users to several thousand users.

Working as an IT consultant on projects involving Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365.Currently - Working with businesses to troubleshooting existing deployments of Microsoft Exchange and Office 365.Migration of mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft Office 365 and other email systems such as Google Gmail to Office 365. Upgrading Microsoft Exchange to later versions. Have previously worked with MoD, BAA, KPMG amongst others - MoD -… Show more Working as an IT consultant on projects involving Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365.Currently - Working with businesses to troubleshooting existing deployments of Microsoft Exchange and Office 365.Migration of mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft Office 365 and other email systems such as Google Gmail to Office 365. Upgrading Microsoft Exchange to later versions. Have previously worked with MoD, BAA, KPMG amongst others - MoD - Technical Design Accreditation Authority for the Defence Information Infrastructure deployment of a largely Microsoft based system which includedo Documenting areas of the current environment where documentation does not exist or is out of date. o Working with the main provider (Atlas) to ensure that the design proposals offer the best value for money, technical fit, match the MoD requirements and are following best practices of the individual vendors.o Building strategic relationships with the vendors/delivery partners (i.e. Microsoft), main provider (Atlas) and other project teams within MoD. SCC - Working with SCC (www.scc.com) involved in designing and deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 for a key customer.Atkins - Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 for Atkins. This involved deploying and testing OCS into a pre-production environment, constructing and completing test matrices and deploying the service into the live environmentBAA - Exchange 2010 Technical Specialist in BAA for the migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange 2010, involved - o Ensuring that the deployed environment matched the approved design.o Ensuring Exchange 2010 was optimally designed for the BAA environment and investigating any performance related issues.o Authoring client design documentation, as client strategy changed mid project.o Troubleshooting issues that arose with the Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 environments. Show less

Working on getting the iNet Guardian service (www.inetguardian.co.uk) launched.

Messaging Product Manager at KPMG Prior to the Messaging Project Technical Lead role - Messaging Product Manager at KPMG role involved managing the current messaging environment which consists of – • Exchange 2003• Blackberry • EmailXtender• OCS 2007• Postini• Mail AttenderFor each environment the role involved – • Ensuring that the current infrastructure was running optimally.• Reviewing existing documentation and creating new documentation… Show more Messaging Product Manager at KPMG Prior to the Messaging Project Technical Lead role - Messaging Product Manager at KPMG role involved managing the current messaging environment which consists of – • Exchange 2003• Blackberry • EmailXtender• OCS 2007• Postini• Mail AttenderFor each environment the role involved – • Ensuring that the current infrastructure was running optimally.• Reviewing existing documentation and creating new documentation where appropriate.• Assisting in the troubleshooting and resolution of technical issues.Additionally -• Designing the OCS 2007 R2 environment for the European member firms of KPMG. Messaging Project Technical Lead Designing the Exchange 2010 environment for 21000 users at KPMG including • Authoring the design of Exchange 2010 for KPMG.• Migration of journalled data from EmailXtender to Exchange 2010 native jouralling.• Interoperability with existing systems such as Ironport, Rightfax, Postini.• Reviewing the support and operations of Exchange 2003 and aligning these with Exchange 2010.• Authoring the Proof of Concept• Transition of users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. • European Technical Lead – assisting other KPMG member firms with their deployment of Exchange 2010. Show less

The consultancy role involved working with customers on Microsoft Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003) projects including • Designing and implementing Microsoft Exchange based messaging systems.• Troubleshooting existing messaging infrastructures.• Performance health checking Microsoft messaging environments and producing reports showing any issues and necessary steps to take in order to resolve these issues.• Organising and delivering online webchats, • Writing and delivering… Show more The consultancy role involved working with customers on Microsoft Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003) projects including • Designing and implementing Microsoft Exchange based messaging systems.• Troubleshooting existing messaging infrastructures.• Performance health checking Microsoft messaging environments and producing reports showing any issues and necessary steps to take in order to resolve these issues.• Organising and delivering online webchats, • Writing and delivering customer workshops on areas such as Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange.Prior to being a Consultant in Microsoft I worked in Microsoft Product Support Services as a support engineer. Show less

Worked as a support engineer in Microsoft Product Support Services orginally in the Microsoft Word team then moved on to Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Outlook and finally Microsoft Exchange prior to becoming a Consultant with Microsoft.