Working within the Managed Services division.

Utilizing the wealth of knowledge and experience gained over the years, I now contract out to provide expert IT consultancy. Specializing with Microsoft Virtualisation, Azure, M365, Server Applications and Technologies, and VMWare Virtualisation Solutions. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:-Senior Consultant designing/deploying/managing core services for MoD Reserve Forces locations.MoD Reserve Forces Centralisation of Services project for the 2020 Initiative. Core services deployed within virtualised fabric.Integral to a Global Clothing Manufacturer spit from parent organisation - incorporating Nutanix, Equinix and Azure Datacentres across North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions. Working with other large regional service providers to migrate applications/services from one domain to another.Large scale HA/DR Virtualisation Projects utilising VMware and associated technologies. Providing Server and VDI High Availability. Large scale Hyper-V clusters deployed within Fire and Rescue Services datacentres utilising a mixture of Fibre Channel zones and ISCSI pathing across redundant switching backbone. Full integration with System Centre Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager.Digital Library Submission Service - complying with BAGIT Standards and Library of Congress for the British Library.M365 client onboarding, data migration, conditional access, cloud app security, MDM and MAM policy and control. Device enrolment with Autopilot and Hybrid control utilising SCCM (Endpoint Protection Manager)SharePoint large scale farm deployments (2000 users) and upgrades from all previous versions.Exchange server troubleshooting and transitions to Exchange 2019 without user disruption for 3000 mailboxes.MoD consolidation project to reduce, and upgrade, strategic operational infrastructure (utilising Exchange, SQL, SharePoint - all designed for DR and Fail-over - utilising DynamicDNS for Active-Active single Namespace deployment).

Design and implementation of MOSS2007 Farms to a wide range of organisation types. Including The Fire and Rescue Services, MoD, NATO, West Yorkshire Police, Cadets and Reserved Forces, and Total Petroleum. At all times building the systems in accordance with Best Practices/Security Adherence/Physical Infrastructure limitations/Requirements Gathering. Designed and built MOSS Managed Services (Software as a Service - SaaS) to provide vertical functionality for License Management and NATO Catalogue services. Extensive utilisation of InfoPath Forms Services. Additionally utilising the Workflow Engine in MOSS to create actions based on Form content. Design and built the DOBUS (Defence out of Band Update Service) system on Government Restricted and Secret Networks - winner of the CNE Managed Service Award. Migrations and new installs of Exchange 200x Mail Services from single server to multi-server/multi-farm. Electronic Procurement and Download Service Electronic Forms project for Mobile Devices McAfee ePO Consolidation Service Design and deployment of Microsoft 2000/2003 Domains/Forests for 'well connected' and 'wide area' typologies. Certificate Authentication Services for Government Departments. Implementation of numerous ISA Firewall configurations. Building Systems Solutions to tight security requirements. Passing numerous Penetration Tests by CESG in Gloucester. Passing Vulnerability tests by the RAF VAT Team. Discovering/evaluating technologies to build a 'technically possible' picture. Using this knowledge to combine these technologies to create unique solutions. Although no formal Project Management courses have been attended I have successfully implemented systems and services on time and in budget. Working with Local and Central Government, and Government Agencies (Fire/Police/Health) and implementing and managing the successful role out of IT projects. Working with organisations of up to 3000 employees.

Required to act in a Business Consultant, Technical Consultant, Pre-sales and Post Sales role across Europe utilizing the product to a much higher degree than with Scala (Scala Output Server) i.e. XML, ADO, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes and other Back Office / Internet technologies.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Installation of version 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1 and 3.OLA on WinNT, Win2000, Unix (AIX, DG UX, HP UX, SCO etc).; Configuration with the above Back Office and Internet Technologies.Project meetings and management of the complete cycle.Project specification and documentation.Pre-sales of Software. Typical demonstration and Q and A would be two hours.

GRADE 2) - Although the Head Office was based in Essex, I worked at the satellite office in Crawley. The amount of time I spent there, however, was minimal as I travelled around Europe trouble-shooting / installing new systems and project managing different sites in the UK.KEY RESPONSIBILITES:Installation of Scala software including Scala 3/4/5/5.1, Scala Solutions web enabled application and Scala Output Service - a document management system.Installation of NT4, Win2000 and configuration.Installation and configuration of 3rd party applications, as mentioned in Key Skills.Weekly reporting on projects and personal milestones.Produced £13k of revenue per calendar month.Head trouble-shooter for all problematic sites, be it hardware, software or a mixture of both.

Joined company to broaden my technical knowledge and focus purely on technical installations / problem solving. This was my first introduction to Scala software.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Basic problem fixing of the Scala application.Develop a sales lead / contact management system from scratch that enabled replication between dialup networks (Contact2000).ACHIEVEMENTS:Learnt the Scala 3 application, also fundamental accounting knowledge.Designed and built a contact management system for sales.Responsible for a European role-out of 'bolt on modules', which improved reporting and functionality of Scala.

Joined the Company to sell Tetra software by utilising 'Proof of Concept' demonstrations.KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:£25,000 of sales / consulting revenue a month.Weekly reporting of sales activity.Customise the 'skin' of product to best demonstrate the functionality.ACHIEVEMENTS:120% of target.Worked in 3 sales orientated positions, which included telesales and field work, selling computer peripherals to OEM and the retail market place.