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Chester, England, United Kingdom

Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Working within the 3rd line engineering team that support’s the BT’s private cloud based on VMWare technologies hosting 70k+ virtual machines for BT lines of business. Varied roles and tasks from troubleshooting complex incidents, on call rota, degraded performance scenarios, post incident reviews, change controls, upgrades to firmware and ESXi host versions. Deployment of new clusters within the environment to increase resources or replace EOSL equipment. Updating or creating PowerShell scripts for various automation aspects of the VMWare environments. Software Exposure: vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vRealize Operations (Aria Operations), vRealize Log Insight (Aria Operations for Logs), Skyline, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager and vCenter ConverterHardware Exposure:Cisco UCS, HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, Infindat Storage, PureStorage, fibre channel and iSCSI

Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Park Hall, England, United Kingdom

Shropshire

A multi-skilled technical administrator with many years of experience of ICT infrastructure management and involved in a number of high profile projects for Shropshire Council.With experience in programming, I'm always looking to automate daily activities using scripting and various monitoring tools.Provide multi tenancy capable infrastructure that is adaptable to customer requirements. Technical Lead for email system migration from Lotus Domino to Exchange 2010-Two datacentre DAG and high availability design-Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange-Blackberry Enterprise Server-iPad Access-Lync 2010 integrationVMware Infrastructure Upgrade and Migration- High availability design- Two datacentre disaster recovery setup- Supporting 500+ virtual machines and virtual desktop project- Cisco Nexus Datacentre Network (5k and 2k)- VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1- IBM N-Series filer design and setup- iSCSI and NFS storage protocolsTechnical lead for Fortinet Firewall Migration from Checkpoint- High availability design- Firmware upgrade procedures- Migration of firewall rules- Consolidation of various firewalls into oneDesktop Anywhere Project- Citrix Xenapp and XenDesktop- Thin Clients- Any device access- Home working requirements- Two factor authenticationTechnical lead for System Monitoring and Reporting- System Center Operations Manager 2012- System Center Configuration Manager 2012- Network Monitoring- PRTG Network Monitor

Bridgnorth

Technical lead for the council, involved in a new customer services implementation for the council including new call centre using Siemens HiPath. Implementation of a flexible working scheme, using Citrix technologies. Network design and Wide Area Network using HP Procure, firewall management, email system, windows servers, auditing requirements and implementation of council systems via suppliers.