Robin Bacon Email & Phone Number

Senior Microsoft M365 Architect / Consultant working on a variety of architecture and consulting projects across the M365 stack. • Developing architecture documentation and standardised approaches to be delivered to customers.• Technical design and delivery including Exchange Online, Intune (Windows 10/11, MDM and MAM), Teams including telephony, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, Identity (Entra ID, PIM, Conditional Access, PIM, SSPR), Windows 365, Azure virtual Desktop, Data Loss Prevention, eDiscovery, Information Protection and Data lifecycle Management.• Cross tenant migration using BitTitan MigrationWiz.

Technical Lead / Architect on a complex enterprise Legal firm Global O365 project for Dentons (World’s largest multinational law firm) involving consolidating multiple acquired businesses with separate systems into a single Global cloud environment. This involved over 20+ regions and approx. 30k seats.• Led and mentored all other technical staff (training, recruitment and performance reviews), directly reporting to programme management.• Responsible for architected design documentation for both high and detailed levels in addition to migration strategy documentation.

Pulsant are a cloud-based consultancy that required the services of an O365 SME to review and plan their O365 strategy.• Provided O365 consultancy for existing Exchange / Barracuda e-mail system providing health assessment and migration strategies. • Produced several documents on existing infrastructure health assessment, e-mail routing implementation with Service-Now, Barracuda Cloud implementation and Exchange On-Premises decommissioning.

Reading, United Kingdom

Provided O365 consultancy for two separate large utility companies; Thames Water and RWE AG (enterprise German electricity provider) separation from E-ON. In addition to Exchange Online, consulted on Active Directory, Azure AD, Intune, OneDrive, Teams and Advanced Threat Protection• Architected migration strategy to low level customer approved documentation.• Accessed existing platform and advised architectural improvements to support migration strategy.• Built test migration environment on Azure PaaS virtual servers.• Designed an extensive PowerShell migration script to drive mass migration into automated batching including all pre and post migration tasks.• Developed a complex rewriting system to support a temporary transition mail Domain that had to be transitioned to the company’s main mail address upon leaving the system.• Providing expertise and PowerShell scripting on transitioning large scale PST files from local devices to Exchange Online archives.

London, England, United Kingdom

Provided O365 Consultancy and technical implementation on an Exchange Online project from four on-premise legacy Exchange Environments to Exchange Online. This covered approx. 1500 mailboxes.

Reading, United Kingdom

Providing consultancy to Microsoft's larger FastTrack customers (50k-250k seats) to support them in onboarding to Office 365: Exchange Online. This was part of a Microsoft End of Year (June) acceleration initiative to improve onboarding statistics for under-utilised customers.• Resolving “roadblock” issues, both technical and planning orientated, were impeding the onboarding process.• Advising on best practice approaches and strategies to facilitate a successful migration.

Reading, United Kingdom

Senior Technical Consultant / Architect for a wide variety of medium to large enterprises in the design and successful delivery of Microsoft O365 platform technologies. Including Exchange Online, Skype for Business, SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. These deployments also included Exchange hybrid configurations. Seats ranging from 500 to 8000.• Design and deployment of Microsoft identity solutions; Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and AAD Connect for directory synchronisation and single sign on for O365 both on-premises and in Azure.• Design and upgrade of Active Directory (AADS) services both on-premises and in Azure.• Architecture and consultancy for Active directory and Exchange cross forest migrations using Quest Migration Manager (QMM)• Migration from existing O365 tenants and G Suite to O365 utilising BitTitan MigrationWiz.• Design and implementation of E-mail archive migrations solutions from on-premises archives to O365 using Transvault.• On-premises AD / Exchange upgrades, architecture and improvements• Presales – scoping calls, providing solution proposals that fulfil customer requirements and are cost effective for both parties.• Documentation of Solution designs, Migration strategies and training guides.• Liaising and working alongside 3rd party suppliers where required to successfully deliver complete solutions.• End to end delivery of complete working solutions throughout the entire project lifecycle from presales to handover to managed support.

Oxford

Key Achievements:Exchange 2010 to Office 365 migration for approx. 40,000 mailboxes. This included extensive liaison with other parts of the business and project team for coordination.Blackberry Enterprise migration from BES 5.4 to Blackberry Cloud Services for Office 365 for approx. 2000 Blackberry users.Stabilisation and improvement of Existing large Enterprise On-Premise Exchange 2010 environment. This comprised of circa 200 Exchange servers across 4 major Datacentres (2 in UK, 2 in US) and several satellite offices. In addition to around 20 Blackberry Enterprise Servers. The solution included adding additional VMWare Hosts and Storage migration to faster SAN. The system was regularly unstable and unreliable prior to this work I completed.Technical lead on migrating remaining Application based mailboxes from legacy Exchange 2003 system to Exchange 2010 then later to O365. This required extensive Application testing and coordination with Application owners.Introduction of McAfee MX-Logic cloud based anti-spam/anti-virus solution, replacing legacy Postini environment. This included testing and reconfiguration of several very high profile company systems that send out mailshots in excess of three million e-mails per Month to the company’s customers and send directly to the cloud.Architecture and configuration of outbound mail relay (used by over 200 Internal Applications) from Exchange 2003 to an Exchange 2010 Edge based solution. Migration of archived mail from Enterprise Vault to O365 archive mailbox for individual users that qualified to retain their archive. Approx. 1000 users.

Uk Wide

Detailed technical design architecture to develop bespoke solutions to suit each individual client’s requirements and to conform to best practice. Specific projects include:• Upgraded Active Directory Infrastructure (2003-2008 R2) for Coventry City Council. This involved integrating 5 new Domain Controllers and decommissioning 7 legacy 2003 Domain Controllers.• New System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 system for Hoople Ltd. This was a large enterprise design for over 5000 desktops. It consisted of 1 CAS role, 2* Primary roles, 2 Management roles and 5 Distribution point roles. The system is used for Hardware/ Software Inventory, Package/Program installation using packaged applications, and OS Image (Windows 7) deployment using MDT 2012.• New System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 system for Hermes Delivery. This solution was an enterprise design for over 2000 desktops and 300 servers. It consisted of a CAS role, Primary role, Management Role, SQL role and multiple distribution points. The system similar to above is used for Hardware/ Software Inventory, Package/Program installation, using packaged applications and OS Image (Windows 7) deployment using MDT 2012.• New physical Exchange 2010 installation for Makro Wholesalers. This consisted of a high availability solution incorporating a 2 node DAG, CAS array for approx. 1500 mailboxes.• System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 proof of concept system for Manchester Airport. This system utilised 2 Site servers (Primary and SQL) and was used initially for Endpoint protection and software package distribution.• Migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 for Howarth Timber. This was a high availability solution incorporating a 2 node DAG, CAS array for approx. 1000 mailboxes.• Migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 for Wilson James. This was a high availability solution incorporating a 2 node DAG, CAS array for approx. 1500 mailboxes.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom

Hobart, Australia

Warrington, United Kingdom

Warrington, United Kingdom

Blackburn, United Kingdom

Bsc (Hons) Information Systems Design

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