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• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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