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Rossendale

Offering contract based IT services. Specialising in Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture.

United Kingdom

Contract redesigning Azure platform for best practice and cost savings. Helping design new latest generation on premise network for 35 campus buildings both wired and wireless. Assisting in migration of on premise systems to Azure with guidance and architecture advise. Member of multiple project boards and technical review peer. Offering support and guidance to other business areas for Architecture.

Contract offering solutions architecture to LRQA which was a new company following the acquisition Goldman Sachs made of Lloyds Register. Project to design a new Azure platform for the newly created LRQA business to go into. Full landing zone design based around Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework. Providing technical peer review for CAB and guidance for other business areas.

Contract providing Azure Solutions Architecture to New Signature followed by Cognizant Microsoft Business Group after acquisition. Full Landing Zone platform designs and solutions done for clients such as:Hometrack ZooplaAberdeen StandardAnglian WaterDS SmithElexon

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Contract providing Azure/Terraform design & implementation services to AQA. Building AQA's new GCSE and A Level System.

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Contract working for Provident Financial providing platform design work around MS Azure, on premise and cloud. Architecture design, best practice and strategy. VSTS build, release and CICD pipeline Azure automation.

Morley, England, United Kingdom

Contract working as Infrastructure Architect for NewDay Cards ltd for Azure and infrastructure projects. Designing Azure platform and PCI DSS compliant zones for PCI DSS Audit.

Chester, United Kingdom

Aligning IT Infrastructure to best practice and business direction, designing new solutions and road mapping for a future proof IT estate. Public and private cloud adoption and migration and strengthening private data centre.

Oldham, United Kingdom

Designing new solutions for data centre technologies and administering data centre operations. Specialising in virtualisation and storage.VMware ESXi Cisco UCSCisco Nexus and network routers/switchesNetApp Microsoft 2008 R2 multi site environment for over 3000 users Barracuda NLB design and implementation SCOM 2012 & SCCM 2012 design and implementation Cisco ScanSafe/Ironport/ASA Juniper firewall

Resource management Team collaboration Server consolidation Conflict resolution Stakeholder management Budgetary constraints Business planning / testing Performance improvements TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISEActive Directory 03 / 08Cisco routers Citrix Desktop / server buildingAppsenseITIL V3 CertifiedMicrosoft SCCM 07 / SMS 03 Microsoft Server 03 and 08 Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/ 2000Symantec /McAfee AntivirusTCP/IP Exchange 2010Thin clients VM Ware NetAppOrcaAppVInstall Shield; Employed as a 2nd/3rd line Systems Support Analyst accountable for incident resolution and problem management with a focus on:SCCM; Designed and implemented the SCCM infrastructure and administrated day to day including all application packages and OSD.WSUS; Designed and implemented the WSUS infrastructure and administrated day to day including client server patching on schedules and maintenance windows with custom made GPO's.Datacentre; On-site datacentre management including 24/7 support for the datacentre infrastructure with a highly virtualised infrastructure.Citrix; Administrating Citrix XenApp 6 and 5 infrastructure and VDI.Overseeing the management of multiple domains with majority of estate on Windows Server 2008 R2 for over 300 sites.3rd Level Technical Solutions Analyst

Oldham

Providing WSUS/SCCM design and adminstration, application packaging as well as infrastructure projects. Also provide day to day systems support for end users on a 2nd/3rd line level.

Initially employed as 1st Line Analyst; accountable for screening incoming customer calls, seeing through to resolution, before being appointed 2nd Line Analyst, tasked with supporting staff with unresolved problems. Following success in this role, promoted to 3rd Level Technical Solutions Analyst in 2008:Acting as SMS and Web Administrator; harnessing impressive technical expertise when managing software distribution alongside security patches to all clients via Microsoft SMS 2003 / SCCM 2007 / WSUS.Managing datacentre servers and Citrix / Legacy server farms. Overseeing the management of of multiple domains for over 6000 users. Thin client deployment/management via Altiris. Managing external Internet access using ScanSafe web solution via proxy servers. Leading the delivery of on-call service 1 week in 4 to the service desk while available for callout 24x7 within this period.Ensuring adherence to strict Service Level Agreements.Commissioning and decommissioning new / redundant equipment; liaising with staff and service users of all levels.

Fdsc, Computing

Avce, Ict