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Kidlington, England, United Kingdom

Kidlington, England, United Kingdom

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

3rd line Support and project lead of GWR infrastructure running a primarily Windows Server based estate both physical and virtual.Technical lead for multiple projects including companywide migration to Office 365 from IBM Domino server and Novell eDirectory to Microsoft Active Directory. Migration of all GWR data from on-premise Microsoft file servers to AWS FSx file systems utilising AWS DataSync and continuing to use DFS to ensure minimal interruption or change to the end… Show more 3rd line Support and project lead of GWR infrastructure running a primarily Windows Server based estate both physical and virtual.Technical lead for multiple projects including companywide migration to Office 365 from IBM Domino server and Novell eDirectory to Microsoft Active Directory. Migration of all GWR data from on-premise Microsoft file servers to AWS FSx file systems utilising AWS DataSync and continuing to use DFS to ensure minimal interruption or change to the end users.Continual consolidation and upgrade of on-premise services by migrating to both Azure and AWS offerings including IaaS, SaaS and PaaS.Disaster Recovery planning, testing and documentation to meet audit requirements to ensure continued running of the GWR rail network in the event of a failure using Veeam Backup and replication to ExaGrid appliances.Support, maintenance and upgrades of VMWare ESXi datacentres utilising vMotion and DRS across multiple sites for high availability. Storage of virtual services is onto HPE Nimble Storage devices.Deployment of SCCM organisation wide for Operating system and software updates later extended to application deployment.Working closely with the security team to plan, test and implement security fixes across the estate including measures to secure business systems and software utilising Azure AD/Office 365 integration.Member of the change board to ensure raised changes do not impact or hinder other systems and services to maintain an effective rail network.Working with 3rd parties in order to best implement new solutions that will benefit the company. Show less

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the support, maintenance, management and expansion of primarily Windows based networks across the Activate Group including commercial products. Migration of all members of the Activate Group to Office 365 to improve collaborative working and reduce overall IT costs.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for coordinating, planning and implementing IT, security and disaster recovery policy. Overseeing the IT budget to ensure all spend was relevant and would benefit the business. Support and maintenance of all servers and desktops across the site.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

2nd/3rd line remote and onsite support for many SME businesses.Designing, planning and installation of new solutions including networks, servers and desktops along with migrations to new hardware and software.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Management and support of the call centre running a Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server 2000/2003 Active Directory Domain. Support and maintenance of an Avaya IP Office telephone system later transitioning to VoIP soft phones. Primary achievement was relocating the entire IT and telecoms infrastructure of the call centre to a new larger building within Swindon.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Remote and onsite IT support for multiple SME businesses across Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Support for both C&D Recruitment and Carpeo Solutions Ltd. who I later returned to as IT Manager.

Shrivenham, England, United Kingdom

Providing desktop and server support to all staff across the site. Maintenance and development of both the Intranet and Internet sites.