Stephen Round Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Part of a high profile, fast paced technical infrastructure delivery team. Working closely with product management, solutions architects, account management, operations teams and clients to deliver solutions on time that meet or exceed requirements. Delivered key projects ahead of schedule to avoid regulatory fines and loss of earnings. Member of a team that worked with a third party to design a new provisioning management application built on Service Now. Utilised my technical knowledge to… Show more Part of a high profile, fast paced technical infrastructure delivery team. Working closely with product management, solutions architects, account management, operations teams and clients to deliver solutions on time that meet or exceed requirements. Delivered key projects ahead of schedule to avoid regulatory fines and loss of earnings. Member of a team that worked with a third party to design a new provisioning management application built on Service Now. Utilised my technical knowledge to streamline and improve the provisioning process. Introduced the infrastructure review board (IRB) for key stake holders to sign off designs ensuring that they meet operational requirements.Responsibilities and Skill sets • Chaired the Infrastructure Review Board• Designed Strategic Roadmap (rolling 5 yrs ahead)• Managed rack & stack of 2000 physical servers per annum.• Managed data centre rack, network • Provided regular management reports.• Raised change requests and change freeze exceptions when required.• Worked with managed services to continuously streamline and improve the provisioning process.• Provided PowerShell scripts to automate server checkout.• Part of the team that designed and implemented a new provisioning management application hosted by Service Now in the Cloud.• Vendor Management (Selection, SLA etc) Show less

London, United Kingdom

Member of operations team managing 7000+ windows and 1000+ ESXs servers in the EMEA region. Performed quarterly security audits on the Windows environment. Responsible for server OS rebuilds, upgrades and patching. Supervise Windows environment RFCs. I managed a server move project for 150 servers. This involved working closely with application, facility and hardware teams. Worked with the online storage team to migrate servers from end of life SAN storage. Worked with application teams to… Show more Member of operations team managing 7000+ windows and 1000+ ESXs servers in the EMEA region. Performed quarterly security audits on the Windows environment. Responsible for server OS rebuilds, upgrades and patching. Supervise Windows environment RFCs. I managed a server move project for 150 servers. This involved working closely with application, facility and hardware teams. Worked with the online storage team to migrate servers from end of life SAN storage. Worked with application teams to migrate to new platforms and decommission end of life servers. I regularly provided my team with PowerShell scripts to automate server administration or to scan the server environment for configuration anomalies.Responsibilities and Skill sets • Provided 3rd line and out of hours support.• Applying security patches during quarterly maintenance windows or when required.• Performed regular security audits and resolved group membership issues.• Server rebuilds and upgrades.• Worked with application teams on end of life projects.• Arranged server moves.• Raised and implemented change requests.• Microsoft clustering.• Created PowerShell scripts to automate regularly carried out administration tasks.• Supported disaster recovery exercises.• Wrote PowerShell scripts to audit server security.• Worked with engineering teams designing new operating system builds• Time Zone synchronization & management Show less

Egham

Lead technical analyst in a team of 11. Managing Servers across the globe. Consolidated servers to reduce license numbers. Virtualised servers to better utilise server hardware. Implemented a new web proxy, content filtering solution with Scan Safe. Authored Active directory and DNS topology standards. Technical mentor for trainee members of the team.Active Directory Design & AdministrationGroup Policy Planning & Deployment DNS Topology Design & Implementation Automated… Show more Lead technical analyst in a team of 11. Managing Servers across the globe. Consolidated servers to reduce license numbers. Virtualised servers to better utilise server hardware. Implemented a new web proxy, content filtering solution with Scan Safe. Authored Active directory and DNS topology standards. Technical mentor for trainee members of the team.Active Directory Design & AdministrationGroup Policy Planning & Deployment DNS Topology Design & Implementation Automated Server / Workstation Deployment VBScript / JScript / PowershellAdministration Task Automation MS Clustering / Network Load Balancing MS System Management Server 2 / 2003 Altiris Deployment Server HP Insight Manager / Dell Open Manage MS BizTalk 2006MS IIS 5 / 6 / 7Website Design(ASP.NET / Classic ASP / HTML) Visual Basic 6 / VB.NET MS SQL Server 6.5 / 7 / 2000 / 2005 / 2008 MS ISA Server Web Caching / Firewall Lotus Domino Basic Administration Citrix Presentation Server 4 Symantec Firewalls MS Windows Server NT4 / 2000 / 2003 / 2008 MS Windows XP / Windows 7 / Windows 8 Developer Release Show less

Lead technical analyst in a small server team. Planned and implemented a domain migration from NT4 to Active Directory for 3000 users and 2000 workstations over 35 sites in 2 countries. Designed Active Directory OU structure, inter-site transports, server connections and Group Policies. Wrote computer start-up and user logon scripts in VBScript. Designed Altiris Deployment Server infrastructure to automate windows server builds for HP and DELL servers. Created self healing VBScripts for… Show more Lead technical analyst in a small server team. Planned and implemented a domain migration from NT4 to Active Directory for 3000 users and 2000 workstations over 35 sites in 2 countries. Designed Active Directory OU structure, inter-site transports, server connections and Group Policies. Wrote computer start-up and user logon scripts in VBScript. Designed Altiris Deployment Server infrastructure to automate windows server builds for HP and DELL servers. Created self healing VBScripts for Microsoft Cluster resources and print spoolers. Planned and executed a data centre relocation for 70 servers. Administered a 24 server citrix farm, with over 70 published applications to internal and external users. External users access system through a citrix secure gateway. Managed a load balanced IIS 6 web server farm serving out 50 internal web sites. Show less

Administering a Windows 2000 domain covering 8 sites in 2 countries with 220 users. Writing scripts to automate administration processes, including user and computer object creation. Integrating core company databases with the Active Directory. Responsible for specifying and building new servers. I Automated workstation and software deployment. Ran external facing web servers hosting third party web sites, MOD, NHS and Fire service.

Worked closely with the user support and training departments to provide a standard PC lab desktop build, rolled out to 800 machines. Installed and maintained servers including Exchange 5.5 and SQL Server 6.5. Responsible for the University Web Servers and introduced dynamic web reporting of system outages and other user information.

Supervised the introduction of a new EPOS system for the residence and catering department. Provided desktop support and advised on new IT purchases

Technology & Management

Activities and Societies: Worked in the SU behind the Bar, Jazz Group, Remember a Child At Christmas Commitee Member

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