Tom Harper Email & Phone Number

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Volunteer Dog Walker for the Cinnamon Trust Charity.The Cinnamon Trust is a UK charity providing support for elderly and terminally ill people with pets. The organization relies on volunteers to walk dogs, transport pets, and foster pets whose owners have difficulty caring for them. It also administers pet sanctuaries. It was founded by Averil Jarvis in 1985, and named after her corgi Cinnamon. As of December 2020, the charity has a network of 17,000 volunteers. Sir Paul McCartney and Virginia McKenna are the charity's patrons

Providing specialist expertise, contributing to and leading, in the support and development of new services. Offering direction and support to members of the university and external agencies in the use, maintenance and enhancement of the services.MECM / SCCMMicrosoft Exchange 2016Exchange OnlineCrowdstrike Management and DeploymentsWindows Failover Cluster Installation and Configuration.AD DS Domain Controller / Entra Installation and Migrations.Azure DNS Migration and Management, including split brain Windows DNS management.Monitoring Infrastructure estate using Nagios, Zabbix & CheckMK.Powershell – Azure cloud scripting, monitoring and remediation of security events, licensing and user management / cloud infrastructure, user scripts, migration (file services scripts)Automating Server Deployment, upgrades, patching and management.A team leader that is a conscientious and professional Senior Systems Administrator with extensive experience in systems consultations, migrations and maintenance. Also familiar with PBX, network installations and support.Thorough and precise approach to projects. Ability to quickly and efficiently troubleshoot and resolvetechnical problems both remotely and on site

Procured Nutanix SAN Environment and migrated VMWARE hosts to 6 node Nutanix AHV Cluster.Created Hybrid Cloud environment with Microsoft Entra.Audits – Certified the Council in both internal IT Security Audits and external, including PSN and Cyber Essentials Certifications.Migrated Firewall and Core Network from a Walled Garden design to a simplified DMZ – Palo Alto only estate. Significantly reducing cost and complexity by removing the dual Cisco layered HA environments.Migrated ISP and completed hybrid DC migration to a private data centre.Migrated hosted telephone system to Webex Cloud.Managed Palo Alto Firewall including S2S VPN’s, upgrades, rule sets and alerting.O365 Tenants – Configured hybrid environment for core business and created new tenants on a regular basis for sub business divisions or other projects which required segregation for compliance reasons.Migrated Mail Filtering, implemented DMARC, DKIM, SPF and migrated the business to DMARC Reject within 3 months.Tendered and procured all IT Services with Team in compliance with LA frameworks.Migrated, installed and maintained Linux OS systems for the Web Development Team. Hosted both in Azure, Docker and AHV.IIS – Configured IIS Web Servers and Apache Servers for web hosting and/or DMZ redirects.Part of a small team, pro-active, confident and an excellent communicator. Delivering services across a wide range of business areas supporting a diverse set of applications. Consulted with customers of varying seniority and technical expertise.Primarily maintained core ICT systems and services in response to business needs.This position provided me with the exposure and experience of a wide range of ICT infrastructure platforms.Gained excellent diagnostic skills and an advanced technical understanding of security, server and network technologies found in a modern ICT environment, as well as the drive to move forward and develop.

Tonbridge

Managed onboarding new clients network and server configurations.

Hastings, East Sussex

Managed Cisco Network deployment and support for existing and new clients.Supported a variety of national networks, servers and remote telephone systems.Provided onsite installation and configuration of equipment at national data centres