Nick Barrett Email & Phone Number

Scotland

Just keeping the lights on

Whether it is the designing, resourcing, third party liaison, project management or just getting grubby with power tools, old house renovation is a dusty addiction that seems to be exhausting and yet lucrative.Having prior training in joinery and first-fix trades obviously helps, and spending the time to negotiate good deals from reliable suppliers is handy; just maintaining materials levels, a tidy site - and a regular flow of tea - all go a long way to delivering a painless project on budget.Which pays for the next one !

Providing IT services to diverse blue-chip, public sector and smaller clients... and they keep renewing

Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Access control on assorted systems.Also seeking sub-optimal configs, and AD DS debris

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Escalation point for any issues confounding the team

Studied for an MSc in Advanced Security & Data Forensics, acquiring 4 module distinctions and a PostGrad Diploma. The dissertation will have to wait, as the commercial partner dropped out and I got a job instead.

Southampton

Maintaining, supporting and enhancing 350+ virtual & physical Wintel servers. Administering perimeter appliances & services.Migrated over 7,000,000 objects from creaking monolithic filestore to 20-node virtualised DFS with clustered namespace servers, maintaining sharepaths to avoid disrupting BAU by novel use of myriad standalone namespaces; continued to manage growing DFS-NExtensive audit & reporting using Varonis DataAdvantage

Wild Country !

Training navigation, mountain walking and campcraft skills

Holiday and headcount cover, extended from 4 weeks to 24 months.Commissioning new DR environment, general infrastructure support, upgrading assorted systems, integrating disparate applications, internationalisation of apps... and enjoying the environment.

Design a new AD ? not too trickyIdentify the objects that will get migrated ? now that is a little more challenging....

Inter-Forest migration of autonomous surgeries and Trust AD users to new Active Directory forest and domains for Suffolk Mental Health TrustRecovered from AD corruption, remediated DNS, added value to sundry other projects

Brief consultancy to update+document under-maintained heterogeneous network and infrastructureFurther engagement to tidy diverse systems

Yet again, bullying BT to concede they did a poor job....

3rd line support on multi-domain legacy systems during grand AD migration project

Supported complex VoIP / CRM call centre solution based upon Siebel and CosmoCom products integrated with bespoke in-house components

Technical resource to the stores comms project, delivering DSL to 240 locations, working with BT GS and BT Exact; also 3rd line Wintel support to HQ

Initial manager of the climbing environment within the biggest private members' sports club in Europe: coaching beginners and improvers, managing temp staff and equipmentI also acted as the onsite IT resource, maintaining the infrastructure and club management system: resolved backups, provided training, improved Metaframe config

Manage the helpdesk for a provider of IT support & development services to various SMEs in Essex and London: provide remote support, despatch the onsite technicians, attend customer sites as an escalation point of contact, document service offerings and standardise migration paths for new clients.

Master’S Degree, Advanced Security & Digital Forensics

Activities and Societies: Security SocietyHost-based forensics; Network security; Compliance, Risk & Audit eSecurity, Incident Response &.

Master’S Degree, Telecomms Systems Management

Activities and Societies: Mountaineering...Finding my own MSc research opportunity, assisting BR Telecom with VHF network QARadio comms.

Master Of Science - Ms, Telecommunications Systems Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Advanced Systems Architecture

Activities and Societies: Participant then instructor at the Mountaineering club; member of Nightline for 6 years; Student guide.