Systems Architect and Datacentre
Content and Code/ U.K
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 11 أشهر
Lead
Content and Code are the UK's leading supplier of Microsoft business solutions, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint, Intranets, Office 365, and Azure.
Azure Infrastructure Lead (Azure Active Directory, intune, IaaS and other services)
•Completed Azure University at MSFT HQ in TVP
•Led SMEs throughout the build of hosted solutions for the BBC, Johnson Matthey, Williams Lea, Mott MacDonald and other global coroporate entities with focus on networking, storage, compute, and security
•Liason officer between the business and NIU Solutions, an IBM partner
•Specifically brought on board to lead their push into the hosting space
•Responsible for developing business continuity and disaster recovery plans for global clients within a mutli-tenancy, multi-datacentre infrastructure
•Network performance and optimisation for various clients wishing to move to O365 (Office 365)
•Increased profit margins by transitioning clients from VMWare to Hyper-V 2012 R2.
•Exchange 2013 hybrid migrations
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Position: Solutions Architect/Microsoft Lead
•Directed team members across technical disciplines to deliver projects on time and under budget
•Design and build of SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group Geo-Clusters
•Liaison between the business and Cisco on the delivery of a converged and virtualized data centre infrastructure (IaaS) based on Cisco's Unified Computing System. Role included requirements development, participation in high level and low level design discussions, and application discovery and mapping
•Overhauled and consolidated the business' SQL environment onto a multi-instance SQL 2012 AlwaysOn geo-cluster including PowerShell deployed SharePoint 2010 (33, 000 sites) and CRM 2011. This role required tight integration and collaboration with the development team.
•Designed a proprietary branch office appliance around MS Server 2012, Direct Access, and Branch Cache technologies to support rapid global growth. Offices were expected to be thrown up overnight and decommissioned or relocated as requested.
•Deployed PowerShell enabled Azure based pilot office for hybrid infrastructure research and development.
•Technical lead for a transformational programme of work which was responsible for bringing all legacy systems up to current release and consolidating wherever possible
•Contributed to Exchange 2003 to 2010 transition with the following additional components
•Websense External Gateway for security, archiving, compliance, and business continuity
•Good Technologies for Mobile Device Management (MDM) for BYOD
•Ironport
•Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) upgrade and deployment
•HP 5500 Messaging Appliances
•Introduction of F5 3600 and stretched VLANs to accommodate global and automated failover
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•Infrastructure lead for building a proof of concept for the Foreign Commonwealth Office which included technologies like SharePoint 2007, SQL 20008, Exchange 2010, IIS 7.0, and Windows server 2008 Active Directory
•Worked with Redmond to fine tune Microsoft hosting facilities across the globe to support cloud computing
•LAN/WAN optimization and troubleshooting across a private MPLS infrastructure
•SC Cleared for work within a ‘lights out' datacentre working on multiple projects for the MOD
•Delivery consultant responsible for the entire lifecycle including, requirements gathering, high level design delivery, low level design delivery, and implementation
•Project management utilizing Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) methodology
•Direct communication with stakeholders and ‘C' level executives
•Managed third party vendor relations with the likes of Fujitsu, Toshiba, IBM, EMC, and others
•SharePoint lead on a project for Leeds City Council responsible for incorporating information architecture, technical architecture, and building a 12 node highly-available Hyper-V farm to host the solution
•Global deployments of Active Directory based on Windows server 2008 R2 including the design of Group Policy and networking services for 50, 000+ globally dispersed users
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Core Skill Set Detail and Sector Experience
MCSE: Private Cloud (transcript available upon request)
- Microsoft based technologies -Cloud based solutions: private, public, and hybrid - Disaster Recovery
-(DR) and Business Continuity (BC) - Team Leadership -Direct stakeholder interaction and accountability
- Data centre architecture and design - System Center (SCCM, SCVMM) - Large-scale migrations (AD
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