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55 Points
8 Years

About me

Recent achievements include:
NUTANIX PLATFORM PROFESSIONAL (NPP)
Design and deploy a new highly available data center for an SMB intent on growth. high density server blades attached to 40Gbps core switch fabric with redundant paths to five Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster nodes. Management via System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. Storage: SSD-Hybrid EqualLogic storage arrays attached to converged network fabric. Backup to on-premise storage, and off-premise (Microsoft Azure), via Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM).

Past achievements include:
Remote access solution (Microsoft Remote Desktop Services) protected by Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) & Cisco firewalls. All remote access session hosts virtualized, load-balanced, and highly available. Secure, immediate access to business information from anywhere.

Multiple SharePoint 2010, and 2013 infrastructure designs and deployments.

Current work
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Plan, architect, and deploy fully hosted Lync 2013 Enterprise Voice (EVoIP-UC) and Unified Communications solution to a) replace legacy pbx phone system b) introduce unified communications integration into an existing Microsoft environment.
Plan Office365 value-add scenarios including integration of Lync 2013 EVoIP, and Dynamics CRM.
Plan branch office data centre upgrade including business continuity - disaster recovery solution.
Plan security framework upgrade, including BYOD management solution.

Specialist areas:
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Multi-node Hyper-V cluster performance tuning, private cloud architecture and implementation using Microsoft tools, including System Center 2012 R2.
Data centre planning and build projects, including HVAC, utility power, and 40Gps converged network fabric design.
Recent fun and games deploying highly-available unicast load-balanced TMG firewall array through stacked L3 switches.