Active Directory Consultant - Deal, Kent, UK
Technical infrastructure architect and developer specialising in Microsoft and web technologies. I have designed and developed many secure and maintainable solutions for the desktop, server and web.
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05 January 2007: Lewis has taken the technical lead in developing a software application to address a major business challenge we had faced. His structured approach has helped us deliver this application on budget and allowed us to realise the cost savings quickly.
The application itself has been professionally designed, written and supported through beta.
Lewis himself has been easy to work with, explaining limitations, principles and advising us all the way.
All in all, a highly professional individual who we look forward to working with again.
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• Designed and developed a C# .Net solution automating telephony equipment and saving my client, a major UK Telecoms company, the conservative estimate of at least £100,000/year.
• Designed and developed a self service, Active Directory, security solution my partners now sell.
• Provided development and Microsoft infrastructure consultation for numerous major projects at a leading Pharmaceutical company.
• Developed technical web application hosting standards adopted word wide for a large Pharmaceutical company.
Employment History
(Aug 2006 to Dec 2006)
Freelance Developer
Hemel Hempstead (Home)Designed and implemented (C#, .Net, Windows Forms), a multi-threaded terminal client (serial port and rlogin) to provide automation of telephony equipment.
Architected a server (C#, .Net, Web Service) for engineers laptop authorisation and centralisation of customer equipment configuration.
(Jun 2006 to Aug 2006)
Active Directory Consultant
Sandwich, KentProvided technical consultancy to an Active Directory UNIX integration project for one of the largest Active Directory installations outside of Microsoft. Automated Active Directory security changes required for repeated testing and role out (vbscript, WMI, ADSI).
(Apr 2005 to May 2006)
Technical Director / Developer
Deal, KentDesigned and developed a generally available Active Directory security product. It is an ASP.Net application in C# using Microsoft SQL server. Implemented with replaceable directory modules (for future support of Novell or Open Directories).
Extensive use of Virtualisation (VMWare) for development and testing complex, multi-forest, Active Directory environments on very limited hardware.
Designed the technicalities of the product web site, see www.itkeys.co.uk.
Wrote a complete MSI installer / uninstaller for deploying ITkeys, verifying all infrastructure dependencies including database deployment (please try the free version on the website).
(Jan 2004 to Dec 2004)
Intranet Infrastructure Specialist
Pfizer Limited, Sandwich, KentUpdated the standard web hosting platform for IIS 6 on Windows 2003.
Introduced Virtualisation (VMWare) for platform development, application system impact analysis and replication of production problems for support.
Consulted on the standard, secure DMZ build for Extranet and Internet application hosting.
Created extensible management tools for automating platform maintenance (ASP.Net, C#).
(Mar 2002 to Dec 2002)
Web Technologies Consultant
Schroders Investment Management, LondonConsulted on improving the management of the company Intranet and Internet solution (Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 Server, Vignette, Microsoft Site Server and ASP).
Provided consultation and support of web projects.
(Feb 1999 to Aug 2001)
Intranet Infrastructure Specialist
Pfizer Limited, Sandwich, KentConsulted to development teams / vendors and business projects on security and supportability. Provided third level support of hosted applications.
Designed and developed a company standard web application hosting platform. It allowed high consolidation of ASP, ISAPI and CGI applications from many dissimilar builds to one standard NT 4 Web server build. I also automated the system build for repeatable reliability.
Developed Intranet applications using ASP and Visual Basic 6 (COM / COM+) and Microsoft Transaction Server MTS. Developed shared infrastructure code including UNIX NT Web application authentication and authorisation services (early web service allowing for SSO).
(Nov 1998 to Feb 1999)
PC Server Infrastructure Co-ordinator
Marks and Spencer Plc, LondonProvided change management and developer support for PC server infrastructure.
(Aug 1995 to Oct 1998)
Technical Product Support Manager
Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, LondonBuilt up a product technical support department from the ground up. Provided mentoring for my staff. Introduced programs and code to capture and feedback technical product problems to development and testing teams.
(Mar 1995 to Jun 1995)
Hardware & Software Testing Contractor
Videologic Limited, Hemel HempsteadVideo test engineer. Developed automated test scripts.
(Jul 1991 to Dec 1994)
Software Engineer
Phoenix Technologies Limited (European Design Centre), GuildfordPorted 8086 Assembly Language (MASM) and C wrapper code from the reference chipset to the in house developed chipset. Wrote batch scripts and simple assembly for automated testing of BIOS and DOS interrupt calls.
Professional Qualifications
Microsoft Certified Professional, Windows 95 (063) – (1997)
Education
(Aug 1992 to Jul 1994)
University of the West of England
BTEC HND Computer Science
(Sep 1989 to Jul 1992)
North East Surrey College of Technology
BTEC ND Computer & Electrical Engineering
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Categories & Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Business Software
- Database Development & Admin
- IT Management
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Networks
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Project Management
- Security Clearance
- Security Software/Systems
- Server Software
- Software Testing
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- .NET (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- .NET (Programming)
- ActiveX (Programming)
- ADO
- Adobe (Web Design & Usability)
- Apache
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- Application Integration (Application Development)
- ASP (Programming)
- ASP.NET (Programming)
- BackOffice (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Basic (Programming)
- Business Continuity
- C# (Programming)
- Call Centre Management (IT Management)
- Capacity Management (IT Management)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- CSS (Project Management)
- DAO
- Data Architecture (Database Development & Admin)
- Data Migration Management (IT Management)
- DHCP (Networks)
- DHTML (Project Management)
- DNS (Networks)
- Documentum (Database Development & Admin)
- DOS (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Dreamweaver (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Exchange (Server Software - Microsoft)
- Exchange Server (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Fireworks (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- FTP (Networks)
- Hardware Installation (IT Management)
- HTML
- HTTPS (Security Software/Systems)
- IIS (Server Software - Microsoft)
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Infrastructure (Project Management)
- Internet (Project Management)
- IP (Networks)
- IPSec (Security Software/Systems)
- Jakarta Tomcat (Server Software)
- Java Web Server (Server Software)
- JavaScript (Project Management)
- Jrun (Server Software)
- Kerberos (Security Software/Systems)
- LAN (Networks)
- LDAP
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- Microsoft (Server Software)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (IT Tools/Middleware)
- MS Access
- MTS (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Multi-Threading (IT Tools/Middleware)
- NetBIOS (Networks)
- Network Security (Project Management)
- ODBC
- OLE DB
- Online Security Planning (Web E-commerce)
- Oracle (Database Development & Admin)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- Photoshop (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- Pocket PC (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Problem Management (IT Management)
- Proxy Server (Server Software - Microsoft)
- Public Key Cryptography (Security Software/Systems)
- Release Management (IT Management)
- Risk Management
- Sarbanes Oxley Compliance (IT Management)
- SC (Security Clearance)
- Secure Shell (Security Software/Systems)
- Server Deployment (Project Management)
- Site Server (Server Software - Microsoft)
- SLA Management (IT Management)
- SLA's (Project Management)
- SMTP (Networks)
- SOAP (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Software Update Service (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- SQL (Project Management)
- SSH (Security Software/Systems)
- SSL (Security Software/Systems)
- Storage Area Network (Networks)
- System Architect (IT Tools/Middleware)
- System Security (Project Management)
- Systems Management (IT Management)
- TCP/IP (Networks)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Documentation (Project Management)
- Technical Management (IT Management)
- Technical Standards Development (IT Management)
- Technical Writing (IT Management)
- Telephony (Project Management)
- UDP (Networks)
- VBA (Programming)
- VBScript (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Vignette StoryServer (Server Software)
- Visio (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Visual Basic (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Basic .NET (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual C# (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual SourceSafe (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Visual Studio (Programming)
- VPN
- WAN
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Web Services (Project Management)
- WEBDAV (IT Tools/Middleware)
- WebObjects
- Website Strategy
- Win32 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows CE (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT Migration (Project Management)
- Windows Update Service (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- WINS (Networks)
- Wireless (Networks)
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
- XML

