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Freelance Infrastructure Technical Lead Petworth, West Sussex, UK

Hard working, self motivated IT Infrastructure specialist with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including Windows and Cisco development and maintenance skills.

Rating:Unrated (New)
Hourly Rate / Cost:£33.33 per hour
Daily Rate / Cost:£250.00 per day
Available From:Now
Seller ID:255617
: Offers a discounted hourly rate to registered charities

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

Motivated and hard working IT infrastructure Specialist with wide and varied Skills including:-

• Microsoft Server software (15 years)
• Active Directory Design, installation and support (5 years)
• Exchange (2003 & 2003) Design, installation and support (5 years)
• Network Management software (6 years)
• SharePoint services and server - portal 2003 & MOSS 2007 (3 years)
• Citrix Installation and support (4 years)
• Cisco LAN/WAN hardware including routers, switches and PIX firewalls (5 years)
• Web design and support (8 years)

Employment History

(Jan 2006 to Dec 2007)

Infrastructure Technical Lead

Woking, Surrey

Role overview: Overall technical expert for Plan’s entire operational infrastructure both Microsoft and Cisco. Day to day responsibility for other engineers (3 based in the UK, 1 in Guatemala and 1 in the Philippines).

Responsibility:
• Support and development of Plan’s operational Wintel farm, approximately 200 servers located in over 60 countries, all servers running either Windows 2003 R2 or Windows 2000 Server.
• Technical Lead for upgrade project of Windows/Exchange 2000 to Windows/Exchange 2003 which included the following activities:
o Purchase and installation of servers, including hardware build of HP servers.
o Installation and configuration of Windows and Exchange environment.
o Development of build guide and semi-automated build.
o Installing Microsoft firewall ISA sever for access to OWA.
• Installation of company Intranet based on SharePoint (MOSS 2007).
o Migration of wss2.0 to 3.0
o Installation and support of SQL 2005 for the SharePoint farm.
o Installation and creation of Intranet portal in MOSS 2007.
o Securing portal and WSS sites.
o Updating ISA firewall server to allow extranet access for board members.
• Development and support of Plan’s Network infrastructure, approximately 150 routers, 40 switches and 5 firewalls – all Cisco based, and all running Security feature pack to support IPSec VPN.
• Support of Head office network LAN and WAN.
o Cisco Switches inc 3750 layer switch
o Cisco PIX 505/515 firewall
o Cisco 1721, 2621 & 3745 routers
• Purchase and support of all IT departments’ desktop hardware and software.
• Management of all operational support contracts with third parties, both negotiation and administration.
• Responsibility for over a 2.5million dollar budget (creation and spend)
• Day to day management of Network engineers
• Jointly responsible for the setup of an IT Services Team (following ITIL best practises)
• Responsible for the delivery of support for all of Plan’s infrastructure technologies, including full hands on support where required.
• Project manager of the movement of London data centre ‘hub’ to new location.
• Other positions held with in Plan’s IT management structure.
o Joint chairman of the global technology committee
o Infrastructure change manager

Assignment History

(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignments)

  • Exchange Server: Looking for assistance with the final stages of an Exchange 2007 deployment project. Extensive hardware 90% complete, needs small config, backups & DR testing. Once completed, looking to roll out OWA to 1000 users initially whilst forwarding on current POP email, then introduce Outlook 2003 to 600+ PC's. Will be working together with a full time member of staff.
  • Sharepoint Contractor: We have an issue with our school Sharepoint Front-End Server, professionally installed February 2007 and working satisfactorily until May 2008. A brief desciption of the issue follows. We are seeking someone prepared to spend a day in the next few weeks resolving this for us, with Microsoft Tech. Support if needed, EITHER by a direct hotfix, OR by removal/reinstallation on the same server, OR by removal reinstallation on another virgin vanilla W2k8(64bit) server.
  • Cisco engineer: Looking for a qualified Cisco engineer, must have PIX experience, for 3 - 6 days. I require a daily / hourly rate. The project is in SW London and briekfly covers a) Check of initial design work, probably one day. b) Check of configuration / implementation two days c) Additional three days as a call down as needed.
  • MS Sharepoint Specialist: We require someone with very good skills in Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook. Sharepoint - Skills in developing and managing Sharepoint sites and in using desktop/remote access to access a Sharepoint Server. We are particularly interested in people who also have experience of adding and managing the various plug-in technologies that can be integrated with Sharepoint such as Microsoft Communicator.
  • Windows 2000/2003 MCSE: Windows 2000/2003 MCSE required for on-site consulting directly at various client sites in London "City", "West End", and occasional executives' homes. Minimum 5 years experience of desktop, server, and network support required. This is front-line end-user support, however mid-level to senior contractor required, as the client base is of small high-end companies who need white-glove treatment and lots of hand-holding.

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