Mar 2015 – Sep-2020 Computacenter at Lloyds Banking Group – Technical Lead

A number of projects for Computacenter at Lloyds Banking Group Commercial Finance: –

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft SQL 2014 implementation – gold image design and build utilising SCCM and Group Policy to harden the Operating System
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager implementation including full DR testing
  • Pre-Production environment build including VMware and Hyper-V environments
  • Upgrade of NetApp DataONTAP 7-mode to cluster mode
  • Migration of UAT systems from corporate domain to Pre Production domain including clustered SQL servers
  • Migration of the VMware environments running on HP C7000 BladeSystems to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) including LACP configuration
  • Implementation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Implementation of NetApp MetroCluster using Cluster Data ONTAP
  • Design and implementation of VMware vSphere 6 Infrastructure
  • Support of VMware vSphere environment consisting of 60+ ESXi Hosts and over 1000 VMs.
  • Implementation of HPD Aquarius across Development, Application Test, Pre-Production environments using Agile methodologies to support Supplier Chain Finance and Invoice Discounting & Factoring. This system ran on Windows Server 2012 R2 utilising Tomcat and clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2014 servers in a highly secured environment with encrypted SSL communications and obfuscated keystore passwords.
  • Implementation of a VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC)
  • Implementation and configuration of VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)
  • Expansion of Hyper-V environment to support additional Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktops
  • Application packaging using AppV
  • Migration of Legacy Windows 2003 systems to Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Upgrade of VMware environment to vSphere 6.5 and SRM 8.
  • V2V migration of virtual machines between VMware vSphere systems and Hyper-V to VMware vSphere
  • Migration of data to OneDrive