Danny Smith

Experience

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  The College of West Anglia

  Jul 2003 - Nov 2012

  • Assistant Network Engineer

    Mar 2010 - Nov 2012

  • IT Operations Technician

    May 2008 - Mar 2010

  • Assistant Operations Technician

    May 2006 - May 2008

  • Junior IT Technician

    Jul 2005 - May 2006

  • Apprentice Administrator

    Jul 2003 - Jul 2005
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  RM Education

  Nov 2012 - Jul 2022

  I maintain, configure, and administer the following systems:• Microsoft technologies including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, System Center, Network Policy and Remote Desktop Gateway• Exchange 2016 Server and Exchange Online• Office365 and SharePoint Online• Aruba and Meru Wireless Systems• Fortigate Firewall (previously dealt with Sonicwall and Smoothwall)• Mitel IP Telephony• Papercut Printing solution (previously dealt with PCounter and Inepro)• Veeam Backup solution (previously managed Networker, Avamar and Rapid Recovery)• Samsung CCTV Cameras and NVRs• HP Procurve, Aruba and H3C switching• Hyper-V Virtualisation (previously VMWare and SuSE Linux\Zen)• MIS system and other business critical databases\applications. Show less

  • Senior IT Engineer

    Jan 2015 - Jul 2022

  • Customer Support Engineer

    Nov 2012 - Jan 2015
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  The College of West Anglia

  Aug 2022 - now

  I manage, maintain, configure, and deploy the SQL estate while ensuring the adherence to best practices for MS SQL and other server operating systems. I offer comprehensive guidance and advice on SQL best practices across the college. Additionally, I am responsible for maintaining, configuring, and administering various systems, including but limited to:- Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, System Center, Network Policy, and Remote Desktop Gateway.- Exchange 2016 Server and Exchange Online.- Office365 and SharePoint Online.- Aruba and Meru Wireless Systems.- Fortigate Firewall (formerly dealt with Sonicwall and Smoothwall).- Mitel IP Telephony.- Papercut Printing solution (formerly managed PCounter and Inepro).- Veeam Backup solution (formerly managed Networker, Avamar, and Rapid Recovery).- Samsung CCTV Cameras and NVRs.- HP Procurve, Aruba, and H3C switching.- Hyper-V Virtualization (formerly VMWare and SuSE Linux\Zen).- MIS system and other critical business databases/applications. Show less

  • Database Administrator \ Senior IT Engineer

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Senior IT Engineer

    Aug 2022 - Jul 2023