Vaughan Carr

Experience

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  Langet Laboratories

  Feb 2001 - Nov 2004

  Support Engineer

  Installed/repaired/configured windows 95/98,2000 and XP, SuSe, Mandrake workstations and servers.Worked with pc software and hardware to integrate with Laboratory InstrumentsFirewall setup and masquerading for internet connectivity for networkPurchasing, upgrading and installing IT equipment.Implementing backup procedures.

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  QNS

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2005

  Network Support Engineer

  1st,2nd,3rd line support to 80 SME companies.Win98/2000/XP, MS Office 2000/XP/2k3 support.Troubleshooting exchange 2k/2k3, IIS, OWA.Server installation and maintenance on Windows 2k/2k3/SBS2k/2k3 servers

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  Hellman and Friedman

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  Infrastructure Support
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  ICT

  Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  Network Engineer

  1st, 2nd .3rd line support to 25 primary schools in the Wimbledon area.1000+ XP/Win2k clients, 30+ servers running Win 2k/2k3 server.Using Veritas, AD, group policies, roaming /mandatory profiles.Using Netgear fibre/gigabit switches, and Dell Poweredge 2800 servers

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  Matsco Solutions

  Aug 2006 - Feb 2011

  Escalation Engineer

  2nd.3rd line support to +-30 Hedge Funds/Private Equity/Financial firms on a 3 hour SLAUsing HP/Dell servers, cisco switches/routers/firewalls, HP San'sWindows 2008R2/2008/2003/2000, SBS 2003/2000 server support, migration and implementation.Exchange 2010, 2007 and 2003 support, migration and implementation.VMWare and Citrix Virtual serversBES migrationsCisco/Avaya IP phones

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  Ruby Capital

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

  Infrastructure Support
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  RP Capital Group

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Infrustructure Support
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  Horsley Bridge International

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

  Infrastructure Support
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  Net Root

  Feb 2011 - Jul 2013

  Senior IT Field Consultant

  2nd.3rd line support and consultancy to 25 SME companies.Technical Team Lead EngineerProject planning, builds and migrations to Windows 2008R2 and Exchange 2010Migrating clients onto Office365 and other cloud based solutionsTechnical pre sales and planning of solutionsAdvising clients on the technical aspects of their business requirements

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  The M9 Group

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2016

  Technical Team LeadSecondary Data Centre ControllerScoping and implementing projects to strict proceduresDomain, Exchange, RDP farm,Lync, File server, Citrix farms and SQL upgrades and migrationsMigrating primary client to another datacenter, 300 users, 50 servers with 12TB of storage Scoping projects to strict procedures, working in a small team of engineers to facilitate the implementation and migration of existing customers into our cloud solution in our datacentre and other private and public cloud solutions. Scoping the work, assessing every detail and using Microsoft Project (or AutoTask) to provide a project plan, and subsequent implementation. Confident on Hyper-V and clustering as well as on other Microsoft products such as Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and OS 2012 R2. 3rd line support to in-house Datacenter and external SME companiesTeam LeaderWindows 2003-2012R2, Exchange 2003-2013 installation, migration and supportMicrosoft /VMware virtualization platform installation, migration and supportBES installation, migration, support Xenapp 6.5 installation and supportDatacenter upgrade planning and testing , SPLA licensing management, hardware procurement

  • Technical Lead - Projects

    Jan 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Project Engineer

    Sept 2015 - Jan 2016

  • 3rd Line Engineer

    Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
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  T-Tech

  Sept 2016 - May 2020

  Lead Project Consultant

  Lead Project Consultant responsible for designing and implementation of solutions.Working closely with project stakeholders at all levels to ensure designed solutions meet all requirements and continue to work closely with stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project. Working closely with Project Managers, Sales Managers, Account Managers & Service Desk to ensure all designs can be implemented, supported & understood after implementation.Acting as a Technical Lead for bigger projects where several other consultants will be assisting during the rollout.Examples of the previous design and implementation work include:Azure migrations - Greenfield, Datacentre migrations, split datacentre configurations, Site Recovery, Load Balancers & SQL Clusters, HA RDS SolutionsOffice 365 migrations, Exchange Full Hybrid implementations, MimecastAzure and EM+S implementations - Modern Workplace, Intune, MFA, Conditional Access,Azure AD DS, Enterprise Applications.Azure SQL SAASDatacentre rebuilds - Hyper-V to VMWare, Storage reconfigurations etc. (N+1)On-premise server installation and build,Cisco Umbrella ImlementationsWindows 10 rollouts Show less

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  RFA

  Jun 2020 - now

  Responsible for implementation and administration of mid to large scale Projects.Lead RFA IT staff in technical analysis and problem solving activities related to systems development, implementation, integration, and infrastructure as they relate to Projects.Coordinate planning, development, testing, documentation, and installation of Project to ensure timely deliverables, Projects success and quality

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Project Engineer

    Jun 2020 - now