David McKone

Background

About David McKone

Senior Engineer with a 23-year career as a Microsoft SME and 10 years as a Technical Lead, having delivered large-scale SOE / EUC projects for up to 1.5m end-users, with budgets up to $234m. Clients include NSW & QLD state governments, Microsoft, Reserve Bank, News Group, Virgin Mobile & KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Microsoft Technical Lead (NSW Govt.)| Lead Engineer on 3 large projects including a Win 7, 8.1 & 10 SOE for all NSW primary & secondary school students & a $234m SOE deployment for 195k users. Capability Uplift | At QLD Dept. of Transport & Main Roads changed the status-quo approach with a proposal, pilot and launch of a platform supporting business & user (BAT/UAT) acceptance testing. Knowledge Management | Personally developed a ‘Tech Sessions’ training forum for building technical skills & sharing knowledge, recording 11 sessions, each attended by 100+ technical SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER 23 years in systems & desktop engineering, with experience in upgrade, installation, management & support of Microsoft infrastructure, domains, operating systems & services. 10 years leading transformations, migrations, upgrades & deployments, including for NSW Dept. of Education – recognised by Microsoft as one of the largest Config Manager environments in the world. 10 years developing IT roadmaps, deployment & core centralisation strategies, major upgrade & migration planning, testing & training strategies for environments with 10k to 1.5m PROJECT DELIVERY 20 years in project delivery working with Agile, PRINCE2, & PMBOK, deploying solutions into ITIL-compliant environments. 10 years as trusted technical advisor, supporting decision makers through preparing & advising on public tenders up to $200m, vendor selections & developing business cases up to $14m. 15 years working with leading industry MICROSOFT: Windows Desktop & Server, SMS, SCCM, MEM, Intune, MEM, MDT, ADK, Office, Office 365 (O365), Active Directory (AD)(AAD), GPO, AGPM, AppLocker, Hyper-V, Device Guard, Credential Guard, MBAM, BitLocker, PKI + Certificates Authority, Defender ATP METHODOLOGIES: Agile, Kanban, ITIL, CIS-CAT Pro, ACSC Essential 8, MS Secure Config. Guides NETWORKING: DNS, DHCP, Cisco AnyConnect, Wireshark AUTOMATION: PowerShell, VBS, BIOS Config. Tools, OSDBuilder SYSTEMS: VMWare, Secret Server, Windows Admin Center, McAfee