Neil Midlane

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About Neil Midlane

A Lead or Senior Technical Architect with an extremely wide and detailed knowledge covering an extensive list of IT disciplines with a career spanning over 20 years (SC clearance for 13 years). With the skills required and proven ability to take complex business requirements from senior stakeholders through to design and delivery within budget and time-scales. Having technically lead several extremely large and complicated IT projects over the years, continually building on my extensive IT knowledge and highly logical skill set born out of my degree in Electronic Engineering, I am now looking for my next challenge. While my skills are predominantly workplace service centric my knowledge and understanding spans all IT disciplines. With my main skill set in Desktop and server services, VDI, Exchange, Lync and Sharepoint as well as associated tooling. One of my key differentiating abilities is understanding all IT disciplines and how they interact at a very detailed level, including storage, Networks, Security and Automation, all key when working with highly interdependent IT solutions Core technologies understood at a very detailed level- All Microsoft Desktop & server operating systems up to server 2012 and Windows 10 - Virtualisation: VMware 3.5 – 5.5, Hyper-V 2008\2012, Xenserver 6.0.2 -6.2 - Desktop\Application virtualisation: XenDesktop\XenApp 7.5, XenApp 6.5 all using PVS - Exchange, Lync and SharePoint - PKI solutions - Other Microsoft technologies: Active Directory, Group policy, SQL, Clustering, NLB, DHCP, DNS, SCCM, SCOM, App-V - Border protection\RAS (Technologies not listed for security)- HP and Dell Blade Hardware as well as in depth desktop, laptop, think client, tablet and mobile device knowledge - Other technologies: Fastpass password management, Wireshark, LoginVSI (Citrix load testing), Lumension device lock down, Becrypt, PGP encryption, VBScript, MS PowerShell and batch scripting. Numerous contact me for my CV for full detail.