Nick Todd

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About Nick Todd

I am a dedicated and highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 20 years working in a wide variety of industries. I have excellent organizational skills and the attention to detail required for successfully implementing projects and ensuring maximum availability of IT infrastructure. I am an adaptable person, experienced in working in different circumstances and liaising with key company staff to ensure all business requirements are met. I have worked in Bank of Ireland, eBay, PayPal, construction, out sourced IT support, hospitals, Gulf News and Varian Medical Systems. I have been lead engineer on major projects such as building a 500 user Citrix farm, cost saving plans, and other business critical IT infrastructure. Areas of expertise Datacentre server & SAN, Azure cloud, Lead Engineer, Small and large business infrastructure, Security and compliance, Server Virtualization, Azure and Hyper-V Skills and Experience Citrix – Farm build and management of 500 users & 40 servers. Version 4.5 - XenApp 7. App server build. Group policy defined desktop and security environment. Upgrades and farm to farm migration. Remote access via F5 firewall. Citrix to RDS migration Azure Cloud Administration – gulfnews.com web server VM infrastructure support. IaaS. IaC, Terraform. Azure AD. DDOS protection. Azure storage services. Kubernates AKS clusters. Performance and Health monitoring. Azure AD connect Datacentre Management – HP, IBM, Cisco UCS, Dell servers and blades. Fibre Channel connectivity, Zoning. Rack management. NetApp and Dell EMC SAN storage System Administration – Active Directory multi-site domain management, new domain installations, upgrades, DHCP, DNS, NAC, Cert Services, Printing management. Group Policies client and server. OS build creation. Admin of MS Windows client, server, SUSE, Ubuntu Linux OS. PowerShell, VB scripting SCCM patch deployment and compliance reporting, image deployment, task sequences, app package deployment, malware monitoring SCOM server monitoring, SQL server admin and clustering Hyper-V clusters, SCVMM, P2V, VMware Office 365 & Exchange management Small business support as 3rd party IT support vendor. Small office / Branch office set up Endpoint & CIFS Security, ATP, ATA, Symantec, McAfee, Sophos, Microsoft Defender, vulnerability testing and mitigation, Beyond Trust Retina Lead Engineer IT staff training ITIL process NetBackup, Arc serve, Veritas, Acronis, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Bare metal recovery, Disaster recovery site and testing, Virtual & Physical tape libraries and devices PoC / UAT