Simon Burnand
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Experience
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Produban México
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Banking
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Specialist
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Jul 2011 - Present
Produban is migrating Santander Bank's desktops to Windows 7 and a new Active Directory forest. I have been brought in by the UK for my scripting skills and experience of Active Directory migrations.
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BAT
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United Kingdom
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Tobacco Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Solution Architect
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Nov 2010 - May 2011
British American Tobacco has over 40,000 computer users in over 200 countries. Its Active Directory consists of a single forest with over a hundred child domains. The plan was to consolidate everything to the root domain and decommissioning the child domains. I was part of a small Active Directory design team, where I had particular responsibility for user migration and delegation of control.
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Active Directory Migration Specialist
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Aug 2009 - Oct 2010
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trusts are migrating 5,000 users to a new Windows XP desktop with McAfee Endpoint Encryption and a new Active Directory design. I am the lead technical resource for the user migration. - User migration - Automation of Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool - Automation of Microsoft User State Migration Tool - Scripting in VBScript and NT Shell - Support of desktop migration engineers
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Transport for London
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Architect
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May 2008 - Dec 2008
Transport for London were migrating 20,000 users to a standard desktop on Citrix, Windows XP and Vista. Clients are both physical and VMware virtual desktops. I was responsible for the development of the Active Directory organisational units, groups and group policies. I wrote many of the automation scripts used in the user migration. I acted as a technical authority to the migration program and participated in a Microsoft Active Directory Risk Assessment Program. - Active Directory design - Group Policy design for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 - XP and Outlook Profile configuration with AppSense - Scripting in VBScript
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Oxfam
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Active Directory Consultant
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Dec 2007 - Mar 2008
Oxfam was rolling out Active Directory to 13 UK sites and 84 international sites. I was brought in to troubleshoot issues with the Active Directory design. I also wrote automation scripts for the migration and for user management. - Remediation of Active Directory faults - Design of offline files for laptops - Scripting in NT Shell (CMD batch files) and VBScript
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Centrica
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United Kingdom
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Architect
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Dec 2004 - Sep 2007
Centrica consolidated 25,000 users from multiple domains to a standard Windows XP desktop and Active Directory. I was responsible for the design of the new organisational units, groups and group policies. I wrote many of the automation scripts used in the production and development environments, including scripts for synchronisation of the development forests and for configuration management of the group policies. - Active Directory design - Re-organisation of Group Policies - Scripting in VBScript, Jscript and C# - Migration support
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The Salvation Army
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Active Directory Consultant
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Oct 2003 - Nov 2004
The Salvation Army UK Territory’s central IT systems have 4,000 users at over sites across the UK and Ireland. The previous network ran NT 4, and Exchange 5.5. I provided consultancy on the design and migration to Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. - Active Directory and Windows Server 2003 design - Windows XP design and Group Policies - Migration procedures - Scripting in VBScript with ADSI - Configuration of Cisco routers
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Ciber Global
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Consultant
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1997 - 2003
Microsft Infrastructure Consultant specialising in Exchange 5.5 then Active Directory.
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Education
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University of Bristol
B.Sc. Hons 2.2, Psychology