gary hay

senior azure customer engineer

About

Experienced IT Consultant with over 15 years working with Microsoft Solutions. I have a breadth of experience architecting and implementing large scale infrastructure solutions both on premise and in Microsoft Azure. Currently providing contract services to Enterprise, Public Sector and Financial Services customers across the UK including Microsoft UK, RBS Group, Tesco Bank and a number of UK local authorities and government agencies.

Country

united kingdom

City

dreghorn

Industry

computer software

Skill

microsoft technologies, vmware infrastructure, active directory, infrastructure projects, infrastructure planning, configuration management, operations management, microsoft exchange, microsoft operating systems, windows server, sccm, scom, lync server 2010, dell powervault, compellent, windows 7, san, hyper v, powershell, microsoft office sharepoint server, sharepoint, virtualization, private cloud, hp eva, dns server, system deployment, global deployment, desktop deployment, citrix, process automation, mcse 2003, mcitp, mcsa, solution architecture, it solutions, commvault, subject matter experts, hands on training, fast learner, infrastructure, dns, data center, vmware, cloud computing, scvmm, it infrastructure design, hp blade, p2v, servers, citrix metaframe

Experience

webservices sme

royal bank of scotland

2016-4 - 2017-7 · 1 yr 4 mos

senior azure customer engineer

microsoft

director

lgh consultants

2016-4 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

Director at LGH Consultants Limited

group infrastructure senior analyst

aggreko

2007-8 - 2014-5 · 6 yrs 10 mos

As part of the Group Infrastructure team we look after the global server estate for Aggreko across 3 primary datacenters located in the UK, US and Dubai. With smaller regional hub sites hosting telephony and small scale branch office deployments. This includes common MS technologies like: AD, DNS, Exchange 2010, Sharepoint, OCS/Lync, Systems Center Products (SCCM2012, SCOM 2012, SCVMM 2012), Hyper-V, Powershell etc We also look after systems and storage from: VMWare (4+5) ) , Xenapp 6, McAffe AV, Blackberry 5, HP EVA, DELL Compellent + Powervault

senior engineer

adventi

2005-3 - 2007-8 · 2 yrs 6 mos

At Adventi (Scotsys) I was a senior engineer. This involved 3rd Line onsite break/fix for client server systems and the install of new server solutions for clients. There was a small element of technical pre-sales involved also.

senior it engineer

spark of genius

2000-1 - 2005-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

* When I started in this small Paisley company there where around 16 computers and one single server. Over 5 years this grew to a multi-site system with 10 sites around scotland and 20-30 servers. I was responsible for architecting, deploying and maintaining all IT systems for those 5 years. Including migration to MS Server 2000-> * 2003, Exchange 2000-> * 2003, ISA 2000-> * 2006 and implementation of a IPVPN network between sites.