Kingsley Starling

Current

Owner / IT Consultant at Konsultancy
Director / Microsoft Consultant at Konsultancy Ltd
Infrastructure Consultant - Contract at Microsoft

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Past

IT Consultant at Computacenter
IT Consultant at Computacenter Services
Infrastructure Consultant - Contract at Nationwide Building Society

Senior Technical Consultant at BSR Software & Consultanc y
Business Systems Manager/Application Engineer at Sterling Software, Asia Pacific Group
Business Systems Manager at Sterling Commerce
Business Systems Manager at Sterling Software
Business Systems Administrator at Sterling Software

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Kingsley Starling’s Summary

I specialise in infrastructure consultancy using Microsoft technologies, designing Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy implementations as well as automated deployment of Windows operating systems.

Konsultancy is certified by Microsoft for delivering Desktop Deployment Planning Services (DDPS) to Microsoft Software Assurance customers. Get in touch to find out how customers could get my services for FREE.

I also carry out audits of customers Active Directory implementations to help highlight how Active Directory should be designed, secured and optimised to make better use of the investment made in Microsoft technologies.

Kingsley Starling’s Specialties:

MCSE & MCTS, specialising in Active Directory, Group Policy Design, Advanced Group Policy Management, Automated Deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Kingsley Starling’s Experience

Owner / IT Consultant

Konsultancy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Infrastructure Consultant on Microsoft technologies - contracting via own limited company
Director / Microsoft Consultant

Konsultancy Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Having been providing consultancy for a number of years for mid to large size organisations, I started Konsultancy Ltd to offer my
skills directly to customers requiring my specific experience. Konsultancy is a Microsoft Services Ready Programme partner.

Customer: Humber Mental Health (Teaching) NHS Trust - 5 months
Technical Environment: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, Windows XP and Vista, VMWare.

Responsibilities: Technical Lead for an infrastructure refresh project involving a number of different Microsoft technologies including, Active Directory, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008, Exchange 2007, SCCM, OCS, MOSS etc. I designed, tested and deployed the following:
- Microsoft Windows 2008 Core Server
- Active Directory including Genesis RKeyTec
- Advanced Group Policy Management
- Windows Vista & 2007 Microsoft Office System
- NHS Customised version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008

Customer: Microsoft Consultancy Services/NHS - 27 months

Technical Environment: All versions of Windows including Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

Responsibilities: Consultant for authoring current best-practice technology guidance, and aiding NHS Entities to design and test appropriate solutions based on that NHS Entity's specific needs, in the following areas:
- Microsoft Group Policy for the following products: Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (including SP2), Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 Microsoft Office System
- Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGMP)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory design guidance
- Windows Server 2003 Migration Guide (from Windows NT4 domains, Active Directory, and Novell NDS)
- Windows Server Update Services
- Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD)
- Microsoft Deployment (for desktop and server light-touch and zero-touch deployments)
Infrastructure Consultant - Contract

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
IT Consultant

Computacenter

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CCC.L; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — March 2007 (7 years 11 months)

Lead Infrastructure Consultant role in Microsoft technologies
IT Consultant

Computacenter Services

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1999 — March 2007 (7 years 11 months)
Infrastructure Consultant - Contract

Nationwide Building Society

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

July 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Desktop and Infrastructure Consultant role via Computacenter
Senior Technical Consultant

BSR Software & Consultanc y

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1997 — October 1998 (1 year )

Provide IT consultancy, technical project manager functions, and pre & post-sales support to customers.

Provide technical presentations to customers at seminars/workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Hold product definition workshops (PDWs) at customer sites to understand business and technical requirements
Project management on network planning, designing, installing etc. through to live completion
Train customers in both basic network administration and use of in-house applications
Business Systems Manager/Application Engineer

Sterling Software, Asia Pacific Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 3 months)

Responsibility involved continuing the Business Systems Manager role, as below, but within the Singapore Office for the Asia
Pacific Group and to support the technical requirements of Sterling Software customers .
Business Systems Manager

Sterling Commerce

(Computer Software industry)

February 1994 — November 1997 (3 years 10 months)
Business Systems Manager

Sterling Software

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CA; Computer Software industry)

November 1994 — September 1996 (1 year 11 months)

Responsibility was for the IT infrastructure for the Emerging Markets Division. This role involved the ongoing support and
development of the IT infrastructure including LAN, WAN, Messaging, NT and Novell servers, PCs and business software.
Business Systems Administrator

Sterling Software

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CA; Computer Software industry)

February 1994 — November 1994 (10 months)

This role involved supporting the IT infrastructure for the EM Di vision for all us ers, NT and Novell LANs, PCs, Microsoft software
amongst others and review new software possibilities for future use.