Mark Parris

Current

• Active Directory Specialist at Credit Suisse
• MVP-DS at Microsoft MVP
• Principal Consultant at Base IT Ltd

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Past

• Founder at [ADUG] UK Active Directory User Group
• Active Directory Consultant at Eurostar UK Ltd.
• Active Directory Consultant at Paxton Access

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Recommended

17 people have recommended Mark

Connections

381 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• UK Active Directory User Group
• My Blog

Mark Parris’s Summary

A competently skilled and ambitious IT professional with solid financial and banking experience.

Currently working on Active Directory, Infrastructure Architecture and PCI DSS compliance projects.

A solid understanding of the Active Directory Domain Services. My skills have been utilised on multiple infrastructure projects, where I have worked on the design, implementation, troubleshooting and disaster recovery of Active Directory Domain Services and associated technologies, such as Exchange 2003/2007.

Microsoft MVP in Directory Services and in the process of completing my Microsoft Certified Masters: Windows Server 2008 R2: Directory.

Part of the Techworld "IT Department of the Year 2008" for work completed at Eurostar (U.K.) Ltd for the High Speed 1 rail project.

Mark Parris’s Specialties:

Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Active Directory design, Active Directory implementation, Active Directory troubleshooting, Microsoft infrastructure architecture and optimisation, Windows Server 2003 (R2), Windows Server 2008 (R2), Windows 7, Active Directory hardening, Windows Server hardening, Group Policy, standard server builds, System Center Essentials, System Center Operations Manager 2007 (R2), Office 2010 Deployment.

Mark Parris’s Experience

• Active Directory Specialist

  Credit Suisse

  (Public Company; CS; Banking industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Active Directory planning and deployment.

• MVP-DS

  Microsoft MVP

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Principal Consultant

  Base IT Ltd

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — Present (11 years 6 months)

  Specialists in PCS-DSS infrastructure compliance. Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory and the Microsoft System Center suite.

Additional Information

Mark Parris’s Websites:

• My Company
• UK Active Directory User Group
• My Blog

Mark Parris’s Groups:

I regularly attend

TechED USA, VMWorld and The Experts Conference (formally the Directory Experts Conference).

•    MVP@work - most valuable professionals
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community
•    Consultants Network
•    TOGAF
•    myITforum.com
•    Active Directory Administrators Group
•    Microsoft System Center
•    PCI DSS FORUM
•    Windows Server User Group UK
•    Architecting-the-Enterprise.com TOGAF
•    Active Directory Architects
•    UK Active Directory User Group
•    City Infrastructure
•    Microsoft MVP - Professional Group
•    Open Link Networker
•    The Conservative Party
•    IT Consultants interested in short / mid term project work
•    Banking Careers
•    Log Management Thought Leaders
•    Global Desktop Team
•    UK Defence Systems Engineers
•    TechNet Magazine

Mark Parris’s Honors:

MVP, Directory Services

MCITP:EA Windows Server 2008
MCITP:SA Windows Server 2008
MCSE 2003
MCSE 2000
MCSE NT4
MCSA 2003
MCTS 2008 x3

Microsoft Licensing Sales Expert

Microsoft Registered Partner 1172728
Microsoft Small Business Specialist - UK Partner Qualified for 2009

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