Neil Pike

Current

Infrastructure Architect (Contract) at C Hoare & Co
Owner / IT Consultant at Protech Computing Ltd
Microsoft MVP at Microsoft

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Past

Consultant at Various
Technical Consultant (Contract) at Royal Bank of Scotland
Technical Consultant (Contract) at Natwest Bank

Technical Specialist at CentreFile
Analyst Programmer at British Telecom International
Mainframe Systems Programmer at Willis Faber & Dumas

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Education

King's College London, U. of London

Recommended

49 people have recommended Neil

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

MVP Profile

Neil Pike’s Summary

Independent consultant living in Duxford, near Cambridge in the U.K. Working in IT since 1985, starting with mainframes. In 1992 moved to work with client-server and network infrastructure starting with Windows 3.x, DOS, OS/2 1.x, Lan Manager and SQL Server 1.1.

Specialises in infrastructure, architecture, implementation, performance-tuning, support and troubleshooting of client-server technology, networks (mainly Cisco), middleware, firewalls, proxy/ISA/web, Citrix, virtualisation, mainframe connectivity, NT/Win2x and SQL Server.

Neil Pike’s Specialties:

Expert in the business processes and systems of card issuing, card acquisition and PCI DSS, having worked on systems in this field for many years.

Neil Pike’s Experience

Infrastructure Architect (Contract)

C Hoare & Co

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

June 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Contract position - availability January 2009
Owner / IT Consultant

Protech Computing Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1996 — Present (12 years 3 months)
Microsoft MVP

Microsoft

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

June 1995 — Present (13 years 3 months)

Supporting Microsoft customers on Usenet Newsgroups.

MVP for SQL Server 1995-2004
MVP for Host Integration Server 2004-present

This annual award is given to industry professionals who are recognized experts in various Microsoft technologies and who contribute to the technical community by doing free peer to peer support in the on-line community.

Learn more about Microsoft MVPs at this link: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Consultant

Various

(Financial Services industry)

January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)

Technical Consultancy for a variety of financial institutions, retail, transport and local government.
Technical Consultant (Contract)

Royal Bank of Scotland

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

June 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 7 months)
Technical Consultant (Contract)

Natwest Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

July 1996 — June 2001 (5 years)
Technical Specialist

CentreFile

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)

1989 — 1995 (6 years)
Analyst Programmer

British Telecom International

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1988 — 1988 (less than a year)
Mainframe Systems Programmer

Willis Faber & Dumas

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

1985 — 1988 (3 years)