Neil Pike

Current

• Technical Consultant (Contract) at City and Guilds
• Owner / IT Consultant at Protech Computing Ltd
• Microsoft MVP at Microsoft

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Past

• Technical Consultant (Contract) at Computacenter
• Infrastructure Architect (Contract) at C Hoare & Co
• 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

63 people have recommended Neil

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• MVP Profile
• Cambridge Cangaroos

Neil Pike’s Summary

Independent consultant living in Saffron Walden in the U.K. Working in IT since 1985, starting with IBM 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, security, storage, systems management, 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

• Technical Consultant (Contract)

  City and Guilds

  (Non-Profit; Education Management industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Owner / IT Consultant

  Protech Computing Ltd

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

  June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)

• Microsoft MVP

  Microsoft

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

  June 1995 — Present (14 years 2 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

• Technical Consultant (Contract)

  Computacenter

  (Partnership; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

  Providing Consultancy for Royal Bank of Scotland through Computacenter

• Infrastructure Architect (Contract)

  C Hoare & Co

  (Privately Held; Banking industry)

  June 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 10 months)

• 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)

Additional Information

Neil Pike’s Websites:

• MVP Profile
• Cambridge Cangaroos

Neil Pike’s Interests:

Rugby, squash, cycling, skiing

Neil Pike’s Honors:

Microsoft MVP (Host Integration Server) 2004-Present
Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) 1995-2004
Microsoft MCSE

Neil Pike’s Contact Settings

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