Neil Ruston

Current

• Lead Architect at Credit Suisse

Past

• Senior Consultant at Barclays Wealth
• Senior IT Consultant and Architect at Nomura International
• Senior IT Consultant at Credit Suisse

• Senior IT Consultant at UBS Investment Bank
• Senior IT Consultant at UBS
• Senior IT Consultant at Perot Systems
• Senior IT Consultant at UBS Private Banking
• Senior IT Consultant at UBS Investment Bank
• Consultant at Wickes
• Consultant at Boots

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Education

• University of Nottingham
• South East Essex Sixth Form College
• Appleton School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Neil Ruston’s Summary

Windows Infrastructure and Directory Services architecture and design, specifically Active Directory design, encompassing security and delegation design as well as NT-AD and AD-AD migrations.

Extensive experience with various 3rd party toolsets - especially those offered by Quest - such as Group Policy Manager, QMM & DMW (Migrations), Intrust (Security Monitoring) and RMAD (Recovery).

Directory synchronisation, involving data analysis, process engineering and Microsoft ILM-based solutions.

I have written and editied several technical publications for Syngress and New Riders, relating to Windows 2000/2003, DNS and Active Directory.

Neil Ruston’s Specialties:

Areas of speciality include: Active Directory infrastructure architecture and design; Active Directory network architecture and design; Security, policy and delegation design; DNS design and integration; user migrations; management tools, such as monitoring and auditing tools; Disparate directory sync; Project management (PRINCE2); Platform governance, service design & delivery and operating models (ITIL).

Neil Ruston’s Experience

• Lead Architect

  Credit Suisse

  (Public Company; CS; Banking industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Senior Consultant

  Barclays Wealth

  (Public Company; BARC; Banking industry)

  April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  - Active Directory and Windows Infrastructure design, engineering, testing and implementaion.
  
  - Design and deployment of various Quest toolsets, such as GPM (Group Policy), Intrust (Security Monitoring), QMM & DMW (Migration), Reporter (Reporting) and RMAD (Recovery).
  
  - Directory sync project, encompassing data analysis, process engineering and an ILM-based solution.
  
  - Governance and operating models created for the new platform

• Senior IT Consultant and Architect

  Nomura International

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

  August 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 9 months)

• Senior IT Consultant

  Credit Suisse

  (Public Company; CS; Banking industry)

  August 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 1 month)

• Senior IT Consultant

  UBS Investment Bank

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

  October 2001 — August 2002 (11 months)

• Senior IT Consultant

  UBS

  (Public Company; UBS; Financial Services industry)

  February 1996 — August 2002 (6 years 7 months)

• Senior IT Consultant

  Perot Systems

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

  May 2001 — October 2001 (6 months)

• Senior IT Consultant

  UBS Private Banking

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

  October 2000 — May 2001 (8 months)

• Senior IT Consultant

  UBS Investment Bank

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

  February 1996 — October 2000 (4 years 9 months)

• Consultant

  Wickes

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1993 — February 1996 (2 years 7 months)

• Consultant

  Boots

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

  August 1990 — August 1993 (3 years 1 month)

Neil Ruston’s Education

• University of Nottingham

  BSc (Hons) , Mathematics with Engineering , 1987 — 1990

• South East Essex Sixth Form College

  GCE A levels , Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry , September 1985 — June 1987

• Appleton School

  GCE O levels , 10 O levels, including Maths and English , 1980 — 1985

Additional Information

Neil Ruston’s Groups:

Member of British Computer Society (BCS),
Qualified FA Football Coach [level 1]

•    Perot Systems Employees and Alumni
•    Credit Suisse Alumni Group
•    BCS Membership Group
•    The Barclays Global Network Group
•    UBS Alumni
•    Active Directory Architects
•    Nomura Group

Neil Ruston’s Honors:

MCSE (Windows 2000)
CNE (NetWare 4)
PRINCE2 (currently studying)
ITILv3 (currently studying)

Neil Ruston’s Contact Settings

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