Director of x9000.com Consulting Services Limited
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
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- Director at x9000.com Consulting Services Limited
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- Senior OS Deployment, Design and Build Engineer at BT
- Exchange and Active Directory Consultant at Sandwell MBC
- Infrastructure Engineer at Davis Langdon
- Infrastructure Consultant at Old Mutual Financial Services
- Infrastructure Engineer at Davis Langdon
- Mobile Engineer at Fujitsu Services
- Education
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- Keele University
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Paul Prior’s Summary
I am a freelance IT Consultant and Engineer. I provide third line troubleshooting and maintenance for IT system built around Microsoft's Active Directory technology on a contract basis. I specialise in design and implementation consultancy from workstation to enterprise level systems. My core competencies are with Microsoft Exchange messaging systems, but I generally provide a wider scope of consultancy in all aspects of Microsoft-based Information systems. I particulary specialise in reducing IT support costs by developing systems to reduce support issues and aid support analysts in resolving calls quickly.
Paul Prior’s Specialties:
High level systems design, MS Exchange 2003, MS Exchange 2007, Active DIrectory, MS Windows 2003, MS Windows XP, MS Windows Vista, VBScript, Support mentoring and training
Paul Prior’s Experience
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Director
x9000.com Consulting Services Limited
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)
IT Consultancy providing advice and engineering resource to private and public sector companies, speciaising in Microsoft based technologies.
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Senior OS Deployment, Design and Build Engineer
BT
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
August 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Providing top level support for the OS build deployment process on all 110,000 BT workstations. The build process is a complex mix of WINPE, WIM images, VBScript, .Net and other technologies.
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Exchange and Active Directory Consultant
Sandwell MBC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)
Providing a third line support path for Sandwell MBC during the tranformation process to their new Exchange 2007/Windows 2003 environment. They were previously cursed with Netware and GroupWise, so they need some help with the transition and on-going support.
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Infrastructure Engineer
Davis Langdon
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Construction industry)
July 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 5 months)
I provided broad Microsoft based consultancy for all aspects of the company infrastructure, particularlyin Active Directory and Exchange, but also in desktop management, security and many other aspects on the IT infrastructure.
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Infrastructure Consultant
Old Mutual Financial Services
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2005 — July 2006 (11 months)
Day to day third line infrastructure support across a large and complex forest of domains with numerous external legacy domains. I also provided the core technical knowledge and engineering resource for a intricate Exchange migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
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Infrastructure Engineer
Davis Langdon
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Construction industry)
March 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 3 months)
I was soley responsible for all changes made to the 1500 or so workstations in the company. This covered OS design, group policies, software deployments, anti-virus software, and asset monitoring. In addition I provided a third line support channel for high level infrastructure problems and developed systems to reduce support costs and shorten average support call times.
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Mobile Engineer
Fujitsu Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — January 2004 (7 years )
The job was UK wide and covered dozens of different outsourced contracts in public and private companies aswell as several government departments.
Additional Information
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Paul Prior’s Groups:
Member - Professional Contractors Group
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PartnerPoint - An Online Community of Microsoft Partners
Paul Prior’s Honors:
MCSE (2003) Messaging Specialist
