Kevin Cooke

D.O.B.: 18th January 1971Nationality: British Permit: C PermitLocation : Rte de la Corniche 1, Chexbres Vaud 1071, SwitzerlandPhone : 079 852 6431

Email: km.cooke@me.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-cooke/2/349/504

Professional Summary

MCTS Windows 2008 Applications Infrastructure - May 2010 MCTS Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator - June 2010

Worked in a wide variety of industries, including pharma, banking, FMCG

manufacturing and retail Has track record of being given projects in difficulty, and turning them around to

successful completion Maintains up to date knowledge on technology and industry trends Demonstrates a excellent adaptability to any new environment Confident, approachable and can communicate well with colleagues, end users,

management and suppliers Experienced in management of suppliers and consultants Demonstrates initiative and always looks to make improvements in both process

and technology Works with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

Experience

Apr 2008 to Current Nestlé Vevey, SwitzerlandFMCG – Windows Server Infrastructure Architect

Lead Architect and owner for the Windows Server Operating System at Nestlé Accountable and responsible for the design, compliance and maintenance of the

global 20,000 Windows server environment Currently developing the Windows 2016 Server platform build and Windows Azure

Pack for an on-premises cloud environment Manage RFCs for the server build, co-ordinating work tasks within the local team

and offshore resources, representing the team to the change control board Conducted studies and projects improving quality control Completed System Center 2012 migration and Orchestrator design Analysed the impacts of the introduction of regulatory requirements to the server

infrastructure and processes Manage offshore development teams to produce deliverables on time and to

specification Designed a new patching application that allows local server admins to view

compliance and patch servers in real time Indentified, documented and handed over tasks to offshore teams Manage a lab

environment of 700 machines for application development Technologies in use include: HP server/SAN hardware, 3PAR SAN, Vmware 5.1,

Windows 2003/2008/2012, SCCM 2007/2012, Active Directory, SCOM, TSM, Netbackup, Citrix, SC Orchestrator, SCVMM 2012, Windows Azure Pack

Mar 2007 to Apr 2008 Steria Ltd Hemel Hempstead, UKGovernment IT Provider - Solution Designer

Lead a team of four scripters/developers to automate the process of building and maintaining a large Citrix server farm

Worked on a large Government project, which was reducing 40 regional centres to two national data centres, plus a third disaster recovery site

Responsible for taking high level design requirements and the production of scripts to implement various server roles

Produced the workflow for the lifecycle of the scripts, using Visual SourceSafe Regularly presented the status of script development to the project team and

management Technologies used include; VBscript, HP Radia, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, MS

SQL, XML, IBM SAN, Lotus Domino, VMWare

Apr 2006 to Mar 2007 Marks and Spencer Stockley Park, UKNational Retailer - Designer

Analysed and developed a variety of options for new in-store POS project Produced proof of concepts within the lab environment Liaised with VMWare account managers and consultants Developed methods for managing VMWare in a distributed environment Technologies used: VMWare VI3, Altiris 6.8, MOM, SMS, DFS, 2003 R2, bash shell

scripting

Mar 2004 to Apr 2006 Tesco Stores Ltd Welwyn, UKNational Retailer - Windows Technical Specialist

Analysed, designed and implemented improvements to the server build process and data centre management

Conducted presentations to senior management to gain funding for projects Reduced overall time for a new server deployment from 6 weeks to 2 days Improved supportability and introduced consistency by developing a standard

Windows server build using Microsoft ADS Introduced new financial processes to allow bulk purchasing of data centre

equipment Designed an upgrade to aging Citrix system, replacing Metaframe 1.8 to

Presentation Server 4 Introduced Tesco management and architecture teams to VMWare based server

consolidation Identified and resolved long standing issues with the Citrix server farm

Jul 2001 to Feb 2004 Mars Winnersh, UKFMCG - Windows Server Designer

Lead Windows Server designer for Mars/Masterfoods global environment Developed and maintained the automated server build process Set security policies and implemented monitoring systems Upgraded the standard build to Windows 2000, with a Citrix XP add-on feature Researched the use of VMWare to consolidate the server farms Developed a web based portal to provide inventory information to any application

owner, including current backup status, disk space reports etc

Nov 1999 to Jul 2001 Roche Welwyn Garden City, UKPharmaceutical - Senior Informatics Specialist

Responsible for creating software packages for deployment to the desktop platform Provided liason with IT department and application teams within the business Designed new software deployment system for the upgrade to Windows 2000 Designed new desktop build for the upgrade to Windows 2000 Co-ordinated with other teams with regular video conferences Workshops with project teams in Basel, Palo Alto and Nutley

August 1998 to Nov 1999 Banque Paribas London, UKInvestment Bank - Year 2000 Windows Project, Windows NT Technical Specialist

March 1997 – Aug 1998 NatWest Group UK London, UKRetail Bank - Systems Specialist, 3rd level support for Retail Banking Platform

May 1995 – March 1997 Vauxhall Motors (EDS) Luton, UKAutomobile Manufacturer - Server and Network Support Analyst

Professional Qualifications

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Achieved Aug 27, 1997

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Combined Engineering -Coventry University, UK 1989-1992

Other Information

Languages: English - mother tongue

Pastimes: Snowboarding, cycling, hiking, piano

References

On request.