1. Richard Diver
Resume:
Career Experience
Technical Capabilities
Personal Insight
December 2012
2. Richard Diver:
Career Point: Senior Technical Architect
Nov 2011 – Dec 2012 Cloud Strategy, System Center, Virtualisation, Active Directory, Security, Infrastructure
COMPANY
Velrada Capital Pty Ltd Providing an experienced and trusted voice at
BUSINESS TYPE
the decision-making table. Maintaining
Management
Consultancy and System
technical deliverables and quality standards,
Integration driving initiatives to early results to maximise
INDUSTRY business value
Resources & Utilities
Government
Health Care • Lead Technical Architect on a joint project with
Microsoft and IBM, producing successful results in
a compressed timeframe under intense customer
SIZE scrutiny
50 - 100 • Design and delivery of a new global data centre
architecture, staged roll-out over the next year
• Development of future service offerings and
strengthening the Microsoft partnership for
Velrada
3. Richard Diver:
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Active
Infrastructure Virtualisation System Center Cloud Strategy
Directory
•Windows Server / Client •Global Scale design / deploy •Hyper-V 2008/2012 •Service Management •Identity and Access Management
•TCP/IP Networking •Roles and Responsibilities •Terminal Services/RDS •Operations Monitoring •Cloud service architecture
•Hardware build / install •Delegation of Administration •Application Virtualisation •Automation and Self Service •Industry trend analysis
•Physical/Virtual Security •Advanced Group Policy •Assessments, Design and Deploy •Proactive remediation •Threat/Risk assessment
•High availability / redundancy •Risk Assessments •Physical to Virtual Migrations •Capacity management •Service evaluation and cost models
•Data Center design / migration •Accurate reporting •Migration preparation
Communications Specialist IT Service Management Microsoft Infrastructure Senior Consultant Technical Architect
Electronics Service Desk Management Enterprise Scale Solution Development Enterprise Architecture
Communications Team Leadership Global Rollout Product Evaluation Security Strategy
Security & Warfare Training and Mentoring Troubleshooting Detailed Designs Technology Roadmaps
Leadership IT Budget and Cost Analysis Business Continuity Business Analysis for Envision, Plan, Build,
Teamwork Disaster Recovery ROI & TCO Deploy
Royal Navy EDS Various Microsoft Methods Velrada
UK UK UK Belgium, UK, Australia UK Australia
4. Richard Diver:
Career Point: Technical Architect
Jan 2011 – Nov 2011 System Center, Virtualisation, Active Directory, Security, Infrastructure
COMPANY
Methods Consulting Ltd Lead Architect on joint projects for the
BUSINESS TYPE
deployment and migration of several key
SME Service Innovator
and Aggregator
Microsoft technologies: Exchange 2010, Lync
2010, SharePoint 2010, Windows Server 2008
INDUSTRY
Local Government R2, Windows 7 & Office 2010.
Central Government
Health Care
Private Sector • Strategic review of technical standards, security
procedures and technologies, creation of Enterprise
class Identity and Access Management Strategy
SIZE
• Technical assessment of virtual architecture for
250 - 500 “Desktop as a Service” design including potential
options for cloud based key components
• Creation and implementation of ITIL processes to
support the rollout of a newly developed End User
Computing environment
5. Richard Diver:
Career highlight: Technical Writing
Active Directory, Windows Performance, Hyper-V, Sysinternals, Intune
Collaboration, writing and reviews of
multiple books, training courses and
technical documentation based on
Microsoft Technologies
6. Richard Diver:
Career Point: Senior Consultant
April 2010 – Jan 2011 Deployment, Windows Server Performance, System Center, Virtualisation, Active Directory
COMPANY
Microsoft Pty Ltd largest customers to
(Australia)
provide technical design, strategy and
BUSINESS TYPE
Premier Services
guidance on complex infrastructures, capacity
planning and knowledge transfer.
INDUSTRY
Banking Sector Presenting to key influencer audiences.
Local Government
Resources
Utilities • Onsite, customer facing technical consultancy to
Microsoft’s Premier customers
• Strategic guidance to deploy Windows 7 to a global
SIZE user base with multiple languages and application
10,000+ requirements
• Resolved serious security issues with a customer
infected with the Conficker virus
• Delivered presentations and training to improve
troubleshooting, enhance security and performance
7. Richard Diver:
Career highlight: Productivity Training
UK, France, USA, New Zealand and Australia
Creation and delivery of advanced
workshops for increased personal
productivity & work/life balance
8. Richard Diver:
Career Point: Subject Matter Expert (Consultant)
Apr 2008 – Mar 2010 Active Directory, Deployment, Windows Server Performance, Virtualisation
COMPANY
Microsoft Ltd Specialist support, strategic guidance and
(United Kingdom)
design review for the implementation of
BUSINESS TYPE
Premier Services
multiple Microsoft products, providing best
practice guidance for improved reliability &
INDUSTRY
Banking Sector performance.
Local Government
Law Enforcement
Service Provider • Consultant for Active Directory and Windows
Server/Client to the Metropolitan Police
• Reactive support for several critical outages for
SIZE customers across Europe
10,000+
• Worked as part of a global team to develop specialist
training in advance Server Performance and
Troubleshooting
• Speaker at multiple Microsoft events including
TechEd, TechReady and Technical User Groups
9. 1.1 Physical Device 1.5 Offline Capability
Richard Diver: 1.2 Access Layer
Personal
Form factor
Dumb Terminal
Capabilities
Smart Phone Embedded
Fully Managed
Cost
Full OS
Applications
Data
Synchronisation
1. User
1.3 Security & Management Local Logon Anti-Malware System Management Patch Management Remote Wipe File Encryption Disk Encryption
1.4 Presence Online Available Busy Away Offline
1.5 Location Public Home Partner Site Remote Site Corporate Unsecure Corporate Secure
Career highlight: Technical Visualisations
2.1 Interface RDP HTTP/S IM Email IPSec VPN Direct Access Other Ports
Solutions Architecture, Virtualisation, Service Mapping, ITIL processes
2. Connectivity
2.2 Data Type Display Only Keyboard & Mouse Printing Data Voice Video
2.3 Data Medium Public WiFi 3G 4G Broadband WAN Corporate WiFi LAN
Development of visualisations for 2.4 Network Security Unencypted IPSec ...
simple communication of complex
3.4 Software (SaaS) 3.1 Security & Access Management (Sec aaS)
Multi-Factor
UAG / NAP Identity
Web Services Exchange Authentication
Websites E-Mail Calendars Contacts
Auditing Authorisation
Applications
3.5 Desktop (DaaS)
Virtualised Application Collaboration
issues and systems. Conceptual,
Operating System
3. Hosting
Legacy Line of Business Terminal Services
Productivity Corporate
VDI
physical and virtual IT infrastructures,
3.3 Infrastructure (IaaS)
Local Server
Data SAN NAS SQL DB
Storage
W2K8 W2K3 3.2 Management & Automation
Operating System W2K8 R2 - Full W2K8 R2 - Core
R1 R2
Automation Monitoring Management
Virtualisation Hyper-V VMware
processes and solutions
10. Richard Diver:
Career Point: Infrastructure Specialist
Feb 2007 – Mar 2008 Active Directory, High Security, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
COMPANY
Microsoft Belux Member of an Enterprise Architecture
(Belgium)
Management team responsible for the
BUSINESS TYPE
Consulting Services
improvement of the Windows server based
infrastructures across globally dispersed data
INDUSTRY
Defence centres and multiple remote sites.
Government
SIZE • Managed strategic tasks which improved operational
efficiency and developed standardised AD forest
10,000+ deployments in compliance with strict security
standards
• consolidation of domains, implementation of
advanced Group Policies and Delegation of
Administration
• Early testing of the Windows Vista operating system
with knowledge transfer to other teams