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Guy Highfield-RobertGH

Guy Highfield-Robert

Microsoft modern workplace architect Intune/SCCM

€941/day
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Guy

IT Services & System Engineering Leadership | Shaping Solutions that Exceed Expectations

Offers more than 20 years’ experience designing technical solutions for Microsoft BackOffice products, on
behalf of organisations operating across a wide range of industries, including car manufacturing, retail, energy
and banking. Brings technical expertise in the application of Microsoft Endpoint Manager family products,
focussing in particular on Configuration Manager and Intune, together with further experience leading
distribution systems design teams.
Assures good governance and compliance with regulatory requirements and applies project management
methodologies to complete projects on time, to scope and within budget. Well-practised communication and
interpersonal skills enable the development of collaborative, trust-based relationships with stakeholders, and
cohesion across multi-disciplinary and geographically disparate teams. Positive and pragmatic, placing an
ethos of integrity, value-add and quality of service provision at the heart of all professional activity.
  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Basic

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Equans
    Senior digital workplace operational manager and design expert
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    October 2022 - Today (3 years and 10 months)
    Brussels, Belgium
    KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
    Assisting in design of workplace based on modern workplace technology (Intune)
    Lead operational partner team in day to day RUN of production environment Workplace Services
    Deliver MECM CB upgrades to the product for the whole of the customers’ infrastructure
    Manage operational RUN within DWP SLS – Workplace Services team Equans
    Contributed to CyberArk EPM and Nexthink implementations, strengthening endpoint security and digital employee experience.
    Supported modern workplace engineering activities including Intune onboarding, staging location setup, Windows 11 feature updates, and Windows 10 extended security updates.
    Played a key role in ISO 27001 certification support, design authority follow-up, vendor/asset management, and knowledge base implementation.
    Supported remote support tool evaluation and driver/BIOS management design for modern workplace devices.

    RESPONSIBILITIES
    Served as Endpoint Services operational manager and deputy tower lead, supporting service operations across the workplace services tower.
    Provides subject-matter expertise in relation to MECM and Intune, including
    designing and implementing new configuration manager current branch and Intune features, in collaboration with a team of configuration managers and Intune experts
    serving as team lead for day to day RUN to support business clients globally
    Holds responsibility for the operational management of more than 40k devices across the company
    Managed day-to-day operational performance, including SLA/KPI monitoring, partner governance, billing support, and service review participation.
    Project Management Intune SCCM Windows
  • ENGIE
    Senior System Architect | Consultant Team Lead
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2008 - October 2022 (14 years and 9 months)
    Brussels, Belgium
    KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
    Directed the design to migrate the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) infrastructure for 45k workstation devices:
    from an existing data-centre solution hosted on-premises at Engie’s IT data centre in Paris, France
    to a Microsoft (MS) Azure cloud-based solution
    Oversaw the MECM carve-out of 25k workstation devices from their existing environment to a new MECM hierarchy for an Equans customer, hosted within Amazon AWS
    Delivered MECM CB upgrades to the product for the whole of the customers’ infrastructure
    Served as a member of the project team supporting more than 60k clients to be managed by System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012
    Increased performance of desktop management of application deployment, patch management, inventory management, and remote management by at least 50% through steering the design and implementation of solutions for global clients with specific design requirements, including delivery of
    MS SCCM 2007 solution to support ~40k workstations and 800 servers
    MS SMS 2003 solution, supporting ~15k workstations and 800 servers
    Enhanced performance of ways of working to maintain day-to-day activity, structured project handling and interdepartmental communications by leading a programme to restructure the design distribution systems team
    RESPONSIBILITIES
    Served as Endpoint Services operational manager and deputy tower lead, supporting service operations across the workplace services tower.
    Provides subject-matter expertise in relation to MECM and Intune tracking, including
    designing and implementing new configuration manager current branch and Intune features, in collaboration with a team of configuration managers and Intune experts
    serving as team lead for distribution systems to support business clients from across Europe and Africa
    Holds responsibility for the operational management of more than 65k devices across the company
    SCCM Windows Microsoft Azure Active Directory
  • Electrabel
    Consultant Team Lead | System Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 1998 - January 2008 (10 years)
    Antwerp, Belgium
    KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
    Invited to serve as team leader of the distribution systems team
    Designed technical solutions on multiple Microsoft platforms, including embedding a Microsoft SCCM 2007 infrastructure to manage the desktop platform centrally
    Improved departmental efficiency and quality through introducing structured project handling and streamlining ways of working

    RESPONSIBILITIES
    Served as permanent consultant outsourced by Axxent Information Services to Electrabel in order to deliver a range of projects, primarily concerning Microsoft System Management Server products
    Fulfilled a range of further roles with Electrabel such as
    designer of distribution systems for Flanders using Microsoft SMS 2003
    systems engineer and desktop management support, holding accountability for infrastructure deployments and monitoring
    desktop engineer, maintaining office network for classical production and nuclear power plants in Belgium
    SCCM Windows Active Directory SQL Server

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