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  Server Design:  "Global  Office", Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Development of Concept of a Global Server Design with which to implement Citibank's "Global Office" strategy in 32 major Citibank sites throughout 17 countries of Europe and in other regions. This server design utilised Novell NetWare 4.1 servers and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 clients
• Design and subsequent Proof of Concept within a simulated "Model Office" test environment constructed by EDS especially for this project
• Ongoing liaison with Citibank project team in UK, Citibank site management team at pilot site in Amsterdam, Citibank systems management team in various locations in the United States, Citibank Capital Markets Group, and other EDS design teams in the United States and Canada
• Implementation of this design at the pilot Citibank site in Amsterdam. Due to the high profile of the project, designers were required by Citibank to be on-site to assist site transition teams in this first installation
• Migration and consolidation of users and data from the site's existing NetWare 3.1x / Windows 3.1 environment to the new Global Office environment
• Standardisation of all firmware to meet Year-2000 compatibility requirements
• Development and implementation of secure backup/restore and anti-virus strategies
• Development of a flexible and modular method of system design documentation, which was equally applicable to both business-orientated and technical readers. This methodology was subsequently adopted as the standard method of documentation design by other EDS project teams
• Integration of Amsterdam servers into Citibank's Global NetWare/IP domain

  Network Server & Client Design:
  "Japan Project", Frankfurt, Germany

• Development of Concept of a nation-wide PC network with NetWare 4.11 servers, and Windows 95 Kanji (Japanese) clients
• Design and subsequent pilot installation of this PC network within a simulated Japanese test environment. The initial phases of the Server Concept were developed under the Novell "Green River" beta test programme that later became Novell IntranetWare 4.11
• Provision of office tools and network connectivity to all office-based and mobile users located at nine company sites across the length and breadth of Japan
• Provision of remote control and software distribution tools to allow Japan- and Germany-based support personnel to provide remote support to users at all company sites across Japan
• Development of an automated system backup and disaster recovery strategy
• Full system documentation of Novell Concept and all server-related components to enable the PC Network to be fully supported by technical staff in Japan
• Full client system documentation to enable a non-Japanese speaker to install and configure Kanji versions of client Operating System and all supported software components
• Training of Japan- and Germany-based support personnel in all aspects of both servers and clients

  Server Design:  Caspian Merchant Bank, City of London

• Design, installation and documentation of the NetWare component of a NetWare 4.1 / Windows NT 3.51 / HP-UX network for the start-up phase of Caspian Merchant Bank, with provision for 250 users per site
• Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Novell GroupWise, the bank's strategic communications package
• Training of support personnel and back-line user support in both NetWare and GroupWise prior to and during the critical "go-live" period

  Network Server Design:  London

• Design of a new PC environment for IPC Media, the major UK magazine publisher, providing connectivity to existing UNIX and Macintosh networks, while allowing migration from the existing 26 NetWare 3.x servers and 800 PC workstations