British Transport Police

Digital Workplace Architect

Kings Secure Technologies

Led the planning and implementation of a consolidated cloud voice and contact centre platform supporting our 24x7 business operations and new services.

Led the planning, design, implementation and management of a fully resilient data centre, network, security and virtualisation platform supporting the 24x7

Led the design, implementation and management of the multi-technology resilient WAN using 4G, xDSL, Ethernet circuits, VPN’s, MPLS services & Dark Fibre

Led the design and delivery of a resilient network for customer site monitoring

Led the standardisation of configurations and software across the business

Designed, implemented and managed secure, high-speed corporate & guest Wi-Fi

Managed the Avaya CS1000 & Contact Centre Platform upgrade with BT

Integrating with customer networks primarily in the Retail and Banking sectors

Delivered low-risk ratings consistently in independent IT Health Checks (Pen Tests)

Led the vulnerability and external penetration testing program

Led the deployment and rollout of Office 365, Skype for Business, Teams and Windows 10

Delivered evidence for the internal and external assessment of our ISO 27001 Information Assurance and ISO22301 Business Continuity accreditation.

Led the delivery of regulatory compliant technical and business solutions

IT Network Infrastructure & Security Manager

Agilisys

Led the re-design, implementation and management of a fully resilient data centre network solution for a customer using Cisco Nexus / Catalyst and ASA Firewalls

Led the implementation of a comprehensive infrastructure-monitoring platform.

Led the design, implementation and management of corporate and guest Wi-Fi

Led the network consolidation from 5 to 2 data centres

Ensured the network and infrastructure solutions were designed to provide regulatory compliance for the customer on the Technical Design Authority group

Led the standardisation of configurations and software across the network

Led the migration 160+ offices and 2 new data centres onto a new MPLS Wide Area Network with Dark 
Fibre between data centres and key sites on schedule to allow consolidation of legacy data centres for a customer, reducing network costs by 35%

Led the design, implementation and management of a segmented DMZ solution to allow secure DMZ hosting of public services.

Led the delivery of regulatory compliant technical and business solutions

Contract Network & Security Manager

Yorkshire Forward (Yorkshire & the Humber Regional Development Agency)

Led the management of a resilient international LAN and WAN

Led the delivery of secure corporate and guest Wi-Fi using Cisco Systems

Developed and managed the technical BCP plan and backup datacentre facilities including automatic network failover and resilient routing of Internet and WAN

Managed the organisations' compliance with statutory and regulatory policies and advised the Board on Information Assurance issues

Led the migrations of data and infrastructure during the closure of the business.

Network Systems & Security Manager

Delivered a resilient WAN across sites in the UK, Europe and the USA Private Circuits and Virtual Private Networks

Designed and managed high security DMZ systems meeting government standards

Designed and managed the fit out of a new primary Data Centre

Designed, implemented and managed a fully resilient datacentre network, firewall & virtualisation platform delivering a 24x7 services to support continued growth of the business growth using Dell 

Servers, Cisco Switching and EqualLogic Storage

Delivered secure, high speed corporate Wi-Fi using Cisco Systems

Delivered end to end QOS across the whole network to enable VoIP

Merged 6 Avaya CS1000 phone systems into a single High Availability IP system giving staff the flexibility to login at handsets any office

Designed, Managed and monitored the 24x7 network and infrastructure

Designed and managed the technical BCP plan and backup datacentre facilities including automatic network failover and resilient routing of Internet and WAN access

Led the design of a flexible security & connectivity solution for a shared CRM platform serving 600+ users across 22 organisations to promote secure and joined up government delivery to 1m+ customers

Network & Systems Manager

Managed and monitored the 24x7 network and infrastructure
Designed, implemented and managed a data centre network, firewall platforms delivering 24x7 services to staff working around the world
Delivered a resilient WAN across 6 sites in the UK and US using Private Circuits and Virtual Private Networks
Deployed Bluecoat Packetshaper devices to ensure QOS for priority Citrix applications over the WAN
Managed Avaya CS1000 phone systems at 5 sites across the UK

Network & Systems Assistant

IT Assistant

Yorkshire & Humberside Development Agency Ltd

Delivered and supported desktop services for 47 - 120 staff in the UK and overseas.
Designed, implemented and managed the network and server infrastructure with the IT Manager.
Merged ICT Systems from 5 different organisations into a single network and server infrastructure.

IT Network Infrastructure & Security Manager at Kings Secure Technologies

With more than 20 years experience delivering secure, resilient and reliable enterprise networks and technology infrastructure services across many sectors. Leading highly secure government infrastructure spanning the UK, Europe and USA, leading LAN / WAN replacements and telco & IT service provider and migrations and managing network connectivity across 1000’s of sites for Retail, Financial Services, Hospitality supporting service delivery to those customers spanning the UK and Europe.

Multinational enterprise voice video and data networks spanning the UK, Europe, USA
Multi-technology wide area networks (4G, xDSL, ISDN, Ethernet, MPLS, VPLS, VPN, E3, E1, T1, Dark Fibre)
Local area & campus networks, secure enterprise and large public space Wi-Fi deployments
Network migration and consolidation around business acquisitions and divestments
Leading cloud-managed network deployments and cloud security services to support distributed services without the need to backhaul all traffic through a corporate data centre.
Cloud VoIP and Contact Centre migration and group-wide telephony consolidation 

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