Doherty IT Solutions

With over 20-years' experience delivering complex infrastructure projects to the public sector and enterprise-level customers, I am a highly sought-after IT professional known for my natural problem-solving skills and pragmatic approach adept in most areas of project delivery, from pre-sales to technical consultation, design, and architecture. My skill set allows me to deliver any or all aspects of an infrastructure project, but my primary focus is network architecture supporting pre and post-sales. Primarily, I have worked for large blue-chip clients and public sector/local governments with estates in the order of 1000+ servers and 20,000+ users installing a new methodology and quality of work that is suitable for environments where there is little margin for error. EXPERIENCE SUMMARY: • Solution design, from 100 to 8,000 servers and 75,000 users. • Application Integration into complex hosting environments. • Linux Server management and configuration. • LAN, WAN & WLAN architecture, routing, and security design. • Infrastructure design and management, A.D, DNS/DHCP etc. • High Availability Web/App services, clustering, HLB. • On/Off Premise Cloud Solutions using AWS/Azure/Co-Lo. EXAMPLE PROJECTS: • Server virtualisation and rationalisation, VMware vSphere & Hyper-V. • Working with teams to ensure compatibility with apps & infrastructure • SD-WAN & SD-DC architecture, ZeroTrustNetworking. • PCI-DSS standards for secure infrastructure deployments • Network Function Virtualisation, Juniper & Cisco. • Storage design: EqualLogic, Compellent, NetApp, HP & IBM. • Data Centre design and implementation, all aspects from building layout/design, electrics, cooling through to racks and equipment. My Technical Skills include: Cisco, Juniper, Meraki, Dell & Brocade network equipment, routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN & LAN, WLAN, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP Routing. Zscaler ZIA, ZPA, InfoBlox IPAM.