Adrian Short Email & Phone Number

Worcester, England, United Kingdom

As a Delivery Architect I own Technical Governance and Strategic Development for the NHS Trust account I currently work on. I am involved with our Professional Services to develop and manage opportunities into reality providing assurance for the technologies chosen to deliver the required services. I own the Service Evolution and work with my client to develop their future IT Strategic plan and work to provide technical proposals mainly centred around Dell, HP, VMware and Cisco technologies with my current client.

United Kingdom

The Customer Operational Architect (COA) role sits within a team of skilled individuals who work within key clients of their Managed Services provision.COA's:-- have a day to day responsibility for liaising with clients and support teams in order to ensure an efficient provision of support and troubleshooting skills- work with clients and Computacenter internal teams in order to develop strategic roadmaps and continual improvement programs- ensure knowledge of clients' technical environment and processes are disseminated and documented appropriately

Brocade SME for Ethernet Fabrics, Virtualised Data Centre Networking and security approaches for DCN.

Lead Consultant at Computacenter dealing mainly in the Public Sector arena.

Technical Architect and Consultant for many types of bids and Managed Services with potential and existing clients.Strong networking skills and experienceStrong Server skills for Unix, Windows and NetwareCross Platform skillsSkilled Security Consultant

Technical Environment:Cisco networking, Extreme Networking, Juniper Networking, Nortel Networking, Networking Security, process and policy security, Wireless networking - licensed and unlicensed, IDS, IPS, Firewalling with Checkpoint, Cisco, Juniper, Remote Access solutions using Juniper, Netscreen, Cisco, Checkpoint. McAfee Technical Professional Data Protection & Network SecurityDell Server systems, HP/Compaq Server systems, EMC Clariion storage systems, HP Storage systems, Brocade Data Centre Solutions, Symantec Backup Exec.Cisco Load Balancing, Alteon Load Balancing, Web Caching and proxy services hosted and in house.Operational process design, Technical and process auditing.; I have been a Technical Architect and Consultant responsible for equipment and service bids mainly in the public sector. I have consulted for many local authorities with respect to security requirements and alignment with central government policies and procedures. I sat as the joint Technical Lead on the project board for the Hampshire Public Service Network which was an ITT for £120 million and have been involved with and developed transitional and transformational technical proposals worth between £100,000 and £20 millionKey deliverables/achievements:Meeting all provisions of the customer requirements, including design, planning and resourcing of the project from both a technical and services standpoint.Current List of Active Customers:Hays Recruitment - LAN and WAN due diligence and documentation of legacy configurationsAlder Hey Children's Hospital NHS - Five Year Network Strategy Review and Technical RoadmapAlder Hey Children's Hospital NHS - Server monitoring solutionWinchester City Council - Network Strategy, Security and Design

Delivered and created IT solution designs for Digica's mid market client base, dealing mainly with the public sector client portfolio.

Consulted across the various IT technologies for many and varied clients as well as acting as Technical lead for any solution implementations that were undertaken.

Travelling server engineer for third party maintenance company, mainly Compaq Servers using Netware or Microsoft NT. Contract rolled for 18 months.

My duties included building, implementation and ongoing support of complex publishing and retouch systems using Sun Solaris and Silicon Graphics Irix based Unix systems. Using OPI and Imaging systems in the publishing industry I was also expected to install and maintain the required applications on such systems, I also acted as a Technical Sales Consultant for the Sales team, and advised clients on new implementations, equipment upgrades and purchases, I would be involved in client meetings where advice for the correct approach concerning potential implementations was needed. At this time I also developed Apple Macintosh skills as many subsidiary systems would utilise the strong image manipulation abilities of these systems.

My duties included building, installation and ongoing support of turnkey publishing systems developed around a company written publishing application. The systems would invariably be Novell Netware or Windows NT4.0 based and supplied into publishing departments for many prestigious clients such as Glaxo pharmaceuticals and News International.

Hnd, Electronic Engineering

HND in Electronic Engineering

Electronic Engineering

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