Andy Barnard Email & Phone Number

Stourbridge, West Midlands, United Kingdom

A completely new career to me after leaving a 19 Year Military communications background. As a car enthusiast through and through, I began a new start in vehicle sales and soon became the Sales Director for a specialist car sales company.I am responsible for the everyday running of the business, banking, sourcing stock, purchasing vehicles, logistics, customer relations and car sales.Since joining Jon Kirkham Specialist Cars, the business has grown exponentially. I love my job and look forward to what the future brings.

Corsham Uk

Communication Systems Engineering Support, Directly responsible for providing level 3 technical support to MoD Royal Signals units in order to facilitate the rapid resolution of incidents across multiple platforms. • Technical support engineer to MoD Falcon information system for the UK hub, exercises and overseas deployments on LAN and WAN technologies.• Managed network change, documentation, maintenance and infrastructure in line with ITIL practices.• Investigated and advised on technical issues, to the communications hub.• Mentored and coached junior hub engineers, including team building activities.

Dorset, Wiltshire

Trials and Development Senior Team Leader Trials and projects manager of Communications Information Systems (CIS) projects and field trials for the MoD. Conduct, schedule and manage all CIS trials team activities, manning and resources.• Managed CIS trials teams and civilian contractors to ensure daily tasks are completed to stringent timelines. • Supervised the delivery of project activities to agreed time, quality and performance requirements testing for large multidisciplinary projects.• Planned, co-ordinated and managed trials team tasks including the management and allocation of resources and equipment in order to deliver trial results, effectively and efficiently.• Ensured projects are delivered in accordance with MoD procedures and meet all applicable, system, safety and customer requirements.• Executed, implemented and coordinated CIS trials, collating the results and observations made during the conduct of the trial.• Produced comprehensive trial reports for various projects, which gave the project manager and MoD, evidence of the system performance.

Corsham

Network manager for IP based server systems deployed overseas and various locations in the UK.• Managed a team of experienced engineers, providing 24/7 service desk and network support to 100+ UK and overseas network engineers.• Incident management, network monitoring, fault finding, repairing and maintaining various MoD information systems to challenging Service Level Agreements. Well versed in network monitoring tools.• Carried out installation and configuration of new network devices, including regression techniques.• Enforced network security procedures, accountable for Cryptographic material and encryption devices.• Involved in network planning, design, configuration, improvement, fault reporting and change management, in accordance with stringent ITIL V3 processes. Liaised with various MoD agencies, civilian companies and engineers.• Ensured maximum information services availability to end users in various time zones and geographical locations, leading a team providing 24/7 support.

Christchurch, Bournmouth

Team member contracted to BAE systems, responsible for integrating a new MoD communications system from a planning and design stage, through testing, training and delivery to the Military.• Involved in the system design phase of the communications equipment.• Key member of the Installation team testing the proposed solution was fit for purpose and met the system design and key customer requirements.• Hosted various meetings representing the MoD and civilian companies. • Involved in installation testing and evaluation, delivering results to key stakeholders.• Delivered training and equipment to various MOD establishments across the UK.

Various Uk And Overseas Locations

Telecommunications Engineer 1999 – 2008Strong technical background in various MoD information systems, deployed as the network manager to overseas IT server systems in 2004 and 2008, including implementing the initial deployment of a new server system and clients.

Information Technology, City & Guilds Nvq Level 3 In Telecommunications, English And Maths.

Gsce Grades A-C