Andy Grant Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Currently reporting jointly to the CEO and Chairman. Responsible the entire groups IT infrastructure consisting of 4 UK, Hong Kong and New York offices• CAPEX and OPEX cost centre management, continual strategic development and delivery of improved IT services globally in line with business plans while setting accurate and relevant KPI’s• Staff and service desk management• Procurement, contract negotiation, SLA’s, and strategic supplier relationship management• Strategic and technical hands on role, working across all levels of technical capabilityAchievements• Development of strategic redesign and implementation of entire IT infrastructure globally from the ground up across all offices• Multiple large scale office relocations including New York and Hong Kong office setup• Office 365 migration• Design, implementation and management of web hosting environment for clients’ websites.• Implementation MS SQL 2005 including a migration to SQL 2008 and 2012• Upgrade of and support of entire Apple Mac infrastructure• Active Directory 2003 and 2008 implementations• Currently working towards ISO27001 Information Security and ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Systems implementation• Multiple server migrations from MS Server NT up to Server 2012• Multiple MS Exchange server email upgrades up to Exchange 2013 level• All levels of desktop operating systems upgrades up to Windows 8.1• Multiple MS Office upgrades up to Office 2014• Implementation of MS Dynamics AX 2012 and SQL 2012 across entire group• Introduction of infrastructure backup using Amazon Web Services• Virtualisation of server infrastructure using VMWare 5.5 and 6 and new SAN technology• Introduction of ITIL and change management processes• Local area network upgrades across all offices• Implementation of global wireless network infrastructure• Wide area network improvement including cost management• Communications upgrades including Mobile Device Management

London, United Kingdom

Seymour Distribution is a magazine distribution company and was part of the former EMAP Group. It was also part owned by Frontline Ltd, Haymarket Publishing and BBC Worldwide.Responsibilities• Promoted to Systems Manager reporting to the IT Manager. My main responsibilities were the management of the IT infrastructure, local area network, all servers and the management of the IT helpdesk ensuring relevant SLA’s• 3 direct reports• Budget management.• Supplier SLA & services management ensuring added value strategic relationships. Achievements• Rollout of Windows 2000 workstations across entire company• Office 2000 rollout including relevant user training• Migration from NT4 domain to Active Directory 2000 including server hardware refresh.• Deployment of new local area network infrastructure• Implementation of new firewall technology

London, United Kingdom

Seymour Distribution is a magazine distribution company and was part of the former EMAP Group. It was also part owned by Frontline Ltd, Haymarket Publishing and BBC Worldwide.Responsibilities• Promoted to Systems Manager reporting to the IT Manager. My main responsibilities were the management of the IT infrastructure, local area network, all servers and the management of the IT helpdesk ensuring relevant SLA’s• 3 direct reports• Budget management.• Supplier SLA & services management ensuring added value strategic relationships. Achievements• Rollout of Windows 2000 workstations across entire company• Office 2000 rollout including relevant user training• Migration from NT4 domain to Active Directory 2000 including server hardware refresh.• Deployment of new local area network infrastructure• Implementation of new firewall technology

London, United Kingdom

Employed at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust as an IT support contractor. Working in a team of 3, supporting 2000 users across multiple associated sites. Responsibilities• End user support throughout all office and clinical areas.• £1.8 million rollout of Windows 95 workstation across entire Trust.Achievements• £1.8 million rollout of Windows 95 workstations across entire Trust• Network upgrade throughout all clinical areas • Involvement of rollout of new £15m Patient Record System • Hardware and software upgrades to Windows 3.11, 95, and NT4

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom