Andy Powell Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Canterbury, Kent, GB

Extremely excited to be named the first Chief Technology Officer at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Canterbury, Kent, GB

• Managing a successful team of subject matter experts, with responsibility for a capital budget circ. £1m, and operating budget of £1m. Leading procurement activities, realising our Infrastructure principles –.
• Replacement of the Firewalls with Palo Alto. Delivering best in class levels of network protection.
• Aruba Edge networking ensuring that local connectivity and availability are achieved.
• Enhancing the Campus Aruba WiFi infrastructure to deliver better service to the University’s users and guests. WiFi 6 throughout the Campus. New services for accommodation (home-from-home).
• Transformation of the University Virtualisation Infrastructure with a Nutanix HCI running on Lenovo hardware. Consolidation of the data centres, reducing costs and management. Introduced web scaling infrastructure..
• Rubrik backup – Replacement of the tape solution with an immutable ransomware safe solution. Sensitive data search and early warning for data changes.

Canterbury, Kent, GB

• Whilst ensuring the continued successful running of the day-to-day infrastructure operations, without compromising the need to build new capabilities for the university. During this time Key projects delivered:
• F5 replacement of TMG's Web Application Firewalls
• VoIP - Replacement of legacy telephony with a full Unified Communications Platform using Mitel.
• Dynamic Disk Pool - Implemented High-Speed data access to the Apple Mac desktop environment.
• Implementation of SolarWinds – monitoring platform for our operational environment.
• Rollout of the Teams – enabling a key tool for the communications of our users.

Canterbury, Kent, GB

• Managing a successful Infrastructure group to deliver numerous projects, whilst maintaining business as usual. The group is made up of 22 staff and is responsible for all levels of the IT Infrastructure, from the.
• Hardware refresh of the virtualisation platform with £1.5million investment.
• Control of a portfolio of projects, re-prioritised and re-focused to ensure delivery
• Delivery of the Bespoke Identity management system with full account auditing for 50k accounts.
• Lead for the migration of staff and student email to cloud-based services (Microsoft Office 365) improving staff productivity, student experience and avoiding the future expenditure of approximately £2m
• Virtual Learning Environment replacement – Blackboard is a critical technology platform for the University which was significantly enhanced as part of the TELT Strategy, Introducing SSO for our users.

Canterbury, Kent, GB

Leading Domain Services – which consists of 6 members (inc. 4 VMware VCP’s, 4 MCSE Exchange Experts, 2 application and web developers). We operate the Virtualised VMware environment running 350+ servers across 5 campuses with 36,000+ Active Directory accounts using predominantly Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 servers, we also use a mix of other Windows and.

Canterbury, Kent, GB

Managing web services within the University and developing web applications for the University such as People Search, Staff training database, custom DHCP management and Computing services service management system. Instrumental in Computing projects such as migration to Exchange and defining University Identity Management systems also 3rd party.

Contracts included working at the Grimaldi Centre in Monte Carlo for Couture International 2001 (trade Fashion and Jewellery) Conference, working in Bucharest for the European Bank of Reconstruction Development. Primarily the role consisted of database and application development for large and small organisations: creating, supporting and developing.