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United Kingdom

Purposely designed monitoring and conditional alerting for facilities critical infrastructure. Panasense has its own vendor independent software [ONCALL-FINESTRA] providing permanent solutions for precision monitoring and alerting of facilities critical infrastructures across a diverse range of industries and vertical markets.ONCALL- FINESTRA utilizes industry standard sensors to provide real-time status and availability of power supplies, UPS systems, air-handling equipment… Show more Purposely designed monitoring and conditional alerting for facilities critical infrastructure. Panasense has its own vendor independent software [ONCALL-FINESTRA] providing permanent solutions for precision monitoring and alerting of facilities critical infrastructures across a diverse range of industries and vertical markets.ONCALL- FINESTRA utilizes industry standard sensors to provide real-time status and availability of power supplies, UPS systems, air-handling equipment, liquid and gas flows, fluid detection. Data from all devices can be collected continuously to provide a complete audit trail of adverse conditions and plant failures. The system is commonly used to shadow BMS systems, provide a single source of (validated) alarms and event history). It can be found in shipyards, museums, power stations, university labs and as a complete environmental information system for data centers and co-location sites.Panasense has resellers of ONCALL-FINESTRA in Europe, M.East, U.S and South America. See www.panasense.co.uk for more information. Show less

United Kingdom

Contract project management, systems integration services and Team leadership providing IT strategy, decision support for a diverse range of companies and organisations within the UK, EMEA, MEA and U.S spanning 22 years. Specific Expertise- Decision Support for CIOs, CEOs, business and program managers in several diverse industries and organisations, assisting them to bring systems on line as quickly as possible and, fulfill corporate directives to drive down costs, improve… Show more Contract project management, systems integration services and Team leadership providing IT strategy, decision support for a diverse range of companies and organisations within the UK, EMEA, MEA and U.S spanning 22 years. Specific Expertise- Decision Support for CIOs, CEOs, business and program managers in several diverse industries and organisations, assisting them to bring systems on line as quickly as possible and, fulfill corporate directives to drive down costs, improve efficiency and reduce risk.- Stakeholder representation- Development of strategic solutions and business frameworks- Project definition, management and implementation- Design Authority for client - Project risk assessment and control- Construction and origination of SLA's, RFI's Bid documents - Vendor management- Consulting and Project lead for re-engineering of data centers and technology upgrades in highly regulated, non-stop computing environments;- Comprehensive knowledge and working experience of most widely used ICT systems and computing architectures (including mainframe and mini computer systems), security frameworks, factory, laboratory and office LAN, VPN, Wide band WAN, private cloud and supporting infrastructure (i.e. chiller and air-handling plant, generators, in-line UPS, static transfer systems) and carrier systems.- Construction of framework site survey systems specifically for the planning and implementation of DCIM to support multiple sites of varying complexity (FieldView).- Engineered and implemented custom solutions enabling "dumb" devices to be monitored by DCIM. Show less

Project managed the implementation of telephony systems, technology migrations, network actives, cabling upgrades to CAT 6, HP SAN and server upgrades, new LANs, firewalls and remote access gateways, security reviews, VLAN architectures, Citrix roll-outs and wireless networks. Platforms: Cisco. Alcatel, HP, Nortel Meridian.

Uk

Multiple projects for JNJ Affiliates; ITIL infrastructure surveys and reports, critical plant reviews associated with site power distribution, resilience and disaster prevention.

Designed and managed the implementation of core information systems and services from WAN to desktop. Migrated local server systems and storage. Operational management of servers and computing services for several months. Project managed multiple technology upgrades and systems migrations across several JNJ operating companies and sites.

Designed and specified infrastructure plant, network and server rooms and site LANs

St. Louis, Mo

Costing IT. pre-acquisition; Systems design; and Design Authority; Managed multiple project teams; Managed External Contractors; Business continuity planning during transition from mainframe systems to client server.

Lichfield, Staffordshire

Introduced networking technology and engineering solutions to ECS Ltd as a new dimension to an already highly successful CAD/CAM market leader with others colleagues John Crossland, Nick Niziolomski. ECS had the first true vendor independent connectivity lab in the whole of Europe featuring integrated systems from all major hardware vendors. ECS expanded by acquisition of GFI to Cisco Gold partner NextiraOne and in early, 2014 Dimension Data.

Dates approximate!Formerly Midlectron Ltd; specialist OEM for Digital Equipment Corp. IBM reseller of microsystemsManufacturing special PDP, LSI and MicroVAX computers for Railway diagnostics, Drilling system simulation - oil & gas and other special applications.

Responsible for porting networked commercial applications, compilers and operating systems to a variety of Motorola 68000 and Zilog 8000 Unix hardware platforms. (Keen was the first company to bring Sun Microsystems, Apple Motorola 68000 hardware to Europe and sell it to commercial enterprises and among the first to market and support data networks Ethernet, ArcNet and Corvus Omninet).