🌐 Anthony Smith Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Senior Security Architect helping develop and drive Cisco Security within Softcat. Working alongside the OCTO and Vendor teams to define our Cisco Security offering as well as delivering Cisco Security solutions as part of the Architecture team.

United Kingdom

Wirebird Ltd was acquired by Timico Technology Group in May 2015, taking on the name of Timico Technology Services (TTS) in March 2016.Timico Technology Group is a privately owned, internet and managed service provider, supplying multi-site organisations with the network connectivity, cloud, unified communication, managed IT and mobile solutions they need.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Acting network authority on multi-million pound ERP rollout. This involved;o Design and engineering of a resilient European WAN connecting into multiple IBM/SAP datacentres.o Recognising and mitigating the security.
• Acting network & security TDA/CAB representative for multiple projects across the group.
• Presenting all designs through TDA and CAB with supporting documentation.

• Designed a new resilient multi-tenanted Cisco data centre network consisting of a new scalable IP hierarchy. This network scaled out to numerous global MPLS branches whilst maintaining logical security (VLANs, VRFs.
• Network architecture for clients connecting into the multi-tenanted system based on technical and budgetary requirements.
• Management and responsibility for network security, proactively reacting to threats from internal and external sources.
• Mitigating future network security threats based on lessons learned from attacks and outside case studies.

• Managed the underlying network infrastructure for UK and global MPLS based clients.
• Designed and configured new IP WAN designs for different customers utilising different access methods (MPLS, VPLS, and IPsec/SSL VPN).
• Secure management and auditing of Cisco routers, firewalls, switches, HP switches, FortiGate routers and Wi-Fi equipment.
• Full project management of 500 user+ network roll-outs and supporting documentation for helpdesk environment.

Whilst at GRTS the majority of time was spent on-site at AEP Power Station supporting the local network, server and desktop infrastructure. The network consisted of a core on-site datacentre with outlying branch offices around the site connected back via fibre. The server/desktop infrastructure was Novell based and was migrated to Active Directory during.