I am making a positive change in the businesses that I engage with and helping my clients achieve a secure and reliable foundation on which they can operate in their field. Having turned around some exciting projects already I can offer testimonials for companies small and medium sized in the defence and education / social care markets. The insight and network designs I have installed are already saving my clients money through return on investments and productivity gains. My Clients have achieved peace of mind and security enhancements such as audited network/file access and single sign on ability from desktop login / staff wifi / remote access / email and cloud federation. My skillset is not limited to any specific area and I can translate information technology to "English". Please get in touch if you have any requirements for my consultancy or services. - Cloud Migrations / Audit Reviews- Infrastucture audit and redesigns.- Security Audits and remedial recommendation. - Enterprise Class Probe Monitoring of any metric on your network. - Application service alerting and remedial notifications.- First Line through to Fourth Line support experience. - Supporting companies of 5 users to 100 at present. Experience in maintaining a global business IT infrastrucutre and 300+ users. - Vendor procurement and insight to the larger software market distribution channels. - A proven ability to deliver enterprise class solutions to smaller businesses.

I am responsible for both third line support and undertaking project work individually or as part of a team where I can lead through my experience.I am a senior member of a small team, assisting in the design and maintenance of over 100 servers (mix of both physical and private virtual machine cloud) and a network for 250+ users at our HQ, throughout the UK and internationally. My company always uses the latest technology so this keeps me very busy and I am highly experienced in many areas of IT.I have worked in Asia many times for my role and attended conferences in both Europe and USA on many occasions. I am great at problem solving and fixing issues under pressure. I enjoy the challenges thrown randomly at me sometimes in this role!I have a wealth of experience in the project delivery lifecycle of solutions across the board including:- Windows 2000 to 10 and Server 2000 - 2012 R2, Apple Mac OSX and Linux CentOS- Active Directory design and support of multiple domains in a large forest - Storage Area Network using iSCSi and both 1Gbe and 10Gbe designs- Windows Clustering for File, SQL, Hyper-V and other applications- Virtualisation and Private Cloud, Highly Available & Scalable using Hyper-V- Backup and Data Protection, Long Term Archival and Replication- Client deployment through RIS, WDS, MDT and other - Server deployment and design, installation and support- Networking & TCP, VLAN and Wireless across complex topologies to facilitate secure and segregated networks- VPN and dial in network protocols to support new SSL and legacy based remote access- Desktop and server support to all platforms- Mobile device management and support- Patching (Everything) and device firmware lifecycles- Security and ISO 27001- Server & Device Monitoring and incident notification- VOIP and conferencing- SQL Server- Internet Information Services and Apache- Certificate Services and PKI