Darren Nicholas Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

Seattle, Washington, US

I have extensive experience designing and managing Network Services within leading companies including a highly driven global investment management firm, Accenture - a leading outsource company and Utilities. Having led 30 strong teams in networking and architecture I excel at people development and building high-performance teams. My teams manage SDWAN.

Newark, New Jersey, US

(Contractor) Prudential - Head of Network Operations – October 2016 to March 2018 Responsible for 16 Network engineers and 2 team leaders and reporting into the Global Head of Network Services During my time so far at Prudential (PGDS) I have undertaken improvement to service and automation. Previously code was deployed direct onto production systems with.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Responsible for six network architecture engineers, which involved traveling to Houston twice a year to work with the engineers located there. I led the engineers to define our future state, looking at new technologies.
• Development of a number of engineers from Senior to Principal focusing on their development plan, defining stretched goals and coaching which lead to promotion.
• Integrated in the Lean process and worked within the Lean methodologies during rapid improvement events and bringing those methodologies to the work place.
• Led the movement of our London primary datacenter to a co-located facility. Ensured that the design and strategy ensured future proofed this environment, provide full resilience and a flexible environment for.
• Leveraged vendors to ensure we stayed abreast of technologies. Attended meetings with vendors to understand their products and future roadmaps to ensure the current technologies we use are the best fit for our future.
• Continues and improving knowledge on the latest technologies like SDN, Segementation, Next Generation Firewalls and Cloud. I utilize Pod Casts, third party Vendors, Seminars and Conferences.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Manage a team of 17 engineers in India,UK and Hong KongDuring my time as Network Manager I created a very strong UK and Asia PAC team with longevity; the team members were all highly motivated and skilled. This.
• Led and created the ‘follow the sun’ operational support model in India. This involved recruiting staff, training and developing them and creating a 24x5 shift rota with a partial weekend cover.
• Created and designed new office in India for 600 staff, this involved the installation, resource planning and meeting project deadlines from beginning to end.
• Led and moved the India Invesco DR center in India
• Led the implementation of two internet build outs in Hyderabad and Tokyo
• KPI's for key areas of the circuit infrastructure