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London

Company consists of 80 schools on 4 continents.Responsible for all aspects IT infrastructure including security pertaining to on premises and cloud services.

Responsible for all elements of the entire technology landscape within an internal start-up venture, servicing a privately-owned multi-national organisation comprising of a portfolio of 6 diverse companies with revenues in excess of £1B➤ Led the adoption of a Cloud-first strategy, driving the organisational focus towards a technology-orientated business model, migrating the legacy on premises ERP system to multiple could solutions.➤ Sourced and acquired Board International as the strategic EPM solution to provide reporting, analysis, and statistical modelling for the entire organisation, enabling a complete view of its financial performance.➤ Engaged with 3rd party contractors to document the end-to-end application architecture to facilitate the design of the new integration layer and master data model.➤ Engaged with 3rd party contractors to document and deploy M365 (Exchange/SharePoint/Teams/Intune) across the entire organisation.➤ Promoted a culture of continuous improvement across the identification and implementation of new products and solutions to deliver innovation, efficiency and enhanced customer experience.➤ Active member of the Blinx Technology leadership team, and point of escalation for resolving technical and non-technical issues that may be impacting end-users and the service desk.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for all aspects of ICT infrastructure leadership within a private equity (PE) owned testing business, comprising 200+ laboratories located globally, with annual revenue of $1bn+.➤ Management of entire IT infrastructure, including LAN, WAN, firewalls, Cisco Access and core switches, VPN, Mitel telephony, Cloud proxy internet, security, servers, EMC and IBM SAN storage, Active Directory, Azure, F5 LTM load balancers, VMWare virtualisation, and mail.➤ Led the planning and establishment of two greenfield data-centers in North America with full DR capability to accommodate the future ERP (Microsoft Dynamics AX) and corporate functions.➤ Supported the adoption of a cloud first policy, migration of legacy on prem applications, including ERP and mail applications to the Azure cloud using M365 and D365 subscriptions.➤ Sourced and implemented an enterprise-wide solutions including Masergy MPLS/SD-WAN, Mitel VoiP software and Darktrace solution.➤ Worked with the Cyber Security Officer to embed Cyber Essentials processes and procedures across the business.

Formerly Cytyc Systems, acquired by Hologic Inc. in 2007, leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostic and medical imaging systems.