Daniel Barton Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Heading up Professional Services at Axians UK. I lead teams of experienced technical consultants & project managers to deliver new services & technology to our customers.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Managed Services technical lead assuring customer delivery from sales cycle into service transition.Managing proof of concepts/MVPs for the innovation of new products and services.Creation of technical roadmaps & product lifecycle management.

Newbury, Uk

A customer facing Solution Architect, responsible for the end-to-end solution design and service wrap for new customer opportunities. Currently engaged on a large business transformation & lifecycle management programme supporting UK and international clients. Collaborating with account, commercial and product teams to design, cost & create customer solution proposals. Interpret and convert customer business requirements into a standard or bespoke solution design. Excellent stakeholder management experience through sales cycle, delivery & support. Architecture design methodology utilised for each client engagement including; Writing of RFP responses, proposals, high level designs, cost & gap analysis, SoWs, migration planning, RAID management & governance processes. Extensive experience of both Agile and waterfall methods. Technologies; WAN, Internet access, infrastructure, cloud services, SDN, UC, Data Centre, Contact Centre, collaboration, security & mobile IOT solutions.● Leading the transformation roadmap for a UK energy company to upgrade their IP-VPN, IPsec remote access & SIP voice networks to future ready technologies ● Successful design engagement to relocate IoT connectivity for a critical Emergency Services provider from a costly 3rd party data centre to customer site with added resilience ● Enabled cost savings for a UK utility company by designing & managing the delivery of a new centralised resilient contact centre SIP solution ● Guiding a UK utility company on their IP-VPN and business broadband technology transformation ● Consolidating an international banks UK branch network and delivering a new IP-VPN solution

Newbury, Uk

The senior technical solution lead; managing client relationships & technical leadership from pre-sales to delivery. Running technical assurance and governance on large-scale complex projects and programmes to ensure the client solution is successfully delivered.● Providing pre-sales technical expertise and delivery management for the flagship cloud based Cisco HCS UC & Collaboration product● Guiding one of the top 6 UK energy suppliers on the transformation of their voice estate and the delivery of high availability public SIP access to contact centre locations● Leading the roadmap for a WAN & WIFI technology refresh across 500 sites for one of the top 5 UK food retailers; a contract value of £23,000,000. Managing the solution delivery within a complex infrastructure against challenging timescales● Advisor to a UK defence company, guiding key decisions for bespoke security and encryption requirements for their Cisco UC estate. Collaborating with product teams to ensure customer requirements are met● Delivering connectivity, WIFI & on premise Cisco UC for a large public health body worth £11,000,000. A high specification customer, seeking inclusion of governance and process testing. This also included a cloud based Contact Centre & call recording solution● Hosted Avaya UC provided to a FTSE100 insurance company. Including call recording and cloud storage to five large UK Call Contact Centres. Delivered against the challenges of the customers large internal transformation programme● Defining the solution strategy across multiple work streams, aligning and influencing key internal and external stakeholders● Managing internal and external suppliers to ensure they are accountable for their respective solution deliverables● Practice lead responsible for developing and communicating technical assurance, sharing best practice process standards and documentation, enabling consistency. Ensuring alignment of peers across customer projects and the business

Newbury, Uk

Primary UC Designer responsible for the delivery of complex solutions to enterprise customers in a professional services environment. This role focussed on the detailed technical design for each customer engagement, managing the end-to-end technical deployment, resolving technical challenges and interfacing with 3rd party & customer technical teams.● Created the design and provided 3rd party management to a FTSE100 insurance company for their hosted Call Centre, call recording & cloud storage solutions ● Design of a hosted telephony and call recording solution for a regional health authority across 15 sites for 3,300 users at a value of £2,500,000

London, Uk

Working for the IT division of a global advertising group as the senior technical voice resource in the EMEA region. The leading technical consultant for the development of Avaya product solutions. Meeting client requirements according to their objectives, associated budgets and deadlines. Developing sophisticated Avaya IPT network architectures and project managing complex solutions through the entire project lifecycle. Avaya ACA certified. ● EMEA team leader for UC voice team, providing technical, client and people management responsibilities ● Delivering solution designs and cost proposals aligned to client agency requirements, encompassing project management and client/stakeholder relationships ● Providing cost analysis and consolidations to reduce infrastructure operating costs. Tailored to agency technical/functional requirements and the groups IT business model ● Design, configuration and implementation of resilient public SIP access, utilising SBCs across multiple data centres in an enterprise environment ● Leading the deployment of Avaya IPT in EMEA, NA & APAC ● Project management of 5 new sites within EMEA supporting 1200 users. Incorporating solution design, purchasing negotiations, installation and go-live ● Design & management of Data Centre migrations and the refresh of server infrastructure ● Responsible for network upgrades and user migrations. This included a 4,500 user migration to a new UC voicemail platform ● Creating LAN requirements for the deployment of voice infrastructure including VLANs, IP subnets, DHCP allocations, firewall rules and access lists

Horsham, Uk

Field based voice, data and application support providing fault diagnosis, support and resolution to the London customer base. Responsible for project managing bespoke voice projects, delivering a timely and proactive service.

Newbury, Uk

Provided technical support to Vodafone’s private telephone network and its associated systems. Managed and co-ordinated the implementation of voice infrastructure at new Vodafone sites within the UK in accordance with high level targets.