Rob F.

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Vice President Prevention and Enablement @ Smoothwall
Leeds, GB
Rob F.'s Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Rob F.

A multi-disciplinary leader across technology development, operations and management. Specific expert industry knowledge in edtech, security and web infrastructure.

Rob F.'s Current Company Details
Smoothwall

Smoothwall

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Vice President Prevention and Enablement
Leeds, GB
Website:
smoothwall.com
Employees:
160
Rob F. Work Experience Details
  • Smoothwall
    Vice President Prevention And Enablement
    Smoothwall
    Leeds, Gb
  • Smoothwall
    Vice President Prevention & Enablement
    Smoothwall Jun 2019 - Present
    Leeds, England, Gb
    Returned to Smoothwall after seeing the great work done since the management buy-out, investment, new leadership team and diversification of product set - and further fuelled by the merger with Family Zone
  • Webanywhere Ltd
    Vice President Of Solutions
    Webanywhere Ltd Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
    Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb
    Webanywhere produce learning technologies for a diverse range of customers - from schools, colleges, enterprise corporate organisations, charities, healthcare and professional qualification/training bodies.Webanywhere are headquartered in Leeds, UK with offices in Chicago, US and Katowice, PL.My role is varied, covering a wide range of responsibilities across the technical and business activities of the company, and I also sit in the senior management team, reporting to the CEO. Responsibilities include :- P&L of service, hosting and projects- Leading technical strategy- Hosting systems dev/ops - Partnerships- Solution architecture and Presales - Information Security - New market / vertical development
  • Smoothwall Ltd
    Principal Architect
    Smoothwall Ltd Apr 2008 - May 2015
    Leeds, England, Gb
    My role was the principal architect across all global operations functions of Smoothwall Group (pre-sales, architecture, implementation, support, internal systems and managed services). This involved being the technical design authority for all customer implementations; managing standards used by over 40 Smoothwall architects, engineers and managers globally. Another key aspect of the role was to "bridge the gap" between operations functions and product management/development, representing operations staff and customers as a stakeholder in development of new products.I also retained individual project architecture for key strategic accounts and development of new markets/verticals. In these I undertook formal tender responses, solution design, technical client meetings, in-depth technical demonstrations, and professional services such as consultancy, training, installation and project management.2008-2010 - Technical Specialist - covering internal systems and ad-hoc presales support.2010-2013 - Presales and Implementation Manager - formed group-wide (UK/US) formal presales, architecture, design and implementation teams, growing from a team of zero to twelve.2013-2014 - Solutions Architecture Manager - concentrating primarily on the group architecture teams to refine standard processes, designs, and build methodologies. Continued with direct presales and architecture involvement for key projects.2014-2015 - Principal Architect (Operations)
  • Class Technology Solutions Ltd
    Technical Engineer
    Class Technology Solutions Ltd Aug 2006 - Apr 2008
    Horsham, Gb
    High-achieving technical engineer within the outsourced educational IT business of CTS. On permanent placement as Network Manager at St Bede's Catholic Grammar School with occasional work at other customer sites.At St Bede's I was responsible for a 1400 user / 600 node network and a team of two desktop engineers. Implementing, supporting and maintaining Microsoft Active Directory domains, MIS (SIMS), VLE (Moodle), network infrastructure and a myriad of third party schools applications.Leading the technical strategy of the school provided the opportunity to introduce technology into areas where at the time it was either not present or under-utilised, facilitating overall school improvement, demonstrable through Ofsted reports and increase in overall pupil attainment.
  • Harrow Green
    Server Engineer (Relocations)
    Harrow Green May 2005 - Aug 2006
    London, Gb
    Provided quick-turnaround datacentre relocation consultancy, onsite engineering and team leadership for a number of prestigious customers including Royal Bank of Scotland, Laing O'Rourke, Irwin Mitchell, the NHS, and many other large corporate enterprises.
  • Ase Consulting
    Systems Administrator
    Ase Consulting Sep 1999 - Jan 2005
    Responsible for network and systems management for a business and IT consultancy organisation, with circa fifty mainly client-site and field based consultants. Skills employed range from Microsoft NT4 and 2000 Server, IIS Server and MS DNS hosting a number of public customer websites, Exchange, Sendmail, networking (including frame relay, BT Kilostream, Telebit Netblazer router platforms and Linux 2.4-based ipchains firewall), SDX INDeX PBX management, desktop support to Windows 2000 clients and web application development in ASP.

Rob F. Skills

Firewalls Networking Linux Data Center Security Cloud Computing Virtualization Solution Architecture Active Directory Network Security Pre Sales Dns System Deployment Integration Vmware Operating Systems Content Filtering Routers Windows Enterprise Software Windows Server Network Administration Solution Design Tcp/ip Servers Change Management Team Leadership Software Development System Administration Databases Postgresql Vpn Public Sector Customer Service Open Source It Strategy It Service Management Requirements Analysis Customer Relations Consultancy Service Delivery Supply Chain Management Software Project Management Agile Training And Development Http Perl Bash Spam Filtering Mysql

Rob F. Education Details

  • Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
    Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
    Physics
  • University Of Leeds
    University Of Leeds
    Computing

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What company does Rob F. work for?

Rob F. works for Smoothwall

What is Rob F.'s role at the current company?

Rob F.'s current role is Vice President Prevention and Enablement.

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What schools did Rob F. attend?

Rob F. attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, University Of Leeds.

What skills is Rob F. known for?

Rob F. has skills like Firewalls, Networking, Linux, Data Center, Security, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Solution Architecture, Active Directory, Network Security, Pre Sales, Dns.

Who are Rob F.'s colleagues?

Rob F.'s colleagues are Phil Dyde, Tarryn Moorey, Dean ▪️ Hulme, Joshua Prole, Tiegan Booth, Natalie Harrison, Smooth Test.

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