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Uk, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong Sar, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, The Us, Middle East, Ireland, Saudi Arabia And India., Gb

Working within a multi-disciplined Infrastructure Solutions team that provide design & consultancy services to a number of UK & Global business units across health insurance and health provisioning market sectors. Achievements• Designed infrastructure for a £2M SAS Analytics solution, providing cost effective and low risk Clustered Linux blade compute platform with tiered and replicated storage & HA/DR data protection capability to meet business requirements, whilst also being flexible for expansion to meet projected growth.• Delivered a robust Cloud backup solution for a growing Bupa Dental business unit at a cost of £50 Opex per site per year compared to incumbent Enterprise Backup solution that would have cost over £2,000 in Capex per site.

Uk, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong Sar, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, The Us, Middle East, Ireland, Saudi Arabia And India., Gb

Developed infrastructure roadmaps, business cases & implementation plans as part of the Core Infrastructure Services team with a focus on x86, VMware, Windows, Citrix & SAN technology.Achievements• Became subject matter expert in Bupa SAN architecture, contributing to ongoing simplification & cost reduction. Introduced an innovative pay per TB re-charging model to enable projects to have predictable costs as well as removing any procurement lead time delays on project deliveries.• Provide consultative advice across a number of technical teams; making recommendations on roadmaps & solution options.

Uk, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong Sar, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, The Us, Middle East, Ireland, Saudi Arabia And India., Gb

Led a team of 13 technical support staff located in Staines & Manchester providing support services across Network, Compute, Storage & Database infrastructure platforms. Managing staff performance, service availability, incident & problem management. Achievements• Managed War Rooms during major incidents, especially skilled at taking the technical lead to direct internal resources and agreeing action plans with service providers.• Drove the initial VMware pilot solution into Bupa. Gained key stakeholder buy in to a new unproven solution, which eventually grew into a platform that avoided significant investment in data centre expansion & the cost of additional underutilised physical servers.

Uk, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong Sar, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, The Us, Middle East, Ireland, Saudi Arabia And India., Gb