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Bournemouth, England, Gb

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Ekco is a European Cloud Service Provider. Ekco Group acquired my business Scholar Web Services in December 2020. - Responsible for the businesses datacentre operations, networks, cloud platforms and backup/DR platform infrastructure in the UK region. - Datacentre expansion and management. - Ensuring all services are highly-available and replicated to multiple-standby by datacentres. - Architecting platforms and storage systems in line with the businesses business continuity objectives. - Running the Infrastructure Team in the UK, working with and supporting the service delivery teams. - Working with other regional heads of infrastructure and technical leads to implement standardised technical designs across the group. - Communicating continuously with senior management to ensure business objectives are being metand performance is optimal. - Mentoring and guiding the engineering team to ensure all platforms are stable and performance ismaintained.

Scholar Web Services is a Cloud Managed Services & Internet Infrastructure provider servicing arange of sectors including e-commerce, e-health, fintech, telecoms, manufacturing and cyber security clients across the UK and abroad. The business primarily focused on specialist Linux managed services and high-availability cloud environments. - Founded business in 2014 to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Managed Services. - Built, designed and implemented privately owned Cisco network across the UK (AutonomousSystem AS59897) from the ground up. - Built and designed VMware Cloud platform servicing infrastructure as a service and managedservice clients. - Built and designed Cloud Backup platforms for the business. - Cloud environment design and consultancy for clients on both Scholar VMware Cloud and AWS(predominantly Linux focused environments). - Deployment of multi-site/geo architecture client environments for critical uptime businessapplications. - Hands on engineering in the day-to-day operations and technical delivery of services and support. - Day-to-day management of the technical team, maintaining a very high standard of service deliveryto the client base. - Worked closely with the Client Services Director on new business opportunities, designing technicalsolutions and assisting with ongoing client account management.

C4L (now IDE Group) is a Datacentre and Cloud Services Provider. - Responsible for designing and architecting server, virtualization and storage solutions for customers. - Supporting the Sales Team with pre-sales technical queries. Architecting and designing solutions forcustomers throughout the pre-sales process. - Setup and implementation of the companies VMware (vCenter, vCloud Director) IaaS virtualizationplatforms. - Setup and implementation of the companies KVM/Qemu VPS virtualization environment. - Configuration and installation of Dell PowerEdge MD1000e blade enclosures and PowerEdge serversalong with accompanying Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus network devices. - Configuration and installation of Dell EqualLogic PS series and PowerVault SANs. - Overseeing and administering over 75 customer facing Linux servers. This includes a mixture of webservers, databases servers, authoritative and recursive DNS servers. - Day to day administration of the company’s internal systems, including Active Directory, Exchange andSQL Servers.

Dorset Software is a software development and software outsourcing company. - Responsible for designing, building and supporting environments for clients based across the UK. - Systems administration of internal network and supporting daily requirements of developers in house. - Responsible for planning and roll-out of Windows 7 across the company. - In charge of day-to-day management of companies Unified Communication system (Microsoft LyncServer 2010) including enterprise voice. - Support of in house virtual servers running Microsoft Hyper-V. - Developed bespoke ASP.NET invoice approvals application for a high profile client (C#, SQL 2008, SSIS). - Developed C# installers for high profile clients. - Microsoft Dynamics CRM customisations (API, C# plugins and JavaScript development). - SQL Server 2005/2008 administration, also support of client systems running ad-hoc T-SQL queries.

CCC & SchoolCare is an IT Support and Managed IT Provider. - Spearheaded migration of company servers to VMware ESX virtual platform utilising open-source SANs. - Setup and configuration of LAMP servers for in house development environments. - Setup and configuration of VoIP PBX phone systems (Asterisk based) for business customers gaininggood knowledge of SIP and IAX protocols. - Single handily deployed open-source Virtual Learning Environment to 8 educational establishmentsacross Torbay linked via the Internet for diploma course sharing. - Deployment and maintenance of multi-server Active Directory based networks (in excess of 500+workstations) using latest Microsoft technologies including Windows Deployment Services and GroupPolicy. - Deployment of software to supported sites via Group Policy.Assisted in supporting multiple customer sites connected via LAN to LAN VPNs (both IPSec and PPTP) - Experience with providing remote support to the companies educational, business and retail customerbase. - Upgrading of customer systems including migration of Exchange mailboxes, data, and systemconfigurations. - Developed Active Directory Management software in C# for education sector – targeted at Windows7/Server 2008. - Developed both Windows and web based applications for in house and customer targeted products.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Multimedia Communication Systems

Btec National Diploma In Software Development, Computer Software Engineering