Alan Guilford Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

• Full responsibility for operations, sales, office administration, purchasing, transport, delivery and management of events and marquee projects reporting directly to the Managing Director.
• Sales experience. Developed corporate relationships and winning repeat business.
• Design events from listening to client requirements. Providing floor plans, lighting, catering, entertainment, access, power, heating and layout designs. Create 3d designs for client sales and 3d site plans for build.
• Stock control and database management. Managing equipment for multiple events with overlapping dates.
• Purchasing. Responsible for ordering consumables, stock items, sub hire equipment.
• Prioritise events based on size, dates, requirements, customer and availabiity.Corporate work including: Councils, Universities/Colleges/Schools/Scouts, Ice Factor, Leeds Music Festival, Forestry Commission, Event.

• Technical Management Consultant. Consulting with clients to define nature and extent of projects. Collect and review data.
• Sales experience. Develop and manage client relationships.
• Project management. Full lifecycle including sales, quotations, costing, estimatations, development, testing, delivery, training and ongoing support.
• Systems architecture. Defining system requirements for both hardware and software. Specifying and purchasing suitable hardware, software, licencing and 3rd party products.
• Support of IT systems. Server installations and management of servers including HP, Dell and IBM. Raid configurations and management, firmware, bespoke hardware, WAN and LAN networks including firewalls, routers, VPNs.
• Training courses. Bespoke courses tailored to customer and business needs. Training included desktop Microsoft products, applications and databases.

• Complete responsibility for the IT and Telecommunications for a leading fast paced financial recruitment business with multi million pound turnover and 5 offices. Reporting directly to the chief executive the role.
• Successfully managed IT projects including: opening new offices, automating existing offices, installation of specialised recruitment databases and the integration of web and back office systems.
• Help solve a variety of organisational problems by observing business operations and identifying the business needs.
• Extensive experience in the support of IT solutions to minimise maintenance costs, design and implement system enhancements, proactive and reactive fault finding and repairs to continually improve reliability and.
• Budgetery control including successful reduction in costs each year.
• Liaise with vendors, ensuring service level agreements are met and following up any problems with 3rd party suppliers of hardware or software.

• Provide technical support, security, development and management of mid-range resources effectively and efficiently to agreed service level requirements.
• Evaluate and install latest analysis tools. Implement procedures for generating performance reports for senior management.
• Provide specialist advice to new projects which includes assisting development teams with the configuration, fault finding, performance testing and ultimately the successful handover of the project to the support team.
• Planned, directed and coordinated suucessfully the replication, upgrade, testing and documentation of all managed systems to ensure year 2000 compliance.
• Management of servers dedicated to Human Resources and Finance directorates and 3 internet web servers including the official Library web site and a host server for Oxford University projects.
• A working knowledge of Ingres, BRS and Oracle databases.

• Management of 6 engineers including contract staff.
• Customer site work performing upgrades, investigations and commissioning, often at short notice. Sites included onshore and offshore oil and gas installations. Customer sites included Shell, BP, Mobil, British Gas and.
• Involved in the establishment and implementation of Quality Assurance practices to meet BS5750 and ISO 9001 standards within the Customer Service Department.
• Responsible for the Internal Office Systems Administration. Duties included: Maintaining workstations running Unix operating systems, support and set up test equipment on local area networks, making recommendations for.
• Knowledge and experience of multiple programming languages including C, Basic, RTL2, assembler and shell scripting. Programming included scientific calculations and process control management.
• Management of multiple concurrent projects.