-Responsible for Vendor Management and Leading all technical, roadmap and certification discussions-Responsible for taking complex customer requirements and converting them into meaningful, scalable architectures that are resilient and compliant with our standards-Acting as an SME for the Gen4 (N7k, 5k, 2k) and Gen5 (Arista Spine/Leaf) Data-Centres, Campus and Branch-Acting as an SME for Cisco, Arista, Juniper and responsible for all hardware and software certification-Acting as an SME for advanced technologies such as VxLAN, OTV, MPLS, QoS, BGP, Spine and Leaf deployments and Big Data Architectures (Hadoop)-Responsible for being able to provide and explain designs meaningfully to senior management and stakeholders in a non-technical manner -Acting as a Technical Design Authority in order to approve all prospective solutions, in order to make sure they adhere to our global standards and the high-level architecture blueprints-Responsible for leading the banks Data Networking Technical vision and roadmap, including reviewing products such as SDN-WAN, SDN, Cloud and Hybrid Cloud deployments

-Responsible for mentoring junior team-members and for writing work instructions for the 1st and 2nd line teams for use in implementation and support-Acting as an escalation point for complex, high severity incidents and as a Lead for the Global 1st and 2nd line teams-Pro-actively auditing the global network estate to ensure that Cisco best practice is used and ensuring devices are compliant with Barclays standards, owning any necessary re-design through full life-cycle to implementation-Subject matter expert for the Global Network team primarily on Routing and Switching, Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k, CSS and ACE load-balancers, WAAS and Wireless

-Responsible for patching and VLAN creation, IOS upgrades and more complex requests -Responsible for migrating the Building Society Branch WAN connectivity and all 500 branches-Day to day troubleshooting of complex Incidents and faults right to packet level if necessary-Responsible for implementing and migrating to the new DR Data-Centre, including configuration and patching

-Handling of day-to-day network related faults, to 2nd and 3rd line complexity-Implementing project related and compliance configuration changes on production routers and switches-Liaising with telecommunications suppliers and 3rd party vendors in order to swiftly resolve circuit faults-Engaging CISCO TAC where vendor specific support is required in order to speed resolution of faults

I provided administration and support for all Unix/Apache and Windows/IIS hosted websites.

Senior Support Engineer for all server and desktop components and operations systems.

Support specialist for all multimedia and desktop components.

Camp Counselor Teaching Martial Arts and supervising 15x 11 year olds.

3rd line support for the full range of Creative Labs Multimedia products.