Karl Dawkins Email & Phone Number

Iwade, Gb

London, Gb

Complete control of the Information Technology and Video Post Production departments. An all encompassing role combining budgets, infrastructure, people management, automation, deep Microsoft and Azure integration with on premise data centres.Huge data movement and streaming with new problems for the 21st century including ingest and editing of HD to 8k footage from home over a residential level internet connection.

London, Gb

Carrying on from the Group IT & Communications Manager role, I have been promoted to Director of IT for the Argonon group.

London, Gb

Providing technical expertise to management and clients and responsible for the day to day infrastructure, user management, troubleshooting and advise. Developing and maintaining servers, desktops, LAN and WAN devices and all communications equipment.Duties:-Managing IT Teams based in the UK and USA-Managing the Service Desk for 350 company employees-Setting KPIs and analysing acquired data to find and solve service delivery issues-Continual improvement of the IT infrastructure through development and implementation of new technologies-Developing & maintaining company systems, software and assets-Managing the IT budget across multiple sites and currencies-Reporting directly to the COO and CEO-Development, implementation and management of backup routines and hardware to exceed the required RTO for all RPOs, including physical and virtual environments-Development, implementation and management of hardware clusters for Virtual Environments-Responsible for recruitment and training of new employees and apprentices-Writing procedural documentation for systems, security practices and Disaster Recovery-Managing internal firewalls, routers, switches and telephony-Recommending, negotiating, and implementing improvements and efficiencies-Strong IT, commercial, planning and budgetary skills-Routine auditing of systems and software-Asset management of all hardware and software across the group-Responsible for hardware installation, maintenance and repair.

Remedy Productions is part of the Argonon Group and comes under my Argonon Group IT and Communications Manager remit.

London, Gb

Manage all aspects of hardware, software, server, desktop, applications, communications, pbx, etc for multiple sites; creating a solid global infrastructure.

Manage all aspects of hardware, software, server, desktop, applications, communications, pbx, etc for multiple sites; creating a solid global infrastructure for a large multimedia, multi-company, cross platform group.

CoE ESS manager, looking after all manner of software and hardware related to Embedded Systems.

Sysadmin for Delphi Diesel Engineering.