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London, Gb

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

· Managing all IT Security functions within the EMEA geographic location.· Lead a multi-skilled team with responsibility for penetration test management, team request management, reviewing security architecture for new and existing business initiatives and providing executive team updates on various forums and committees.

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

· Led the regional deployment of a web proxy solution for both data centre and branch office traffic.· Gathered business and technical requirements and ensured these were accepted and approved by stakeholders.· Removed redundant firewalls, fine-tuned current ones and improved Security posture.· Responsibility for the entire security tooling and infrastructure security for Gallagher's in EMEA· Deputised for the IT Security Manager accountable for reference changes to infrastructure security posture and new deployments, including inclusive of Merger and Acquisition activities.· Played a key role in various forums, based on new business requirements, technical requirements and cyber security impact.· Managed the continuous improvement of detecting and responding to threats.· Conducted Annual security audits duties using Cyber Essentials Plus.· Provided security approvals for technical and authorisation requests as well as threat modelling for Technical and business projects.· Identified mitigations to security flaws and vulnerabilities and checked and verified technical deliverables.

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

· Onboarded various business applications from external managed service providers.· Played a key role in a resilience project that tested all infrastructure components for failover capacity of infrastructure services from one datacentre to another.· Designed multiple business applications and development platforms and worked on a system for handling DSAR requests in conjunction with GDPR enactment and devised options for a Global deployment.· Produced and maintained hardware configuration plans and conducted due diligence to safeguard availability and reliability of new systems.

London, Gb

· Recognised for excellent performance and achieved promotion from Senior Infrastructure Engineer.· Implemented a new VMware solution based on vSphere 5.1 utilising Dell Blade servers, Dell Equallogic SAN and legacy VMware running on Dell EMC CX-4 Clarions.· Led the design/implementation of an interim VMware vSphere 5.5 infrastructure based on HP DL380 G9 Proliant server and IBM v5000 storage that used Dell Force10 switching infrastructure.· Supported the successful ‘Live’ migration of workloads from a failing platform to new solution within one week.· Maintained strong stakeholder relationships, influenced decisions and shaped the IT infrastructure landscape aligned with corporate objectives.· Developed multiple PowerShell scripts that play a vital part in the on-going maintenance of the VMware vSphere 6 infrastructure.· Managed all infrastructure 3rd line support services including the verification of incidents recorded and escalated or resolved within Service Level Agreements & KPIs.

London, Gb

Achieved promotion to Infrastructure Architect from Server Engineer with responsibility for the entire IT infrastructure over 100+ satellite offices U.K wide spanning networking, virtualisation and telephony systems.· Planned, designed and migrated from VMware vSphere 4.1 to 5.0 update 2, with zero major impact or downtime.· Delivered a Cisco Call Manager upgrade from version 4 to version 8.5, including several gateway (router) upgrades.· Delivered the partial migration of the email platform from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 CCR cluster.· Supported remote sites, procured new hardware and ensured firmware level.· Conduced root cause analysis remotely to resolve technical issues.· Evaluated all new services and technologies, including the monitoring of network, server and critical applications, disaster recovery solutions, high availability of key services for remote users and load balancing technologies for high volume services.· Led the successfully re-design of Solarwinds NPM 10.4 and aligned with the current environment.

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· Secured promotion to Technical Consultant and worked on multiple projects that involved storage area networks, firewalls, routers and servers, across the Investment banking, education and government sectors.· Obtained security clearance for House of Commons to work in the government sector.· Provided technical support for the London Marathon operating from the BBC in Shepherds Bush.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computing And I.T (Software Development Pathway)

Hnd, Software Engineering

A Levels, Computer Science And Business Studies

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