At Podium IDC, we place you at the heart of everything we do and are committed to providing real value to you. With our easy to use IT software, services and equipment, we focus towards driving maximum online performance and efficiency.If you are a homeworker, business owner or operating within an education facility, we can customise the solutions to provide you with maximum value. Launched in 2014 and located in Northamptonshire, we make IT simple by providing cost-effective IT… Show more At Podium IDC, we place you at the heart of everything we do and are committed to providing real value to you. With our easy to use IT software, services and equipment, we focus towards driving maximum online performance and efficiency.If you are a homeworker, business owner or operating within an education facility, we can customise the solutions to provide you with maximum value. Launched in 2014 and located in Northamptonshire, we make IT simple by providing cost-effective IT solutions for business, home and education sector at great prices.With over 30 years of IT experience and a commitment towards dedicated quality and service, the founders, Kevin Smith and Paul Smith strive towards offering an efficient, agile and friendly service. We, therefore have the skills to deliver customisable project transformation, network design, network performance and much more.Visit our site www.podiumidc.com for details on our range of IT Services, Consultancy, and Value-added resale. Show less

Responsible for the successful creation and delivery of the company's product to the Leisure, Travel, and Tourism sector by managing technical risks and opportunities. Making key infrastructure/software design, and implementation decisions with both internal and external third-party development teams.Tasks including:- Defines the technological strategy to ensure both in-house and third-party engagement meets the consistency of the business-defined architecture. - Assesses… Show more Responsible for the successful creation and delivery of the company's product to the Leisure, Travel, and Tourism sector by managing technical risks and opportunities. Making key infrastructure/software design, and implementation decisions with both internal and external third-party development teams.Tasks including:- Defines the technological strategy to ensure both in-house and third-party engagement meets the consistency of the business-defined architecture. - Assesses technical risk and the mitigation plan- Develop strategy and implement plans to improve productivity- Interview candidates for technical positions- Continual research to evaluate new technology and tools as opportunities for innovation develop- Oversees technical design documentation process- Evaluates system implementation to meet operational requirements- Helps to identify IT high-risk areas for Business Continuity- Identifies weak hardware/software systems that need code improvement and schedule with change control- Applies testing process to new system features, where possible, and manages the rollout of a new build system Show less

Reporting to the Head of IT, responsible for• Network architecture, network support, managing external suppliers providing management of outsourced elements of the Data, Telephony integration and Data Security.• Managing staff with SMART objectives and annual appraisals• Managing an annual equivalent budget of £1.1m pa, to contribute to sustaining the Authority's Services.Key achievements included:• Efficiency improvements by reducing revenue figures from… Show more Reporting to the Head of IT, responsible for• Network architecture, network support, managing external suppliers providing management of outsourced elements of the Data, Telephony integration and Data Security.• Managing staff with SMART objectives and annual appraisals• Managing an annual equivalent budget of £1.1m pa, to contribute to sustaining the Authority's Services.Key achievements included:• Efficiency improvements by reducing revenue figures from 3 years earlier £1.8 to £1.1 Million by introduction of managed service programs, delivered inline with contracted SLA managed with 3rd party partner program to demonstrate improvements by presentation of KPIs on a monthly regime. Further support by a bench marking exercise by SoCITM (2008-09) showed that we had one of the lowest costs per data connection of any County Council.• Established regular, structured supplier review meetings for contracted services.• Prepared, wrote and evaluate Invitations to Tender (ITT) including Voice and data 24/7 managed contract, firewall security 24/7 managed service, and private data circuits. These were complex tenders that had to comply with government procurement regulations.• Developed the WAN and LAN to be resilient through circuit and infrastructure design and implementation. The availability of all WAN circuits was measured using in-house tools (SolarWinds) and all circuits (except ADSL) regularly achieved 99.9% availability• Reduced cost per head, with 155 sites and 4500 end users meaning annual costs for the Data, Security and Telephony to £245 per end user.• Assisted the Head of IT and Corporate Director to establish the continued services of both potential on boarding, closing existing contracts as well as wrote complex report for WiFi, requests from partner organisations to a partnership.• Registered clearance with central government for public services standards.• Compliancy: Penetration testing (internal & external) and managed to resolution. Show less

Reporting to the Network Manager, responsible for• List responsibilities – support, design, supervision, implementation of any aspect of the Authorities Infrastructure. Key achievements included:• Trained and supervised network engineers to deliver 3rd level support• Helped develop an in house managed work flow tool, to assist project managers on progression and stage management.

Responsibilities – support, design, and implementation of Authorities Infrastructure.Key achievements included:• Rolled out the upgrade of data infrastructure refresh, and designed the hierarchy for data throughput over the new WAN circuits to sustain best value and meet the data demand.• Project managed the first mobile working project with NOMAD local Gov initiative.

Provided structured cabling solutions, for the private sector and educational establishments for consultancy for Security, Firewall Design, Strategy, ITIL, Process Modelling and Outsourcing comparisons.

Dbase II programmer, Field Technician and Operator in Data Room. Created the first BACS modem transmission for payroll transfer.