Liam Dutton Email & Phone Number

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Rollout engineer & team leader for a 800 site network migration project with responsibilities such as;
• Designing small and medium offices from the physical to the logical layer architecture – producing design documentation from sites surveys, liaising with internal staff to produce an agreed design;
• Building IP crib sheets and gateway configuration within HPE Aruba Central;
• Peer reviewing configuration builds to ensure successful transitions;
• Leading on-site engineers to… Show more
• Leading on-site engineers to a successful transition of legacy Cisco Meraki infrastructure to new wireless HPE Aruba solution, implementing changes in Central and conducting testing;

• Developed test plans to capture unit, integration, system, and user test cases for multiple prototype secure communications systems and delivered presentation of test results to MOD stakeholders.
• Responsible for the identification of use cases and requirements to realise the architectural requirements for a Zero Trust Development Environment task to support improvements to the security of the Defence Software.
• Responsible for the identification of use cases and requirements to realise the architectural requirements for a Zero Trust Development Environment task to support improvements to the security of the Defence Software.
• Performed Model-based Systems Engineering on a military systems information assurance research task looking into integrating a form of data centric security into additional data formats, this included use case design.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Troubleshooted and implemented many network technologies such as IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, MPLS, ADSL, FTTx, IPsec, and FortiGate Firewall solutions for a Managed Service Provider/ISP whilst adhering to strict.
• Produced High-Level & Low-Level Design (HLD/LLD) documentation - communicated thoroughly with clients and stakeholders during the provisioning (technical requirements), design process and successfully implemented.
• Managed BAU in-life… Show more
• Managed BAU in-life service requests, incidents and implement customer requested changes. Acted as an escalation for both First and Second-Line support teams.
• Performed technical interviews for potential candidates applying for Second and Third-Line positions. Show less

• Provided network switch, router, and firewall support in a critical Defence three-star HQ (corporate head office) environment. This included services for three security domains with network traffic segregated by VRF’s.
• Designed and implemented enterprise level solutions including site-to-site GRE tunnels over a hub and spoke MPLS circuit… Show more
• Designed and implemented enterprise level solutions including site-to-site GRE tunnels over a hub and spoke MPLS circuit utilising eBGP for routing and DMVPN for encryption and dynamic discovery of tunnel endpoints.
• Provided enterprise level administration across the headquarters for real-time support to staff completing regular training exercises across the region; regularly on-call and delivered fast-fix solutions to problems.
• Assisted in engineering a site-wide brownfield switch migration, including configuration of Catalyst 3850’s (IOS-XE), hardening of devices and configuring StackWise to provide network resilience. This also involved.
• Assessed cyber security bulletins from NATO; performed threat analysis on Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), implemented changes and logged actions.

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• Implemented and administered on-site server infrastructure (Windows 2003, 2008 R2 and 2012 R2) in virtualisation software Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.
• Maintained network protocols and services such as STP, VLAN, BGP, OSPF for LAN & WAN Internetworks.
• Managed the integrity and security of data migrations to and from different classification networks.
• Led a team of 3 to provide 1st line IT & communications engineering support.
• Provided 2nd line support… Show more Daily:

Blandford Forum, England, United Kingdom

Here I undertook specialist training to qualify as a Systems Engineer within the Royal Signals Corps.This involved learning a multitude of technologies, radio systems, best practices and started the initial process of developing the engineering mindset.During my time at the Royal School of Signals, I developed a mix of theory and practical skills.

Advanced Level Apprenticeship, It, Software, Web & Telecoms Professionals

Btec Level 3 Diploma, Professional Competence For It And Telecoms Professionals, Pass

Btec Level 3, Ict Systems & Principles (Qcf), Pass

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