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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

- Upgraded European network infrastructure with limited business impacts, complying with rigorous standards for security and resilience. Met a 6-month deadline and saved 25K GBP per year in MSP support costs. - Redesigned and standardized a complete network for all offices in EMEA, creating a network infrastructure that was much more scalable and secure. Improvements included new subnets, a VLAN infrastructure, a new Meraki wireless infrastructure, and a serverless office model, using AWS designed in collaboration with the systems teams. - Managed network installations for two office moves with responsibility for designing a new cabinet layout and cabling for the network and systems. Implemented a new Meraki CCTV infrastructure. Configured cameras, working with security and compliance teams to meet all local regulations.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Recruited to lead an enterprise-wide modernization plan to transform Security and Network Management at all city and school departments. Gradually gained the trust of the City Council and the Mayor, using strong value propositions that freed up budgets, and resulted in an average uptime of 99.9%, as well as respectful relationships throughout all departments.- Performed an enterprise assessment in order to understand the underlying pain points and then defined a technology roadmap based on IT best practices to address each and every issue.- Conducted extensive research and performed a cost-benefit analysis for the creation of a scalable fiber network for the city in order to support advanced business requirements and served as the primary designer and implementer - Standardized switch Hardware and provided 10Gb fiber links at the distribution and core layers, along with sufficient POE for the future expansion of phones, cameras, and Wireless APs. Implemented 400 Wireless APs for 1-to-1 coverage in the classrooms. - Defined and executed a robust security strategy for securing a wireless network with very diverse requirements- Created and executed a business case for Splunk that improved the logging and monitoring infrastructure. - Defined and executed a capacity management and server upgrade plan- Current Environment: 1300 staff members, 5000 students, 800 laptops, 3000 PCs, 1000 iPads, and 4000 Chromebooks, as well as ~600 BYOD devices daily, 200 security cameras, and 400 VoIP phones. The infrastructure consists of 7 Fortigate Firewalls, 60 HP ProCurve Switches, 400 Aerohive Access Points, 20 physical Dell servers, and 45 Virtual Servers in 20 physical locations throughout the city.