Restarting IP Networks with a view to provide board-level consultancy on Wi-Fi projects, as well as running subcontract services for other companies.

Technical lead on large Wi-Fi centric network upgrade bids and projects.Pre-sales proposals, post-sales requirements definition, selection and technical supervision of subcontractors. Supervision of report presentation and content. Delivery of specialised designs and services.Helped Connecture win a place on sub-contract framework for DWP Wi-Fi upgrade to prime contractor. Helped prime contractor with requirements specification and provided supporting material. Also worked on large Wi-Fi remediation programme for North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT). Wi-Fi remediation assessment for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) mental health services.Other specialist services:• Specialist diagnostic services (detailed examples available).• Specialist remediation of a modern university network, with open atria, suspended rooms and bridges. Using directional antennas to solve interference issues.• Wi-Fi design for site and stadiums for Derbyshire County Cricket Club.• Production of a high-capacity small-cell design to provide upward expansion for a London Advertising Agency, to address issues with high levels of traffic.• Wi-Fi consultancy for a hydrogen energy plant.• Design and configuration for Point-to-Point (P2P) wireless links.Other miscellaneous health checks, designs, verification and remediation for Offices, Universities, Colleges, Schools, Healthcare, Retail and Manufacturing/Warehousing, Energy, UK-wide.Also collaborating with Cisco on the development of their new IoT intelligent building portfolio

Wired network designs (including kit lists).Complete wireless/wired network configurations, (detailed examples available)Specialist diagnostic services (detailed examples available).Wi-Fi Health checks, designs, verification and remediation for a range of verticals.Design of Point-to-Point (PTP) wireless networks.Example verticals:• Offices – Working at various offices for large UK-wide companies.• Schools – Working at various schools UK-wide.• Healthcare – including,Wi-Fi remediation programme for East and North Herts NHS Trust.On-site Wi-Fi design for 180 supported-living homes.On-site Wi-Fi design for care homes.• Hospitality – including,Various work for hotels and on-site designs for holiday parks.• Listed sites – including,Royal Museums Greenwich, RIGB, Brighton Pier, Bournemouth Theatre.• Manufacturing/Warehousing – including,On-site Wi-Fi design for a large 175,000 sq. m manufacturing/warehousing site.Working at various manufacturing and warehousing sites UK-wide.• Energy –On-site Wi-Fi design for all control areas of Keadby 2 (new build) power station.I left when I was approached by Connecture to join them.

With both wired and wireless networking experience I decided to set up my own business to integrate Wi-Fi solutions into wired networks for a range of verticals, and to provide diagnostic services as required.Example verticals:• Universities –On-site Wi-Fi designs for Glasgow University, Liverpool University*, Nottingham University and the University of the West of England.*The design for Liverpool University was a Cisco Location Services design using Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) from at least 3 APs.• Colleges –A complete on-site Wi-Fi refresh design for King Edwards VI College, StourbridgeIndividual sites for other colleges.• Independent Schools –A complete on-site Wi-Fi refresh design for Sherborne School, Dorset.A complete on-site Wi-Fi refresh design for St. Mary’s School, Ascot• Healthcare –On-site Wi-Fi designs across all hospital sites for Bedford Hospital.On-site Wi-Fi designs across all existing sites for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust.• Retail –On-site Wi-Fi designs for 82 Argos + Habitat stores UK-wide.• Warehousing –Designs using directional antennas along aisles, tested using a tall mast tripod.My business continued to grow well and I even had projects through the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, following repeated lock-downs, demand for public Wi-Fi based services dropped sharply and I saw a reduction in work, so I sought employment with a larger company and made my company dormant

Entry into Wi-Fi projects working for a Ruckus Alpha Dog Partner.

Working for an HPE/Aruba partner with HE clients to identify their requirements, specify the design criteria, and then put together complete designs and kit lists for the customer, to steer procurements. I worked with several Universities across the UK, and soon realised the value of good Wi-Fi design knowledge to help customers with their solutions.

An interim role following leaving BT-iNET to help this small Telco participate in Public Sector frameworks such as PSN2 and the JANET Telephony Procurement Service, to gain a share of the market

Working for a Cisco Gold partner, with mainly “Red Brick” HE clients (who are more technical than most) on a mixture of core infrastructure projects. Working with the client to identify their requirements, specify the design criteria, and put together complete designs and kit lists for the customer, to successfully steer procurements.

Board Level sales to a range of Public Sector customers primarily in Education and Local Government, for a range of telco network services: WAN services, IP/VPNs, Metro and point-to-point Ethernet solutions, managed voice/SIP and traditional telco services. Also, Cisco and Meraki equipment, Wi-Fi and cabling services.Proposed design model for all JISC regional networks, which was adopted across the country, resulting in £multi-million contracts.

Promotion of equipment to develop emerging network technologies (For GN Group - Jabra etc.). For example, DWDM Chromatic Dispersion and Polarisation Mode Dispersion test equipment for BT. MPLS QoS and SIP test equipment for the development of new Cisco products. SS7 test equipment for Telecoms operators to test legacy telephony circuits/switches.

Promotion of Agilent test and measurement solutions to FTSE 100 organisations to troubleshoot LAN and WAN problems. As well as SDH/ATM development equipment for carriers.

ISODE are a small but strong technology company. Promotion of LDAP implementations and related technology internationally. The technology provides more lightweight technology for more widespread security implementations and was adopted by companies such as Microsoft, Netscape and Verisign. We worked closely with Netscape on our implementation when they were pioneering browser security and one of our colleagues is now a technology lead in Microsoft's Directory Group.

Similar pre-sales role to ISODE (who are a sister company), but specifically working on bids for NATO and the UK MOD for secure messaging and directory projects, which required a secure OSI platform.

Pre-sales support in the networking solutions team, working on a number of successful bids, encompassing a range of LAN and WAN solutions. Including delivery of a large project to supply the Inland Revenue office systems, which required a secure OSI platform.

Formerly Team PLC, which became part of ICM Computer Group, which became part of Daisy Computer Group.Delivered consultancy and technical support for FTSE 1000 companies, for a national reseller of DEC computers (now HPE) covering systems software and networking.

Developed one of the first implementations of the upper-layer OSI protocol stack and ASN.1 modules, (in C programming language.) This is the technology used to implement directories (X.500) and secure communications using certificates (X.509) amongst other things. The Digital networking team also developed a number of the Ethernet standards, such as Spanning Tree, for example.