With 15 years of IT management experience behind me, I'm now looking for my next challenge. I have strong skills mangeging teams of IT analysts from Service desk through to 3rd line specialists and 3rd party contractors & consultants. This also included budget control, contract management and project management across IT, ensuring we were providing the business with the service they needed. Most recently I've been focused on cyber security, compliance and certification. to understand Security from the ground up I first certified as an ethical hacker. This provided me with the practical skills to build upon while identifying the vulnerabilities to our business and then designing the cyber defences we required in line with the level of risk agreed with the executive. Specialties: Windows desktop and server Administration. Active Directory Design, implementation and administration. Veritas Netbackup Administration. LANDesk Administration. VMWare ESX and vSphere Administration. EMC Clariion Administration. NetApp Clustered FAS Administration. Staff Management, Appraisals and Training. Project and budget management. Cyber Security, compliance and governance including PCI DSS certification, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001. Staff training on cyber security. GDPR compliance across multiple business departments.