Martin Nash Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

• Provided Architecture activities during the acquisition to ensure a successful 'Day 1' with all minimum success criteria achieved.• Provided extensive knowledge transfer of back office services and continued Architecture support during run team integrations and hierarchy changes• Designed and proposed the M365 tenant consolidationFocus and role changed to focus on the public cloud use and on-premise data centres used exclusively to provide services to external customers.• Designed a path to consolidate the varied and disjointed public cloud systems in use as a result of the acquisition• Rebuilt the team to account for the change in scope• Providing strong people management to keep the team effective during organisational changes• Research and investigate into the capabilities and use of 'AI' and Large Language Models (LLM's) from Azure and AWS

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

• Designed and delivered a Landing Zone in Azure to allow workloads to operate effectively• Built close relationships with CyberSecurity teams to improve the organisation's posture with Data Leakage Prevention, Firewall management and handling of devices, data and access from sensitive regions around the world• Delivered roadmaps within the Technical Domains in scope for the team to provide a 12-18 month path. This was instrumental for leadership to understand the current estate and path forward. Also assisted with obtaining business buy-in and in planning and securing budget• Built a solid and capable team able to operate with confidence and authority, working alongside the business and run teams to ensure: • the requirements are clearly defined and understood • the right solution is designed • the solution has buy-in from the run teams • remain engaged through the implementation to ensure deviations are caught and handled early • remain engaged with the run teams to understand challenges to help inform improvements and also apply learnings into future designs• Built processes, templates and the ability to create reusable blueprints to reduce the burden on the team and accelerate the time to create designs• Built out a brand new sub-team of Cloud Architects to better support the public cloud environments• Provided Architectural guidance in a number of site closures during and following the pandemic lockdowns• Proactively working to reduce technical debt or systems that had become 'orphaned' or no longer required following the consolidation technology programmes from the last big acquisition• Working with procurement to validate and renew the Microsoft Enterprise Agreements• Delivered significant improvements to core technologies, removing technical debt and drastically improving the experience for both users, external customers and run teams• Designed the migration of the organisation's largest and most complicated Data Centre

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

• Designed and delivered remote working capabilities for the organisation, including remote device patching and management, mobile device management for mobile devices, and reduced reliance on corporate VPN by incorporating zero trust principles where possible.• Designed and helped implement the Workstation upgrade to Windows 10, incorporating hardware refreshes for out-of-date devices. Included inventory of the estate to identify out of date Operating Systems and devise a strategy to remediate, including network segmentation and enhanced protections through to leveraging Microsoft's Extended Security Update programme• Delivered centralised print management technology globally to allow users to locate and print from any office easily. Also delivered 'follow-me' printing for secure print access tied to an individuals security pass• Deliver Microsoft 365 products and services into the environment, including Power Platform and Microsoft Teams•Designed and implemented a migration programme to retire the on-premise Skype implementation and move entirely to Microsoft Teams•Designed and implemented alongside a Managed Service Provider, a path to migrate all on-premise SharePoint environments to SharePoint Online, at the same time modernising SharePoint Workflows due to a feature retirement notice

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

• Design and technical delivery of easy to administer, zero-touch Windows 10 image, configuration and software packaging using MDT for proof of concept and then uplifting into SCCM• Wrote a custom application to automation printer installation• Carried out license management exercise of the consolidated Office 365 estate, ensuring licensing compliance and reclaiming unused licenses to remain cost-effective. Obtained over $50,000 in savings per month in license management• Delivered Power BI into the organisation using role-based permissions and structured the premium capacity versus pay-as-you-consume model to keep costs controlled• Designed and managed the IT delivery in 5 site moves (consisting of 20 - 600 people) across the world, including:• Authoring high and low-level designs of all onsite infrastructure and connectivity to external services.• Brokered agreements between equipment owners and central teams, such as networking and cybersecurity on delivering custom solutions which adhere to policy and strategic requirements.• Managing third parties and coordinating delivery to timescales.• Moving 2 data centres.• Running communications to keep the affected individuals informed or changes.• Creating knowledge articles and 'how do I' guides for end-user consumption.• Attending site and providing hands-on technical support during implementation and live rollouts.• Capturing technical configuration for the handover of services to Business-as-Usual teams.• Knowledge transfer to onsite IT support teams.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

• Involved in the consolidation of Micro Focus and HPe Software infrastructure. • Delivered an auditable mechanism to provide 'early adoption' access to systems on either side of the business post-merger in advance of infrastructure consolidation.• Security consult in activities, such as: • auditing and disabling unused or depreciated services and protocols across the estateAutomating the deployment of a new Endpoint protection client across the estate

Providing IT contracting services to organisations, large and small. Everything from IT consultation, Architecture design and implementation through to IT personnel training and knowledge transfer. Helped organisations on their journey into Azure and leveraging Microsoft 365

London, England, Gb

Worked as the key delivery driver between the project team and technical experts to identify, scope and complete patching and upgrades on critical parts of the infrastructure. Using agreed standards and operating to time and budget.Successfully created new procedures to allow for continual updates as part of a new internal Change Control Business-As-Usual process which aims to reduce the future cost and time taken to maintain the infrastructure moving forwards.• Completed the critical upgrades of the infrastructure before the firm Change freeze periods (Black Friday and Christmas), covering approximately 1,500 Windows and Linux servers and 800 network devices (switches, routers and firewalls).• Develop close relationships with internal teams to help with Change Management and delivery to target.• Identifying devices that will become end of life within the next two years and building cases for replacement, consolidation or no action, requiring risk management and acceptance.• Efficiently running virtual teams consisting of both on and off shore resources with good results.• Completed the critical upgrades of the infrastructure before the firm Change freeze periods (Black Friday and Christmas), covering approximately 1,500 Windows and Linux servers and 800 network devices (switches, routers and firewalls).• Develop close relationships with internal teams to help with Change Management and delivery to target.• Identifying devices that will become end of life within the next two years and building cases for replacement, consolidation or no action, requiring risk management and acceptance.• Efficiently running virtual teams consisting of both on and off shore resources with good results.

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

• Solely responsible for designing and delivering a new infrastructure for the DriveTech division to allow them to be self-sufficient, become more agile in delivering services to their customers and to achieve and maintain various essential ISO accreditations• Completed full migration or user accounts, devices, data and all services to the new infrastructure with minimum disruption. The new infrastructure consisted of a hybrid of on-premises, Office 365, Microsoft Azure for customer-facing web services and hosted Avaya IP Office telephony• Created a library of documentation covering all implemented services and completed full training to existing IT support staff• Flexibly operated as Architect, Project Manager, Technical delivery, budget holder and sourced and managed relationships with various providers in this challenging and very rewarding role• Completed the high and low level architectural design of a complete infrastructure, costed to budget and sought to gain approval at board level. Created and successfully ran a project plan, with appropriate reporting to the board, using a rapid process of migration involving separate threads of migration activity; Data, Application, User accounts and Device. • Running the installation and configuration of all networking, FortiGate firewall and FortiAnalyzer, physical and virtual infrastructure, Exchange hybrid with Office 365, Mimecast, Azure integration and rapid workstation deployment, all to vendor best practices. This included sign-off from a third party after carrying out penetration testing.• Delivering and utilising Microsoft SQL Always On for high availability, as well as implementing TDE (encryption) which served as an important part of compliance accreditation.• Built and sustained long-term relationships with vendors for execution of WAN connectivity and Avaya IPO (hosted) telephony.• Trained existing IT support staff on the new environment and completed all documentation and handover.

London, Gb

Demonstrated a high level of technical expertise in managing the entire Service Lifecycle including product selection, implementation, maintenance & support and retirement.Skilfully oversaw and maintained the server and network infrastructure. Spearheaded the development sub-team involved in developing Extranet SharePoint and internal bespoke solutions.Executed infrastructure and technical projects on-time and within budget. Confirmed that all IT systems and security comply with the heavily regulated environments.Delivered impeccable technical service for internal issues, ensuring best use of technology and efficient running of the team.• Achieved high volume project delivery through encouraging team development and progression to build a top-performing team. Provided high-level third line support service as a part of the team.• Led IT Infrastructure management and handled budget for a £60 million turnover company. Deployed infrastructure security best practices and regular auditing by internal and external sources.• Met business objectives by developing strong relationships with vendors as well as conducting internal Software Asset Management to attain optimal value from the firms Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.• Minimised outages and downtime, and identified critical issues through implementing problem management and change management. Ensured proactive infrastructure monitoring and maintenance mechanisms to deliver an effective, more efficient and cost effective service.• Lent technical expertise to provide high technical knowledge of the Microsoft stack and best practices.• Excelled as main point of contact for all SQL related activities including T-SQL query, report writing, SSIS, database and server optimisation and resiliency.• Instrumental in administering legal specific applications: Elite Enterprise, iManage Worksite, Carpe Diem, Rekoop and DTE time recording, Bighand digital dictation and business process management.

London, Gb

As per Technical Solutions Manager

London, Gb

• Third line technical support• Manage and maintain the entire infrastructure• Operate as technical lead of service delivery and implementation• Producing high-quality technical documentation on services• Supporting the firm’s legal specific applications

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

Charlotte, Nc, Us