Martin Gray Email & Phone Number

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Assist Site Manager and subcontractor trades on site.
• Carry out skilled tasks across the site as directed by site manager using own tools.
• Ensure the site, including the welfare facilities is clean and tidy and free from H&S hazards.
• Facilitate site access for trades and their deliveries and move materials around the site.
• Manage waste into appropriate containers for disposal.

Ascot

• First and second fix of datacomm fit out for over a thousand permanent and wireless network points.
• Installing, terminating, testing, troubleshooting, labelling and documenting Cat6 cabling for racks, patch panels and data outlets.
• Installing, configuring and setting to work components for Paxton door access and Hikvision CCTV systems.
• Ongoing support and consulting services for CCTV systems at various client sites.

Camberley

Farnborough And Hursely

• Technical Lead to design and orchestrate the planning of Data Centre migration consisting of multiple large server infrastructures, associated terminals and users from IBM Farnborough to IBM Hursley.
• Author and owner of the overall Transportation Plan detailing the classification and identification of all equipment and data to be relocated to the new site.
• Creation of Risk Assessments, Method Statements and other documentation in order to record and provide audit trails as detailed in the Transportation Plan.
• Relationship management with sub contractors. Specifically, logistics with courier company to successfully and securely deliver in excess of sixty racks, multiple secure cabinets, 450 workstations and associated.
• Technical SME for physical hardware, network and power cabling.

Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

• Technical author and document manager for ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) compliance. Document creation of multiple SCC Policies in support of Stage 1 document review audit.
• Technical Consultancy and active team involvement for Critical Environments Delivery Team advising good practice for Storage design, physical to virtual system deployment, Disaster Recovery and business continuity.
• Review, comment and suggest recommendations on supplier’s high level design documents.

Farnborough

• Infrastructure specialist for Home Office Accounts including key role within creation of Secure Shared Delivery (SSD) capability
• Physical planning and cost savings for multiple small bid teams and development projects.
• Technical advocate for local location manager resolving conflicts and liaising with site suppliers, facilities operators and project teams.
• Create and implement asset management strategy for new subscriber projects and interfaces with SSD resources.
• Technical author for documenting asset stewardship processes such as new asset registration, tracking, transfer, change management, decommissioning and disposal.

Farnborough

• Primary role as project asset manager for both hardware and software for multiple projects.
• Define technical standards applicable to the Infrastructure team and provide guidance on architectural principles appropriate to the design and delivery of the technical solutions.
• Develop templates and processes to record deployments into documentation whether they are switch cabling, room layouts or hardware assets.

Farnborough

• Primary role as Build Team Lead of five people for specific classified public sector project
• Organisation, logistics and delivery of large secure and complex solution of over 100 racks simultaneously across four separate data centre locations
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for hardware, racking, power management and distribution within the separate machine rooms.
• Interface with Design Authority Architects to transform the theoretical Operational Models into physical reality of the infrastructure platforms
• Design and implement bespoke numbered network cable tracking solution allowing physical connections to be understood without the need to physically check each asset.
• Asset management specialising on the categorisation, identification and marking of all physical assets.

Farnborough

• Primary role as Installation Manager for specific IBM Public Sector projects.
• Server and storage procurement, installation and hardware management.
• IBM and customer server room site installation planning, documentation and implementation.
• Installation and delivery subcontract procurement and management.
• Manage and promote the use of IBM hardware within specific IBM Public Sector accounts.

• Manage technical relationship with specific finance and public sector accounts.
• Provide technical expertise on xSeries and racking infrastructure.
• Technically project manage major installations at client site.
• Act as technical conduit between client and IBM.
• Liaise with relevant global product and operations teams to ensure successful solution deployment.
• Develop technical content within bid processes.

• Provide centre of excellence on xSeries server hardware.
• Subject Matter Expert on power and racking solutions.
• Co-develop and run first xSeries Rack Workshop course for Business Partners.
• Articulate IBM solutions & competitive positioning to key clients.
• Actively work with xSeries account teams to ensure maximum revenue opportunities achieved.
• Demonstrate xSeries product in client environment.

• Field based role as head of the Enterprise Server team.
• Advise on technical specification and suitability of Compaq, IBM or HP server solutions and options to both internal sales force and customer base.
• Provide centre of excellence for IBM Netfinity, including SCSI Cluster Solutions.
• Submit technical proposals based upon customer requirement together with recommendations for server redundant options to improve resilience and to allow for future growth of system.
• Assess, plan, install, configure and set to work Compaq Proliant Rack solutions.
• Project manage nation-wide rack installation roll-out.

• Focus on and advise on sales of IBM PC Server and Netfinity Server Solutions.
• Agree with IBM Product Manager stock profiling, forward ordering and future marketing initiatives with respect to server brand.
• Provide customer base with pre-sales technical information and specifications on all IBM Server and related options.
• Deputise for Sales Manager on regular basis.
• Hold authorisation to enact pricing changes and carriage charges.

• Primary technical pre-sales support contact for internal sales force on NEC Notebooks, AST Computer and all IBM Hardware products sold by IBM PC Company; including PCs, ThinkPads, PC Servers and all associated Options.
• Assist and cover for team members on all other PC vendors including HP, Texas Instruments, Compaq, and own brand.
• Provision of immediate answers and assistance to customer’s pre-sales technical questions where possible or research answers using initiative and available resources

• Support of specific electrical systems onboard Royal Navy ships and submarines.
• Formulation of responses to technical queries from internal departments, commercial contractors and ships concerned.
• Management of both procurement and support contracts.
• Involvement in long range planning and implementation of projects and their financial budgets.

Hnd, Electrical / Electronic Engineering

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