Mike Proud Email and Phone Number
I'm the MD of Red Maple, based on a farm (yes, really!) in the North East of England covering the UK & Europe supplying services to SME and bluechip clients.Red Maple has been listening to and helping businesses grow with secure and effective IT services since 2006. We believe IT should make your life easier, reduce your stress levels and allow your business to run smoothly.We’re an open and progressive company. And when it comes to helping you with your IT needs we’re careful to cut the jargon and make sure that we’re easy to talk to and work with.Each of us has the technical skills to help you, either over the phone or face-to-face. And because we’re business-focused, you can be confident that our recommendations will be carefully considered and researched to precisely meet your needs.We’ve handled long-term multi-billion pound projects for clients including BT, the NHS and national and international brands across the UK, US and Asia. We also support a number of SMEs in the North of England and Scottish Borders. This means you can pass your biggest IT problems on to us with confidence, and we’ll work with you to make them disappear.We’ll apply our extensive experience get the best results we can, and work within your available budget and timeframe.If you've read this far, and you don't know me but you'd like to connect, please send me an introductory message on how we can work together, thanks!
Red Maple - Uk & Europe
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Managing DirectorRed Maple - Uk & Europe Apr 2006 - PresentNewcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, GbRed Maple are a forward looking company. With hands on experience in various industries we’re great at what we do. We have the ability to provide a no-nonsense, quality service to all of our clients and as a consultancy we take the time to understand you and your business.If you’re overwhelmed by the thought of dealing with your IT or a particular project we can help by fixing your issues quickly and efficiently, taking the hassle away from you. We don’t confuse you with lots of jargon and “IT speak” so you know exactly what we’re doing and what you’re paying for.We have extensive experience to deal with most requirements to ultimately maximise your budget. We have clients ranging from small companies to large multinational blue chip clients so we can handle any size of organisation. Although we’re based in the North East our clients are both UK based and worldwide and using our knowledge and skills we have gained invaluable global experience. -
Business Consulting DirectorBt Dec 2010 - Dec 2011London, GbIn my second assignment in BT, I joined the Rapid Response Unit team who are tasked with guiding projects back on track. For this high profile assignment, often talked about in the media, we were to find the faults and provide recommendations and actions to resolve the issues.This involved interviewing key stakeholders and monitoring processes to find out where issues occurred and to either implement a tactical rapid resolution or report back on the issues that were occurring for further planning.Other areas covered by being in the team included:* Business improvement* Process design* Strategic planning* Technical Assurance -
Infrastructure ConsultantBt Jul 2007 - Oct 2010London, GbFor my first assignment at BT, I was jointly responsible for providing technical infrastructure expertise and design guidance for a global SaaS CRM and Voice platform which provided call centre facilities to well known global brands.As part of the platform, areas covered included:* High Availability and site fail over, as well as Disaster Recovery* Security and networking* Storage* Automated deployment of servers using Altiris* Creating monitoring systems to be used by BT Operate* PCI Compliance* Virtualisation* WAN and VoIP technologiesThis was a very demanding role, and required planning and foresight, as well as being able to interface with internal and external customers to turn business drivers into technical requirements and solutions. -
Exchange ConsultantSunderland City Council Aug 2004 - Oct 2006Sunderland, England, GbAt Sunderland City Council I was the project lead and senior engineer to migrate the council from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, utilising HP Blades and EMC SANs over two sites to provide a highly available and resilient architecture.This involved liaising with all parts of the business, and especially other teams within the ICT unit to provide networking and desktop support to enable the project to be successfully completed on time and within budget. -
Technical ArchitectCsc May 2005 - Aug 2005Global, UsI was Technical Architect for a Defence Company contract. This involved working in security cleared environments and updating a secure platform using HPUX and SAP in the UK and abroad. -
Infrastructure Support ManagerUfi Ltd Aug 2001 - Jul 2004Bournemouth, Dorset, GbWorking as part of a national project to provide an pioneering IT system and call centre for 13-19 year olds.This was pioneering at the time as in addition to using traditional voice, the platform was also able to take SMS, web chat and email - a first in the UK.My role ranged from providing 1st level support to solutions design to help move the project forward.
Mike Proud Education Details
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Northumbria UniversityComputing For Business -
Barnard Castle School
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Mike Proud attended Northumbria University, Barnard Castle School.
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