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Managing a small team of IT specialists and architects, leads the infrastructure architecture community and identifies organisational needs.Defines and maintains the enterprise infrastructure architecture and ensures that policies and standards are adhered to by development and maintenance project teams.Coordinates the infrastructure budget of £20+ million ensuring strict control of all expenditure and costs. Manages multiple key supplier relationships for WAN, communications, internet security and contract reviews.Leads and participates in multiple steering committees, reviewing and gaining approval for investment in Infrastructure projects.Analyses the infrastructure environment to detect deficiencies and recommend new solutions.Identifies business drivers and technology industry trends to determine potential impact on enterprise infrastructure architecture.Consults with infrastructure development project teams to fit new developments to current architecture or modify the architecture.Works closely with the Enterprise Application architect to ensure consistency between the application and the technical architecture.Oversees the evaluation and selection of hardware products and ensures compliance to RFG company standards.Implements governance activities to ensure compliance with the enterprise infrastructure architecture.Worked with partners to design and implement an EMEA-wide Cisco telephony and contact centre deployment of 5,000+ seatsResponsible for implementation of Telepresence and video conferencing infrastructure

Stuttgart, Bw, De

Continued responsibilities as previous position but with UK IT management also- Responsibility for UK IT management and UK IT staff.- Implemented change control and incident management for Europe and UK.- Worked with auditors for Sarbanes-Oxley audit.- Member of UK IT steering committee.- Managed specification and implementation of IBM server upgrade and SAN implementation.- Worked on data warehousing project based on Oracle and Cognos.- Implemented links from IBM Unidata database to SQL server for data warehousing.- Implemented VoIP solution in UK based on Cisco.Responsibilities include major expenditure approval and project budgets, change management for European infrastructure and UK applications and infrastructure, management of outsourced contracts with WAN and firewall partners, network security, design and operations of European infrastructure, management of Europe level 2/3 support team.

Stuttgart, Bw, De

- Managed implementation of outsourced managed firewalls using Nokia/Checkpoint providing security and connecting in-country WANs.- Specified and negotiated of European MPLS managed network. Removal of in-country WANs and provision of corporate network.- Standardised WINTEL server hardware, workstations, across all subsidiaries.- Implemented and manage central support team for networking and security, Active Directory and Messaging.- Managed implementation of Active Directory and Exchange across Europe and local implementation of standards and workstation migration for all subsidiaries.- Responsible for implementing Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

Managed the Infrastructure support team for the European division of Avnet Computer Marketing. Also responsible for IT projects, including three acquisitions: Macro Marketing (U.K), PCD/Matica (Italy) and Transformation Software (U.K.); office moves, Windows 2000 client upgrade, introduction of EDI services, implementation of B2B servers, IT purchasing and budgeting and management reporting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, Mn, Us

Managed a team of technicians responsible for day-to-day management and administration of servers, performance tuning and capacity planning, technical lead, management reporting and cost control.Also involved in major rewrite of COBOL applications to support new warehouse functionality of bespoke ERP system. Developed a Lotus Notes application for sales force application with bi-directional link into corporate SQL database. Implemented Notes clustering. Implemented Formscape application with links to ERP application.

Systems management and responsibility for system operations team (as below), including strategy and management reporting.

- Systems management of ERP systems (Tandem), including systems operations team- Continued involvement in application development. Managing and implementing several system hardware migrations and operating system upgrades. - Systems and applications performance and capacity planning a- SQL performance tuning and database design. - Introduced Notes servers for applications and email. - Evaluated GUI development tools including PowerBuilder and SQLWindows. Undertook pilot project with C++ for middleware applications. Part-time development team leader undertaking application design and code reviews.Also:- Specified and managed Lucent Definity PABX and call centre. Involved in development and research of CTI applications.- Implemented end-user computing (data warehouse) project.- Designed and implemented turnkey system libraries for system operations and maintenance using Tandem TAL and TACL languages.

Major involvement in 12 month project to migrate ERP application from Basic to COBOL (with requester/server design) on secondment to Admiral Computer Systems – particular involvement in quotation system and EDI application; also involved in requirements analysis.Responsibility for operations, systems programming and systems management – developing tools to aid source code control, backup routine and programming tasks.