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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.