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London, GB

• Implemented IT strategy for in-country and EMEA regions, covering all aspects of IT service delivery.
• Provided governance for European offices to ensure compliance with central policies and procedures.
• Maintained strong relationships with in-country senior leadership and local IT support teams (insourced and outsourced).
• Collaborated with C-level executives to develop a thorough understanding of their IT needs and to provide tailored solutions that align with the organization's overall IT strategy.

London, GB

• Returning to Savills to lead the server 2008 decommissioning/upgrade project, giving the project dedicated resources to clear down legacy systems. A role that allows for building relationships with the business units.
• Developed strong relationships with stakeholders to assess IT usage and designed solutions that aligned with the company's IT roadmap and future needs.
• Expert in legacy application management, including upgrading and repackaging for compliance with regulations like GDPR.
• Crafted detailed workflows for decommissioning or upgrading IT systems, ensuring smooth communication and coordination with other teams.
• Led key relationship-building meetings with C-level executives in Milan, addressing IT challenges and creating a resolution roadmap.
• Assessed staff skillset and leveraged specialized resources (such as Yardi/Oracle) to drive successful IT projects.

• Acquired in-depth understanding of ancient cultures, enhancing personal and academic growth.
• Refined Spanish language proficiency and intercultural communication skills, enabling effective communication and cultural sensitivity.
• Cultivated a well-rounded perspective through exposure to diverse cultural experiences, resulting in personal growth and development.

London, GB

• Worked within an FTSE 250 company as the lead engineer responsible for delivering the cloud-first Infrastructure roadmap (DRaaS, IaaS, PaaS, BaaS) in-line with local business and country requirements. Successfully.
• Led successful design and integration of 80 Italian personnel into a 10-person business, analyzing hardware and applications, creating a project plan, and coordinating with IT teams in other countries to increase.
• Successfully migrated email system by analyzing current setup, mobile devices, archives, and security, conducting pilot tests, and leading the migration.
• Served as Lead Project Engineer for 600-user buyout in Spain, defining project scope, interviewing 3rd party providers, assessing project plans, and conducting AD user and device migration in line with Savills.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

• A role within a Managed Service Providers’ Projects team, preparing and executing project plans and programmes, ensuring that work is carried out in accordance with the companies’ procedures and clients’ satisfaction..
• Successfully migrated mixture of platforms into cloud-based Office 365, ensuring compatibility and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Led the separation of a large legal firm, including user/file data, email and legal data migration, with no disruption to the business.
• Upgraded legacy infrastructures to modern virtualized systems with upgraded firewalls, while ensuring security and GPO migrations.
• Provided technical expertise and onsite support to multiple Private Equity companies across time zones, ensuring business goals were achieved with minimal downtime.
• Contributed to bespoke customer solutions in pre-sales, ensuring optimal solutions with minimal cost and downtime.

Farnborough, Hampshire, GB

• Providing 2nd and 3rd line support as BMW (Alphabet) expanded their fleet management business unit across Europe, with infrastructure across the globe.
• Contributed to successful migration of 2 offices (200 staff), including inductions to new Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 remote access for legacy systems.
• Achieved 2-year ahead-of-schedule migration of legacy ING services into BMW infrastructure, including all IT back-end systems and end-user devices.
• Implemented and maintained Nessus security scanner to perform regular security audits and resolve vulnerabilities in infrastructure and software.
• Project-managed the migration of phone lines, using Inin contact center and Cisco ISE, with minimum disruption to customers and fluidity to accommodate business needs.
• Advised the business on regulation changes and impact of telephone renumbering and decommissioning of premium rate numbers.

• Providing 2nd and 3rd line support to ING Car Lease and preparing the infrastructure before and during the sale of the business.
• Expertly managed and maintained Alphabet’s UK infrastructure, including Active Directory (AD), DNS, and Disaster Recovery, utilizing HP hardware.
• Successfully installed and maintained VMware servers and virtual machines during a migration period, ensuring seamless testing of production and test systems.
• Skilled in configuring, maintaining, and supporting Cisco ASA Firewalls and 3750 switches, with proficiency in vLAN’s, OSPF, and firewall rules for optimal protection and redundancy.
• Proficient in managing HP SANs, with experience in creating Vdisks, configuring RAIDs, and securing connections to new ESXi and Citrix XenDesktop servers.
• Experienced in AD, DNS, and GPO maintenance and management, ensuring smooth replication and distribution of software for users across domains.

Leeds, West Yorskhire, GB

• A contracting role in an organisation responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across the north of England.
• Successfully executed the laptop builds and migration of domains for an organization responsible for distributing gas across the north of England.
• Streamlined the laptop deployment process by scripting installations of custom software and ensuring the sysprep completed without engineer interaction.
• Efficiently ordered hardware and software necessary for the migration and organized the deployment of the image for field based engineers.
• Designed and implemented scripts for migrating on-sight desktops across domains, deploying new software, GPOs, and connecting new domain accounts to exchange mailboxes.
• Ensured seamless migration by testing and documenting scripts for engineers and end users.

Leeds, GB

• A 3rd line role in an expanding infrastructure team covering multiple sites. Managing and maintaining all Windows Servers, including 2 Active Directory Forests, Exchange servers, Disaster Recovery.
• Implemented an upgrade of Active Directory from 2000 to 2003 R2 x64, enabling forest trusts and compatibility with Apple OSX devices.
• Designed, managed, and maintained Active Directory including DHCP server's with MAC filtering, DNS zones, Group Policy, WSUS, and file/print servers for increased efficiency.
• Configured print servers with cost chargeback, redundancy, and load balancing for cost-effective printing.
• Developed disaster recovery strategy with backups, VMware, and System Recovery to ensure business continuity.
• Project managed server room migration, improving room utilization, reducing power/cooling costs, and increasing expandability.

Providing 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support as well as fulfilling some of the IT training needs of 250 office and field based users. Finding innovative hardware to facilitate users in their work. Other Applications / Hardware Supported: Norton Ghost, Avaya IP Office, VNC, Cisco VPN, Vodaphone GPRS, Monitor Magic, Microsoft CRM, various bespoke applications.