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Castlethorpe, England, GB

Xiria is a privately owned technology and service led company based in Milton Keynes; we seek to consistently provide a high quality service while focusing on building a reputation of innovation and expertise in all areas by delivering the right infrastructure, well implemented and diligently managed IT services.

Fleet, Hampshire

Formed in 1996 and with 14 award nominations (ISPA) and three awards Datanet is an established leader in providing business hosting and connectivity services. In 2008 Datanet opened its own state-of-the art Tier 3+ data centre at its Fleet headquarters enabling the business to offer high capacity, resilient Managed Hosting, Colocation and Private Cloud.

Cirencester

Reporting to the Vice Principal Corporate Services, I was responsible for the strategic leadership and management of the College's Information Technology estate. Appointed to lead an IT transformation programme, presenting stakeholders with a flexible, consistent, secure and standards based infrastructure.- Accountable for the Information Services budget.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Responsible for the management and leadership of the IT Service Support Team consisting of 9 staff and provision of IT support and client facing hardware within the college and University Centre of approximately 5000 computers, providing access and services for 1500 staff and 10000 students across 4 campuses and 13 prisons across the East Midlands and the.

Reporting to the Head of IT, I was responsible for the operation and maintenance of the entire network and server infrastructure, overseeing infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, liaising with technology vendors and managing service desk operations with line management of four support staff across three primary sites and development of business focused.

Luton, United Kingdom

Internally promoted to deliver the NPfIT Programme (National Programme for IT), I led the technical migration from Novell and Unix based systems to a Microsoft based infrastructure. The project included the design, testing and implementation of a Windows 2003 based Active Directory domain with the transition to Exchange and SQL. The service was reliant.

Main duties included the installation and configuration of PCs, servers, peripherals and network devices. These included system administration of a mixed Microsoft NT4 and Server 2000 network, Active Directory, Exchange, Systems Management Server, Citrix Metaframe, anti-virus, data backup, disaster recovery testing, router and switch configuration.

Working at Luton Borough Council within the Information and Customer Services department I achieved a full National Traineeship qualification at NVQ Level 2 together with a range of IT Support and Cisco qualifications. Main duties included responding to support calls on the 1st Line Support desk and 2nd Line hardware and software support. All working.