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Surrey, Uk

Onda Solutions (Italian for wave) was formed to partner with and efficiently meet the needs of technical service delivery and project management for retail and leisure industries.

Camberley

Exus Solutions is a small IT & AV company providing standard installation services and hardware primarily to the leisure sector. Initially engaged to optimise ineficient highly manual processes, and consult on Project and Business Management techniques and technical topics. Soon after asked to be primary contact for all client and staff communications during the director’s long and regular absences. Key Achievements:Migrated a variety separate older systems into Google GSuite and trained all staff on proficient use.Managed the successful delivery or multiple large and medium projects during the busiest time in the 15 year history of the company.Dealt with daily technical, logistic and HR challenges.Sourced new supplier of specialist AV supplier

London, Uk

Spearheaded the migration of the entire corporation application/infrastructure stack to Cloud-based solutions, enabling reduced operating costs, higher service availability and scalability, and enablement of increased business procurement through new product offerings and technologies. Provided a critical technical interface to senior company directors and clients, with demonstrated expertise in information security, industry trends and best practice, and influential leadership. Managed a team of engineering professionals and orchestrated solution definition, design, development, qualification, integration, and post-release monitoring and support. Aggressively prospected new technologies, ran technical presentations and product demonstrations, and developed KPI’s for continued measure in delivering operational excellence.Pioneered the end-to-end delivery of an Android PaaS solution, enabling new business generation. Leveraged high-availability topologies to reduce operational losses and support overheads for sustainable growth.

Uk

Design, development, and implementation of operational efficiency projects, incorporating hardware and product support, business management tools, and adoption of improved testing practices. Demonstrated strong change management in coordination of dependencies and tasks to minimize business disruption and deliver phased benefits and controlling risk.Developed mutually respect among peers and directs, and provided technical and career guidance to develop talent. ■ Eradicated high impacting business outages and reduced frequency and impact of technical failures through implementation of a 24x365 technical support model, with a 2-prong focus across proactive issue identification and mitigation, coupled with efficient responsive troubleshooting and development of reusable knowledge material.■ Enabled rapid growth (~200 employees) through new business development following transformation of the new starter on boarding process.■ Pioneered a flexible working environment and increased productivity through the implementation of a custom browser for employees’ remote usage, eradicating the need for dedicated hardware installation.

London, United Kingdom

Spearheaded the migration of the entire corporation application/infrastructure stack to Cloud-based solutions, enabling reduced operating costs, higher service availability and scalability. Provided a critical technical interface to senior company directors and clients, with demonstrated expertise in information security, industry trends and best practice, and influential leadership.

Bracknell, Uk

Progressive responsibility for up to 30 developers and infrastructure engineers in the management of a variety of transformational projects, driving new product offerings to generate business and innovate. ■ Generated ~£200k new business through the introduction of a new Change Control System.■ Directed end-to-end project lifecycle for the transformation of Alliance & Leicester’s telephony environment, incorporating intelligent hosted IP telephony, interactive voice recognition, and computer telephony integration and recording solution.