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Now the Christmas period is over the Elfs have been made redundant.I hope the others will survive some good people with mortgages.

Moving on.

• Subcontracting to EMCORE on behalf of National Air Traffic Services in Swanwick.• Lay, install and terminate voice, data, control, and power cabling for a varied number of systems within the data center, control room, and office environments.• Fibre, CAT6a and CAT5e IP cabling systems with legacy x21 voice and data systems.• SWA and internal power cabling systems from power distribution to cabinet runs via diverse cabling routes. Providing clean and standard earthing as required… Show more • Subcontracting to EMCORE on behalf of National Air Traffic Services in Swanwick.• Lay, install and terminate voice, data, control, and power cabling for a varied number of systems within the data center, control room, and office environments.• Fibre, CAT6a and CAT5e IP cabling systems with legacy x21 voice and data systems.• SWA and internal power cabling systems from power distribution to cabinet runs via diverse cabling routes. Providing clean and standard earthing as required. Documented and labeled power cabling.• Install and pre-cable cabinets according-to data center general and systems specific specifications and requirements including bottle screwing anchors for cabinets and cabinet suites.• Racked and stacked switches, routers, firewalls, and servers. Cable out cabinets with structured cabling and provide power to systems.• Documented and labeled cables and systems in accordance to general site requirements. Show less

Primarily supporting B&Q-Screwfix EPOS systems and stores general Voice-Data Systems including Tills, Wifi, mobile RF phones and RF guns for stock management. Supporting main office MS Outlook, Exel, Access, PC and printer hardware and phones remotely via LanDesk, Active Directory, SAP and Citrix remote managing systems. ‘Service Desk’ as the fault handling system with Cisco IP phones. Maintaining SLA’s aiming for first line fix fault call handling

Designed cost effective network solutions for new building developments throughout the London area providing 20Mb to 1Gb broadband apartment solutions.Presented and developed proposal material, from off plan concepts to fully developed and costed install designs. Worked in a pre-sales capacity with sales staff working with Developers such a Bellway, Berkly Group, Galliard etc on a number London developments.Provided technical support to Developers and their respective… Show more Designed cost effective network solutions for new building developments throughout the London area providing 20Mb to 1Gb broadband apartment solutions.Presented and developed proposal material, from off plan concepts to fully developed and costed install designs. Worked in a pre-sales capacity with sales staff working with Developers such a Bellway, Berkly Group, Galliard etc on a number London developments.Provided technical support to Developers and their respective sub-contractors, Architects, Mechanical & Electrical designers and installers, Site Managers, Project and Programme managers.Developed designs and project rollouts in accordance with the site build programme. Cabinet locations, copper and fibre cable runs etc.Liaised with BT Openreach our main transmission supplier for site fibre connectivity. Show less

Programme managed the refresh of network firewall infrastructure to meet BT3, PCI and NGN224compliance enabling commercial bidding for NHS, Credit Card Finance and Government contract bids. Ensuring all aspects of network and process meet annual accreditationProvided and maintained statistical data on Data Centre infrastructure to enable cost effective service provisioning and impact analysis for new service delivery in the form of PIDs. Contributed to incident and problem… Show more Programme managed the refresh of network firewall infrastructure to meet BT3, PCI and NGN224compliance enabling commercial bidding for NHS, Credit Card Finance and Government contract bids. Ensuring all aspects of network and process meet annual accreditationProvided and maintained statistical data on Data Centre infrastructure to enable cost effective service provisioning and impact analysis for new service delivery in the form of PIDs. Contributed to incident and problem analysis providing resolution and mitigation in line with ITIL best practice. Dealt with the day to day running of the companies Public Peering traffic management. Building up measurable and monitored free public peering traffic (Inter ISP) reducing paid transit costs while maintaining network and customer performance targets of 90%. Using my knowledge of legacy telecoms systems such as Frame and ATM enabled the shutting down of one of three ATM networks and started the removal of the other two. These programs saved Virgin Media power, space, air conditioning and service support costs on systems found to be far from cost effective.Contributed to Impact Analysis with respect to Data and TV network development and support of new services such as TIVO, Video on Demand and recent developments with Video anywhere and mail platforms. Show less

Project Managing Data Services intergrations for UK based customers.

DCN Design Authority cos I could remember where the bodies were buried. On the grounds I'd put a few there me self. Having previously joined Mercury back in 88 as an Installation Engineer of Microwave, Fibre PDH, Telex, x25/75 Hoot and Holla City lines and POTS in the form of Centrex and System X and eventually building Nortel and Newbridge Frame/ATM networks. Ran the Mercury Data Neworks Service desk for a while.

UK based ustomer pre-sales support. Mainly Cisco networks supplying IBM data Services, E-Commerce et al.

Pre-Sales support on Cisco, Newbridge voice data platform services in Sweden, Norway and Belgium.

Pre-Sales Network Support EMEA, Circo and Warsaw. Newbridge 36** based platforms