Supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Information Security Management System.Implementing standards and audit procedures to identify, resolve and reduce security violations.Manage ISO 27001 maintenance (documentation, risk register, compliance, supplier management, KPI's, Asset Management).GDPR Compliance. International Data Transfer & Processing Compliance.

I work with a group of extremely talented individuals who make up a great problem solving team. We have experience in everything from desktop support and basic web site design through to SEO, Arbitrage, server maintenance, web-app production. We also have a highly trusted partner for smart phone app development. We try to by-pass the usual business bingo catch phrases and simply do whatever is best for you and your business. Within the team we have desktop and server support engineers, marketing specialists, web designers, writers, programmers specialising in Perl / PHP / JS / C# to name but a few.

o Lead member of the telecoms consolidation team which assessed, approved and ultimately moved the Byrne Group from a high number of multi-vendor, multi-system sites to a single-vendor, single-system solution.o Integral part of the team implementing a new VoIP system based on Avaya hardware running over a combination of HP ProCurve switches with NTL supplied Juniper firewalls. I have implemented this system over a variety of data links; from 10Mb leased line down to 8Mb ADSL Max circuits. This system improved the inter-site voice connectivity as well as improving the professional image of the Group. Along side these benefits it has also proved to save on call costs.

Senior IT manager in multi-site UK Company with £50m pa turnover, lead integration of IT operations as company rapidly expanded through mergers and acquisitions.o Managed team of 8 engineers providing IT development and support services to 1000+ employees on twelve UK sites, maintaining 30 servers, 500 PCs, 500 Macs and all associated peripherals. Provide both hands on and technical advice support backup to all engineers.o Tendered, consolidated and managed all IT related vendor contracts and relationships.o Motivate the team by having the confidence, motivation and ability to use initiative. Provided a relaxed but competent line management to promote a balanced team. Keen to learn myself and promote learning in others.o Improved telecoms network, by consolidating phone lines and implementing telecoms service strategy, thereby reducing reliance across group for telecoms and ISP services from 12 providers to one. This led to generation of significant cost, maintenance and administrative savings.o Streamlined and integrated IT operations throughout group as company's growth strategy led to the acquisition of 12 UK sites with different IT cultures, practices, LAN/WAN integration and consolidation, equipment and operations.o Improved cost effectiveness of group systems by standardisation and harmonisation of systems including accounts software and email across all sites and operations.o Rationalised PC maintenance and expansion strategies, simplifying processes of integration, upgrading and maintenance of PCs and allowing users multi-site access to group systems and reducing travelling employee’s dependency on having personal PC’s at every site.o Strong desire to achieve results but reduce costs.