An experienced Senior Technical Manager capable of proposing and implementing a wide variety of IT projects and technical support on various hardware and software platforms in order to provide solutions to business problems in a practical, cost effective and timely manner.Head of Presales department supporting Sales activities. Lead Architect for Comtec Enterprises.Project management of various support projects including Systems Architecture design, company relocations, cabling and network design, computer room design, Operating system and package implementations, virtualisation, Exchange migrations. Disaster recovery planning and testing, upgrades and migrations. DCIM monitoring systems.Man management of up to 25 individuals including, setting quarterly performance and training objectives, conducting appraisals, disciplinary and salary reviews and providing counselling and advice on career progressionSystems Management to define strategy, set budgets and set policy.Management of Support and production teams incorporating Data Centre Management, Operations, Systems support, Network Support, PC development and HelpdeskSpecialties: MS Exchange 5.5, 2003, 2010 & 2013 - migrations, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, VMWare ESX/ESXi 3.5 to 6.7Windows – NT, 2000, 2003,2008,2012, 2016 , Solaris, LinuxDisaster RecoveryVirtualisation, VMWare Infrastructure, VMWare ESX, vsphere, Networking & Security, Active Directory, NIS+, VPN’s, Remote Access, Firewalls, Routers, switches, bridges, muxes, IBM, Dell, HP Servers, NAS, iSCSI & FC SAN’s, Inter-Tel Axxess PABX, BES, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Citrix, ISA. Proxy, SQL Server 2000,2005,2008,2012, MySQL, Oracle 8i / 9i/10g , CC:Mail, WSUS, storage and backup including Actifio, 3PAR SAN, EMC SAN, HP MSA, Huawei Oceanspace.Barracuda Spam Filter, Barracuda Web Filter Appliance, F5, Cisco ASA
Listed skills include Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Data Center, Vmware, and 35 others.