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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Providing Azure Infrastructure services for a major financial organisation. Working within a Data and Analytics team developing environments to support Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning capabilities to the Data Engineers and Data Scientists.

Home Worker With Occassional Travel (Central Scotland)

Working on various outsourced IBM accounts. Primarily focussed on performing all kinds of project deployment related functions, such as design, migration and deployment of new solutionsMain responsibilities are providing expertise in the integration with and provision of, Microsoft's Active Directory Services.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Providing general Infrastructure support to a 600+ user call centre in Glasgow.Including onsite Novell Servers and Microsoft NT/2000 workstations and Citrix thin clients, as well as supporting diverse call centre management systems.RSA then outsourced their IT support to IBM on March 2002 and I was tuped into IBM as a result.

Hamilton

Responsible for designing and implementing a new Wide Area Networking infrastructure accross the four main sites that APW had in the UK, primarily for enabling a robust networking environment for APW's CAD Engineering group.

Kippin, Scotland

This was a new business venture and my involvement was to support the companies network of new Internet Kiosk systems deployed across the UK. I was tasked with the role of developing and enhancing the productivity of the Internet Kiosks, by providing a robust UK wide infrastructure of remotely connected kiosks to a single centralised support model.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Managing a team of IT Infrastructure Consultants providing planning, design and implementation services for the client base.Previous roles under same tenure:Commissioning Services Delivery Manager - Managing the department responsible for deploying client specific customisations to the Servers and Systems being shipped to support the clients IT.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Working as field service engineer on a client contract which required commissioning and repairing Bank Auto Teller Manchines (ATM's) for a major Bank in the UK.Also worked on contract looking after back office electronic point of sale systems (EPOS) for a major Brewery Company in the UK.

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