Scott Slade Email & Phone Number

Congleton, Gb

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

Specialist in the provision of live support for multiple key Middleware Components. The role involves the installation of infrastructure, change implementation, system testing and maintaining a full live service in order to ensure a quality service is provided to customers at all times.• Successfully managed the implementation and control of Middleware components and architecture incorporating the whole testing, incident, change and problem management support. • Introduced agile working principals using JIRA software to create specific ‘Story’ templates to ensure that specific streams of work are recorded, documented and transparent to the whole team. This enabled me to transfer knowledge to my immediate team and the wider technology teams in the USA, India and Lithuania. • Significantly improved compliance and security protocols across the bank through the investigation, review, management and disabling of non-compliant legacy protocols.• Led a major audit project to improve the password strength protocols for 7k accounts across the whole Bank within the Directory Server infrastructure.• Managed recertification campaigns to remove 16k+ redundant objects from the Directory Server infrastructure which resulted in an improved functioning directory and compliance from a Security & Risk perspective.• Producing regular reports using MS excel and MS Word to high level key stakeholders, such as Business leaders within the Bank, detailing audit shortfalls within key infrastructure, resulting in key software being updated and ensuring compliance was met within the Bank.• Implementing hundreds of SSL Certificate renewals to ensure that Middleware components are able to communicate securely to eliminate risk of outside malicious attempts on the Banks infrastructure.• Committed to a program of continuous personal development, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues in order to achieve personal, developmental and company objectives.

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

Provided second line support for the successful roll out of the Windows 2000 workstations and ‘POD’ machines to the network which involved the management of incident queues, rebuilding desktops remotely, raising problem records and agreeing change requests. The role involved diagnosing and resolving hardware/software problems.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Managers Assistant, where I had to develop and maintain relationships with a portfolio of corporate customers, actively dealing with demands and visiting them at their business premises.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Embarking on my career with Barclays Bank I have undertaken a variety of roles including Branch Cashier, Regular Payments clerk, Personal Lending Team

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Business & Finance, Merit

Gcse, 9 Gcse - A-C