Simon Baum Email & Phone Number

Helmsley

• Prepare and maintain a strategy for the effective development, installation and maintenance of information technology systems in support of the Authority’s disparate range of services and management systems.• Plan and manage ICT budgets and IT resources. Ensuring proper management and development of the bidding and budgeting process for ICT funds. Adhere to Authority financial regulations including following the tender process.• Lead the Authority’s ICT related departmental working groups.• Liaise with Directors in preparing, implementing and reviewing a strategy with the objective of matching service delivery and effective ICT benefits to enhance the efficient operation of each department within a corporate framework, but within the relevant financial and operational constraints.• Develop procedures and supervise processes for the routine maintenance and basic operational support of the Authority’s ICT related systems and installations.• Manage and supervise the ICT Team (currently 3 full time staff).• Represent NPA on national ICT groups formed from all National Parks.• Strategic management of Authority data and information systems.• Develop and maintain the ICT Business Continuity strategy and Disaster Recovery plan including assessment and management of associated risks.• To manage the implementation of GIS and provide advice and guidance to the GIS Officer.• Develop and maintain a suitable programme to deliver adequate ICT infrastructure for the Authority to ensure consistent, reliable and robust ICT services.• Ensure technical and operational support of software systems in use including where appropriate developing in house software solutions.• Ensure the proper and adequate acquisition of ICT hardware and software, including software licences.

York, United Kingdom

* Responsible for the management/maintenance and improvements to the ProphetEnvironment within Aviva.* The UK Prophet Environment consist of approximately 330 servers covering a wide varietyof functions from Citrix, File, DFS, IIS, FTP and application servers. This has given me afantastic knowledge base across a number of technologies.* Technology includes W2008 and W2003 operating systems on both physical and virtualhardware.* Maintain and manage 70Tb’s of Data over 30 file servers.* Technical lead for a number of critical projects including the Transformation of theenvironment from current mode of operation to future mode of operation, upgrade of theCitrix environment from PS4 to Xenapp 5, design of Citrix Web Interface and a project toget our environment ready for Solvency II (major change to Financial Services Authorityreporting requirements).* There are 600+ users of the system and I am responsible for them being able to access thesystem 24/7.* Responsible for the support of Prophet Environments across Europe this has lead me totravel to Spain, Ireland and Holland in order to meet customers and perform keyenvironment upgrades* Identify areas of opportunity for cost savings and act on them where appropriate.* Mentor and train lesser experienced members of the team. Provide documentation forprocesses, risk and issues.

York, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the support of 11 Active Directory Forests, which needed an in-depth understanding of Active Directory Infrastructure, replication, both AD replication and file replication, group policy, DNS and DHCP• Involved the resolution of user incidents and the carrying out of changes to keep the services with in SLAs. • Carried out proactive monitoring and reporting, this allowed me to implement changes to the environment to give an improved customer experience.• Maintained Microsoft and Novell DNS and DHCP.• Performed 24/7 standby as part of a rota.• Commented on weekly SLA statistics, that feed into Management Reports.