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Lambourn, Gb

Lambourn, Gb

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gb

Delivered highly available, cloud native, terraform backed VPN solution.Built POCs for cross cloud, cloud-native VPNs and connectivityOngoing network maintainence across multiple sites and countries with Fortinet, Cisco and Palo Alto solutions.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gb

Supporting and building bleeding edge IT infrastructure with a SaaS and Cloud based approach. Leveraging AWS, MDM across all platforms, SaaS based services and local infrastructure.Delivered over 100,000sqf of Office space across 3 countries, from mechanical and structured cable design, to final infrastructure install. Worked with vendors/contractors in multiple countries to deploy highly available networks and in-house technology (AV, general IT hardware etc), including M&A work with an acquisition in an EU countryDelivered a state-of-the-art 50mil+ automated robotic laboratory platform (technology & networking side), from initial design to final acceptance testing

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gb

Supporting and creating cutting edge IT infrastructure

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Reporting directly to the Head of Technology, I'm responsible for all infrastructure within the business onsite as well as remote DR site - supporting Windows Server 2012/2016 (inc WDS & MDT Deployment, AD, DHCP, WSUS, SQL, GPO development and general network architecture), OakX Record & Avaya IP Office, TrendNet, QNAP, WatchGuard,FortiNet, Netgear Switching Stacks, Veeam, VMware running alongside HPE blades and storage. Responsible for sourcing and deploying machines to users both internally and remote and providing desktop support as well as Server and Infrastructure Management.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Gb

Supporting students and staff by providing 1st and 2nd line support against both hardware and software, Office365, Active Directory/Windows Server infrastructure, JAMF and OS X deployments, Virtual enviroments and split enviroments across multiple sites.

Technical and Education support for Music Department. Working primarily with GCSE/A-Level Music and Music Technology Students. General equipment/room maintenance, also work with other departments i.e Drama/Performing Arts to provide support for shows/concerts etc.