Simon Hedges Email & Phone Number

Yeovil Marsh, GB

Dorchester, United Kingdom

Responsible for the council's telecommunications systems. Currently managing the specification and procurement of a new 4000 user council wide Unified Communications infrastructure.

Initially employed as a Trainee Subsea Technician I was involved in the maintenance and operation of various deep sea cable burial submersibles and shipboard cable handling equipment. I received two promotions and was working as Senior Subsea Engineer for 18 months prior to my leaving. As Senior Subsea Engineer onboard a shallow water cable laying vessel I.

by the County Councils IT Services Department and responsible to the IT Services Manager I was a member of a small team providing first and second line IT support throughout Dorset to all sections of the county council including: Hardware and software support, data coms and network support/management, setup and installation of new hardware, hardware.

Working for the college's IT academic department I was responsible for the departments open access computer centre and 9 IT lecture rooms providing software support (win95, MS Office) to students and lecturers, hardware maintenance and management of the departments 900 user network.

to assist a principal scientist in the fulfilment of various research programmes I was involved in a wide range of engineering and scientific tasks including: the acoustic upgrade, testing and operation of autonomous acoustic targets, providing support for acceptance and certification trials at BUTEC and AUTEC ranges and assisting in the development of.

Working as part of a small motivated team involved in the maintenance and upgrade of voice and data communication equipment and networks in HMNB Portland and HMS Osprey.

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