Simon Hunter Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London

• Led a team of 14, maintained performance and ensured the consistent achievement of targets regarding the design, implementation and support of the Global infrastructure for Circa 10K employees.
• Ensured the Architecture & Build teams had the necessary strategies, training and development plans to consistently achieve in line with business objectives.
• Delivered cost savings of €750K per year through the transformation of 25% of the data centre co-location estate to a managed service.
• Led vendor negotiations and saved €300K per year for UK mobile services.
• Managed financial processes including a €3 Million budget as well as Capex and Opex.
• Ensured that incident and service request details were aligned with internal procedures and SLAs.

• Managed a high-performing team of 22 with accountability for the infrastructure design, build and support for LAN, WAN, telecoms and Active Directory.
• Developed and implemented the project road map, ensured its alignment with business strategy and achieved full board-level buy in.
• Led the transformation of 10K employees to a fully managed Active Directory, Outlook and SfB service.
• Saved €75K per year following the standardisation of VoIP throughout Europe.
• Delivered €125K+ in cost savings having retired 50+ servers.
• Planned work flow, assessed priorities, allocated timescales and distributed work per level of expertise required to resolve connectivity and accessibility issues.

• Supported the achievement of PCI-DSS, PSN and ISO 20000 certifications through the technical design and development of formal IT processes, policies and procedures
• Led the design/implementation of payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) accreditation.
• Successfully integrated three businesses through acquisition as well as two third-party co-location facilities across the UK.
• Designed and implemented enterprise infrastructure ensuring systems availability and optimal performance.
• Offshored presentation services to support business development activities.
• Designed and implemented the infrastructure for remote access incorporating two-factor authentication.

London, United Kingdom

• Ensured maximum performance and availability of the enterprise network.
• Full performance management and regular reporting to CEO on performance against objectives and an approved budget of €1 Million.
• Supervisory responsibility for a team of 18 including 7 contract staff covering IT infrastructure including LAN, WAN, telecommunications, disaster recovery facilities.
• Established a positive and productive site environment, accommodated the roles and needs of diverse teams to promote a cohesive team-based culture, maximised potential and enhanced performance of the team.