Simon Howard Email & Phone Number

Godalming, England, United Kingdom

Godalming, England, United Kingdom

• Promoted to manage IT Infrastructure and Service Delivery to support 120 architects and engineers who design and construct hi tech laboratories and offices for leading global Pharma clients
• Plans and executes annual IT strategy in line with budget for new infrastructure and applications to meet expanding business needs, and for Service Delivery with 99.9% Availability, Business Continuity and Disaster.
• Manages IT systems including Office 365 and Exchange, Deltek PIM, Virtualised Servers (VMware vSphere), Active Directory, IT Security and Network Administration, servers, daily backups (Veeam), telephone system (VoIP).
• Continually monitors IT Network for improvements, upgrades and efficiencies, monitors all vendor SLAs
• Delivers technical support for all staff at Head Office, Cardiff Office, European office in Antwerp, and staff based on client sites
• Provides Governance and Quality Assurance, ensure Compliance with data security regulations (e.g. GDPR),

Guildford, United Kingdom

• Promoted to role of IT Manager alongside CAD Management responsibilities
• Managed IT Infrastructure budget and CAD team of 8
• Reviewed and completely restructured IT Securityo Removed local admin rights combined with the deployment of an Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) system which improved security and helped protect infrastructure from.
• Planned and managed the transition from an on premise Exchange server to cloud based Office 365 Exchange Server ensuring stakeholder management throughout
• Contract management of IT suppliers with periodic reviews
• Financial Management of the IT department including budgeting and purchasing

Guildford, United Kingdom

• Established CAD department from scratch, defined processes, best practice and methodologies, drove uptake by authoring CAD user manual and quality guide, trained team on AutoCAD software, continually improved AutoCAD use

Elstead, Surrey

Godalming

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