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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Delivered a key business need for the RBS - the ability to develop and implement software solutions quickly and reliably. Achieved through the creation of a £1.5M enterprise-wide (London-Edinburgh-Bangalore-Chennai) digital studio, providing a collaborative software development environment - Trained Cisco consultants (Gold Partners) to the standard of Business Value Practitioner (Cisco’s version of an Enterprise Architect). The certification enables Cisco partners to retain their Gold Partner status- Piloted the successful proof of concept migration of a Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Control Room as part of a five stage Control Room transformation project, saving £4.7M in annual operating costs. - Upgraded the network infrastructure of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and implemented a corporate wide Cisco Unified Communications solution.

New Zealand

Datacom are Australasia’s largest independent business technology solutions provider, employing over 3,300 highly skilled IT professionals across New Zealand, Australia and South East Asia: datacom.co.nz- Following an early identification of the benefits to be generated from the emerging cloud technology, created a process that migrated the entire digital infrastructure of more than 20 organisations from their locally housed server / workstation environments onto a cloud based virtual (VMware) IaaS (Citrix) topology. - Added value to the network infrastructure of several large (2000+ user) sites through the implementation of Cisco Unified Communications VOIP solutions.- Added yet more value to these sites through the implementation of voice capable wireless networks. Some of these networks contain up to 300 Access Points, are managed by Cisco WiSM controllers, interconnected with Cisco UC managers and ACS RADIUS authentication. - Developed further the relationship with the New Zealand Ministry of Health to become a key partner/supplier within their Connected Health portfolio. The portfolio mandate was to provision the network infrastructure to interconnect and support the shared resources of New Zealand’s nationwide health care services. This provided an architecture that included Core, Aggregation and Edge layer devices delivering high bandwidth, secure, failover WAN connectivity

Waikato, New Zealand

Assisted clients in the achievement of their business goals through the implementation of digital transformation projects.- Consulted with clients to determine their business needs. - Aligned these business needs to strategic goals and associated benefits.- Designed and implemented business change projects that delivered strategic goals through digital transformation.

Waikato, New Zealand

Full-time MBA Student

Iraq

- Reduced NDI’s annual operational costs by 50% through a review and rebuild of their operational processes and procedures. - Overcame challenging environmental and political conditions in war zone conditions to develop an ICT infrastructure that supported more than 100 desktop PC’s and a bank of Windows servers. This equipment was interconnected through wired and wireless LANs, routed through VSAT satellites to form a Washington – Baghdad WAN- Established a secure and safe operational compound for NDI in Erbil (Northern Iraq)- Facilitated communications with local and international authorities – Iraqi Ministry of Interior, Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and US military to smooth the way for NDI operations. - Provided mentoring and professional guidance for local staff- Was directly responsible for the operational safety and wellbeing of 200 staff in a war zone

-Resolved all IT and digital communication challenges with a complete transformation of ACDI/VOCA’s digital infrastructure: - Replaced peer to peer distributed networks with a centralised Windows server based wireless network  - Implemented secure VSAT satellite internet connections, for ACDI/VOCA’s three Iraq offices - Connected three LANs into one WAN via VPNs running over VSAT Internet connections.- Created a safer working and living environment for all personnel through a relocation of operations to new more secure location in northern Kirkuk.

-  Helped clients meet their ICT system requirements through the implementation of digital solutions  - Consulted with clients to determine their system requirements  - Designed and implemented digital solutions best suited to meet these requirements - Built and installed Windows servers – Email, Security, File and Database - Migrated clients’ IT current application and data systems onto the new Windows servers - Installed LANs and interconnected these LANs over WANs using Cisco VPNs

Waikato, New Zealand

- Helped clients meet their ICT system requirements through the implementation of digital solutions  - Consulted with clients to determine their system requirements  - Designed and implemented digital solutions best suited to meet these requirements - Built and installed Windows servers – Email, Security, File and Database - Migrated clients’ IT current application and data systems onto the new Windows servers - Installed LANs and interconnected these LANs over WANs using Cisco VPNs

Waikato, New Zealand

Met all new government regulations on the customer energy supplier switching processes through a rebuild of the customer billing front end application and back end customer database. This change enabled customers to switch between electricity retail providers quickly and securely

- Consulted with clients to establish business needs- Developed specifications to meet these needs- Installed and tested solutions in the field and trained end users in their operation- Documented technical and user manuals

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Management, A

My Thesis; how a business could leverage the Kyoto Protocol and the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, in a profitable and sustainable.

Prost Graduate Diploma In Management Studies, Business Management, A

Advanced Certificate In Business Computing (Acbc), Information Technology, A