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Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Gb

Large transformation of the IT services to the business including but not limited to the below• Move telephony the cloud, consolidate servers and move to the cloud where possible. Improve security and utilise cloud offerings• Move to Microsoft Office 365 and change licensing model to leverage savings whilst adding enhanced features• Negotiate and replace the firewall & security units both on premise and at DR site• Negotiate and re-vamp DR process and site• Driven cost saving of £60k+ in first two months on two projects• Preparation for ISO 27001 internal audit• Creating new strategies and culture across ITI am also the Information Security Manager. I am responsible for ensuring that we remain ISO 27001 compliant. I have been instrumental in renewing our ISO 27001 accreditation following our annual audits and maintaining our Cyber Essentials.

Career break post 18 month separation of company's. Mostly 7 days a week and evenings.Moved to new house and project managed own house refurbishment.

• Transformed Infrastructure and Network for £100M strategic divestment across 8 global territories and 10 UK sites by separating 34 shared systems, divesting 55 systems, and handling AD migration, Licensing, TUPE and redundancies for content licensing business with catalogue of c. 500,000 music titles• Co-founder and senior member of Change Advisory Board, stabilised infrastructure by introducing ITIL based server build, QA and monitoring processes, • Managed Infrastructure team of 6 with full procurement and budgetary control of £1m, drove customer-focused culture, implemented Infrastructure Agile/Jira workflow• Led migration of on premise servers to Azure Cloud & AWS, global O365 migration, re-platformed local file servers, restructured the global network and implemented improved firewalling and security• Implemented sophisticated configuration management solution, Cloud backup solution• Managed all vendor Agreements and SW Licensing, consolidated suppliers to achieve improved support, pricing and lower overhead

• Improved relationship with client by negotiating extra services with zero cost to RM which allowed time extension to complete late running works• Monitored on-site engineers, ensured compliance with quality assurance procedures

• Stabilised desktop build by rationalising and reducing duplicate applications, increased performance by 25% and lowered licensing costs• Re-patched workshop network cabling., improved performance and troubleshooting by 25%

London, Gb

• Managed 4 teams of IT staff across 6 sites nationally including 5 Server project engineers, 7 Delivery & Server support engineers, 7 Desktop engineers, 3 IT Admin & Asset Managers, and an external application packaging vendor• Cut annual application packaging cost from £200K to £75K and delivered low cost scalability by outsourcing to a managed service, reviewed SLA’s and KPI’s to ensure all packaging met standards• Cut maintenance/break-fix contract cost from c. £1.5 M to £495k, reduced Server OS Patching costs by c. £50k and cut licensing and power costs from c. £200k to £150k by auditing Production & DR Servers/Desktops to define precise needs• Migrated mobile telephony provider (T-Mobile) to O2 and from Blackberry devices to 550 iPhone 5s handsets

• Audited servers, decommissioned old hardware, introduced new procedures and processes for server build, re-build and QA, cut power, licensing and rack space costs• Audited Production Datacentre racks, re-patched all hardware including network switches out-of-hours within pre-defined maintenance window with no disruption to service delivery

New York City, Us

• Audited servers to support the move from on-site datacentre to a new managed datacentre, decommissioned and recycled old hardware to reclaim residual value• Managed hardware procurement, reviewed suppliers, re-negotiated optimum pricing

• Audited, reduced Microsoft licensing cost by consolidation and moving to a volume licensing model• Re-built corrupted desktops and laptops that had previously reduced downtime by 25%

Dallas Texas, Tx, Us

• Re-designed internal IT systems, reduced fix time from 3 days to same day fix• Audited and re-patched all network connections and rack space, reduced downtime and errors• Audited Telephony system, made recommendations to CEO, secured approval to re-negotiate system and maintenance contract, saved c. £50k

Systems Support, Software Support, Hardware Management, User Support, Procurement, Project Management, Intern and Work Experience Training, Asset Management, Hardware End of Life Safe and Secure Disposal