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Penson Financial Services Limited is a London based FSA regulated firm providing a broad range of securities clearing services that include: Model A and Model B clearing and settlement, CREST clearing, global custody, customised data processing, regulatory reporting, execution, portfolio management and modelling systems and provision of compliance information. Whilst at Penson I was responsible for the UK infrastructure managing a complex server and network infrastructure with a team of four. A major infrastructure refresh was needed when I joined Penson and the following technologies and solutions were implemented to bring the infrastructure into a more manageable, flexible and cost effective environment - VMware Virtual environment (VMware Infrastructure 3 and upgrade to Vsphere 4.1)- EMC replicated SAN infrastructure- Disk to Disk backup environment- Archive environment based on Symantec Enterprise Vault- Various Network installtions into NASDAQ, Crest, Swift, LCH and many major banks and exchanges- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processes (off site recovery location and failover datacentres)- Standard Linux Operating system environment (Oracle Linux)- Standard Desktop environment

Ingeus is a group of companies that delivers welfare to work services based on government policies in the UK, France, Germany and Australia. My main responsibilities as European Head of IT was to manage a team of eleven 1st, 2nd and 3rd level technicians and to provide business recommendations and then design and implement the solutions that the board agrees to. Within the role I was a hands-on manager providing a great depth of technical experience and knowledge to my team to enable them to support and provide solutions to over 900 users across 37 offices in three countries.In the 4 years plus with Ingeus I have helped the company grow from two offices in the UK to the 37 offices across Europe implementing a robust cost efficient client server environment enabling rapid office deployment based on a European MPLS network.

Cooper is a worldwide automotive company providing car fluids and sealing to companies such as Ford, Jaguar, Mazda etc. I was employed to work in a team of 6 providing support to the UK infrastructure as well as supporting the rest of the European and US offices when required.Supporting the UK's LAN and WAN infrastructure using a mix of Cisco 3600 1600 2600 routers, a mix of Cisco 3500 2500 3com 4228-G and 3824 switches Shiva LanRoverE, AT&T and RAS Dial-In users, 3Com Wireless Access PointsInstalling, Upgrading and Supporting a range of Windows Citrix, NT, 2000 & 2003 Netware 4.11, 5.2 & 6, Notes 5 & 6 and Linux servers.Creating machine images and application installation packagesProviding 3rd level technical support to the rest of the UK sites and International divisions

Working in a team of 13 for the New South Wales Government in Sydney primarily as a 3rd level LAN WAN support, implementation and Security technician. The core environment was a mixture of Cisco routers and switches, a mix of Windows and Linux servers, Cyberguard FS and LX Firewalls. My main duties were, Supporting Internal and External client's WAN interfaces using a mix of Cisco 3600, 1600 and 2600, we also had dial in clients connecting into us via a Cisco 53000 Dial In Router.Central Network cabinet reorganization/rebuild and network redundancy implementation, which included installing backup central and core routers and switches.Creating a central documentation Intranet site on Apache using SSH2 security access for the team I was with Supporting and updating Linux DNS, DHCP, Internet, Intranet and Proxy servers using Webmin and Apache serverImplementing VLAN's, Honeypots, Linux servers, Routers, switches and Windows 2000 servers.

Working in a team of 10 providing Support and Administration to users across multiple sites using Netware 3.12 and 4.12 servers in multiple trees, Exchange 5.5 servers, NT 4 servers in 4 different Domains and 17 Windows 2000 servers and 5 Citrix Metaframe servers. Also helped plan the implementation of Exchange 2000 with the interoperability of Active Directory.Repairing and creating roaming profiles Configuration, Administration and Support of various all above mentioned serversSupport and set up of RAS dial in usersProviding 3rd line technical advise and support to 1st and 2nd level support staffMigrating users to the new Windows 2000 environment Building and replacing serversBackups and restores of data including Mailboxes Server tuning and disaster recovery testing and planningSupporting users and servers mainly all by remote software like PC anywhere and Intel LANDeskUpdating all server Anti virus software when ever new updates were available using tools such as MCOM to roll out McAfee and Sophos

Employed privately to work for a large motor group in the UK to provide Network and Technical consultancy. As well as installation of a VPN ADSL network Windows 2000 server environment, I also migrated their entire user base from a POP 3 Netpilot Mail server to a product called VPOP3, which is a cheap, but very manageable and stable Mail system.Installation of Windows 2000 serversInternet consultancy for new Internet site being designed and implemented by third partyTraining existing staff to be able to use and support a Windows 2000 environment including workstation set up procedures and policiesProvide network analysis and implementing a minimal support and cost of ownership network which included third party supplied supportMigrated Mail system from old Net pilot POP3 Mail system to a new more manageable and stable POP3 software called VPOP3 Also set up Sophos MailMonitor and Savi agent so all PC and servers were updated correctly with new versions of Sophos IDE when they were available

ITNET 2nd and 3Rd Line PC/Server; Employed again by ITNET to provide more Network and PC support for Cadbury Trebor Basset contractSupporting up to a 5000 user base UK wide and sometimes worldwide users on a wide range of different systems and platforms.Support RAS connection, NT and Novell file and printer servers and a big range of softwareAlso involved with various small projects for the rollout of new Lotus Notes Mail system.

Supporting the main project group at their project office in Birmingham where they were developing their new AS400 system Meta Frame environment.Main duties involved the development and fixing of existing NT servers, LAN and WAN, advise of the development of their new BTSS Wide Area Network. Also had to provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support to all worldwide consultants with any IT issues

Assisting with a Novell to NT network migration projects.Migrating users from GroupWise 5.5 Mail system to Exchange 5.5 Mail SystemVisiting sites around the UK and assessing what would need to be done in place before rollout work began. Working alone and reporting directly to Project Manager.Building a new NT file and print servers then migration of data and users from the old Novell file and print servers to the new NT servers. Also decommissioning old GroupWise Mail system and Novell servers.Sites were linked via Novell Network and ISDN and Kilo Stream Units: Co-ordinate work of BT field engineers who were working on a BTSS Frame Relay link up and plan temporary IP address structure

Reported directly to Special Projects Manager.Liaison with 3rd party suppliers over new bespoke software installations.Technical projects advisor on all purchasing of software and hardware and advising on other technical issues to branches across the UK (approximately 400)Wrote installation procedures for in-house e-commerce projects, which 3rd party installation engineers could then followTrained new engineers on bespoke software installations and in-house systemsSet up IIS (Internet Information Servers) v4 on NT4 serversProvided 3rd line technical support of bespoke financial software to 1500 user base. All queries were passed on via the helpdesk.Acted as Test Engineer, testing different parts of hardware & software and dealing with upgrades to existing 3rd party supplied software for the e-commerce project.

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