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Woking, Surrey, Gb

Solihull, West Midlands, Gb

Solihull, West Midlands, Gb

Defined, articulated and implemented the Customer Experience and onboarding programme across existing and new customer accounts.Deployed the new customer management system Tiviti across all managed service customers.Built, established and embedded the Customer Experience function

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

I joined Blue Chip as Head of Technical and Managed Services in August 2011 and was promoted to the CISO in October 2018. When Service Express acquired Blue Chip in January 2022, I received a promotion to UK Technology Director.Formulating five-year (5) roadmaps, I delivered technology, information security and cybersecurity expertise to over 1000 customers across the UK and globally. Facilitating the Managed Services teams, I have implemented security best practices within Managed Services/Data Centres and deployed robust security tools to reduce risk by over 99%.Leading a team of direct reports across Network and Security, Wintel, IBMi, Linux and Storage, Data Centre and Project Management my critical achievements in this role include the following.Managed P&L for the Managed Services and Technical revenue streams Established the technology strategy, cybersecurity risk assessment practices, cybersecurity leadership and cyber control frameworks with assurance, metrics and reporting to enhance the clients’ security to 99%.Designed the next-generation Hybrid Cloud Services infrastructure based on Software Defined Data Centre fabric.Integrated the UK Technical Data Centres into the new global organisation across technology, managed services and cyber security business units.

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gb

Spearheading the Networking and Security Services, I delivered pre-and post-sales technical consultancy expertise to internal stakeholders during the qualification, bid response and solution design stages with an ACV of over £4M.Additionally, I implemented large technology and delivery projects with over £2M budgets, designing, deploying, configuring, securing and maintaining network devices and security software within the clients’ premises.Further, by partnering with strategic IS vendors, I have enabled the configuration and monitoring of IPSEC/SSL VPNs and the installation of customer rules based on perimeter security devices, firewalls and gateways.

Solihull, West Midlands, Gb

As a Senior Management Team Member, I designed innovative, profitable and bid-winning solutions while providing monthly feedback to the Board Members regarding the team’s performance and scoping new technical opportunities with ACV of over £5M.Coordinating with clients, I built and supported large corporate network infrastructures covering LANs and WANs while identifying all network device types to enhance the security and performance of the networks. As the first point of contact for the infrastructure projects, I determined the scope for new and repeating business opportunities, including the project plan, costs, timelines and quality criteria.I managed and led the virtual Presales, Design and Infrastructure (D&I) and Sales teams to deliver best practices and drive technical strategy throughout the business.

Paris, France, Fr

Starting my career within Capgemini, I learned the nuances of managing IT/computer networks, including establishing and maintaining the infrastructures and devices, configuring the hardware devices, software systems and employee user access. I configured emails and user logins/passwords, set up new employee accounts and installed security tools to protect the networks from malware, phishing attacks, viruses, DoS attacks and cyberattacks.I provided L1/L2 support to employees to resolve their IT problems/issues and ensure 99.99% uptime of all network resources.