A privately owned company specialising in the network requirements of Oil and Gas Traders and their associated companies covering global LAN and WAN network requirements. Conceived and setup a new company. Confirmed the trading position with the major client and negotiated long term involvement and contracts with all customers. Managed zero outage network deployment over 25 global sites. Managed team of engineers to build and maintain high demand complex networks… Show more A privately owned company specialising in the network requirements of Oil and Gas Traders and their associated companies covering global LAN and WAN network requirements. Conceived and setup a new company. Confirmed the trading position with the major client and negotiated long term involvement and contracts with all customers. Managed zero outage network deployment over 25 global sites. Managed team of engineers to build and maintain high demand complex networks. Directed and led the IT project to move the Geneva and London trading floors into greenfield builds. Designed and implemented the solution. Recruited and led the team. Preserved the applications over the migrations with no trade loss.Co-ordinated network migrations for the divestment of Shell in 20 African countries. Designed and introduced third party resources and service. Created the foundations for successful migration of applications to new infrastructure Show less

An IT consultancy building and deploying network analysis and modelling tools. Customers included Gillette (Braun, Parker, Oral-B and Duracell), Deloitte and Touche, Ericcson, The Economist, Department of Works and Pensions, DataMonitor and Vitol.Successfully developed market leading software for network management. Created the modeling and analysis systems and single handedly designed and programed throughout. Sold process into DWP and Deloittes. The product was also used in Ericcson… Show more An IT consultancy building and deploying network analysis and modelling tools. Customers included Gillette (Braun, Parker, Oral-B and Duracell), Deloitte and Touche, Ericcson, The Economist, Department of Works and Pensions, DataMonitor and Vitol.Successfully developed market leading software for network management. Created the modeling and analysis systems and single handedly designed and programed throughout. Sold process into DWP and Deloittes. The product was also used in Ericcson, Gillette and others.Was so successful with the Gillette relationship that became a member of the Gillette Group IT Board. Delivered moves, changes, migrations and upgrades over a 10 year involvement. The delivery of these projects across all the groups was recognized as extremely cost effective and technically secure. Managed a major project and build to deliver office upgrades in 2 locations for Ericcson. Analysed thoroughly to describe the requirement and application landscape. Successful upgrades were delivered to time critical systems for a major telecoms company with zero outage and no impact on the client's business. Project managed major office moves with no outages for a major publishing house, The Economist. Managed the design, build and installation. Delivered office upgrades and equipment upgrades to time, quality and budget. The work was completed without any impact on production. Show less

An independent high end IT consultancy with clients such as Gillette, Financial Services Authority, Unipart and Helpdesk.Ran several projects delivering design, build and installation of complex networks - based on deep analysis of application requirements.

An amalgamation of Sprint International, France Telecom and Deutsch Telecom. Created a unified network infrastructure, increasing the non-gateway network reach and enlarging the telecom domain; Created and administered first internet access in Jordan. Managed Russian switch installers and built bespoke dial-in and billing systems.Developed network management tools for the internal G1 network. Implemented Cisco works and Enterprise HP Openview and designed the interfaces for… Show more An amalgamation of Sprint International, France Telecom and Deutsch Telecom. Created a unified network infrastructure, increasing the non-gateway network reach and enlarging the telecom domain; Created and administered first internet access in Jordan. Managed Russian switch installers and built bespoke dial-in and billing systems.Developed network management tools for the internal G1 network. Implemented Cisco works and Enterprise HP Openview and designed the interfaces for these systems into the new global Passport network and the globalised helpdesk and reporting tool set. Show less

Reviewed network devices for suitability and described operations for use

Constructed IT environment for major Oil and Gas consultancy in Syria. Purchased local PCs, imported VAX kit. Built and integrated systems. Wrote bespoke programs for data gathering and modeling.

Undertook various programming tasks, including...3D Ship Design - Ported mainframe 3D ship design programmes to PC.Kingfisher - Created early CAD kitchen design tools and generated public GUI kitchen builder interfaces.

Member of first recruitment direct into digital mapping.Worked on development of digital mapping.