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Brighton And Hove, England, United Kingdom

We build SaaS for the DaaS market for commercial drone industry

London, United Kingdom

We have designed an AR + Cloud based solution

Brighton

Learning the new business quickly & utilising Basecamp 3 Project Management softwareUnderstanding the tight budgets needed for stages of the App build process for iOS & Android platforms, UI, UX sign off, find correct Dev Team & individualsCoordinating with a wealth of outside vendors foreign & domestic to start the build phaseInterviewing & Hiring of Dev team - assigning rolesSimultaneous sourcing of foreign services ie: MUC from Ejabber (france) Notification & Push services, BulkSMS suppliers for Far east Asia, travel to India & Far East to meetup with business partnersArranging international Soft Launch of App with our partnersWeekly reports to MD - online meetings change management with all members of the Design & Dev teams

Cisco Installation Engineer working with various clients including: Merrill Lynch (Bank of America) – Trend Control Systems Ltd – ASK Chemicals -- Hurn Airports --Upgrading of Cisco 6500’s to 6530’s IOS & firmware upgrades, configuration of IOS for clients needs and testing with NOCServer Room relocation from site to site, from 1 Rack to multiples.Detailed auditing of Servers, Switches & Router hardware in place, and what power is used for UPS failover.Writing & owning documentation for given project, planning & organising moves to work within clients tight deadlines, attending conference calls liasing with BlackBox PM's.Refresh & upgrade of all UPS’s if needed.Racking & patching of hardware.

Southern England

Installation engineer, delivering solutions for Virgin Media Business Customers & Partners throughout the South & West of UK.Fun & exciting role, Dealing with the customers direct on site, problem solving any network issues with the client & my VM NOC Team, also i'm taking my CCNP Exams at last with help from Virgin Media & Developing on IPT skills and enhancing on my Cisco skills, its really nice to work for Virgin Media Busines as it gets bigger and better.The Bristol Team are an excellent team.

Hsbc Bank Canary Wharf

Taken on as a Cisco IPT Build engineer, by Dimension Data - Migrating HSBC customers from Nortel to Cisco Unified Communication platform.Busy building cisco 7962's with Expansions, using BAT in depth, then testing all CSS's, Partitions, Unity and NICE voicemail, Deploying and finally floowalking on the HSBC trading floor to support all Cisco 7962's we had installed over the weekend.Very Busy but fun environment

Taken on to implement the smooth rollout of Windows 7.Configuring bespoke Apps, setting mail accounts etc.Floor walking and training of clients during production.General BAU duties 2nd line desktop Support.-------My own Project Offsite looking after customers in a wireless office, setup of small office 30+ users SCCP phone system 2801 router AIM/CUE Voicemail, AP's.

Implemented windows 7, configured desktop and laptop hardware, peripherals, operating systems, business software and third-party applications within VMware. Accountable for troubleshooting network connectivity issues, with Routers & SwitchesConfigured and implemented both network class and local printers. Informed user of status and resolutions while maintaining the firm’s service level agreement.2nd line Support of their new Cisco (CUCM v7) call manager phone system. Training of users on 79xx phones, setting up user accts in CUCM & Unity.Setup of training rooms & facilities for onsite clients, utilising VMware & Cisco Networking.

Working for SAS as part of their SwissCom Team.Migrating all hotels from one IP supplier to SwissCom.Looking after a team of field Engineeers remotely from the NOC, writing IOS Configs for Cisco 800 Series Routers, weekly project planning, database admin, updating Solar Winds "Orion" & Troubleshooting.Its really quite fun. And my location is on a farm in beautiful Sussex.

worked on various desks whilst at AssocNews, from 2nd line support to Implementation of a huge 4 year project.Great company to work for, made some really goood friendsI worked at the company on and off over the ten years, mainly "on".