Head Of Networks And Infrastructure
CurrentStarted in 2000 as a member of the Winterflood IT team to assist with their rapidly growing network / comms demands.In 2005, I was promoted to Networks & Infrastructure Manager where my responsibilites include managing a team to design, support and improve a rapidly evolving and complex mesh networks, compute, voice and comminication platforms.My team is responsible for Network, Data, Servers, Voice, Communications, Firewall, Internet, Storage.Notable technologies installed and supported are Cisco UCS, EMC Clariion & VNX, EMC XtremeIO all flash array, Nexus 7k / 9k switching core.Always pioneers in technology, In October 2009, Winterflood were the first Cisco Customer in Europe to install the UCS Blade Servers -http://www.uk.logicalis.com/news-and-events/news/logicalis-deploys-uk%E2%80%99s-first-c.aspxNetworking -• Cisco Nexus 9000• Cisco Nexus 7000• Cisco Nexus 5000• Cisco Catalyst 3750X• Cisco Catalyst 4948• Cisco Catalyst 65xx• Cisco Catalyst 45xx• Cisco 9xxx MDS Fibre Channel Switches• Layer2-7 Routing and Switching, incl EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, VPC etc• Links to Exchanges, Market Data providers, Client connectivity over fixed circuits, BT Radianz, TNS & VPN.Security -• Checkpoint Firewalls - from release 4.1 right up to the latest R80• Cisco ASA, PIX• Endpoint Secuirty productsStorage -• EMC Clariion, VNX, Unity and XtremIOCompute -• Cisco UCS• HP Proliant• Vmware Vsphere 3.1 > 6.x• All Windows versions• Suse Linux ES, RedhatUnified Comms• MS Exchange 5.5, 2003 & 2010• Cisco Unified Communications Manger, versions 4.1 > 11.5• IP Trade Turrets