Started 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

Started as a junior engineer at Adserve, and worked my way up to Engineering Manager. Our team was responsible for installing Unix based application servers onsite at Adserve's clients, starting with serial communications in the early years and then moving to ethernet. We had clients throughout the world. I installed many systems in the UK and also Hungary, Cech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Greese, Sri Lanka, Malaysia.In 1996, I made an internal move to the network group at DDS (Adserve's Parent Company)A member of the internal network group supporting the infrasture within DDS. Areas of responsibility -• Novel Netware• Windows NT 3.1 / NT4 Servers• Raptor Firewalls• Cisco Catalyst 5000 and 29xx switches• Ethernet & Token Ring• Windows 95 / Windows XP Desktop