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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Freelance IT consultant working with a number of organisations, providing technical expertise, project management and strategic planning.- Consulting and managing the IT solutions division of the organisation providing insight, strategy, project and man management. Delivering solutions: Cloud Solutions, Azure, SharePoint, MS Dynamic, Technology refresh, server upgrades and strategic planning.- Design and project managed the network and improved corporate security, protecting the business providing enhanced security and peace of mind, Cisco, Sonicwall and Xyzel firewall.- Consulting for an investment company who are relocating their core IT systems overseas, providing strategic direction as to how we will achieve this and implementation planning.- Helping a number of businesses shape technology within their organisation with identify, analyse & communicate business process needs- Implementation of a hosted VOIP solution for an organisation with clients over Europe, reducing costs and improving reliability and user experience.Projects included:Office365, Azure, Firewall implementations, VOIP solutions, Strategic planning, managementClients include: Architects, Telecoms, Insurance, Construction, media and social media company

London, United Kingdom

Motion Picture Solutions is a premier Film Distribution and Cinema service company, well established through Europe, delivering digital content, VFX and mastering services.As the Director of IT, I am responsible for the planning, operations, policy, change and security of the organisation. My team is made of 10 across three dept. and two sites, responsible for Support, Infrastructure and SecurityAchievements:- Saving over 200k, reducing cost and risk through consolidation of infrastructure, applications and suppliers.- Restructuring operations saving of in excess of 4 million - Managed budget in excess of £2 million- Design and project managed the implementation of network redesign and improved corporate security, protecting the business- Design and implementation of VMWare virtual environment reducing hardware and power costs- Implementation of procurement and asset tracking procedures- Implementation and migration two new datacentres creating dual resilient co-location sites- Implementation of business continuity plan- Architecting resilient systems, ensuring uptime and decreasing downtime- Created and managed a strategic technology roadmap that was in line with business goals and objectivesProjects included: Colocation and Hosting, SAN, VMWare, Access control, CCTV security systems, enhanced networks, Cisco Firewall and IDS systems, Mail and Web filtering, Business continuity plan/DR, Audio/Visual and DLP solutions.

London, United Kingdom

The Foundry, the premier award-winning visual effects (VFX) software provider, with our products used globally to create compelling and creative film, television, commercials. As the Head of IT, I am responsible for the long term planning, operations and security of the organisation. My Department is made up of three core teams, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure and Web. My team is made up of 12 staff across four locations, responsible for organisation’s website, web applications, ecommerce platform, BI and Infrastructure. Achievements:- Saving in excess of £1 Million over 12 months through Leadership, education, commercial awareness and strong management of budget- Negotiated and managed vendor relationship resulting in saving in excess of £750k over 6 months- Implementation of a new telephony/mobile solution saving over £150k annually - Designed and set up two new offices in the UK and US with network interconnects back to our core network- Designed and built a Global MPLS network, improving connectivity and efficiency across the organisation and its users- Implemented a new state of the art GPFS SAN improving storage management, access times and capacity for the organisation- Define and implement best practices, policies and procedure to provide governance and management of systems within the organisation.- Implementation of new firewalls and enhance security infrastructure- Transforming organisation through subscription project, taking the business from traditional to a subscription business SaaS- Responsible for the design and Implementation of VMware virtualised environment improving efficiency whilst reducing costs- Responsible for cloud hosted solutions and infrastructure, hybrid infrastructure projectProjects included: Exchange Upgrade, New networks, MPLS network, Rolling Network, VMware, SAN CCTV and access control

London, United Kingdom

Heading a team of Project Managers and engineers for a fast growing and dynamic outsourced IT Solutions Provider, providing project management, sales and engineering support to our clients and business.Projects included:- Project managed and designed complete new infrastructure for a premier but highly regulated research company in London improving their high availability capabilities, efficiencies and business continuity plans.- Building VMware virtualised infrastructure for premier architectural business with high availability.- FSA audit and regulatory compliance projects for FSA regulated businesses.- Security audit and solutions for clients, DLP, Firewalls, Mail and Web filtering (Blue Coat and Websense)- Epos and security support for retail stores.Clients include: Victorinox, Private Members club, Bombardier and boutique clothes shops

London, United Kingdom

A specialist technology business, bringing the big corporate scalable design to the small and medium enterprise. Working with business owners to design solutions that are scalable yet cost effective.Services provided:- Project Management- Helping businesses shape technology within their organisation with strong leadership to identify, analyse & communicate business process needs- Define Strategic roadmaps- IT Support and Management.- Providing innovative but cost effect solutions to the small/medium businesses.- Strong leadership skills and able to shape team to maximise delivery- Cabling services- Software and Hardware upgrades- Infrastructure review and recommendations- Cloud solutions design and implementation, Office 365, Google appsClients: Architects, Telecoms, Insurance and Construction

Tremont Capital Management Limited, a subsidiary of US based Oppenheimerfunds company specialising in the funds of Hedge fund industry with assets of over $9 Billion. Tremont has been in business for over 25 years gaining reputation as one of the best in the industry. VP of Europe and Asia/IT Manager and Executive member of the Technology Steering Committee, producing strategy and solutions in line with business requirements and strategyAchievements:- Designed, project managed the office and data centre for London, Hong Kong, Bermuda and Canada reducing project management costs of over £200k in London and over £80K in Hong Kong. - Implemented the organisations voice and data infrastructure across 6 Offices and over 250 users, through converged technologies like VOIP and video conferencing solutions creating saving of over 35% over conventional solutions approx. £100k per year.- Managed and responsible for implementation of in house Proprietary funds systems- Designed and built data centres, utilising APC Infrastructure system, Environmental monitoring, power management and state of the art fire protection systems - Business Continuity planning and solutions, including call tree, DR plans and test plans.- Implementation of CRM and document management systems- Implementation of organisations secure messaging platform- Managed IT budget excess of £5Million- Managed and mentored IT teams of over 15 StaffProjects included: DLP, Secure Messaging, Access control, CCTV, Firewalls, Datacentres, New offices, Mail and Web filtering

Managed and designed IT Infrastructure and messaging systems