Operations Director – Start up Business
• Build a Technology Solution for the roll out of Hotel TV Channel including a multi location network on 32 client sites and integration between open source technology and pre-built appliance units.
• Launch from scratch to go live in less than 2 months.
• Develop process for film encoding, distribution and re-use
• On target for a £250k turnover in year one.
• Account, client and distribution management.
• Project manage creation, production and delivery of Media (location photography, Maps, Internet and solid-state media delivery).
• Running a small company in difficult trading conditions.

Solution Architect – Global Infrastructure Services
• Creation of ‘Physical Technical Models’ to allow line of service installation.
• Major project work included Lead infrastructure work for BAE Systems and Backup Encryption solutions for GE.
• Lead the technical architecture submission on a change to the global standard for backup Encryption solutions.
• Manage time/location in a multiple concurrent project environment.
• Lead Technical specification in a disparate/multi-skilled organisation often outside of core skill sets.

IT Manager
• Management responsibility for 14 staff
• Budget responsibility for up to £2.6m
• Managing the day to day operation, recommendation and implementation of technical requirements in a 100 mobile/Blackberry data, 200 Laptop, 1200 desktop, 80 server, 80tb data storage, multi site, and deadline critical environment
• Responsibility for negotiation and running of all IT maintenance, data/telecoms and consultancy contracts
• Discussion, recommendation, project management and delivery of new services to match business requirements
• Creation and implementation of IT Acceptable Use Policy, departmental procedure and system documentation
• Communicating across all levels of the company about requirements, policy and procedure to resolve problems
• Project management and delivery of all major IT projects including:
• 2007 Specify, negotiate and manage the migration from conventional NAS/SAN, Vertitas tape environment to tiered storage, delta recovery and disk only backup.
• 2006 Responsible for the scratch build and timely delivery of a full data centre environment for corporate services (including UPS, Aircon, Fire suppression & building alterations) plus the addition of Oracle RAC and a Disaster Recovery plan
• 2005 Responsible for IT Integration of Highbury, Beach and Future London (450 users across 4 sites) into 1 Greenfield site, including office fit out, upgraded Desktop Hardware, Software, 200mbit MPLS WAN, IPT, Department restructure, new working practices and migration from legacy/disparate MIS and workflow systems
• 2004 Specify, negotiate and manage the migration from SAN to NAS (Net App) infrastructure for all Enterprise systems to cope with growing database sizes and data integrity/security.
• 2003/4 Manage the roll out and migration of new operating system on the Macintosh (OSX) and the move from Quark XPress to Adobe InDesign, the first publisher in the UK to complete this migration. This project was identified by Adobe as working so well that they quote it as a ‘best practice’ guide to migration to their customer base.

Network Services Manager
• Management of Y2k project (with no issues)
• Migration of Novell/Mac infrastructure to Solaris/Linux
• Migration of corporate infrastructure to Oracle/Lawson/Hyperion
• Migration of Internet access and mail services to high speed scalable services
• Built WAN infrastructure to roll out central services to London and Somerton offices
• Migration of data storage base from DAS to SAN infrastructure
• Management responsibility for 3 staff