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Self
Employed |
July
2001 to date |
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Consultant
engineer
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- Local area consultant, supplier and support
for several SME businesses, from one man to fifty employee
enterprises. Server and Network services, support and ongoing
web and
internet provision.
- Prime
contractor and Project manager for a Windows 2000, Exchange
and ‘Thin
Client’ Citrix to Metaframe migration for North
Wales Fire Service:
- 4-Month
timeframe, 3-Day implementation (weekend), Management
of planning and preparation, team of 3 sub-contractors,
liaison with NWFS staff to ensure smooth roll out
of new technology.
- Delivered
on budget, £40K and to customer’s timeframe.
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- Specification,
supply and commissioning of 6 new servers for NWFS. Integration
of exiting Raid Array technology and hand over of updated
system.
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- Supply, commissioning
and migration of data and applications to a new Fibre
Raid array within NWFS, seamlessly conducted over a single
weekend.
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- Consultative
and technical involvement with several smaller IT installations
in the SME market, including:
- Complete
Windows XP/2K office update for a successful industrial
unit re-fit organisation
- IT systems
update and maintenance for a recruitment company
- Website
hosting and IT systems management for a local car
dealer
- Numerous
website hosting and development activities for
various clients
- Other
on-off contracts for various organisations including
Lunn Poly
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IBM
UK Ltd |
June 1998
to June 2001 |
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Project
Manager
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- Successful
implementation of a new IT infrastructure for an IBM
client amalgamating 3 separate companies into a single
IT site:
- 9 Month
timeframe, 3-month implementation period, delivered
on time and budget. Provided budgetary information
for customer.
- Team
of 6 engineers, planning and managing implementation
schedule and daily problem management, 60% of time
on site.
- Maintained
existing applications and links to parent company
and introduced new applications including a WW
exchange mail implementation.
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- Designed,
developed, tested and delivered a mail management software
tool
to aid IBM in managing 140,000 users mail files on 140+
mail servers across 41 countries in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa (EMEA):
- 2-year
time frame, delivered on schedule, Staged implementation
over 2 month period, after an extensive 4-month
prototype and trial period.
- Managed
teams in 41 countries for local language content
implementation, plus local team of 3-5 engineers
developing and testing the tool set.
- Design
and specify tool set, scope and specify tool parameters,
monitored progress and aided in testing and evaluation.
- Internal
project, no budgetary requirement, but had to account
for team time, materials, support and delivery.
The project was delivered with an accepted cost
of US$150Ko Projected saving per annum using tool
set, user reduction on mail space 25Mb. annual
saving of US$52M for EMEA alone.
- Required
close links with user groups, support and delivery
organisation's, development and management team,
regularly reporting to senior EMEA managers.
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EASAMS |
Nov 1994 – April
1998 |
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Operations
Manager
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- Supervision
of seven staff, maintenance and support of Police IT
systems, Unix Ingres ABF applications:
- Direct
responsibility for support and 24hr delivery of
Criminal Justice System service to several police
forces. On call 24-7 with standby engineer.
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- Delivery
of SLA performance targets, fault fixing and delivery
of
updated software and customer liaison:
- Customer
Help Desk, fault reporting, fix release and installation.
- Monthly
customer meetings, progress reports and performance
analysis for the customer.
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- Support
for internal IT systems, Unix - NT Client-Server development
environment CA Ingres OpenRoad, mail and web site:
- Maintenance
and support of IT infrastructure, Network, email
and WAN connectivity for both admin and software
development, DBA and UNIX support, maintenance
of test systems testing of fixes, patches and new
releases.
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- Responsible
for business targets and profit on £600k turnover
and reporting directly to the EASAMS MD.
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GEC
Marconi |
June 1988
- Nov 1994 |
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Senior
Engineer
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- Re-design
and implement a dual redundant Audax system for HMGCC.
Utilise
existing VME structure and hardware, include dual redundancy
software and hardware, provide new MS Windows interface
from PC platform:
- Plan,
Manage, develop and deliver on time and to budget
complete project.
- Supervise
staff.
- Provide
planning support for accounts.
- Test
and obtain final customer acceptance.
- Liaise
with customer and provide training and support
for evaluation period.
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- Develop
new generation of VME Volmet. To replace the existing
ones
at CAA-Heathrow. The Department of Trade, Transport and
Communications, Shannon Aeradio, Ireland and an ATIS
system for the Italian CAA and the RAF:
- Implement
new development environment using ULTRIX on a Micro
VAX 3100 and networked PC based ICE system.
- New VME
hardware using the new MC68020 CPU and rack sys.
- Provide
Liaison for hardware design team.
- Implement
new product using BSO/TASKING tools and Real Time
Craft OS.
- Provide
Design methods and procedures based on a Networked
PC based YOURDON package.
- Supervise
a team of twelve software engineers through implementation,
software and build control and delivery testing.
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