Dynamic hands-on technology leader, recently appointed Head of IT, with an overall of 20 years of experience working within the IT industry, driving global IT transformations, enhancing cybersecurity, and optimising strategic initiatives. Proven success in aligning fragmented IT organisations, reducing costs, and negotiating favourable vendor agreements.
Over a decade of expertise in hands-on, implementing, configuring and maintaining network and server infrastructures and enterprise applications, consistently delivering exceptional results. I thrive on decision making challenges and relish the intensity of being accountable for my work.
I truly believe leaders should have a blend of leadership and technical skills, with over 10 years experience as an engineer and another 10 as a leader, I can bring the right blend of skills to any organisation.
Tenant - tenant full migration
MS Teams administration
O365 Administration
Microsoft Purview
Security and Compliance
HAADJ Configuration
ADV
Power Automate / Flows
Sharepoint administration
Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation
Microsoft Defender deployments
Sentinel One deployments
MFA rollout with Cisco DUO, Okta, MS Entra.
Privileged Access Management
Conditional Access
E-Mail security, DKIM and SPF
Penetration testing and Phishing simulations
Patching and application version control
Intune rollout, configuration and deployment.
Airwatch (Workspace One) rollout.
Auto Pilot implementation
MAM Mobile Application Management
Apple Business Manager
Zerto Touch Enrollment
Remote management, iOS Android and Windows.
Data Centre experience worldwide
Routing and Switching (Cisco) - BGP, MPLS, OSPF.
Site-to-Site connectivity.
Meraki wireless deployment.
SAN implementation with DellEMC, PureStorage.
Management of File Shares.
Firewall configuration and implementation
ASA/FirePower, Fortinet
Tacacs and RADIUS authentication
CloudFlare DNS Management
VoIP, Cisco, Avaya.
Server hardware: PowerEdge, HPE, TrendMicro, Cisco UCS.
VPN, AnyConnect.
Windows Server Management - all versions
Active Directory, DHCP and DNS
Group Policy Management
ADFS and AD Connect
SCCM
Linux - Ubuntu and CentOS
VMWare Horizon - VDI Deployments
VMWare - virtualised server environments
Hyper-V virtual environments
Powershell scripting
Backup and Disaster Recovery
API integrations and SSO
eDiscovery tools: Relativity, NUIX, BrainSpace
SalesForce
ServiceNow, ConnectWise, HALO
Sage and NetSuite
Doc Management: DocuSign, iManage, DocuWare.
Slack, Teams, Zoom, DialPad, RingCentral
PowerBI, Dynamics
KnowBe4
Jira, Conflucence - Atlassian Suite
Defining cloud first strategies
Promoting innovation
Planning on-site to cloud migrations
Domain consolidation.
Planning and executing tech mergers.
Forecasting and planning future demands
Emerging technologies
Cyber Security principles, ISO27001 and SOC 2 requirements
Development lifecycle
User and Customer experience improvement.
Modern workplaces.
Team management, performance reviews
Upskilling of engineers through eLearning.
Shif rotations, on-call planning
Defining accurate job roles and responsibilities
Defining accurate goals and objectives
Celebrating success, Team build activities.
Motivating and providing exposure to emerging technologies.
Conflict resolution.
Contract renewals, negotiation and cost-saving.
Software licencing management
Hardware Procurement
Specification, ordering and logistics of tech deliveries and tech moves.
Negotiating discounts on long term partnerships.
ITIL Certified
ITSM tools, design, implementation and customisation. ServiceNow, HALO, ChangeGear.
Incident Management
Service Request cycles
Reporting and Service Level Agreements
Knowledge base, self service portals and automation of tickets.
Ticket flows, documentation and policy enforcement.
Building and training teams from "zero".
Ticket escalations, distribution and workload management
Customer relationship management
Continuous improvement strategies for Service Desk operations.
LiveChat and Chatbots.
Change ambassador, managing change control
Expertise in delivering tech change to non-technical users, explaining in simpler, jargon-free terms.
Promoting innovative ideas.
Effective collaboration and communication
Flexibility and Adaptability
Phased approach to large modernisation projects.
Process analysis, automation of processes, simplification of tasks.
AI Machine Learning.
Risk Management
Time Management
Effective Resource allocation
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Budgeting and Cost Management
Project Scoping, preventing scope creep
Collaboration and Communication
Wrike, Mondays, MS Project, Asana
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