ICT Manager for an Internet advertising start up responsible for entire corporate infrastructure, managing a team of six over globally distributed offices. Hiring of staff, performance reviews, team motivation. Strategic planning, Budgetary responsibility for £1m annually in Operational and Capital expenses, creation and enforcement of policy. Introduction and application of best practice and compliance methodologies ITIL and SOX. Recent projects delivered include; Wireless system upgrade, Asset Management, Software library, MS enterprise and select agreement, Mobile handset refresh and renegotiation of tariff, WDS deployment, AD restructure and Telecom system roll-out.

Self employed under the banner of X204.net, X204.net is an Information and Communication Technology Services Company delivering business development, strategy consultancy and best practice solutions to small to medium enterprises.
Consultancies included e-commerce, stock control, retail, media start up, virtualization and email.

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Operational responsibility for telecoms, servers, desktops, laptops, network infrastructure, security, maintenance and support agreements IT budget, purchasing asset management, processes, policies, procedures and helpdesk.
Reporting to the UK finance director and engaging with senior business figures across all departments.
Hired and managed a team of 3 people assigning them tasks, training and motivating them to meet deadlines
Responsible for developing and executing strategy to meet business requirements and direction, project management, budget control, legislation compliance, overseeing the helpdesk function, systems implementation, maintenance and support,
Successfully replaced digital telecoms systems with VOIP, migrated all servers from NT4 and 2000 to windows 2003
Upgraded internet and WAN links saving 30k per year and increasing bandwidth Implemented blackberry remote email solution
Implemented VPN and iPass remote access solution
Implemented secure WLAN
2001 -2003 Network Analyst
Increased network stability by redesigning core network for resiliency and carried out upgrade, this included using VLANS, and Meshing technology.
Replaced software firewall with hardware solution and configured
Implemented network monitoring system providing proactive alerts thus preventing downtime