Solution Architect... Senior Technical Consultant
Currently seeking employment
Total years of experience :9 years, 1 Months
networking & infrastructure specialist
Technical Architect, project lead, hands on delivery & product support for the following software & hardware solutions:
Security protection with SonicWALL & Barracuda Firewalls, Antivirus with ESET, Sophos & Symantec.
GDPR/DATA security using Forcepoint for Email, WEB & Endpoint Data Loss Protection.
Disaster recovery using Veeam, Shadowprotect, Altaro & Symantec for both physical & virtual servers
Server virtualization (p2v & v2v), upgrades & deployments using the latest Dell, HPE, IBM Flexpod & Lenovo servers.
Networking L2, L3 & Storage using MPLS, SDN, Fiber Channel, Cisco catalyst, HPE & Dell, SME routers & switches.
WIFI design & deployment with Cisco Aironet, Mobility management, AAA using Radius, LDAP & PSK authentication.
VoIP design & support for Mitel & ShoreTel systems, configuring QOS, SIP, BWM & High Availabilty.
SAN storage upgrades, design & delivery using HPE MSA, Storevirtual, Dell EMC, Lenovo & Qnap NAS devices.
Technical lead for Networking, Virtualization, Server, Storage & Backup solutions.
Firewall/UTM knowledge with vendors such as Smoothwall, F5, Cisco, Sonicwall, Cyberoam, both physical & virtual.
Networking, load balancing, SDN experience with vendors such as Smoothwall, Cisco, HP, Sonicwall, Netgear, D-link & F5.
WIFI surveying, design, POC, deployment, management & training using Cisco Meraki, Cisco Aironet & Ubiqity.
Cisco VoIP CUCM, Unity, IM&P, Callmanager express, installation, upgrades & user management.
VMware Virtualization Datacenter Professional 5&6. Planning, P2V, hypervisor patching, upgrades, migrations & relocations.
Server sizing, provisioning & maintenance with Cisco UCS blade & rack mount servers, HP ProLiant & Dell Poweredge.
Windows server 2000-2012 R2, Office 365, CRM online, Microsoft Office 2016 migration & maintenance experience.
Storage installation & upgrades using the latest Hyper-Converged, hybrid flash SAN's, DAS, NAS, iSCSI, NFS, VMFS datastores.
Veeam cloud service provider, (I have now added BAAS using Azure, AWS & hybrid cloud to the companies list of services)
SMB to Tier 4 datacenter level architecture, PCI/ISO compliance & deployment experience.
Consultation, Surveying, Build, Deployment, Benchmarking & Training across multiple technologies.
Staff training, Apprentice mentoring, information specialist for a team of 20+ staff.
I was awarded the Kirklees mentor of the year award 2016 for the entire region.
GCSE: English Maths French Communities studies C&G: Computers & Computing 726-212 Digital Electronics 726-301 * Electronic Servicing 224 Numeracy * (* indicates distinctions)