John Pickford
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Myles Crees
I have had the pleasure of working with John in in the past on a med/large size (£1m+) international HW refresh/server virtualisation project for a global beverage packaging manufacturer. The project involved John having to spend numerous weeks away from the UK and complete installation, testing and troubleshooting of the new systems at a range sites across multiple countries throughout the EU and Russia. John rapidly demonstrated himself to be a superb technical consultant and very quickly gained the trust and respect of the customer. Excellent technical knowledge and attitude to work combined with adaptability and great people skills make John a very well rounded consultant with whom I would be delighted to work with in the future.
Richard Winchester
John worked with me as a Technical Consultant on a number of virtualisation projects whilst at Kavanagh, both in a pre sales and design/implementation capacity. I have always found John to be extremely knowledgeable and professional in delivering these services and would put him in the top tier of people I have worked with. I would have no hesitation in recommending John to any prospective employer.
Myles Crees
I have had the pleasure of working with John in in the past on a med/large size (£1m+) international HW refresh/server virtualisation project for a global beverage packaging manufacturer. The project involved John having to spend numerous weeks away from the UK and complete installation, testing and troubleshooting of the new systems at a range sites across multiple countries throughout the EU and Russia. John rapidly demonstrated himself to be a superb technical consultant and very quickly gained the trust and respect of the customer. Excellent technical knowledge and attitude to work combined with adaptability and great people skills make John a very well rounded consultant with whom I would be delighted to work with in the future.
Richard Winchester
John worked with me as a Technical Consultant on a number of virtualisation projects whilst at Kavanagh, both in a pre sales and design/implementation capacity. I have always found John to be extremely knowledgeable and professional in delivering these services and would put him in the top tier of people I have worked with. I would have no hesitation in recommending John to any prospective employer.
Myles Crees
I have had the pleasure of working with John in in the past on a med/large size (£1m+) international HW refresh/server virtualisation project for a global beverage packaging manufacturer. The project involved John having to spend numerous weeks away from the UK and complete installation, testing and troubleshooting of the new systems at a range sites across multiple countries throughout the EU and Russia. John rapidly demonstrated himself to be a superb technical consultant and very quickly gained the trust and respect of the customer. Excellent technical knowledge and attitude to work combined with adaptability and great people skills make John a very well rounded consultant with whom I would be delighted to work with in the future.
Richard Winchester
John worked with me as a Technical Consultant on a number of virtualisation projects whilst at Kavanagh, both in a pre sales and design/implementation capacity. I have always found John to be extremely knowledgeable and professional in delivering these services and would put him in the top tier of people I have worked with. I would have no hesitation in recommending John to any prospective employer.
Myles Crees
I have had the pleasure of working with John in in the past on a med/large size (£1m+) international HW refresh/server virtualisation project for a global beverage packaging manufacturer. The project involved John having to spend numerous weeks away from the UK and complete installation, testing and troubleshooting of the new systems at a range sites across multiple countries throughout the EU and Russia. John rapidly demonstrated himself to be a superb technical consultant and very quickly gained the trust and respect of the customer. Excellent technical knowledge and attitude to work combined with adaptability and great people skills make John a very well rounded consultant with whom I would be delighted to work with in the future.
Richard Winchester
John worked with me as a Technical Consultant on a number of virtualisation projects whilst at Kavanagh, both in a pre sales and design/implementation capacity. I have always found John to be extremely knowledgeable and professional in delivering these services and would put him in the top tier of people I have worked with. I would have no hesitation in recommending John to any prospective employer.
Experience
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Synapse360
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO
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Feb 2020 - Present
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Presales Solutions Architect
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Mar 2011 - Feb 2020
Synapse are a Dell EMC Platinum Partner with a proven and consistent track record of creating customer success stories by delivering de-risked solutions and services. As part of the sales team I work with Account Managers to understand the customer's requirements before developing the best-fit approach, solution and services across mid-market high and enterprise customers. I lead customer engagements where there is an opportunity to transform IT operations. This may be one or a combination of;Hybrid Cloud ArchitecturesPrivate Cloud Technologies and ServicesHyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)Desktop and Application Delivery Show less
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SCC
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Warrington, United Kingdom
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Virtualisation Consultant
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Oct 2010 - Mar 2011
A member of the Virtualisation and Collaboration Team at SCC following the acquisition of Kavanagh in September 2010. A member of the Virtualisation and Collaboration Team at SCC following the acquisition of Kavanagh in September 2010.
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Kavanagh
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Consultant
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Oct 2009 - Oct 2010
Member of the virtualisation team at Kavanagh and responsible for pre-sales consultancy, design and delivery of infrastructure optimisation solutions to clients across the UK and Europe. Member of the virtualisation team at Kavanagh and responsible for pre-sales consultancy, design and delivery of infrastructure optimisation solutions to clients across the UK and Europe.
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Technical Consultant
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Feb 2008 - May 2009
Responsible for pre-sales, design and delivery of solutions that were mainly focused around virtualisation, availabilty and application delivery. Technical lead for virtualisation solutions from initial pre-sales engagement through to capacity planning, technical proposal input and design and planning stages. Responsible for driving virtualisation marketing campaigns with a series of cusotmer focused technical sessions covering VMware VI3/vSphere, XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V which then evolved to cover desktop virtualisation. Also heavilly involved in the design and planning of a number of Microsoft Exchange and domain migrations for organisations across the UK and providing 3rd level server support for the managed services operation. Show less
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Yes Telecom
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Netherlands
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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IT Service Desk Manager
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Sep 2005 - Sep 2007
Planning, design and delivery of IT services to the business whilst managing a team of engineers who where responsible for providing 1st to 3rd level support to the internal user base. Heavily involved in the server virtualisation and storage phases that allowed SLA's to be met for availability and provisioning of services. Planning, design and delivery of IT services to the business whilst managing a team of engineers who where responsible for providing 1st to 3rd level support to the internal user base. Heavily involved in the server virtualisation and storage phases that allowed SLA's to be met for availability and provisioning of services.
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Education
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1993 - 1998
Siddal Moor Sports College
GSCE English, Maths, Science -
2000 - 2003
The University of Bolton
Computing, IT Networking, analysis and development
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