Experience

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Infrastructure Team Lead

  • Apr 2023 - Present

• Data Centre Manager/Principal Infrastructure Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  • Lead the £1m refresh of the Trust’s Data Centres including initial requirements, appraisal of bids, planning with the successful third party and implementation.• Oversee day-to-day operations including monitoring and management of computer and building functions.• Management of maintenance contracts between the Trust and commercial third parties.• Creation and review of IT policy surrounding the Data Centre and its assets.• Planning the accommodation of new systems and retirement of old services.• Form part of an IT technical decision making group, paying attention to therequirements of the business.• Form part of an IT planning and strategic group advising the IT Service Manager ofnew technological developments and where investment may be recommended.• Asset management of Data Centre hardware.• Installation and maintenance of server hardware.• Installation and maintenance of network hardware. Show less

• Senior IT Systems Engineer

  • May 2014 - Present

  I have been involved in a variety of projects at SaTH. One of the largest being the refurbishment of our Data Centres at SaTH, involving design, construction, project management and operational management. Other projects have included a refresh of our VMWare environments, the upgrade of our Active Directory servers and services, a rollout of HP/Aruba Procurve infrastructure combined with FreeRADIUS Network Access Control.Other areas of work include Windows and Linux server installation/management, SQL service management, AD services installation/management, Exchange management, physical infrastructure installation/management (Dell PowerEdge series chassis/blade/servers), Cisco Firewall management and Smoothwall Content Filtering management. Show less

• Acting Infrastructure Team Lead

  • Jan 2023 - May 2023

• Windows 10/SCCM Technical Lead

  • Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Leading the technical Windows 10 migration programme including the design and build of reference image and deployment using MDT and Quest KACE.• Rationalisation and packaging of managed applications.• Set up the framework and templates for future feature updates.• Designed and planned a phased implementation approach for SCCM.• Management of staff and third party resource to achieve implementations at-pace.• Designed and implemented scripts and processes enabling large volume device baremetal spin up by a third party vendor. Show less



Thomas Adams School and Sixth Form Centre

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Network Manager

  • 2009 - May 2014

• IT Technician

  • Jul 2005 - 2009