Experience

G&H Group
• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Energy Project Manager

  • Jan 2023 - Present

Self-employed
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Technical Project Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

4On 365 Ltd
• Director Of Operations

  • Dec 2019 - Nov 2021

Safe Hosts Internet LLP
• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director Of Operations

  • Dec 2019 - Nov 2021

Datacentre Products and Services Ltd
• Project Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Nov 2021

Hanzo Archives
• Service Delivery Manager

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2019


Host Europe Group

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UK Facilities & Operations Manager

  • Jun 2008 - Jun 2016

  Responsible for all aspects of HEG's UK data centre operation and 40-strong team of on-site technical personnel. Ensuring Service Delivery, uptime and service continuity meet strict SLA's. Providing incident Management, technical pre-sales, client and management and procuring 3rd party suppliers and contractors. Recent goals include the design and complete fit out of their live data centre providing n+n resilience to every component for maximum availability whilst improving its PUE from 3+ to 1.25. This required the relocation of live services without causing incident or downtime. Relocation of Heart Internet from 3rd party ISP to Leeds. Refit of cooling systems in another DC saving £200k in annual operating costs Implementation of group-wide incident management procedures Energy management and export system saving £250k in annual operating costs securing a CCA in the process.



Pipex Communications

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Unix Systems Administrator

  • 2004 - 2008

  Worked with a team of 4 people I was jointly responsible for the maintenance and installation of internal and hosted Unix and Linux systems. Typically these would be dedicated and shared web-services (Apache, MySQL, Exim, PHP) using Red Hat and Debian Linux and Sun Solaris platforms using Dell or HP hardware. As the Technical Authority I was responsible for standardising technical working practices and procedures across the group. Worked with a team of 4 people I was jointly responsible for the maintenance and installation of internal and hosted Unix and Linux systems. Typically these would be dedicated and shared web-services (Apache, MySQL, Exim, PHP) using Red Hat and Debian Linux and Sun Solaris platforms using Dell or HP hardware. As the Technical Authority I was responsible for standardising technical working practices and procedures across the group.



Firstnet Services Ltd.

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Centre Manager

  • 2000 - 2004

  • Appointed to manage the construction of the 2nd Data Centre (LDC2). • Responsible for managing and subcontracting the installation of all aspects of the facility including UPS, fire suppression, air conditioning, fibre, telephones, IP-based CCTV and implementing the security and hosting procedures. This included the fit out of all the data suites, offices and staff facilities. • Managed data centre operations team to ensure uptime for all services hosted with in (responsible for installations, connectivity, monitoring, reporting, incident management and capacity management). • Managing the 24*7 team responsible for all first-contact technical enquiries over the full range of services the company offered by phone, fax, email or in person. • The team was responsible for the administration of hosted and core infrastructure servers these were Unix or Microsoft based systems running the typical online services (web, email, RADIUS, DNS and caching etc) and providing transit services (leased line, ISDN, PSTN and DSL). • As manager I was also responsible for creating the technical procedures and guidelines, maintaining and improving the quality of customer services as well as supervising and mentoring staff.



Info techtronics ltd

• Electronics engineer

  • 1993 - 2000

  Electronics Service engineer, responsible for the diagnosis and repair of EPOS and desktop IT equipment at the component level, providing documentation and training to other personnel. Electronics Service engineer, responsible for the diagnosis and repair of EPOS and desktop IT equipment at the component level, providing documentation and training to other personnel.