Experience

LeadTec Ltd

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Oct 2011 - Present

• Technical Director

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  As founder member and technical lead for a fast-growing IT service company, I’m responsible for designing, delivering and supporting success business systems. Working with businesses from many sectors ranging from small companies to large enterprises, solid knowledge and experience of multiple platforms is essential.If you are experiencing IT issues or have concerns around your security and protection solutions, we can review your systems and provide a full proposal for a complete technical solution. Our strongest ability is being able to analyse and troubleshoot existing systems helping businesses to resolve major IT issues and security risks. With over 15 years of hands-on technical experience in the large corporate sector, we are perfectly placed to help any business improve their IT systems through correct configuration of existing systems or through complete IT re-design.



Kelway UK Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Business Supplies & Equipment

• Contracted IT Consultant

  • 2011 - 2012



Mercedes Benz AMG HPP

• Technical Architect

  • Apr 2010 - Sep 2011

  Employed as IT Technical Architect to help redesign and drive business IT systems including trackside Engineers systems for McLaren, Mercedes GP and Force India F1, to offer better performance and quicker development. Redesigned and implemented a new network topology to offer resiliency and better performance, including VPN’s and WAN links with third parties and F1 teams. Worked closely with parent company, Mercedes Benz, through the full lifecycle of the project and signoff.Commissioned 2nd Data Centre on site, again to offer greater resilience to the business and trackside activities. Migrated and consolidated existing systems on physical servers down to minimal footprint before scoping and managing virtualisation project to VMware.



Technical Concepts

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Manager

  • Sep 2006 - Oct 2009

  Implemented a large scale project which involved upgrading the company's current network typology,infrastructure and services requiring expertise in a number of areas to meet targets and ensuredelivery of project aims within budget and on time. Initially liaised with the business to understandthe requirements and formulated a solution to best fit the expectation and budget. The upgrade wasimplemented over to course of 4 months to ensure the business was lease impacted and no downtimewas experienced. Also carried out project reviews with the business to ensure key objectives wereachieved. Continuous support and business migration of legacy systems range from ERP systems toold Windows technologies.Responsibilities during the project and the continuous support were extensive and include: Planning activities, trouble shooting and assessing constraints to minimise disruption to personnel and business operation Review and evaluate project progress with key business managers Installation of Cisco applications, reviewing and improving the existing back up strategy Planning and installing Windows 2003 Terminal service server to allow the South African and Dutch Remote Office to connect to business systems Upgrading anti virus protection, running it from a central managed desktop and exchange Integrating UK ERP systems with the Dutch MRP system, full project management and resource planning Identifying and installing an appropriate software solution to help the business grow efficientlyContinuing role includes day to day support of the three EMEA IT locations, maintaining and addingenhancements to the current systems. Working alongside Newell Rubbermaid to migrate all thesystems over to their distributed services to enable the sites to be managed from Birmingham andclosed (currently).



ChoicesUK

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Support Manager

  • Apr 1999 - Sep 2006

  + Adopted hands on approach to management in order to properly support technical teams and systems+ Monitored and reviewed all telecoms within the company, decreased overall spend, including line rental reductions+ Restructured the Field Support Team to offer regional support as opposed to central support + Testing, installing and maintaining new systems such as Cisco VOIP in the call centre environment + Providing training and ensuring the skills development of individuals and staff through performance and review and mentoring + Provided 1st / 2nd / 3rd line support management+ Designed, coordinated and rolled out wide area network to 250 retail / rental outlets+ Introduced and managed the implementation of the new EPOS system across the company+ Responsible for al aspects of network security management



Redring Electric

• United Kingdom

• Quality Engineer

  • Sep 1994 - Apr 1999

  Quality engineer for the manufacturing of ceramic and electrical elements. Quality engineer for the manufacturing of ceramic and electrical elements.