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 IT Professional.

I am a highly experienced IT professional with excellent interpersonal skills. Have over twelve years of IT expertise and possess a wide range of skills. I am a conscientious and exacting worker who is always open to new ideas. Have excellent troubleshooting skills and, a systematic approach to problem solving.  Am an eager and willing worker who is always looking for the opportunity to further develop my knowledge base.  

Capabilities

·        12 years IT experience of working in a wide ranging areas.

·        IT expertise in a wide range of technologies.

·         Project completions of  network / email / desktop migrations/ rollout.

·         Supervision of teams to provide internal support

·         External company liaison to provide consultancy and support 

 Education

Scheidegger  Training                                                                                                                        

Luton

Information Technology                                     PC/Server/Maintenance  A+

Information Technology                                     Network +

Information Technology                                     Currently studying Cisco CCNA intro,

                                                                                   Cisco ICND

Tycoch College, Swansea                                                                                                                  

City and Guilds                                                    706-1 and 706-2 

Cefn Hengoed Comprehensive, Swansea                                                                                    

English Language                                                 GCE/O Level – B Grade

Mathematics                                                         GCE/O Level – C Grade

Art                                                                           GCE/O Level – A Grade

History                                                                   CSE – Grade 1 ( C, O-level pass)

Chemistry                                                              CSE - Grade 2 

Employment 

[snip]                                                                                                  2003-

Business Description: PC/Server and Network Services.

Position Held:              Company Director/  Engineer

IT business concentrating in  PC/Server/Epos installation, repair/upgrade and network services  run in conjunction with  IT  contracts.    

Major Achievements:

  •  Developed successful business with solid reputation for quality of service.
  •  Solid reputation in the news agency/ corner shop  community, for dealing with epos problems and  staff training over a number of years.
  •  Help develop IT skills of local community members over a number of years with PC skills classes.

 [snip], Swansea                                                                                                                                         1998-Jan2005

Business Description: Retail Outlet (community shop).  Florist,  Newsagent-Off licence.

Position Held:              Company director.  

Purchased Retail outlet to increase turnover by implementing e-business strategies. Sold business profitably, as a going concern in 2005. 

Major Achievements:

  • Installed,  maintained and upgraded both store's Epos systems and networked back-offices and, web site development and maintenance.
  • Developed staff training programs for on-line sales, and use of Epos and back-office.
  • Created business that became a vital part of the community and, reached final of 'Bestway business of the year' competition for largest turnover increase.

[snip], Swansea                                                                                                                                                     1994-1998

Business Description: International wholesale warehouse company.

Position Held:              Trading office, IT   supervisor.

 Supervise running an IT team of purchase order and, stock control clerks.  My duties included staff training, troubleshooting, data analysis and, presentations. 

Major Achievements:

  • The efficiency of my team reduced overall stock holding from £7m to £3.7m while reducing 'out of stocks' by 37%.
  • Helped bring store into profit and, store's first staff profit share within first 12months on department.
  • Coordinated and, implemented regular staff IT training programs throughout the store including Telxon and, Epos training, Windows applications , department specific IT training.

 [snip], Swansea                                                                                                                                 1992-1994

Business Description: Bedroom furniture retail group.

Position Held:              Manager of Cardiff outlet.

 Duties included day to day running of store. Stock control. Staff sales and, product training.

Major Achievements:

  • Helped my team bring new store into profit within first 12months of opening.
  • Exceeded bottom-line targets year on year until leaving company.
  • Youngest and most successful store manager in the company.

[snip], Swansea                                                                                                                                        1989-1992

Business Description: Specialists of  niche market electronic products

Position Held:              Sales manager.

 Coordinated a team of direct sales people selling newly developed12v products to the motor home and motorboat industry.

Major Achievements:

  • Successfully run an exhibition stall with record year on year sales at the National Boat shows.
  • Increased business to the extent that my trebled my team size during my time there.
  • Captured many new and important client contracts Including the  'Camel' formula 3000 race team.

Professional traning & Product Experience 

Windows NT Server 4, 2000, 2003, 95, 98, me and xp, Novell NetWare: 3 & 5 Net ware, Unix: SCO/Sun OS/HP-UX/Aix/Solaris/Siemens Nixdorf, Linux: SuSe, Red Hat, Mac Os X Server, AE Server, MySQL, Firewalls, AAA Server, Vo-ip Wireless technologies.  Pc/ Server Hardware  maintenance , advanced configuration, Troubleshooting. AN, TCP/IP Network cabling, installation. Cisco IOS/ICL management. Cisco product range installation. Cisco router, Cisco catalyst switch installation and, management. Directory services, fault tolerance/disaster,recovery and, routine maintenance. Multilayer switching,  Routers,  AS5400 Universal Gateway,  ONS 154584 DWDM Optical Network System,  DSLAM 6100, GBIC. Desktop applications Word and, Excel installation, usage and, upgrade.

 
 
 
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