Curriculum Vitae 

Personal Detail                   

                                                 Career Experience 

Feb 2000 to present day ~ XXXX Southampton 

At ABP my main role is that of IT Infrastructure Manager, this involves leading a team of 5 technical analysts based in two locations Southampton and Cardiff. The team are responsible for supporting around 520 users, and for implementation of new technology and products to the user base. I am a hands on person and I feel that in this sort of environment it is important that a manager is comfortable with the technology his staff are supporting and working with. I am also responsible for the design and implementation of an ever-expanding network comprising of both LAN and WAN technologies, adequate backup, DR facilities and critical system maintenance cover. My team also provides out of hours support for certain departments within the business. 

Another part of my role in the ABP IT department is to run various projects mainly IT implementation in nature, these projects are based around the PRINCE 2 methodology that ABP have adopted and slightly modified to fit in with the group project strategy. I am a qualified PRINCE 2 project manager and have a number of successful projects under my belt.

Ports are potentially an extremely dangerous place and as a result ABP have embarked on an extensive project to train all their managers in Health and safety, as a result of this I am a qualified IOSH Risk Assessor, and have attended the IOSH “Control of Contractors” & “Managing Safely” Course. We regularly perform risk assessments on other departments as a method of keeping our risk assessment skills keen. 

The technologies we have in ABP and therefore I am very familiar with are:-  

MS Windows 2000& 2003 server

MS Exchange 5.5 & 2003

MS SQL 2000

Bright store product range

MS Office 2000 & 2003

Various network monitoring packages and LAN Analysers

Help desk software

Server and Workstation hardware

LAN & WAN hardware

Reporting products such as Cognos and Crystal reports

MS Project

Various Radar systems (Unix based)

WAN perimeter security products such as Mail Marshal and Sonic FW’s

MS Terminal server technology

MS NT domain and AD security models  

Most recently we have migrated our NT based domains to MS AD, this has been a large project and it has been broken down into regional work packages giving regional IT departments responsibility for their own areas. 

Contract with XXXX 

September 1999 ~ Feb 2000

Here I assisted with the additional work the company had with regard to the year 2000 issues. This included ensuring that all systems where compliant with the date change and supporting their user base over this period.  

Snr IT Support Analyst XXXX

1994 ~ September 1999

At Pirelli I was a member of a small IT team of 3 that supported approx 170 users based in the Southampton area some in an office environment and some users in a manufacturing environment, The applications supported here where mainly MS office, Windows O/S and Novell with access to an IBM AS400/RS6000 based MRP System. 

Novell Instructor 

 1986 ~ 1994 

I held the position of certified Novell instructor with a company called QDL based in Southampton who where take over by Interquad in Slough. I delivered the whole range of Novell networking courses both in the UK and abroad. This experience means that I am no stranger to speaking to small and large groups as training courses and presentations. 

Private life 

I hold the position of Honorary Secretary at the [xxx] this involves ensuring members abide by the club rules. I have been voted back into this position 3 years running so I must be doing something right. I am a very keen sailor with my own yacht on the river Hamble and I enjoy travelling.