IT Manager/Technical Services Manager
Experienced IT professional with wide-ranging technical knowledge and skills, developed from 20 years in commercial environments; proven ability to assess new systems and issues quickly, both to propose immediate solutions and to recommend long-term strategy; excellent communicator and team player, leading by example, with a determination and tenacity to deliver results exceeding expectations within resource constraints.
Technical skills include Windows 2K/2K3/NT/9x/XP, Perl, SQL, MS Exchange 5.5/2K, MS Office, IIS support, SQLserver, BackupExec, Arcserve, TCP/IP WAN/LAN configuration & management, Cisco Routers & Firewalls, VPNs, VOIP, Cisco CallManager, Unity-VM, Linux, Fortran, C, VB/VBA/VBscript, OpenVMS, VMSclusters, DEC Pathworks, SAMBA, ABAP & SAPscript, SAP user support, Vax Pascal.
29 years in employment in full time jobs
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2005 - 2005
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Skyway Concessions
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Following my contract with Midland Expressway (M6toll) I was asked to take up a short (2-3 month) contract in Chicago, IL, USA, as acting IT Manager for the company operating the toll bridge (a subsidiary of MEL). Managed all systems and networks while the company advertised for and interviewed a local IT Manager and 2 support staff.
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2004 - 2005
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Midland Expressway
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3 moonth contract as Contract IT Manager extended to 8 months at request of client. Managed all spaects of support and maintenance. Planned and implemented IT aspects of closure of M6toll construction project office. Wrote a number of Perl and SQL reports to extract, verify and analyse data associated with credit card transactions and traffic on the motorway.
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2003 - 2004
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Connexions Derbyshire
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ICT Manager - managed team of 6 supporintg systems and networks across Derbyshire.
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2003 - 2003
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Legend Computer Services
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IT Consultant (Contract)
?Provided advice and support on various applications and technologies
?Assisted in office relocations and system reconfigurations
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1990 - 2002
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GenRad/Teradyne
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IT/Systems Manager:
?Managed and recruited staff for the European IT group
?Administered all computer systems and networks used by all users across Europe
?Ensured resources and maintenance contracts in place to ensure business continuity
?Provided ?hands-on? 3rd line technical assistance as necessary
?Worked with groups to identify facilities to support existing/new business requirements
?Consolidated requests from all departments into budget proposals for IT expenditure
?Co-opted to US/European ERP system (SAP) implementation team by board-level management due to technical and business knowledge plus problem solving abilities
?Recommended improvements in external and internal network security and monitoring
?Managed pilot implementations of Active Directory and Exchange 2000
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1990 - 1990
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GEC Meters
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Senior Applications Engineer/Project Manager
?Employed to lead a project to migrate GEC's monitoring software to Vax computers
?Programmed enhancements to monitoring software
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1986 - 1989
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VG Lab Systems
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Senior Programmer to Project Manager
?Managed and recruited for programming teams
?Administered and supported development VaxClusters and other computers
?Technical backup to sales force; including working at customer sites in US and Europe
?Managed migration project of company?s major product (LIMS) from VAX Pascal to C with Oracle on HP-UX
?Devised and programmed major enhancements to company?s products
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1980 - 1986
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Manchester University
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Computer Manager
?Responsible for management, support and maintenance of department?s computers
?Wrote and maintained programs for data acquisition, analysis and display of data on DEC PDP 11, IBM 370 and GEC4000 computers
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Lotus Notes Admin (1 week)
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Lotus Notes Technical User (1 week)
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MS - Administering NT4 (1 week)
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ms - Core Technologies of Exchange 5 (1 week)
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MS - Implementing & Admin Win2K Directory Services (1 week)
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MS - Supporting NT4 - Core (1 week)
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MS - Supporting Win 95 (1 week)
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MS - Supporting Win2K network infrastructure (1 week)
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SAP - ABAP WB-ABAP disctionary (2 days)
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SAP - ABAP WB-Basics (1 week)
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SAP - ABAP WB-List Processing (1 week)
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SAP - ABAP WB-Transaction processing (1 week)
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SAP - Euro Technical Workshop (1 day)
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SAP - SAPscript (3 days)
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MS - Updating Support NT to Win2K (1 week)
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Full time
Contract/Project/Freelance