London, England, United Kingdom
IT Infrastructure Specialist with World Wide experience
Group VP Infrastructure and Operations APAC/EMEA - Responsible for all infrastructure in Asia/Australasia/Middle East/Europe & UK covering 50 Plus Countries. - Responsible for all IT staff and equipment supporting four data centres and 400+ offices cross the two regions. - Manager of 300 staff supporting 135,000 end users. - Responsible for approval of projects, orders, reviewing designs, prioritizing tasks and projects for groups, making sure all infrastructure groups work together on ongoing projects, day to day service and management of all groups, meeting with clients and build lasting relationships with all vendors and suppliers, ensuring best pricing reviewing all staff, allocating pay and bonuses. - Responsible for the building of three data centres and over 300 offices, reducing costs by 3 million a year, aided in the rapid global expansion of the company over the last 10 years, improved services from six outages a day to less than three per year over the last five years, ensured all projects are delivered on time and to budget with 100% success rate.
BGC Partners Jan 2008 to August 2013 Global Director of Infrastructure - Responsible for all infrastructure in Asia/Australasia/South America/North America/Middle East/Europe & UK -Responsible for all staff and equipment supporting six data centres and 150+ offices globally. -Manager of 300 staff supporting 9000 end users. - Responsible for approval of projects, orders, reviewing designs, prioritizing tasks and projects for groups, making sure all infrastructure groups work together on ongoing projects, day to day service and management of all groups, meeting with clients and build lasting relationships with all vendors and suppliers, insuring best pricing reviewing all staff, allocating pay and bonuses. - Responsible for the building of 2 data centers, help reduce costs by 5 million a year, aided in the rapid global expansion of the company over the last 5 years, improved services, ensured all projects are delivered on time and to budget with 100% success rate - Global groups under my remit include: Wintel/Unix/Network Support/Network Design/Security/Database Admin/Storage/Desktop/Voice/Communication Admin/Market Data Admin/Market Data Technical/Data Centre Management/Global Help Desk/Global Operations
Bloomberg 2003-2008 Asia Pacific Operations Manager (ranging from India to New Zealand) Relocated to Japan to run the Asia pacific group, Turned from lowest performing to highest performing region within 12 months. Involved travelling to every country in Asia, building lasting relationships with vendors, clients and staff. Responsible for the following groups: Installations/Communication Lines/Network Internal/External/Help Desk/Product/Support/Asia Data Centers, this involved managing approximately 100 staff across 9 countries in Asia.
- Responsible for all internal IT across Europe from Desktop – Phone to Servers and Security - Managing 70 staff, in a dynamic fast-paced environment
- Supported all clients and office networks. Evaluated new networking and security products to implement into the global network.