United Kingdom
A dedicated and accomplished technical solutions architect who has held a wide range of design and implementation roles as a Consultant and Network and Security Architect. Ex-military and with over twenty-five years of expertise working for Zscaler, Cisco Partners and integrators, designing, and implementing secure, robust, and scalable network solutions. Adept at rapidly building client relationships and translating complex business needs and intent into strategic network designs, supporting both business and digital transformation from Proof of Concept through to fully supported solutions. With a proven track record of success in designing, implementing, and supporting cutting-edge network and security solutions, you can be confident in my experience, customer facing acumen and hands on technical expertise. My ability to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and contribute to the continued growth and success of your organisation has been demonstrated in my previous roles. Currently training for my CISSP certification to enhance my expertise in cybersecurity, ensuring I am well-equipped to address complex security challenges and contribute effectively to my role in protecting organisational assets.
Consultant working on a large-scale Data Centre Migration from Cisco 6509 Spanning-tree domain to Nexus Core using Fabricpath. ACE loadbalancers to F5, ASA Firewalls to Checkpoint VSX systems. Migrations of VRF’s/ISP/FW Platforms across multiple EMEA Regions in business critical environments to new Data Centre in a planned and strategic manner until all systems are at the decommissioning stages. Working alongside the Chosen vendors to ratify and product LLD/HLD for each area during the migration. Working onsite in Switzerland at the beginning of the project to ensure that a testing platform for the new Data Centre was tested and ready to be rolled out during a series out large outage windows. From design to implementation and troubleshooting and then handing over into the relevant support teams.