Maria Moreno

BRENDAN SWEENEY ICT Director Delivering Cost Saving, Infrastructure and Virtualisation Solutions Across Multiple Sites. Professional Profile ICT Director and certified Citrix Virtualisation Expert, with 25 years’ experience delivering multi-site, complex system builds. Deep knowledge of the education sector and the challenges and demands of working with cross location teams and networks. Highly knowledgeable and strategic, with board level reporting responsibility, acting as a conduit between senior management and the IT team. Evaluating new tools and solutions to improve IT operations and deliver efficient and streamlined networks. Known as a charismatic mentor and leader, recruiting, managing and inspiring, high performing support and implementation teams. Lover of technology, always exploring and innovating to ensure the most modern, cost-effective solutions, are evaluated and deployed consistently and with minimum disruption resulting in significant capex savings. Technical Skill Set Extensive hands-on expertise in: Servers: Microsoft Windows Server AD, GPO’s, DNS, DHCP both physical & virtual. Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL server admin, Office 365 & Azure. Virtualization Platforms: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, Storefront, PVS) & VMWare ESXi, vSphere & Hyper V Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 10, 8, 7 & XP & Microsoft Office 2016, 2013 & 2010. Networking: WAN, LAN, VLAN, VoIP, Wi-Fi, VPN, Firewalls (Smoothwall & Sonicwall), TCP/IP networks, Switches, Dell Equallogic SANs Software: Office 365, Sharepoint, SIMS(MIS), FMS, Cobal ERP, Tetra CS/3 ERP Technical Certifications Microsoft MCSE, Cisco CCNP & CCNA, Citrix Virtualisation Expert Career Summary ICT Director Middlesex Learning Partnership, London Jun 2009 - Present Responsibilities: Director leading the strategic and budgetary ICT decisions, for all establishments in the Multi Academy Trust. Focused on identifying, recommending, developing, implementing and supporting cost-effective technology solutions. Providing leadership for a team of 8 technical support staff, managing a user-base in excess of 2500. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Building integrated multi-site ICT systems and services. • Creating over £200,000 capex savings, through virtualisation of the server & desktop infrastructure. • Saving 33% capex, by swapping out 120 varied devices at £25k with annual running costs of £300k, for a Ricoh centralised print and copier management contract, at £105k per annum inclusive of maintenance, expendables etc.. • Saved £35k by deploying Office 365 for all users and retiring outlook and exchange servers. This reduced the number of physical servers required onsite and improved centralised data management. • Upgrading over 25000 users from Azure to Active Directory SSO • Generating huge capex savings (£246K initially growing ever four years) by consolidating virtual servers onto Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 (approx. 40 servers, including domain controllers & file servers). 500 computers were replaced with a virtualised image, resulting in a more secure and stable environment and increased update speeds. • Standardising of all classroom ICT equipment including roll-out of interactive smart boards in every classroom. • Architecting a ruckus cloud-based Wi-Fi solution for BYOD using Cisco MDM. • Designing and maintaining the system security and disaster recovery procedures, covering a range of scenarios including server, hardware, software and physical risks • Increasing efficiency of ICT Helpdesk by automating the ICT asset tracking system and centralising ICT staff. Technologies: Servers, firewalls (Smoothwall), Switches, IP phones, Wireless and remote VPN, Cisco Merkai, Cisco MDM, Microsoft Windows 20012 R2, Active Directory SSO, Office 365, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenServer, GDPR Compliance, Azure ICT Manager Hillingdon Grid for Learning, London Sep 2006 – Jun 2009 Responsibilities: Controlling the strategy and project management for all educational establishments in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Designed and implemented security policies and disaster recovery planning. Multi-site management for networking (WAN, LAN, VPN), software, accounts, support (up to third line) and licencing. Lead and managed support team ensuring rapid resolution of issues. Achievements: • Modernised and improved speeds across the network by project managing cross-establishment upgrades from Microsoft Server 2003 to 2008. • Reduced costs and increased compatibility by standardisation of all ICT equipment. • Improved coverage and ease of access to resources through multi-site roll-out of WIFI network. • Significantly increased access speeds, and reduced costs by upgrading Cisco network across all establishments to a 1GB LAN & WAN. Technologies Used: Microsoft Server 2008 & 2003, AD, DNS, DHCP, WAN, LAN, VPN, Microsoft Exchange Servers Group IT Manager Impress Group Ltd, UK Jan 1990 – Jul 2005 Responsibilities: Provided technical strategy and leadership across all 7 companies within the Impress Group. Managed a team of 30 IT technical staff across multiple locations. Managed the entire physical and virtual infrastructure cross group, implementing new software, while maintaining and upgrading servers and networks. Achievements: • Project managed Tetra CS/3 install, an integrated ERP platform across the group encompassing Sales, Manufacturing, Distribution and Finance. • Significantly improved process for major customers within the group by deploying EDI sales and invoicing system. • Streamlined procedures for all office equipment engineers, by the implementation of Tesseract field service management systems. • Simplified sales and distribution by WAN linking all UK sites. Technologies: Tetra CS/3 ERP, WAN, BT KilosStream, Microsoft Windows NT4 Servers, SQL, SCO Unix Open Servers running bespoke Cobol ERP