Pride Parkway, Derby. DE24 8UG.
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Job Title |
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Head of IT Services |
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Dates |
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1997 - 2002 |
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Status |
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Merged to form Derby College |
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Initially the role was to develop the College IT infrastructure and manage a small team of three support technicians. Over the first three years this resulted in the design of a new gigabit Ethernet networking infrastructure and the design and implementation of a Windows NT server solution covering all aspects of network services including authentication, file/print, Microsoft Exchange, intranet services using IIS and Internet access via Proxy 2.
Over this same period in excess of 1000 PC clients were specified, budgeted and procured by myself and installed onto the network by my team. These installations ranged from individual items to projects of 100+ PCs, all of which were achieved to time and to budget. Having made large scale additions to the infrastructure the support team was restructured into a dedicated helpdesk consisting of 7 staff members and an infrastructure team, concentrating mainly on further developments, of four.
The College also expanded to additional sites and in order to facilitate this I designed a wide area networking solution to allow remote sites to access LAN based resources such as the main student records, network drives and the Internet. Four sites were completed in this manner adding a further 100 PCs. Following from these developments I undertook a project to upgrade to Windows 2000 with Active Directory and Exchange 2000. I designed the active directory and implementation was completed in September 2001.
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