Jason Allan

- Doubled the Managed Services revenue for CDW by ~100 million. - Built new carrier services business, now at 500k Monthly Revenue. - Delivered Global Data Center, Telecom & Data Protection services. - Developed & Delivered on Managed Service Strategic objectives. - Signed up strategic field services and carrier aggregation partners. - Proposed IT service solutions to Managers & C level leadership. - Designed, priced and contracted global data center service solutions. - Designed SD-WAN, Data Center, & Disaster Recovery Solutions. - Responded to and won various RFPs in the DC & Network space. - Responsible for Pricing and Contracts for Managed Services solutions. - Led post sales delivery teams to deploy large enterprise solutions. - Lead presenter at many technology services events.

- Managed cloud service offerings and go forward strategy - Renewed AWS partner status with global cloud team. - Architected Cloud Solutions for customers on Azure and AWS.

Provided enterprise IT solution and service consultancy. - Architected, data center, server, network, & storage solutions. - Consulted on backup, restore & disaster recovery solutions. - Delivery hardware warranty extension solution to extend hardware life.

Worked closely with all levels of customer stakeholders to produce solution designs for many complex Managed Private and Public Cloud, DRaaS, Data Protection, Azure and Office 365 environments, improving the security and manageability of customers environments as well as delivering solutions that significantly enhanced end user experiences. Unified Comms, Azure and AWS.. Responsible for Solution Architecture across a customer base with a total contract value of $26 million. Maintained relationships with key customer stakeholders and assisted in developing corporate technical road maps, IT strategy and system transformation plans. Worked with customers in the Financial industry supporting their Regulatory Compliance Requirements, such as PCI DSS, GDPR & Cyber Security. Recognised for outstanding performance and exceeding customer expectations from solution design through to delivery of various complex IT environments. Developed Architectural Standards and Governance around new product offerings such as Backup & DR service offerings, which increased revenue through product expansion. Project managed the delivery of various Cloud Solutions from solution design through to implementation & handover to BAU on time and within budget. Through continuous learning & personal development my up to date knowledge of new technologies has enabled me to provide strategic advice to customers on industry best practices. Designed and implemented IaaS automation, which led to a significant reduction in time to deliver large and small environments. These improvements in operational efficiency increased project profit margins. Provided consultancy to various customer stakeholders through technical workshops focused on a various topics such as project execution, solution build, server and application migrations, application testing, BAU handover and project closeout.

Designed, Managed and Implemented the Virtualisation and Consolidation of the entire Windows Server environment. Using VMware vSphere 4, I reduced Hardware Maintenance and Energy Costs by least 60%. Managed Windows, VMware, Linux, AIX and POS environments across 40 Stores. Performed Bi-yearly Disaster Recovery testing for core Wintel and AIX systems, and reduced restore times by 50% for all Windows Systems by introducing Server Virtualisation. Managed the Corporate Windows environment including all core windows services, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server 2003 / 2008, Active Directory & Group Policy. Implemented Application and Operating System monitoring for the entire Windows environment, to proactively respond to potential issues. Managed IBM storage environments across Windows and AIX platforms. Receiving Penetration Test Training and implementing new corporate security standards as a result. Provided various adhoc administration tasks such as SQL Database management as well as PowerShell, VBScript and Batch scripting. Managed Software deployments and System Configuration for 2500 desktops throughout the 40 stores Australia wide. Administered various perimeter systems including, CheckPoint Firewall, Bluecoat Proxy server & F5 Firepass VPN.

Managed the corporate Windows and Unix environments consisting of Windows Server 2003 & HPUX technologies with 3 Active Directory Forests, 120 Windows Servers and 9 HPUX servers spread throughout 12 sites in Ireland and Scotland. Designed, Implemented & Managed mobile messaging systems which increased email accessibility by 50%. Designed and Implemented a highly available VMware environment to host core windows servers that reduced hardware maintenance costs and improve server performance and reliability. Designed and Implemented a highly available Terminal Server cluster that reduced call centre desktop maintenance costs by at least 50% and improved end user experience. Performed bi-annual Disaster Recovery testing of core windows systems as well as created and updated associated documentation. Developed 5 year budget /plan for the entire Windows Environment. Key member in Windows Migration Team, migrating a single domain Windows NT / Exchange 5.5 environment to a 3 Forest Windows Server 2003 / Exchange 2003 Active Directory environment. Implemented security standards to meet regulatory and audit requirements.

Key member of the Technical Analysts team providing support for a range of operating systems including, Windows NT, Banyan Vines, and Sco Unix. Responsible for identifying LAN / WAN issues and deploying the appropriate staff to resolve any hardware issues. Improved support to the customers and added value to the group by developed technical documentation and updating the group’s knowledge database to pass on relevant technical information.

C+, Cobol, Business Communications, Server Hardware, Systems Analysis & Design, 4GL Programing, Relational Database Management, Systems development