Andrew Bell

Experience

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  The Royal Mail

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2000

  Network Manager

  CV available on request.

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  CSC...

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Solutions Architect

  As the account lead architect for EMEA, and as part of a £???M 10 year deal, working on a large Global Account based, I was responsible for the full project design cycle, management and implementation of a number of key projects:-• Centralisation of architecture into two UK data centres from customers internal environment• Network separation in Flensburg for a customer sell out program - My role was to audit the inventory and review with the SDM teams, then separate the whole environment in a service split • Set-up a standard design solutions across a SAN environment implemented in customers offices in Berlin, Copenhagen and Flensburg• Application refresh - HP UNIX and Sun Solaris over 65 servers in a major application refresh, including Oracle dB’s, a Citrix farm based into our UK Data Centre• A tiered Storage Solution – Providing business critical availability across Symmetrix DMX and CX Clariion midrange frames onto Centera archive technology. Providing Celerra network gateway solutions as part of our strategic path for customer and data centre compliance• Migrating Windows NT 4 domains to Windows 2003 Active Directory Show less

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  Capita Business Services

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2008

  EMEA Lead Solutions Architect

  • Planning, cost and design model across a number of manufacturers NAS and SAN storage tiers for a business model, providing detailed analysis for a standard strategic corporate design• Managing the service solution though business, SDM managers and all relevant stakeholders to build a corporate service catalogue for the Architecture community• Corporate bid to compete in transition or large Banking institution, managing the Network infrastructure to our Data centre and customers National data centre• Project lead, design new infrastructure for our company Intranet and connected services to various portals, based on a new virtual development SQL environment • Migration of a new environment to include a AD environment, Lotus Notes, ISA security and WEB services running under Linux – to include a new network in the data centre, VPN and also connectivity to 96 branch sites • Proposal for a technical solution for one of our largest insurance customers to migrate their comms rooms and interrelated infrastructure services into our Data Centre. Following input to the bid, a cost model was provided around Wintel, SUN and IBM technology in a new dedicated and a virtual environment Show less

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  T-Systems

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2015

  Solutions Architect

  As part of a £???M 7 year outsourcing deal - Working in the transition and transformation services team in a Solutions and Technical Management capacity. Supporting the design and workflow model, documenting a suite of CMO+ services, as part of a 300+ application refresh migrating from a customers datacentre(s) into our UK based data centres, incorporating high availability, disaster recovery and delive across a number of strategic platforms...

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  CGI - Senior Technical Design Authority

  Mar 2015 - Jan 2021

  Senior Technical Design Authority
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  AIG

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2021

  Chief Architect at AIG EMEA
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  MPL Ltd

  Jan 2021 - Sept 2022

  Technical Design Consultant
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  Noroco Property Developments

  Aug 2022 - now

  Operations Director at Noroco Developments

  Property Development