Anthony Cox

Experience

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  Dreams

  Dec 2005 - Aug 2010

  IT Analyst
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  Clarenco LLP

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2012

  IT Support Supervisor
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  Mitie

  Mar 2012 - May 2013

  IT Support Specialist (On-Site)

  Responsible for providing a high level of customer service through on-site IT support.• Accountable for on-site services such as WAN links, Servers, LANs, PBXs or Client PCs.• Supported IT projects such as server commisioning/decomissioning, WLAN and LAN upgrades, and WAN installations.

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  Complete I.T. Ltd

  May 2013 - Apr 2016

  Technical Consultant

  Responsible for providing technical consultancy to a portfolio of clients, managing a team of 3 and overseeing infrastructure support and on-site end user support.• Advised on the adoption of new technology and business-aligned solutions.• Prepared documentation and detailed business cases for the use of new technologies.• Acted as an ‘trusted advisor’ on IT issues, securing ‘buy-in’ for proposed solutions.• Designed and implemented multiple new infrastructure solutions, meeting business needs.• Implemented multiple clustered and high-availability solutions, providing fully-resilient IT.• Full remit for IT service delivery throughout the business, acting as an escalation point for multiple 3rd parties. Show less

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  Storm Technologies

  Apr 2016 - Jun 2017

  Senior IT Consultant

  Responsible for delivering projects and professional services for Storms clients, often managing multiple, simultaneous and concurrent projects, and delivering to high standards.• Full project lifecycle management, including planning, scope, budgeting, risk & sign-off.• Project-led the implementation and roll-out of layer 3 switch infrastructure of 32 switches.• Architected an innovative new ‘greenfield’ infrastructure for a foreign embassy location.• Led a series of infrastructure reviews, inc. wireless surveys, Veeam, ESXi and View Horizon. Show less

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  Atech Cloud

  Jun 2017 - Oct 2019

  Technical Project Manager

  Responsible for managing concurrent IT projects and professional services for Atech clients, including a new office IT fit-out for 300+ users, through to a full Azure and O365 migration.• Accountable for a project portfolio value of c. £1m, managing up to 14 projects at a time.• Full project lifecycle delivery, from initialisation to documentation handover and sign off.• Promoted an Agile methodology within the project function, using the Scrum framework.• Led delivery of a project to implement new firewall solution across a 14 site organisation.• Delivered O365 and Azure migrations for a series of clients, migrating over 1,000 mailboxes.• Championed desktop refresh & modernisation, including Windows 10, Intune and Autopilot• Achieved success in project delivery, ensuring completion on-time, in-budget & meeting requirements Show less

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  Sapphire

  Oct 2019 - Aug 2022

  Responsible for managing the cloud service offering for a portfolio of globally-distributed customers, including working with major transport providers, banking and pharma companies.• Full ownership of the cloud strategy, ensuring availability of business-critical cloud solutions• Focused on ensuring the cloud services portfolio accurately aligned with customer needs.• Tasked with improving and increasing availability to 100%, delivering resilient IT solutions.• Acted as a key point-of-escalation for new customer deployments onto the Sapphire estate.• Realised benefits of over £750k by streaming solutions, with zero detriment to the service.• Worked with the security team to facilitate Sapphire in renewing ISO 27001 certification. Show less

  • Global Head Of Cloud Services

    Jan 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Technical Project Manager

    Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
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  LGC

  Aug 2022 - now

  Cyber Security Technical Project Manager