Jason White

Experience

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  British Army

  Jan 1990 - Jan 2012

  Communications Systems Engineer

  Royal Signals Systems Engineer - working with secure digital communications as part of NATO, ARRC, etc...multiple operational deployments world wide!

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  NCSA Sector North - NATO HQ

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Service Request Manager - SLM Branch

  Service Request Manager for HQ NCSA - dealing with Standard and Change Service Requests. Redesigned the organisations web page to automate the handling of Service Requests. This ensured that ITIL standards and methods are adhered to inorder to minimize the impact to the Service Level Agreements (SLA).

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  Defence Communications Systems Agency (DCSA) - British Army

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  IT Project Manager

  Project manager for Defence Communications Systems Agency (DCSA), Germany various communications infrastructure projects Germany wide. Working closely to ITIL service delivery best practices and Prince 2 Project methodology. Tasked with carrying out a full IT Infrastructure survey on Sennerlager Garrison, Germany in preparation for rollout of Defence IT Infrastructure project (DII). This included producing comprehensive technical reports on IT infrastructure, Cabinet layout diagrams and making technical recommendations for Systems Engineering Control Authority (SECA) compliance.Carried out liaison with site managers to arrange access to Servers rooms and Network cabinets. Produced accurate site documentation and Auto-CAD diagrams. This was complete ahead of schedule and as a result enable the DII project roll-out begin earlier that originally planned. Show less

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  HQ ARRC

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  ICC / NIRIS / JTS / JCHAT System Manager

  Team Leader for a joint Royal Air Force / Army system administration team responsible for delivering of various Information Systems to HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (500+ users). System manager and subject matter expert for NATO C2 Air planning application called ICC (integrated Command & Control). ICC data is stored on an Oracle Database that is hosted on both UNIX and Windows servers. Currently leading a project to Virtualise all NATO Application Servers on a VMWare ESXi Server Clusters

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  Royal Signals - British Army

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  NATO Applications Systems Manager

  Supporting a suite of NATO applications as used by on HQ ARRC Staff deployed to Joint Command (IJC) in Afghanistan. Providing Subject Matter Expertise and 3rd line applications server support. Carrying out day to day administration, configuration and trouble shooting on various Command & Control Application servers hosted on both Windows 2003 and UNIX platforms. Maintain MS SQL or Oracle databases in support of Application servers. Responsible for developing VMWare virtualisation solutions for the future of Applications service delivery. Subject Matter Expert for NATO applications within HQ ARRC. Show less

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  ATS Group

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

  IT Network Field Engineer - Offshore Division

  Working for an international provider of public safety and security solutions for the homeland security market. Comprising of automated CCTV systems; Fixed, PTZ and Long Range Surveillance Cameras, Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (Smart Fence), Video Motion Detection (VMD), Licence Plate Recognition (LPR), Ground / Maritime Radar and Mobile Service Unit (MSU).Worked as the lead site engineer responsible for implementation, configuration & management of Tier 3 Datacenter's. Delivering advanced C4i Command & Control rooms at remote locations both on-shore & off-shore (Rig platform).Deploying Data Centers consisting of; VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS Servers, CISCO NEXUS core switches, CISCO N1K vSwitch, Nexus 5K, NetAPP Storage Area Network (FCoE), Palo Alto Network Firewalls (IPS/IDS), PoE VoIP, L2 & L3 network security hardening. Show less

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  ETIMAD Strategic Security Solutions

  Jan 2016 - now

  Providing new and updated IT & Network design solutions for Critical National Infrastructures and Homeland Security. Activities include creating and modifying: Fiber Optic Topology Design, Network Topology Design, network device configurations, equipment racks, Junction boxes and IP address management. Providing IT & Networking expertise to Critical National Infrastructures and Homeland Defence.

  • IT Network Design Engineer

    Jul 2016 - now

  • IT Network Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Jun 2016