“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner (the American author)
William Faulkner MCSE
I’m a proactive IT Professional with proven leadership, support & project skills. 35 years experience as an IT Manager, Systems Administrator and Consultant responsible for networks ranging from simple 50 PC LANs to multi-domain Enterprise WANs.
Delivering cost-effective IT solutions, often to aggressive deadlines.
Currently heading up IT at Supreme PLC where, amongst other things, I increased Core Systems availability from ~94% to >99.999% in 2017 and since then have improved security, performance and availability. Also linking up and configuring 3 new sites and building what can only be described as a small yet amazing IT Team.
I prefer to maintain an element of ‘hands on’ input in designing, maintaining, securing, monitoring and optimising primarily Windows Servers and Active Directory networks, high availability Systems, Datacenters & storage whilst formulating IT policies/strategies and directing the activities of tech teams/help desk.
Currently heavily focused on virtualisation and resource condolidation around Hyper-V.
Nice touch – 2 weeks after leaving last role
Organised, methodical and flexible with a track record of implementing Technology to the benefit of the business and an able communicator comfortable dealing with people at all levels, from users to Board Directors and third-party suppliers/service providers.
All aspects of IT Security have always featured high in my list of priorities, I highly recommend Foundstone Technologies ‘Hacking Exposed – Network Security Solutions’ books, along with the valuable advice and free tools on the Foundstone Technologies website. Unfortunate that one of the authors is also a founder of CrowdStrike, don’t let the fact that they took down half the World put you off.
Organisations that have benefited from my skills and experience include the Police, Asda, Littlewoods, Precision Polymer Engineering, Caudwell Distribution and many others from a range of Manufacturing, Professional, Distribution and other Service Industries.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Will for 2 years. Will is one of the most humble men I’ve ever met. His CV doesn’t do his capabilities justice. He has an amazing attitude to all that approach him and is a key member to the smooth running of the financial sector company in which we met.
I would like to hope our paths will cross again, I don’t think anyone will be able to deliver my requests as well as him. Spectacular insight, patience and attitude along with very productive capable professional, what a man.
Thank you for your support for the last 2 years will.