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Andrew Prior
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Purley, United Kingdom
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I have more than 20 years of experience in IT with broad knowledge skillset combined with a can-do attitude which makes me a valuable addition to any IT team. I am comfortable with and have a background in designing and delivering complex, secure, highly available, heterogeneous, mission-critical systems environments. My expertise spectrum ranges from operating systems, server applications, networks, hardware, telephony, security, storage and telecommunications. I have a proven track record of addressing complex requirements and designing, implementing and delivering effective IT solutions. I have been required to spend extended periods of time in some the most challenging, diverse environments, from remote mines in Latin America to petrochemical storage and refining facilities in West Africa and Central America.
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2020 - 2020
freelance
Infrastructure Lead
Prax.
Led the IT infrastructure stream for the acquisition of the Total Lindsey Oil Refinery.
IT technical project management, Office 365, Cisco, VMware, Active Directory, Networking
2015 - 2019
temp
Head of IT Infrastructure - Contract
State Oil Group.
Communication
Contracted to rearchitect the entire infrastructure after an acquisition. * Accomplished in onshore & Architected, project managed and led the implementation for the following offshore oil & gas projects
Projects which contributed to attainment of the UK government Cyber
essentials certification so the group could tender for MOD contracts: * Strategically astute and
• DNS filtering forward-thinking
• Zscaler cloud-based proxy services
• Disk encryption for all Windows based, user machines
Specialist:
• Creation of a new template for securing petrol stations POS and back
office Windows machine and networks * Virtualisation
• Onsite redundant SWIFT Alliance lite 2 bank messaging platform * Technical Project
• Desktop PC lockdown
Management
• MDM for the group mobile devices
• VPN solution for access to in house applications * Technical Architecture
• Remote Desktop Gateway for application publishing to 3rd party haulier * Security Architecture
company
• Global office and retail station Ubiquiti Wi-Fi solution * Networking
• Global WAN and LAN rebuild with Cisco equipment * Linux
• Migration to SIP and 3CX from IDSN and Avaya * Storage
• Upgraded on-prem global AD estate to 2019
• LogicMonitor network and server monitoring solution
• From an IT perspective project managed and executed the Houston, * Docker
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Singapore office build outs from desktop to
* Kubernetes
comms rooms.
* Terraform
Contracted to rearchitect the entire infrastructure after an acquisition. * Accomplished in onshore & Architected, project managed and led the implementation for the following offshore oil & gas projects
Projects which contributed to attainment of the UK government Cyber
essentials certification so the group could tender for MOD contracts: * Strategically astute and
• DNS filtering forward-thinking
• Zscaler cloud-based proxy services
• Disk encryption for all Windows based, user machines
Specialist:
• Creation of a new template for securing petrol stations POS and back
office Windows machine and networks * Virtualisation
• Onsite redundant SWIFT Alliance lite 2 bank messaging platform * Technical Project
• Desktop PC lockdown
Management
• MDM for the group mobile devices
• VPN solution for access to in house applications * Technical Architecture
• Remote Desktop Gateway for application publishing to 3rd party haulier * Security Architecture
company
• Global office and retail station Ubiquiti Wi-Fi solution * Networking
• Global WAN and LAN rebuild with Cisco equipment * Linux
• Migration to SIP and 3CX from IDSN and Avaya * Storage
• Upgraded on-prem global AD estate to 2019
• LogicMonitor network and server monitoring solution
• From an IT perspective project managed and executed the Houston, * Docker
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Singapore office build outs from desktop to
* Kubernetes
comms rooms.
* Terraform
Offshore, LED, Contracts, Ubiquiti, WAN, PC, Server, SIP, Office, Storage, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Remote Desktop, Pos, Implementation, It, Linux, Network, Security, Windows, Architecture, Management, DNS, Cloud, It infrastructure, Kubernetes, Cisco, Networking, Contracts, Swift, Retail, Docker
2007 - 2018
job
Group IT Infrastructure Manager
Trafigura.
Key Responsibilities
Managed a global team of 35 with a budget of circa $21m. The IT Infrastructure under my remit included all group entities under the Trafigura umbrella which
globally stretch wide and far.
- Ensured cohesion across all continents where we had team members to allow the team to flourish.
- Architected and implemented the IT infrastructure roadmap for the group.
- Project managed cross data centre disaster recovery of full stack utilising dark fibre, VMware clusters and Netapp synchronous storage.
- Lead on Information security for the group including penetration testing remediation and technical counter
measures for bug sweeping.
Managed a global team of 35 with a budget of circa $21m. The IT Infrastructure under my remit included all group entities under the Trafigura umbrella which
globally stretch wide and far.
- Ensured cohesion across all continents where we had team members to allow the team to flourish.
- Architected and implemented the IT infrastructure roadmap for the group.
- Project managed cross data centre disaster recovery of full stack utilising dark fibre, VMware clusters and Netapp synchronous storage.
- Lead on Information security for the group including penetration testing remediation and technical counter
measures for bug sweeping.
Budget, VMware, It infrastructure, Information Security, Security, It, Penetration testing, Infrastructure, Testing, Storage, Manager
2011 - 2012
job
Trafigura Infrastructure lead
Project Examples.
for the acquisition of Exxon Mobil's downstream oil businesses in six Central American
countries. Exxon comprised of oil product terminals, aviation and marine fuels businesses in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras and Panama, 290 retail fuel stations, the Manref refinery in Nicaragua and the RASA refinery in El Salvador.
countries. Exxon comprised of oil product terminals, aviation and marine fuels businesses in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras and Panama, 290 retail fuel stations, the Manref refinery in Nicaragua and the RASA refinery in El Salvador.
Retail, Infrastructure
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