Develop, gain approval for, and maintain Network Architecture Standards documents. Work with the Network Engineering teams to implement projects according to approved Standards. Manage network capacity planning, including producing forward-looking capacity projections. Codify business requirements and propose designs in impact assessment documents.Provide high-level network designs.Research new technologies and develop recommendations or Architecture standards changes based on the changing technology landscape. Manage vendor relations, primarily around product roadmaps. Work with the procurement department to create and manage vendor RFPs.Meet with technologists from other teams to create system-level designs.Authoritative interface to customers at a senior architectural level.To be authoritative on all aspects of network design, implementation, testing, performance and operation.

"NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500.
Specialties

NYSE Euronext, exchange, technology, cash equities, derivatives, listings, futures, options, fixed-income, financial services, NYSE Technologies, connectivity, SFTI, market data, real-time, transactions, trading solutions "

Day to day management of Network Design group in the UK, assignment of projects, mentoring of team members, final sign off of network designs and policies, appraisals and development, team member problem resolution. Authoritative on all aspects of network design, implementation, testing, performance and operation at a Senior Architectural level. Main technical interface with network equipment suppliers and PTTs for network architectural elements. Work with technicians from infrastructure support to to provide problem solving and iterative improvement

"NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. As the world's leading and most liquid equities exchange group, NYSE Euronext powers the exchanging world and is comprised of equities and derivatives exchanges across the United States and Europe which trade cash equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products."

Design and implementation of companies external Networks to meet high availability, redundancy, and capacity needs. Produce a procedure to migrate public IP addressed servers to new address range. Provide assistance and technical advice to the European CTO. Specified a network security system to control access to games server using ARP and Catalyst 6500 switch Provide a study on how to migrate companies internal network IP addressing scheme. Design and Implement new DNS system to replace existing.

Design and implementation of networks for the bank’s applications, including a third party reception LAN utilising PIX firewalls. Provide support and advice to first and second line support staff. Maintain performance & availability of Switched Network Infrastructure Secondary responsibility for a multiple server environment. (Novell 4.2 & above) Provide support for Novell & Inter-networking issues. Monitor Network ensuring service levels are maintained. Ensure change control procedures are followed and changes communicated. Liaison with users and suppliers.

To provide timely support to customers and internal sales team on GN Nettest Test Equipment. Additional responsibilities included the design, construction, running and support of internal I.T. systems. Support activities included preparing quotes, providing technical responses to customer’s questions and providing support during customer presentations.

To monitor performance of LAN and file servers. To diagnose and cure problems. Provide first call support for the above. To support Wide area X25 network devices and users. Projects Design and installation of a 300 node switched Ethernet network, File server hardware upgrade and data system reorganization. Various File server installations and application communications projects. Disaster Recovery testing.

Production of network design proposals. Provision of design, implementation and trouble-shooting consultancy. Maintaining product knowledge Projects Installation of a small office structured cabling system, AT&T PDS patch frames and Krone frames. Installation of a campus wide fibre backbone, Ethernet network with level 5 UTP segments. Including the provision of intelligent hubs and a network management system. Fault finding survey of Galaxo Group Holdings UK Network. Network audit and network health check of a merchant bank's token ring network.