Ken Redman

UK agency responsible for the environment.

Project architect: designing IT solutions and supporting implementation, commissioning and life-cycle support.

Energy utility.

Solution architect: assessing IT service proposals, initial solution design and costing.

Migration manager: maniging migration of development tools from Windows NT to Windows 2003/AD environments.

Bank and credit finance

Infrastructure Architect, Infrastructure consolidation and DR update.

M&S Retail & M&S Money: major national UK retailer & store card finance division.

Lead Designer/Architect, Mainframe Access Management project (part of the ‘Money Decouple’ Joint Venture project with HSBC)involved mainframe aspects of decoupling M&S Money from M&S retail during sale of the asset to HSBC.

Part of IBM’s Global Services division

Designing, implementing and project managing hosting solutions for IBM’s e-Business Hosting customers worldwide;

BT’s design and development arm

Non-functional system designer, architect & TDA for the PiPER system, a new GIS-based system to replace a disparate collection of legacy systems and provide a single, modern inventory, planning and e-records tool targeted at the needs or the 21st Century.

The Air Traffic Management Development Centre for Britain’s Air Traffic Control authority.

Managing an operating system upgrade project (From Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8)to in excess of 800 UNIX systems, affecting all the NATS ATC simulators, trainers and development systems throughout the country.

Leading UK IT consultancy, with offices in 30 countries, and listed in FTSE 100.

Senior Technical Consultant – Systems and Networks, providing design and implementation services to a wide range of industry-leading clients, including:
• BT: Internet Data Centre
• BT: RedCARE ARS Replacement
• Hutchison 3G ('3') Media Streaming, video conferencing, 3G proxy service.

Consultancy services to in excess of 40 clients, including Alcatel, Alpha retail, Atlantic Telecom, BBC, Bracknell Forest BC, BUPA, Centrica, DfEE, UK ECGD, Environment Agency, Etrade, EWS railways, GCHQ, Global Crossing, Grampian Constabulary, Heller, IFN group, ISSL, Leicester CC, Manchester airport, Messier Dowty, Meteor, MoD, NHBC, Oftel, Orange, Racal, RBoS, Salvage Association, Simstar, Trans4m, UKHO, WDA.

Manufacturer of heavy handling equipment for industry and armed forces.

Information Systems Supervisor and the senior technical authority and expert, responsible for:
• Managing and leading the IS technical support team of eight staff, that provided support for all Company networks, software and hardware including:
• Intel PC, HP, Sun and DG UNIX and Prime servers, IBM mainframe; Cisco routers, 3Com switches & hubs, Checkpoint firewall-1 on Sun; Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT3.5.1 and 4), UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, DG-UX), MVS/CICS, PrimOS, Novell Netware (3.0 – 4.1); CADAM, MS Office, WordPerfect
• Incident analysis and management;
• Business continuity and DR planning;
• Change management, business process re-engineering;
• Configuring, operating and troubleshooting servers, switches, routers and firewalls;
• Staff development, staff and user training
• Designing, implementing, configuring, testing and supporting three major systems upgrades:
• Strategic and tactical planning, service levels, regulatory compliance;
• Providing strategic technical expertise, at a senior level, as required.

Part of Airbus Industrie, Europe's leading aircraft manufacturing company

Desktop Services Support Manager (BAe)/ PC Application Manager (CSC, following outsourcing), responsible for:
• Managing and leading the Systems Department/Desktop Services support team
• Overseeing and managing all desktop services at BAe’s Filton site. This included PC and UNIX servers and desktop platforms, Netware, Windows 3.1, 95 & NT, SunOS and HP-UX OS, a wide range of application software. Jointly responsible for achieving TickIT accreditation.
• Design Authority for all ICT systems within the Systems Department (and later for PC systems across the whole of BAe Filton site);
• Providing technical design consultancy to the Design Engineering Organisation for safety critical airborne software development.

Defence contractor specialising in missile systems.

Interconnectivity, cabling, EMC and systems integration aspects of the guidance and telemetry subsystems for missile systems, including the Vertical Launch SeaWolf missile system;

All-in-1 support team leader, responsible for all aspects of the DEC All-in-1 office system running on VAX/VMS systems, including:
• Leading the support team;
• Administering the system;
• Writing customisations, scripts and tools, some of which were adopted by DEC as part of the standard offering;
• VAX/VMS system administration;
• Software integration.

Engineering Liaison and Support Manager, responsible for:
• Principle point of contact between business and ICT team;
• Defining and maintaining the IT support policy
• Ensuring interoperability of computing systems
• Technical design authority for Dynamics (Bristol Filton) computer systems;
• Performing strategic studies;

Commercial and military radio and communications systems

Developer, responsible for the design and development of a wide variety of military and civil radio and communications systems, including HF, VHF, UHF and microwave point-to-point communications systems as well as embedded computer systems.

Commercial and military radio and communications systems.

Developer, responsible for the design and development of a wide variety of military and civil radio communications systems

Business computers and software