Lee Robinson

IT & Communications

My nameA motivated and driven individual with, with a passion for success. Reacting pro-actively to situations and unique interpersonal skills which allow the integration to many different environments coupled with the ability to adapt to different situations with proven man management and project skills

Personal & Professional Profile

My wide range of technical knowledge from both Desktop & Server background to Global Network Infrastructure, combined with my innovation and people interaction skills. Means not only do i work in a technical environment but often find my self interacting on a face to face level with key clients and customers from many different regions and leading among my peers.

In conjunction to my civilian career i am also a soldier serving in the Territorial Army. I am part of 37 Signals Regiment We are a specialist Territorial Army unit that provides vital information management and communications support to the Armed Forces, Emergency Services and Local Government Agencies in times of crisis.  Prepared to respond quickly  to situations such as Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters & enhanced security for political summits

Outside of the IT industry I enjoy snowboarding, I have worked as a Snowboard Rep for a company called Ski Alpine. Keeping fit, Music and I have just begun to learn how to rock climb   

Technical Skills & Attributes

Some of my skill set include

  • Implementation, Administration, Configuration and Security for Active Directory
  • Supporting users on Citrix
  • Supporting desktop users Windows 9X, NT, XP, Vista
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Monitoring and maintaining Network Infrastructure and performing upgrades and installation
  • Conforming to ITIL Foundation standards
  • Experience with Cisco equipment
  • Website Development
  • Resource Management
  • SC Security Clearance
  • Clean civilian and military diver license

 

Desktop & Server Support in a Windows Environment

Excellent

Understanding of Network Technologies & Supporting Infastructure

Good

Website Development & Coding

Average

Work Experience

Corporate Network Specialist

NSC Global -AT&T

  • Period: August 2010- Present day
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • References: Chris James - Matt Kane

Proactive Network Engineer role, with advanced troubleshooting and implementation skills in 'Global Enterprise Networks' and Service Delivery. Also working with internal teams and AT&T vendors in order to resolve 'Global Network Infrastructure' issues

 

• Trouble shoot and resolve problems passed over from Tier 1
• Manage trouble resolution via Access vendors & Internal AT&T Partners
•Co-ordination of Major telecoms providers in the EMEA, US, Latin America and Asia pacific vicinities
• Network, Configuration, IOS, Security or Access problems
• Requires Good problem solving skills
•Requires a knowledge of the methods used for invoking backup solutions such as HSRP, VRRP and ISDN solutions
•Attendance of technical conference calls, representing AT&T to the customer
•Configuration of ACL’s , Troubleshooting COS Issues and working knowledge of routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, BGP and EIGRP to troubleshoot routing issues

 

Global Assurance & Escalation Consultant

NSC Global -AT&T

  • Period: January 2009 - August 2010
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • References:Chris James - Lorraine O'Malley

An Incident Management based role that required myself and the team to co-ordinate and oversee to resolution all high severity Network issues in the EMEA region. This role required a pro-active approach in order to manage and control high profile issues

  • Problem Diagnosis on Cisco Routers
  • Monitoring Geographical regions for ‘Major Incidents’a common point of failure having a wide range of impact on operations
  • Coordination of Field Engineers and Telecoms Technicians
  • Management of our Tier 1 Centers located in the Netherlands and Johannesburg
  • I acted as Subject Matter Expert for various tooling that AT&T uses
  • Client Communication
  • Training Junior members of staff
  • Executive reports, Conference Calls and meetings for major impacts and ‘critical’ issues
  • Launch of Executive notifications (CON's) for high impacting customer issues

Remote Support Analyst

Serco

  • Period:October 2007- December 2008
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • References:Chris James

Problem solving in both the Desktop & Networking arena. I was a 'Subject Matter Expert' for one of our key clients and worked on systems that required a high technical skill set and security clearance to SC

  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Client Communication
  • Communicating with third parties and Incident Management for high severity incidents
  • Capture and report on incident & service request data to improve teams performance against KPI's
  • Call logging
  • Hardware investigation and diagnostics
  • Server, network diagnostics and support
  • Fault finding on critical systems to meet strict SLA's
  • Training Junior member's of staff
  • Documentation creation, review and distribution
    Visiting customer sites and providing third level local Desktop, Server and Network Support

Commissioning Engineer

Fujitsu Siemens

  • Period:May 2007- October 2007
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • References:Available Upon Request

Key Engineer on a project for HSBC Bank PLC

  • 33,000 machines rolled out to the client - some built from scratch and other upgraded to a specification set by the client
  • Decommissioning of Hardware
  • destruction of sensitive data held on computing mediums
  • co-ordination of logistics to ensure the right specification of machine arrived at the correct client site
  • Working at customer sites to install Desktop and Servers onto the network

Junior Network Administrator

Golden West LTD

  • Period: June 2001 - September 2004
  • Job type: Part-Time and Temporary
  • References:Martin Anderson


Providing local IT support to 500+ end users spread across 3 different offices in the UK

  • Providing 1st,2nd & 3rd Line support to users Remotely, over the phone and face to face
  • Backing up critical data
  • Monitoring the network, analyzing security and usage
  • Involvement of projects such as Network,Desktop and other hardware upgrades
  • Acting as a point of contact for the firms mobile phone provider
  • Providing support out of hours on a rota basis
  • Involvment of Disaster Recovery plans and implementations
  • Monitoring aspects of the AS400 System
  • Role out of new machines along with licensing and asset management

Education

Coventry University

Bachelor of Science. Honors 2:1 in Network Computing.

This course gave me a understanding of the technology, security and management issues associated with computing in a network environment. It looks at the design and support of Internet applications, managing distributed databases and designing suitable network architectures, and implementing relevant technologies

 

Queensbury 6th Form Collage and Queensbury School

2002 - 2004

Grade C or above obtained in the following subjects at A-Level


Physics
Chemistry
Information Technology
Design Technology

1998 - 2002

Grade B or above in 9 Subjects at GCSC Level including the key fundamentals of..


English literature and language
Maths
Science
Information Technology
Business studies


Clients & Portfolio

Selected Clients & Industry Work

Below is a selection of some of the clients i have done work for in my own spare time, snippets of work i have undertaken in industry and recommendations i have received