Hire Jason

I have been working in the Information Technology for just over 20 years. In 2005 I decided to take that experience and incorporate my own company “Trenchant Systems” to provide Information Technology infrastructure solutions.

I’m an experienced hands on IT manager with a strong business acumen, operations management and team leadership. I have even been tagged with the ubiquitous term of “Entrepreneur”.

Together with a few of my associates supply technical resource and project management to a wide range of customers who require Infrastructure deployment or support.

My current key areas of focus are in Unified Communications, Virtualisation (and the required infrastructure to support it), Data Center “2.0” and network bandwidth optimisation and resiliency.

I’m also a key advocate of Open Source technologies and I have a strong belief that when applied correctly can be strong business enablers in today’s environment.
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Contact Jason Simmons: Mobile:07973 255898 Tel: 01908 880820 Fax:01908 888150

Skills Summary

Technical

Cisco Network Engineer\Manager , LAN/WAN, Catalyst,routing & Switching and Cisco Ironport, layer3 ,CCNA
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist DCUCD
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist DCUCI
Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure Design (DCNID)
Cisco Data Center Support for UC Specialist,
VMware Certified Professional
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Linux system Administrator skills, Redhat, Ubuntu, Apache,PHP, cloud computing Bind DNS
Asterisk voice technologies, SIP, IAX2. G729, Qos
IPBrick Certified Partner

Soft Skills

Man Management with Hemleyfraser leadership training
IT operations and project management, knowledge of ITIL,PCIDSS, Disaster Recovery
Customer facing.
Budget management.

Recent Projects

Completed a network management toolset migration for a major international telcoms company across all outsourced clients, reducing annual support costs by several thousand pounds.
Installed a distributed network to host a Finical Risk Management application across 3 data centers and. This enabled overseas developers to perform System Acceptance Testing much more effectively.
Designed and installed a switching infrastructure for a international hotel group, allowing the hotel to utilise VOIP Technologies and state of the art touch screen EPOS systems. This reduced admin costs and created more opportunity for selling services to guests.
Designed and installed a virtualised hosting environment for start-up company Dental-health. This reduced start-up costs by reducing the amount of physical servers.

Keywords

Cisco network engineer, Vmware, Linux, redhat, ubuntu, Technical Architect, CCNA, Network Support, LAMP, Virtual Private network, IPBrick, Unified Communications, Data Centre Ethernet, Cisco Unified Computing System, Cloud Computing, Server Virtualisation