Senior Network Support Engineer at ING and Owner, DSNetworks Ltd
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Senior Network Support Engineer at ING
- Owner at DSNetworks Ltd
- Past
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- Senior Network Support Engineer at Robert Fleming
- Contract Network Administrator at NM ROTHSCHILD & SONS LTD
- Education
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- Margret Tabor, Braintree.
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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David Smith’s Summary
A combined career over thirty four years, seventeen years in City based Merchant Banks and over seventeen in the Military, has provided a highly developed, professional working knowledge of the Telecommunications environment, Local and Wide Area Networking.
Experience has been gained operating within strict institutional guidelines as well as in field, workshop and teaching environments, both within the UK and abroad. Initially trained through a formal apprenticeship, subsequently developing specialist expertise.
Responsibilities have encompassed all aspects relating to the management, planning, maintenance and repair and installation of communications centres and networks, both local and wide area, employing an extensive range of sophisticated systems, equipment and software.
Also responsible for ensuring availability of spares and materials, and maintaining effective liaison at all levels.
This experience has cultivated strong management, communicative and organisational skills.
These attributes coupled with extensive hands on technical knowledge are particularly suited to the leadership and management of any operational Network team.
David Smith’s Specialties:
Cisco Routers & Switches
Nokia Firewalls
HP Openview (NNM)
Concord e-health
David Smith’s Experience
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Senior Network Support Engineer
ING
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
March 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
Position Held: Contract Senior Network Support Engineer
Environment: CISCO ROUTERS & SWITCHES (19xx 29xx 25xx 3xxx 4500 7500 Fibre Concentrators) ETHERNET, FDDI, NOKIA FIREWALL, HP Openview, CiscoWorks, Sniffer, Concord E-Health.)
Scope of Responsibility
Responsible to the Network Manager for the support and day to day Fault Management of the Local Area Network within ING London, (Cisco Range of Routers & Switches and Nokia Checkpoint Firewalls) setting and operation of the Network Management Systems. (HP Openview, Cisco Works & Concord E-Health)
Services
Reuters, Bloomberg, ICV (Topic) Datastream, various externally supplied financial services. -
Owner
DSNetworks Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1996 — Present (13 years)
DS Networks is a company I setup due to the basic requirements of contracting.
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Senior Network Support Engineer
Robert Fleming
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)
January 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 8 months)
Position Held: Contract Network Engineer
Environment: UNGERMANN BASS LAN HUBS, CISCO ROUTERS & SWITCHES
(25xx 36xx 4000 7000 Routers and a variety of Catalyst Switches)
ETHERNET, FDDI, NOKIA FIREWALL DEC 9000 HUBS, CASE
DCX Modems, Republic RLX, Terminals, DEC GIGASWITCHES
SPECTRUM, NETHEALTH, LANALYSER, MICROSOFT WORD,
EXCEL, LOTUS 123, REMEDY, MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE,
SHIVA REMOTE ACCESS , SERVER, ANNEX REMOTE ACCESS
SYSTEM, TCP/IP, IPX, EIGRP,
Scope of Responsibility
Responsible to the Network support Manager for the support of Network Management systems, support and analysis of the Local Area Network (Cisco range of Routers and Switches) and DCX Legacy systems. Major Project included management of the downsizing of the London based DCX legacy system and setting up of the Networks Intranet Website, as well as converting old terminal access to a Cisco based Remote Access system. (Cisco 2600). -
Contract Network Administrator
NM ROTHSCHILD & SONS LTD
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)
November 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 1 month)
Position Held: Contract Network Administrator (Initially a 3-month contract)
Environment: CABLETRON HUBS, CISCO ROUTERS, DEC TERMINALS
MITEL TELEPHONES, CABLETRON SPECTRUM, LANALYSER
MS WORD, EXCEL, HDE HELPDESK, KEATERM, SNMPC
IT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Scope of Responsibility
Responsible to the Desktop Support Manager for the installation and support of Network Management systems, support and analysis of the Local Area and Telephone Networks. Major Projects have included a move of the Computer Suite to a new location.
Services
Reuters, Telerate, Bridge.
David Smith’s Education
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Margret Tabor, Braintree.
1968 — 1972
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David Smith’s Interests:
Reading Photography Walking Audio/Visual
David Smith’s Groups:
Member of the British Legion
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