Director and Owner, SAFETO Limited (SC Security Cleared)
United Kingdom
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- Lead Storage Architect | TDA at Cable & Wireless
- Technical Director at QuickaNet Ltd
- Director at SAFETO Limited
- Past
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- Technical Consultant at Prudential (PGDS)
- Technical Consultant/Architect at EMC Software Group
- Technical Consultant at Tesco Stores Ltd
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Raoul Sargent (Raoul.Sargent@Safeto.co.uk)’s Summary
A dedicated and committed IT Professional Consultant with over 20 years experience in the industry.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Specialist, Knowledgeable in Unix/Windows and Networking architectures. Solutions Architect for EMC² Hardware and Software. Wide variety of operating systems/software used, including WiFi radio network, SAN and Storage planning. Providing technical consultancy to many of the UK’s top 100 companies. Experienced in Pre-Sales, Project planning/scoping (Prince), Solutions design and implementation.
SC Security Cleared
Member of the Reuters Insight Community of Experts
Brocade StorageX Accredited Specialist
Raoul Sargent (Raoul.Sargent@Safeto.co.uk)’s Specialties:
Business Continuity Assessment, Design and Delivery
Backup And Recovery Solutions Architect
Technical Project Planning and Analysis
Customer Presentation, Pre-Sales Consultancy
Technical Project Management (PRINCE II)
Raoul Sargent (Raoul.Sargent@Safeto.co.uk)’s Experience
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Lead Storage Architect | TDA
Cable & Wireless
(Public Company; CW.L; Telecommunications industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Lead Storage Architect and TDA.
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Technical Director
QuickaNet Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)
Director & Technical Design Authority of QuickaNet Limited (Wireless Broadband ISP). SAFETO LIMITED identified an opportunity to develop a wireless based broadband delivery solution and therefore formed a sub-company called QuickaNet Limited. In addition to working full time for SAFETO LIMITED, as the Technical Design Authority for QuickaNet I am responsible for all aspects of the wireless technology used, the entire network design and configuration, the build and configuration of the RedHat Linux 9, Fedora Core 4 and Windows 2000 servers, Cache engines, High-Availability configuration, network monitoring and problem management. In addition to Broadband provision QuickaNet offers all ISP services whilst also providing office support and implementation services to small companies including provision of remote data backup. QuickaNet has recently started reselling xDSL provision.
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Director
SAFETO Limited
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)
A partner of EMC² Computer Systems (UK) SAFETO has influenced the technical design/delivery of many multi-million pound projects on behalf of EMC² primarily within Business Continuity/Backup design and Project Management teams.
• Technical Project Manager/Technical Architect for Business Continuance group, technical design/consultancy to many of UK top 100 companies
• Implemented EMC² solutions, liaising directly with EMC² Engineering
• Pre-Sales tender/bid and RFI/RFP response, presentations to the customer
• Business Continuity specialist, Unix/Oracle, Windows 2000/2003, Exchange 2000/2003. Highly regarded Design Authority for EMC² hardware/software
• Integration of EMC² products and Veritas NetBackup/Legato NetWorker/Tivoli Maestro using VBScript/Unix Shell Script
• Storage assessments, performance/problem diagnosis
• Business Continuance procedures
• Symmetrix, Connectrix, EDM and other training
• Workshops/kick-off meetings, Project Scope/Milestones
