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I am passionate about delivering technology into he hands of individuals to enable them to achieve more. Throughout my career I have been driven by delivering technology step changes through the programmes of work that I deliver both personally and through high performing teams that I have managed. From data centres to desktops and everything in between...

I am passionate about delivering technology into he hands of individuals to enable them to achieve more. Throughout my career I have been driven by delivering technology step changes through the programmes of work that I deliver both personally and through high performing teams that I have managed. From data centres to desktops and everything in between I have made a positive difference in development, deployment and running of technology. I am seen as a go to individual that will go the extra mile to transform projects and programmes and bring them back on track. With a proven track record in developing individuals and teams I am as passionate about developing people as technology.Head of Technology End User Computing and security @ Developing, deploying and running the End User estate across Tesco from 60,000 POS devices to 24,000 desktops I manage a team that stands over the hardware, Operating System and the enabling infrastructure that drives the worlds 4th largest grocery business.

I am dedicated to delivering technology that can make a difference to each and ever user and have delivered a number of key projects in the last 12 months

Mobile - developing and deploying a mobile strategy for our stores colleagues to provide them with windows phones and android devices empowering colleagues to make more business aware decisions and support our customers through technology

Apple Mac - introducing the Apple Mac to the head office and integrating it with the existing windows platforms through the use if Casper Mac Management. Working with key business sponsors to develop a platform that delivered significant business benefit

Application Virtualisation - extending the existing Citrix Xen App estate to support the mobile strategy and the Apple Mac, enabling faster on boarding of 3rd party call centre support to support Christmas peak trade.

Hardware - working closely with HP to develop new in store and head office tablet, laptop and desktop solutions to driver efficiency, flexibility and mobility within the office and store.

Security - upgrading and developing a number of the core security platforms, including rationalising the number of active directory domain, upgrading the Anti Virus infrastructure, including ADFS to support cloud integrations and a new Data Leakage Prevention platform From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Infrastructure Progamme Manager - online and data centre optimisation @ Managing a number of programmes of work to centralise and optimise the Tesco global data centre platform as it moves to a private cloud deployment supporting all of Tesco’s business’s in 14 countries. Running a £24m capital and £7m revenue budget. The programmes of work are aligned to the strategy to consolidate 47 data centres into two. My roles within the projects and programmes range from governance, through architecture to hands on delivery where needed, the main achievements within the programme have included

Data centre migration for the UK on line E-Commerce platforms architecting, configuring and deploying a new virtual a physical platform to support the £3.5bn grocery and non-food websites. Managing a £7.5m infrastructure programme across multiple geographic regions and suppliers. This programme of work was short listed for the BCS Data Centre Project of the year as well as the Tesco CIO’s project of the year award

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Platforms Working with server, network, application, database and storage teams to provide a seamless DR solution for key always on applications. Providing DR and Active:Active platforms for SQL 2012, mainframe, virtual platforms and bespoke applications. Deployment and testing of a new Networker backup platform. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Head of converged wintel development and platform @ Expanding the initial team of 8 engineers to 25 and in so doing moving from managing the wintel and storage platform for Tesco.com to include the UK retail and banking platforms. Working as a team lead as well as a senior engineer in a deployment and operational team.

• Introduction of procedures and processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency and timely delivery of all server, storage and systems management based projects

• Design and deployment of MOM,SCOM and APM monitoring solutions for onine and instore systems.

• Development and working within UK and off shore on call support teams for all wintel systems

• Design authority for wintel and storage solutions for all online product development

• Performance tuning numerous infrastructure and applications for the online grocery applications, application sizing and scaling

• The deployment of a virtualisation platform to support approx. 8,000 machines across all environments including the development of bespoke auditing and monitoring solutions

• Development of a bespoke auditing script that audits the entire virtual platform every evening for capacity and configuration management

• Deployment of a custom auditing script and CMDB for the tracking of all configuration changes within the Tesco wintel platform

• The deployment of the Tesco.com virtualisation platform to the production environment, including trouble shooting and supporting the Citrix Xen platform through its early adoption From August 2011 to May 2012 (10 months) Head of server and storage Tesco.com @ From June 2009 to July 2011 (2 years 2 months) Senior Project Manager @ From May 2007 to October 2009 (2 years 6 months) Technical Consultant @ From March 2009 to June 2009 (4 months) Infrastructure Project Manager @ From 2007 to March 2009 (2 years) Project Manager (Tesco.com) @ Project Manager working at Tesco.com managing the provision of functional and load test environments for the worlds number one online retailer as it looks to expand its Tesco Direct offer.

Working across all aspects of the project including requirements gathering, infrastructure design, project delivery risk and issue management From May 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 10 months) IT Manager @ Managing the operation and development of the fourth busiest website in the UK, managing all projects including development, infrastructure and website availability as well as overseeing all operational issues From August 2005 to March 2007 (1 year 8 months) Group Manager @ From 1999 to 2005 (6 years) Agricultural Business Consultant @ Providing business consultancy to farmers within the West Midlands with an emphasis on IT implementation. Development of the first web based agronomy service From September 1997 to June 1999 (1 year 10 months) BSc, Agriculture with Honours in Business Management @ University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne From 1994 to 1997 A Level, Maths, Phsycis, Economics @ Bishops Stortford College From 1987 to 1994 Ed Camp is skilled in: Infrastructure, Technical Architecture, IT Strategy, Solution Architecture, Vendor Management, Project Delivery, Change Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Analysis, Operations Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, IT Management, Management