Paul has over 12 years of broad IT experience across several different industry sectors (Financial services, Online Gambling & Digital Media). In 2008, Paul has embraced his entrepreneurial skills by starting Proxar Ltd. In 2014 Proxar has generated around £1 million turnover with around £230,000.00 profit. Proxar IT Consulting is just one of the companies that Paul is involved in as a director or a shareholder. Well established ecommerce software - Jigoshop - is another example of a successful company under Paul's management. Paul Specializes in: Service Delivery, Data Centre Management, Project Management, Development / Application Management, Security Management, Infrastructure Management Technical skills and certifications: SC (security clearance), Cisco, F5, UNIX/Linux, Redhat, CentOS, Content Delivery Networks, Security, PCI DSS

Network and UNIX/LInux Systems Consultant @ Proxar IT Consulting provides a comprehensive suite of IT services and solutions for key vertical industries and various horizontal competencies. The key service that we provide is fixed fee IT consulting for medium and large companies with data centre infrastructures. Fixed Fee IT Consulting Services Our fixed fee IT consulting services are focused staying on top of the latest technological advancements and using these advancements to leverage our client’s business above that of their competition. With competencies spread across many different areas, we are able to provide our client with IT consulting services in areas of Networking, Operating Systems, Storage, and Security. Our IT Consultants are available for short or long term contracts. We also provide a comprehensive service of preparing the basic UNIX/Linux operating systems for our client’s application. During the design process of an infrastructure we are able to provide options such as virtualization, security enhancements, including DDOS protection and clustering solutions. Building and upgrading Datacentres – Green I.T. The demand for data center capacity worldwide has led to a sharp rise in IT costs and a steady increase in carbon emissions. Implementing new, more efficient equipment can significantly reduce power consumption. Effectively, companies can introduce significant savings over the life cycle of their infrastructure. Proxar helps companies to build new datacentre environments and/or improve the existing ones towards reduction of ongoing costs and compliance with the current power efficiency requirements. Over 70% of datacentres contains old and inefficient equipment, where power consumption can be improved by up to 60%. By applying energy smart designs, network infrastructure can be prepared for CRC requirements towards Datacentres. Investment related to equipment refreshment and costs of implementation are normally covered by the first year of savings on an ongoing financial overhead. From November 2008 to Present (7 years 2 months) Managing Partner @ From October 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 8 months) IT Consultant @ From August 2008 to May 2009 (10 months) Live Site Manager @ From January 2008 to August 2008 (8 months) Senior system Administrator @ Great place to work. Nice people, good location. From May 2007 to January 2008 (9 months) Linux System Administrator @ fish4 is the place to find cars, homes and jobs anywhere in the UK. The company has been developed by the UK's biggest regional press groups. From June 2006 to May 2007 (1 year)

Cisco Certification From 2009 to 2009 RHCE, IT @ Red Hat Certification - RHCE From 2008 to 2008 Paul Preston (SC/RHCE/RHCSA/CCENT/CCNA) is skilled in: ITIL, Cisco, Linux, Data Center, Security, Storage, Service Delivery, CCNA, Apache, System Administration, MySQL, RedHat, LAMP, Solaris, Red Hat Linux