Matthew Wade

Background

About Matthew Wade

Having worked in the IT industry for many years I have built up a broad knowledge of many and varied systems, with my primary discipline focused towards Network and IT Infrastructure, Virtualization and Cloud Technologies. I have a very good track record and experience with Server & Infrastructure hardware, IT networks including design and administration, DHCP, DNS, Firewalls, Routing, and VoIP. I have also had exposure to Apple Mac environments including iMac & MacBook hardware, OS X, Mac OS and Microsoft Office for Mac. I have lead projects including Server and Office 365 migrations, Hyper-V virtualization, VMWare and Storage Area Network upgrades, PCI DSS and Security deployments as well as being technical lead on Disaster Recovery tests and scenarios. More recently, I led the design and implementation of a full network stack upgrade for the business which included Fibre Backbone cabling, Firewall, Switches and Wireless Access Point hardware, and project-managed this to successful completion, to compliment the previous WAN Internet upgrade and Phone System migration from on-premises PBX to RingCentral Hosted, that I also project-managed and implemented, Industry Certifications: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Specialist (MCS), Fortinet (NSE1, NSE2 and NSE3), Fortinet Certified Associate Cybersecurity, Fortinet FortiGate 7.4 Operator. Specialties: Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems, Microsoft 365 Apps and Services, Microsoft Azure and Entra ID, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange Online, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Office, Dell, HP, Cisco, DrayTek, Citrix XenApp, VMWare ESXi & vSphere, Sophos, Veeam, Fortinet, FortiClient, FortiGate, FortiSwitch, JIRA Service Management, Scribe Insight, Avaya IP Office, RingCentral.