Niall Scott

Background

About Niall Scott

An experienced and achievement orientated Senior IT Management Professional with broad technical knowledge, commercial awareness, strong financial management skills and a customer focus. A high performer with a proven record of defining and delivering successful IT projects, technical support, department management, environment management and service delivery. An effective leader who takes pride in building successful relationships, both internal and external, whilst balancing the needs of the business with the capabilities of available resources, budgets and limitations of existing agreements.Key Achievements• Project managed the build, design and commissioning of two data centres, an office building as well as two office refurbs for CDL. • Achieving and maintaining PCI-DSS accreditation with CDL.• As the Technical lead for Finning’s Global ERP implementation I was responsible for implementing, configuring and supporting the hosting infrastructure, network & technical readiness including the software roll out.Key Skills & Knowledge• Enterprise IT and telecommunications infrastructure technologies• Third party vendor and outsource management and monitoring• Global ERP implementation, support & management (Lawson M3 & S3)• Enterprise service delivery & service management• Budgetary planning, control & responsibility • Program and Project Management• IT security technologies• Problem, Incident and Change Management• ISO 27001, ISO 22301, PCI-DSS, DPA/GDPR, Bill 198 (Sarbanes-Oxley)• Agile• DevOps• High availability and disaster recovery planning• Multisite 24/7/365 management/support• Microsoft technologies – Office 365, server & desktop• Linux, VMware, Citrix• SAN storage – NetApp / Tintri• Containers – Kubernetes, Docker• Cloud technologies – AWS/Azure• Networking technologies• Cisco Technologies• Firewall Technologies• Mobile and fixed telecommunications• Data centre technologies & management