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Mac Technical Project Manager @ Scoping, planning and managing complex technical projects for global Mac OS X estate involving technologies from multiple vendors. Projects include: - Planning and implementing migration of JAMF Casper management environment (1900+ devices) to a cloud hosted platform integrated with internal network infrastructure. - Developing a sophisticated thin-imaging system to simplify computer deployment...

Mac Technical Project Manager @ Scoping, planning and managing complex technical projects for global Mac OS X estate involving technologies from multiple vendors. Projects include: - Planning and implementing migration of JAMF Casper management environment (1900+ devices) to a cloud hosted platform integrated with internal network infrastructure. - Developing a sophisticated thin-imaging system to simplify computer deployment to users and initial user set-up process. - Evaluating and planning for Mac OS X Yosemite roll-out. Managing automated and self-service deployment to 2000 machines globally. - Advising on long term Mac OS strategy and Apple infrastructure. - Providing 3rd line support, documentation and escalation for IT Service, Front Office, and VIP Support teams. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomTechnical Director, Senior Post Engineer/Workflow Consultant @ Providing workflow consultancy, automation, post-production engineering services and scripting services to a variety of creative media clients From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomTechnical Team Leader @ Support Partners are a value-add Video System Integrator working with high profile clients such as the BBC, McCann-Erickson, DLKW Lowe, Disney, London Live, News International & The Discovery Channel to design, build and support production and post facilities. In my role at SP, my time and skills are split between a number of responsibilities. On a day-to-day basis, I provide tier 2 & 3 engineering and systems support to all of our clients and respond to escalations from tier 1 engineers along with providing them with guidance on resolving issues effectively and promptly. I am also responsible for designing, planning and deploying new system installations and facilities. Alongside this I work closely with clients to develop, tailor, enhance & improve their workflows and processes. Amongst my achievements at SP, I have been instrumental in planning and deploying SAN and edit facility installations and upgrades, whole facility location moves, complex backup and archive systems and automated edit and data workflows. From January 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 11 months) Head of Technology @ Reporting directly to the board of directors, managing a team of three. The Creative Partnership is a film-marketing agency that produces print advertising, TV and movie trailers, digital-outdoor and online campaigns. I held complete responsibility for all technical systems in the London head office and LA subsidiary; supporting both IT systems, network and Post-Production Engineering, overseeing the editing, finishing and encoding and rendering infrastructure. I recruited and developed a team of three and held budgetary responsibility for my department. I authored several in-house applications, database and 3rd party system integrations which were instrumental in improving scheduling and operations in the company. Building on this, I lead a complete overhaul of the workflow of the Post-Production departments; planning and deploying asset-management, transcoding and automation systems. My accomplishments at CP included designing and supervising the build of a new server room, installing high-performance file-servers and back-end storage area networks; implementing software and OS packaging, deployment and imaging systems. Other achievements include improving internal and external data security with a single point of management for all user credentials, enabling single-sign-on and hot-desking; together with software access controls. I ensured that all systems were fault tolerant by eliminating, all possible single points of failure and providing manual and automated fail-over systems. I ensured that there were comprehensive offsite backups held and disaster recovery procedures in place. My experience at CP was extensive and my role required me to bring the company on from having no existing IT infrastructure, to the present day where technology is a core part of the business. My team and I provided services that were crucial to the continued operation and growth of the organisation. From May 2000 to January 2013 (12 years 9 months) Deputy Studio Manager @ During my time at Finex I was responsible for the production, flight-checking and quality assurance of a wide range of printed campaign and marketing materials to ensure that these met the technical requirements of the print suppliers. This involved working closely with creative and art directors in order to produce creative visuals and design concepts for a wide range of pitches and campaigns. I was also solely responsible for the troubleshooting and maintenance of all the production hardware and software systems. From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Senior Artworker/Studio Manager @ At Raithby Lawrence, I was responsible for the running of the artwork studio in the London office and also jointly for the reprographics studio in the head office in Leicester. My responsibilities included extensive hardware and software maintenance of Macintosh and Windows systems along with 1st line support for the Solaris systems. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Production Assistant @ My time at Pip served to introduce me to the print and design industry. Alongside my training in print, retouching and typesetting techniques, I also spent a considerable length of time learning the operation and internals of the Mac OS and the associated design software. From August 1994 to February 1997 (2 years 7 months) Acland Burghley Daniel Farnworth is skilled in: Post Production, Mac OS X Server, Broadcast, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, Xsan, Codecs, Video Editing, Mac, Video Production, Archiware PresStore, After Effects, Digital Video, Encoding, Avid Media Composer