Paul Day

• Spearheaded and managed a multinational team of network engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the global network infrastructure.
• Provided strategic direction and leadership to ensure alignment with organizational objectives, overseeing network operations across multiple regions.
• Developed and executed comprehensive plans for network expansion, upgrades, and optimization, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Fostered a collaborative team environment, promoting knowledge sharing, skill development, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance overall team effectiveness.
• Established and enforced best practices, standards, and procedures to maintain consistency and quality in network operations and configurations.
• Acted as a key liaison between senior management, stakeholders, and technical teams, effectively communicating project updates, risks, and recommendations.
• Implemented performance metrics and conducted regular performance evaluations to assess team performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Successfully resolved escalated technical issues and challenges, leveraging strong problem-solving skills and technical expertise to ensure prompt resolution.
• Contributed to talent acquisition and retention efforts, participating in recruitment, onboarding, and training initiatives to build a skilled and cohesive network engineering team.

• Coordinated with vendors to resolve complex technical issues and ensure optimal performance of third-party systems integrated into the company''s network infrastructure.
• Identified opportunities to optimize resource utilization across multiple platforms through capacity planning analysis.
• Developed comprehensive disaster recovery plans to minimize data loss during unforeseen events.
• Optimized network operations by analyzing data trends and recommending improvements.

Day to day operation of global corporate and production networks.

Which includes core data center networks, LAN and SDWAN and Wireless through the 45 + offices.

Management of the Central and branch PaloAlto Firewalls.

Managing the various Communication platforms such as Avaya Communications Manager. Cisco Communications Manager. SIP based solutions. Webex Cloud Video Conference Infrastructure and MS Teams.

Technical lead for Integrated Communications Strategy Launch.

Building Video based training Material to support various communication tools.

Supporting the Tier 1 and 2 Service Desk Operations with technical support and training.

Designing and implement new Wifi Solutions to support business needs such as IOT and unmanaged device.

Deploying VMware appliances to provide network integration solutions.

Responsible for the global network and communication infrastructure 20 branch offices throughout Europe America and Asia Pacific 1500 users.Design implementation and daily operations of the core network and data centers.Design implementation and operation of the global Avaya telephony and Cisco unified communication platforms.Daily operations of LAN and WLANs across the branch network.Daily operations and management of the MPLS network.Network monitoring and capacity management using Solar Winds.Troubleshooting network and application performance issues with tools such as Wireshark.Provide vendor selection based on solid network architecture to deliver high performing networks based on users requirements.Providing year on year budgets for approval of network related projects and support.