Darren Martin
About Me
Education
Mid Kent College 1985
BTEC Higher National Certificate
Business Studies including Marketing.
Maidstone School for Boys 1980-1983
GCE O'Levels
9 GCE O'Levels including Accounting
Work & Experience
Macmillan Cancer Support 02/01/2021 - 02/14/2024
Infrastructure Operations Manager
Managing a team of 6-8 Senior Engineers across a predominantly Wintel environment, including Azure. Responsibilities extended to Networking (LAN/WAN and Wifi for 8 remote Sites), Azure Workloads including Dynamics and software Licensing (M365, Dynamics CRM, SQL etc.).
RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) 01/05/2008 - 01/07/2019
IT Operations and Service Delivery Manager
The role was created to migrate from the Managed Service Provider. Deliverables included designing, building, and implementing a migration plan to complement the burn-down of the existing long-term contract. Achievement was delivery on time and under budget (£500K pa).
Getty Images 01/02/1996 - 01/02/2008
Infrastructure Manager
Joined Getty Images in its infancy as Service Desk Manager, rising through the ranks to become EMEA Infrastructure Manager and Deputy IT Site Manager for UK Hub site. Diverse responsibilities covering Wintel and Unix environments across the with 6 remote sites reporting into London. Technologies covered included Windows Server, Exchange, SQL plus Solaris and Red Hat Linux plus Business Applications using Oracle.