Max Southwood
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Experience
December 2022 - Current
Citrus Lime Ltd
IT Infrastructure Engineer
As an infrastructure engineer, I fully manage two key infrastructure racks—one in a production datacenter that powers our POS and e-commerce services, and another local rack dedicated to disaster recovery, development, and internal operations. These environments run on HPE and Dell servers with Hyper-V, hosting a combination of Windows and Linux VMs. Our networking backbone relies on Cisco and Netgear switches, with WatchGuard firewalls providing security. For data storage, I utilize HPE MSA SANs to ensure reliability and performance in our production setup.
I manage our web services, which run on the .NET Framework, using IIS for site hosting and MSSQL for databases. As part of our ongoing evolution, we're transitioning many of our services to Docker swarm to take advantage of containerization for scalability and efficiency. Beyond this, I’m responsible for internal IT and networking, which includes managing phone services, Active Directory, Office 365, endpoint devices, and password administration.
Every other week, I’m on-call, ensuring 16/7 uptime across the company. This includes maintaining our critical cloud POS system and supporting over 400 e-commerce sites worldwide. My role requires me to balance day-to-day operations with strategic improvements while maintaining the high availability and performance our business demands.
June 2022 -December
Tech Hub (North West) Ltd
IT Infrastructure Co-ordinator and Technician
In addition to my IT Techician responsiblities, I took on the role of improving Tech-Hub's organisation. This has included so far building a self hosted password manager, and implementing a knowledge base foundation to work on.
April 2022 - June 2022
Tech Hub (North West) Ltd
IT Technician
Working in a team to manage 70+ Schools, corporate, and domestic clients in a fast paced environment.
Site visits to customers’ premises to maintain their IT networks, resolve issues and scope out installation works.
Produce quotations, proposals and placing orders for customers.
2021 - April 2022
Ultimate Link Ltd
IT Support Technician
Responsible for managing over 60 different networks. This includes user administration, backup-recovery, voip phone systems, installing hardware/software, Office365, VPNs, and much more.
2015 - 2021
Tesco
Dot-com
Maintained a high quality control assurance for the end user’s product within a time limit. Accountable for substituting suitable products that did not meet acceptable standards. Liaised with other departments to ensure the smooth running of the store and customer satisfaction.
2012
GingstoneJunior Web Developer (Work Experience)
Key role in the development process of the website. Responsible for the market research within the company. Budget monitoring role to ensure project is within budget and time.
Education
2022
Studied in own time3CX Basic Certification
3CX Online Certification
2020
Studied in own timeCompTIA
CompTIA A+
2015
Cirencester CollegeCollege
4 – A levels in Computing, Use of Maths, Electronics,
and Engineering
2013
Thomas Keble SchoolSecondary
11 – GCSEs grades A - C
Vendor Hardware Experience
- HPE MSA SAN
- HPE Servers
- Dell Servers
- Cisco L2/3 Switches
- Netgear L2/3 Switches
- UniFi Eco System
- Draytek
- WatchGuard
- Synology
- TP Link Switches
Vendor Software/Services Experience
- Hyper-V
- Proxmox
- Windows Server 2008+
- Ubuntu Server
- Debian Server
- Veeam B&R + SureBackups
- Azure
- AD
- InTune
- EntraID
- Group Policy Management
- AWS - Lightsail/EC2
- IIS
- MSSQL
- Pfsense
- WDS
- Office365
- GSuite
- Windows Server Backup
- Windows XP+
- Zabbix
- PRTG
- Mac support
- 3CX
- WordPress
- Apple School Manager
- SIMS/FMS
- LightSpeed
- NetSweeper
- MerakiMDM
- ZenDesk
- BackBlaze
- HelpJuice
- phpIPAM
- Home Assistant
- Dynamics CRM
- Jira Project Management
- Action1
- ESET
- Sophos Anti-virus
- Webroot anti-virus
General Skills
- Hardware Troubleshooting
- Software Troubleshooting
- Cyber Security
- Mobile Device Management
- Backups/Restores
- CCTV
- Cable Installations
- Screen Installations
- DBS Checked
- First Aid Trained
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