This curriculum vitae summarizes James Sutton's career experience working in networking roles over 20+ years. He has extensive experience working with various networking equipment from companies like Cisco, Avaya, HP, Juniper, and more. Currently, he works as a network consultant for CGI implementing network solutions from low-level designs. Previously he has worked in networking roles for companies like Intrinsic Technology, Mott MacDonald, Alcatel-Lucent, and Bloomberg, gaining experience in fields like network design, implementation, project management, and support.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
James Mat t he w Sutton Date of Birth: 24 - Nov - 1969
20a Channel View Crescent Nationality: British
Portishead
Bristol Marital Status: Married
BS20 6JH
Tel: Licences Held: Full clean driving licence
01275 460128 Evenings
07811 957 457 Mobile Email james@sutton888.fsnet.co.uk
Key Skills:
● 20 Years + As a Senior Network engineer with extensive day-to-day exposure of a
WAN/LAN environment in the financial data markets and private sector from large
enterprise environments and ISP’s at companies Bloomberg, Alcatel- lucent, Mott
MacDonald, Intrinsic Technology & CGI.
● Experience working with 3rd
parties at all stages of a project designing the low level
design, project management and commercial aspects from deployment to handover.
● I am able to work individually, as a senior team member in-house or at remote
customer
locations as required.
● Practical experience with green field sites and live environments covering racking
and stacking all physical and configuration aspects from servers to network equipment
including cabling and power aspects, creating and working from site design packs.
● Certifications achieved over the years by Cisco, Alcatel, Avaya, HP & Juniper.
Other courses attended are listed below.
● Experience working with multiple vendors’ equipment covering networks and
security in diverse multi- tier network infrastructures, routing, firewalling, switching,
load balancing and VPN concepts.
● I have 2/3rd line support experience in a TAC & NOC environment covering video,
voice and data issues.
● Involved with large Wi-Fi deployments from the initial survey for in-house
deployments and cloud based.
● Data centre experience with critical market data and multiple remote customer sites
in the UK and overseas with equipment both on site via comms rooms and off site via
DC cloud technologies.
● Involved in major network migration projects covering all technical and commercial
aspects from the design to the deployment.
● I am constantly ensuring I am learning new technologies in a live environment
via self-study and internal courses as new concepts evolve which I enjoy.
● Practical experience of the following protocols and communication concepts IP, ATM,
OSPF, Frame Relay, UDP, TCP, PPP/oe/oa, ISAM, ISDN, RIP, EIGRP, VoIP, LLDP, NAT, Radius,
ACLs, TACACS, VRRP, HSRP, MLT, SMLT, SNMP, VLANs, LACP, RSTP, DHCP, POE, IPTV,
Multicast, PIM, ECMP, VSS, vPC, TDMoIP, Metro Ethernet, SONET, QOS, PVCs, SPVCs, WANs,
LANs, WLAN, TDM, X21, V35, RS232, RS485, PDH, SDH, xDSL, DWDM, VPN’s, VPRN’s, LDP,
SAP, SDP, BGP, MPLS, 1Gbps > 10Gbps copper and fibre.
Hard wa re experience:
Cisco: 7400, 3800, 2800, 1800, Service Routers, 3750 Access router and 2960, 4500 & 6500
Catalyst switch series. Nexus 5k, 7K, ASA 5500 f/walls, ACE load balancers, WCS, AP’s, and
ACS.
Avaya/ Nortel: Bay stack, BLNs, BCNs, ARNs, ASNs, 450Ts and the Passport suite 5430,
2430 routers. ERS range 5000, 4000 series, 88/8600, 8300, VSP9K & 7K routing switches
& Wireless 8100 controllers.
HP: E & A series switches.
Fortiga te: 1500D 300D security appliance

2. Meraki : AP’s and POE switches via the Dashboard.
Alcatel- lucent : SR 7750, 7450, ISAM 7302, Switch 6850 & 1692 CWDM.
Telindus: codec’s centauri, software integration suite, storage centinel & 1423 SHDSL
routers.
RAD: MP2100 mux for voice and data and ASMi SHDSL modems.
Redback : SE800 BRAS.
Juniper Netwo rks : M10/5 Internet routers and ERX edge routers both the 700 & 1400
series.
Alcatel (Newbridge ): 7670, 7470, 3645, 3600 Muxes and Switching Nodes with a variety
of line cards.
● NMS, tools and soft wa re used such as Solarwinds, WhatsUpGold, Avaya EDM & COM,
HPOpen, SNMP, UNIX, Alcatel 5620/NMS & SAM, NMTI, Omnivista, 1353, Netcool, 5530
AWS, Nortel Site Manager, CLI, Exceed, Circuit testers, Telnet, SSH-2 and Network
Analysers, Radview, Texcel, Go assist, RDP, Remedy, Visio, Wireshark, excel also many
Bloomberg functions developed internally.
External/ Internal Courses & Certification
2012 – Current Cisco self study security, wireless, routing and switching.
2011 HP E & A series routing and switching – Certified AIS
2011 Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch Implementation – Certified ACSS
2011 CSCS Construction skills – allows site access
2008 Alcatel- Lucent Network Routing Specialist Certification NRS I
2007 Alcatel- lucent 7750 SR Services Implementation R4.0 Ver 1
2007 Alcatel- lucent 5620 SAM Operator.
2007 RAD 2100 TDMoIP/Mux.
2007 Redback Smart Edge SE800 Field Maintenance.
2007 Redback Smart Edge SE800 Trouble shooting.
2007 Alcatel- lucent 1692 MSE Operations & Maintenance.
2007 Alcatel- lucent 1353NM R 7.x Configuration & Q3 NE’s Supervision.
2007 Alcatel- lucent 6850 Switch h/ware & Omnivista NM
2007 codec’s centauri, software integration suite and storage centinel.
2006 Cisco BSCI
2005 Cisco ICND CCNA – Certified CCNA
2002 Nortel Networks Accelerated Router Configuration – Certified NNCSS
2002 Juniper Networks Architecture & Configuration, Troubleshooting JUNOS
software, Routing Policy & MPLS Traffic Engineering – Certified JNCIA
2001 Nortel Passport 8600 Switch Configuration.
2001 Cisco Router Configuration.
2000 Alcatel 36170 Mainstreet Xpress 36170 Core Functions.
2000 Alcatel 3600 Mainstreet Core Functions.
1999 Nortel Router Configuration.
1999 Introduction to Data Communications.
1997 Microsoft NT4 Server. Modules studied Administration & Core Technologies.
(MCP).
1996 Optical Fibre Course.
Education / Qualifications:
1994 - 1996 University of North London
University HND Electronics & Commu nication Syste ms Engineering . (Full
time) Highest achiever. On completion I obtained 8 merits and 7 distinctions with
very good common skills assessment.
Units studied: Mathematics A&B, Electrical Principles A&B, Digital Electronics,
Information Technology & Software Engineering, Analogue
Electronics, Microprocessors, Analogue & Digital Electronics, Data
Communications A&B, Microprocessor Systems, Communication Systems, Project
Management, Engineering Applications and a final year Project.

3.  1993 - 1994 London Electronics College
BTEC OND Electronics. Telecom m u n ica tio ns & Infor ma t io n Technology .
(Full time)
On completion I obtained 7 merits and 7 distinctions with very good common
skills assessment.
Units studied: Electronics A&B, Electrical & Electronic Principles A&B, Engineering
Applications of Computers, Mathematics, Industry & Society, Transmission
Principles A&B, Microelectronic Systems, Information Handling Systems,
Information Technology (Video Systems), CD Technology and Radio.
 1992 - 1993 C&G 224 Electronic Servicing.
 1992 - 1993 C&G 223 Microcomputer Technology.
 1992 – Japanese for Beginners
 1982 - 1987 8 CSEs and 4 “O” Levels.
Employme n t History
2014 May – Curren t: CGI – UK – Permanen t.
Position: Net wo r k Consultan t – Imple men t a t io n Project Work.
Duties: Working closely with network architects I am tasked with implementing
network solutions from a LLD both on private networks and in our shared hosting
space. This covers multiple vendors’ equipment in secure and non-secure
environments. Key concepts covered are, networks and security, TCP/IP in multi-
tier network infrastructures, routing, firewalling, switching, load balancing & VPN
concepts to enable security lockdown and controls to allow system accreditation.
Upon completion I need to extensively document and ensure devices are suitably
managed as transition the project into a BAU environment.
Achieve men ts: It has been a great challenge working with so many different
customers which has given me further insight into the hosting environment and
enabled me to gain a lot more security exposure. I have also proved I have the
flexibility to take on new products, services, strategies & ways of working.
2009 May – 2014 April: Intrinsic Technology – UK – Permanen t.
Position: Net wo r k Consultan t – Field based
Duties: I am based on a remote customer site 3 days a week as the prime
interface for all data Wi-Fi and security issues both LAN & WAN monitoring via
Solar winds in a large hospital sector covering 500 + network devices over
multiple sites.
This involves managing all project related work as the lead such as new builds
creating low level designs, implementation, testing, documenting, enhancements,
training also resolving escalated faults under tight SLA's and developing future
business from a sales perspective.
This is a data role with a lot of exposure to VoIP UC voice platforms covering Cisco
and Avaya. Operating in a ITIL environment. I am field based for the remainder of
the week which involves design and implementation project work for a large client
bank across the UK covering a Cisco, Avaya & HP product set.
Achieve men ts: I have designed many networks in multiple sectors for new builds
and add on’s. An example is implementing a 1500 user hospital network from
scratch deploying cutting edge technology. I take great pride in my work and have
positive feedback from clients.
2009 Feb – May: Mot t MacDonald Ltd – Birming ha m - Permanen t.
Position: Commu nica tions Design Consultan t

4. Duties: I designed Highways Communications and Telecom schemes on the
Highways Agencies NRTS project to enable engineers to work from a detailed
design pack. This includes new enablement’s and migrations from the legacy
equipment covering video, voice and data. Based at a client site. I was also the
key contact for all IP address allocation for any new schemes being deployed
on the national network.
2006 Sept – 2008 Sept: Alcatel- lucent – Newpor t – 3 mon t h rolling
cont ract.
Position: Net wo r k Project / Design / Imple me n ta t io n / Suppor t Engineer
Duties: I was working in the project- engineering department on a contract basis.
I was involved with the design, installation and 3rd
line support for the UK
Highways agency National roads telecommunications services (NRTS) project
covering all aspects of the network. This included liaising with 3rd
party sub-
contractors and business vendors for installations, dealing with escalated faults to
simulate on a lab model, recommendations on the initial design due to highlighted
issues when productive and audit documenting network regions to train user’s
prior to handover.
Prior to this I was part of a small team based in the TAC providing 2/3 rd
line IP
technical support and project engineering support to UK&I customers at various
locations participating on a on call basis covering 365/24/7 1 in 4 weeks. This
covers the whole network solution for some customers incorporating OSS and NMS
platforms as well as responsibility for all hardware and connectivity issues in the
live network. I had full remote management via VPN connectivity.
Customers supported were Orange, BT21CN, BE Unlimited, Highways Agency
NRTS and O2.
I responded to problems escalated via the call centre on Seibel and Remedy
platforms progressing the issue until resolution under tight SLA’s. I was constantly
updating my skill set via daily activities and internal courses along with self study
using resources available in my own time.
I was the prime contact for Orange whilst in the TAC which involved all aspects of
their Broadband network in the LLU. This consisted of customer meetings,
recommendations, incident reports, liaising with projects and document writing
MOP’s working to ISO standards within an ITIL frame work.
Achieve men ts: I have broadened my knowledge of networking by being exposed
to multiple customer networks in the private and public sector. This has improved
my awareness of all commercial aspects and alternative methods of design,
deployment, management and operation.
1998 April - 2006 Sept: Bloomberg LP – London - Permanen t
Position: Net wo r k Project Manage men t/ Imple men t a t io n / Operations Eng
3rd line
Duties: Working as a team lead in the financial sector. This involved all
commercial aspects from the initial design, configuration, documentation,
installation, migration, testing, monitoring, managing, training and support from
an EMEA network perspective. I was responsible for the transportation of all video,
voice and data network aspects for the corporate, broadcast and customer leased
line network connectivity which spanned the EMEA region. I had the sole
responsibility for Amsterdam, Brussels and Italy. This involved the day-to-day
running of the existing network topology, such as circuit and hardware failures
reported via Remedy and NMS platforms. Investigating routing, switching issues
and ensuring sufficient resources and bandwidth are available for the current
demand and future growth. All management and configuration is conducted from
the NOC/NMC deploying the tools and equipment highlighted under my key skill
set with the aid of remote engineers under instruction when equipment is isolated
or a new installation is scheduled. I would configure a router/ firewall / switch to
integrate onto the customers network giving connection to the data centres in

5. London & New York, testing fully and documenting before completion. I was
constantly looking for ways to improve the network which involves tight SLAs and
meetings with new and existing Telco’s discussing and planning network
migrations, consolidation projects, down time, commercials, diversity issues,
service levels and bandwidth costs taking the lead in the project for my regions.
There has been international travel to remote mux site nodes (POPs) when rolling
out new equipment such as Italy, Iceland, Turkey and Spain leading the whole
node build. I work from a budget, which enables all spares to be available and all
new equipment to be purchased and shipped as arranged as per the new
customer requirements. I have been asked on occasion to train less senior
engineers both on and off site which is something I enjoy immensely and take
great pride in.
Achieve men ts:
I have gained a thorough understanding of communication concepts using
state of the art equipment and learnt to enjoy working in a pressurised
environment, taking on challenging projects and meeting tight deadlines. I am a
senior member of the network department and have learnt to enjoy management
responsibilities conveying information clearly and effectively in written and oral
format. I am pro-actively learning new skills both technical and managerial in the
networking arena
1996 – 1998 April: Banner Bridge Plc - London
Position: IT Manager/Technical Suppor t / Installations.
Duties: Responsible for all IT & Telecommunications operations in a hospital
sector.
Prior to this I was part of a small team based permanently at a large hospital
providing support for a range of network topologies on a contract basis involving
LAN and WAN which included various hardware platforms. Responsibilities
included fault finding, ordering equipment, upgrades and installations with strong
customer liaison.
Achieve men ts:
I was promoted to IT manger after a year and relocated to another hospital. I
gained the proven ability to grasp new skills with little supervision applying a
methodical approach to diagnose problems in a pressurised environment. My
interpersonal skills have been developed at all levels.
1992 - 1996 Part time HGV driving job self funded to support myself throughout
higher education.
1990 - 1992 Legal & General - London
Position: Financial Consultant. Self-employed
Duties: Responsible for developing own business by marketing retirement,
Investment, insurance and mortgage products on behalf of L&G as a tied agent.
Achieve men ts:
Built a successful client bank and passed numerous exams throughout my
ongoing training.
I also developed good interpersonal skills allowing me to form good relationships
with my clients and colleagues alike.
1987 - 1990 Acousta t Ltd – Bristol
Position: Acoustic Engineer

6. Duties: Based in the drawing room, workshop and on site. Responsibilities
undertaken
consisted of the design, construction and installation of acoustic enclosures
working on my own initiative and alongside a team of engineers.
Achieve men ts:
I was acknowledged for my ability to work well in a team having a flexible
approach showing enthusiasm and determination using
initiative to tackle all problems.
Hobbies/ Interests:
Outside my vocational and educational interests I have a healthy outlook
confirmed by my love of sporting activities, particularly mountain bike cycling,
supermoto and scuba diving with advanced PADI status. I am keen to pursue all
these hobbies for fitness and the excitement. I enjoy collecting antique cameras
and antiquities and am about to embark on a photography course. I’m a keen cook
particularly Oriental food and enjoy cooking for friends and family.
I enjoy foreign travel particularly Asia and Eastern Europe and always find time for
DIY.
Additional Infor ma t io n:
I am a fundamental believer in hard work and try to combine this ethos with
an active social life. I am smart in appearance, a proud dad and currently living in
Bristol although enjoyed living in central London for 17 years. I enjoy mixing with a
variety of people, and through these experiences my social and personal
development has been enhanced.
Whilst at University I was nominated the class representative.
Professional Membership: Member of the MIET.
Other: CRB Cleared and Police security clearance for several districts.
SC Cleared.
References: First class references are available on request.
Notice period: One month at present.
James Sutto n

7. Duties: Based in the drawing room, workshop and on site. Responsibilities
undertaken
consisted of the design, construction and installation of acoustic enclosures
working on my own initiative and alongside a team of engineers.
Achieve men ts:
I was acknowledged for my ability to work well in a team having a flexible
approach showing enthusiasm and determination using
initiative to tackle all problems.
Hobbies/ Interests:
Outside my vocational and educational interests I have a healthy outlook
confirmed by my love of sporting activities, particularly mountain bike cycling,
supermoto and scuba diving with advanced PADI status. I am keen to pursue all
these hobbies for fitness and the excitement. I enjoy collecting antique cameras
and antiquities and am about to embark on a photography course. I’m a keen cook
particularly Oriental food and enjoy cooking for friends and family.
I enjoy foreign travel particularly Asia and Eastern Europe and always find time for
DIY.
Additional Infor ma t io n:
I am a fundamental believer in hard work and try to combine this ethos with
an active social life. I am smart in appearance, a proud dad and currently living in
Bristol although enjoyed living in central London for 17 years. I enjoy mixing with a
variety of people, and through these experiences my social and personal
development has been enhanced.
Whilst at University I was nominated the class representative.
Professional Membership: Member of the MIET.
Other: CRB Cleared and Police security clearance for several districts.
SC Cleared.
References: First class references are available on request.
Notice period: One month at present.
James Sutto n