James Hood

James is an accomplished IT Manager and IT Network Infrastructure and Security Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the industry.

James has overall responsibility for all elements of the firm’s ICT function. His background has been purely client-facing since graduating from college. He now brings this wealth of diverse industrial knowledge to the firm in order to drive its IT strategy and service delivery forwards.

Specialisms

• Network infrastructure & security
• Virtualisation & high-availability
• Email and collaboration technologies
• System/Application specification & justification
• Capacity planning
• IT Service Management
• IT strategy development and adoption

When not at work

When not being an IT geek, James enjoys eating out, cinema, socialising and spending time with his partner and two young girls. His friends keep trying to get him into golf but he never seems to get beyond the bar at the club house!