Experience

TIM, An Acuris Company

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2016 - Present

• Infrastructure Lead

  • Oct 2013 - Jan 2016

  Managing and providing technical leadership to the team of 6 responsible for the day-to-day operation and enhancement of the platform and infrastructure behind the companies industry leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) web applications.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  • Oct 2009 - Oct 2013

  • Migrated production applications from managed hosting to dual co-located data centres while introducing wide-scale automation.• Introduced KVM virtualization, Puppet configuration management and automation across all systems, reducing typical product delivery timelines from months to minutes.• Improved the stability, capacity and automation of a sizeable continuous integration farm running Jenkins and Selenium Grid. Implemented continual nightly reprovisioning of nodes to ensure reproducibility and improve build hygiene. • Successfully raised awareness of DevOps practices to enhance collaboration between operations and development.

• IT Manager

  • Oct 2008 - Oct 2009

  • Professionalised internal IT services across the company, improving the reproducibility and maintainability of both Linux and Windows systems.• Replacing many legacy Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 services with Linux equivalents, an operating system more familiar to the technical members of the organisation - thus increasing the number of people able and willing to maintain, therefore reducing significant expenses on 3rd party contractors.

• IT Support Intern

  • Aug 2008 - Oct 2008

  Providing IT support for the entire company for ~2 days a week while completing higher education.



CACI Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern - Network/System Administrator

  • Jul 2007 - Jul 2007

  Implemented a test network lab consisting of a mixture of vendors switches (Cisco, Netgear, 3Com) and routers (Cisco, Juniper) all utilising STP and VLANs. Combined with a small selection of Fedora and Windows servers to used for testing by the companies network engineers before implementation on client sites. Implemented a test network lab consisting of a mixture of vendors switches (Cisco, Netgear, 3Com) and routers (Cisco, Juniper) all utilising STP and VLANs. Combined with a small selection of Fedora and Windows servers to used for testing by the companies network engineers before implementation on client sites.



EBS Computers

• Work Experience

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2005

  Operation of a computer storefront, selling items ranging from pre-built computers, CPUs and memory to entire custom-built made to order desktops. Debugging and cleansing of spyware infected computers (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Media Center). Operation of a computer storefront, selling items ranging from pre-built computers, CPUs and memory to entire custom-built made to order desktops. Debugging and cleansing of spyware infected computers (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Media Center).