Stephen Howell

Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at Dell EMC
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Stephen is a tenacious individual whose drive and passion for his work is evident from the moment you meet him. Steven has a polite tone and uses his communication skills to great effect at all times. He's been a pleasure to work along side and the consistency of his work has allowed me to build a trust and a reliance that anything assigned to Steve will get done and get done well.

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Credentials

  • Red Hat Open Stack Administrator
    Red Hat

Experience

  • VCE
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff
      • Mar 2014 - Present

      Lead Architect for ObjectScale Kubernetes Networking and OS integration.Previously lead Architect/Engineer for Dell PowerOne Controller, delivering Ansible-based Asset-Management-As-A-Service on a highly-available Kubernetes cluster using Open Source storage and networking solutions. Designed production-ready Istio, Kubernetes and Linux-based hypervisor system all built using Ansible automation with BGP and DNS integration and automatically-generated TLS security.Designing, implementing and demonstrating advanced solutions interacting with hardware and software APIs to solve the customer's problems. Continuous integration and rigorous solution design and planning alongside pre-Sales to persuade the customer and win business.Design of Proof Of Concept labs involving VCE rack, Vblock and scale-out systems running vSphere, vRealize including EMC EHC, ScaleIO, VSAN, NSX, KVM and OpenStack.

  • JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • VMware SME - Virtualization Engineer
      • Jan 2011 - Mar 2014

      DevOps solutions to improve service support and automatically deploy large-scale IaaS. Delivering IT Services to tens of thousands of internal staff. Design, Service improvement, Customer Consultation and complex Production escalations affecting a virtualisation estate of 100,000+ virtual machines. Pro-active initiatives leveraging code to improve performance, security and reliability in the environment. DevOps solutions to improve service support and automatically deploy large-scale IaaS. Delivering IT Services to tens of thousands of internal staff. Design, Service improvement, Customer Consultation and complex Production escalations affecting a virtualisation estate of 100,000+ virtual machines. Pro-active initiatives leveraging code to improve performance, security and reliability in the environment.

  • VMware
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Engineer
      • Sep 2007 - Jan 2011

      A senior architect and engineer specialising in virtualisation, Linux and storage. Joined VMware during the acquisition of VDI provider Propero. Oversaw VMware’s acquisition and integration of UK offices for; Propero, Tungsten Graphics, SpringSource, Zimbra and RabbitMQ. A senior architect and engineer specialising in virtualisation, Linux and storage. Joined VMware during the acquisition of VDI provider Propero. Oversaw VMware’s acquisition and integration of UK offices for; Propero, Tungsten Graphics, SpringSource, Zimbra and RabbitMQ.

  • Trayport
    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • System Support
      • Oct 2005 - Sep 2007

      Responsibilities:• Supporting 50+ internal servers, high availability hosted trading servers and Cisco networking equipment in multiple sites.• Providing essential services within a defined budget; planning, acquisition, implementation and maintenance of all IT systems.Achievements:• Design, implementation and management of high-uptime hosted financial services generating £6k per month per client.• Introduction and review of a formal set of security, usage and business continuity policies to ensure minimal interruption to business critical systems. • Large scale server virtualisation delivering 100 + testing/demo systems, using 6 virtual servers in place of 20 + desktop machines. Increased reliability of service, minimised energy usage.• Project managed office move which included ordering communication lines, liaising with electricians and architects, as well as managing critical business systems for minimal downtime.

  • Experian
    • Information Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • IT Professional
      • Jan 2004 - Oct 2005

      Responsibilities:• Service delivery and support to 500+ users with 100+ servers across 6 time-zones and in a mixture of live and development environments. • User instruction and training on a wide range of issues including VMware virtual computers.• Specifying and advising server acquisitions and architecture to ensure an effective, standardised and efficient infrastructure.Achievements:• Sole technical support for the installation of telephone, data and servers for the new Chicago office. Implementation of email, file storage and VoIP phone system for twenty users in four days.• Lowering hardware costs through the introduction of virtualising servers over routine hardware upgrades. As a result, fewer servers where required per site as well as faster to deploy and restore after failure.• Provision of more secure backup and data storage facilities through the implementation of NAS devices and restructuring of backup systems.

Education

  • University of Warwick
    BSc, Computer Science
    1999 - 2002
  • John Hampden Grammar School
    GCSEs (5A,5A*), A-levels (4A)
    1993 - 1999

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