Senior Systems Administrator (DevOps/Storage)

• May 2020 - Present

Network Services Specialist (DevOps)

• May 2017 - May 2020

Linux System Administrator

• Sep 2016 - Mar 2017

Responsible for maintaining two enterprise data centres for maximum performance and uptime. Set up a highly available virtual server environment. CentOS 7 Web servers (Apache) Database servers (MySQL, SQL Replication) High availability (PCS, Pacemaker, Corosync, DRBD, HA-Lizard) Virtual environments (XenServer) Linux scripting (Bash, Python) Responsible for maintaining two enterprise data centres for maximum performance and uptime. Set up a highly available virtual server environment. CentOS 7 Web servers (Apache) Database servers (MySQL, SQL Replication) High availability (PCS, Pacemaker, Corosync, DRBD, HA-Lizard) Virtual environments (XenServer) Linux scripting (Bash, Python)

HPC Systems Engineer

• Feb 2015 - Sep 2016

Set up and administration of the High Performance Computing environment for Next Generation Sequencing, as well as system administration of a variety of Microsoft Windows and Unix Servers and systems. Owned, managed, tested the Windows 7 desktop build. Unix/Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, IRIX, Solaris, SSH, SFTP, Bind, Winbind, SAMBA, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Munin, Nagios) Programming and scripting (Bash, CSH, Perl, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#) HPC Cluster administration (HP C7000 Blade chassis, Sun Grid Engine) Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 Microsoft Active Directory (Object and OU management, Group Policy, security) NetBackup, WinPE, WAIK, PXE boot, Languard, Snow Show less

IT Support Analyst

• Nov 2012 - Feb 2015

Provided multi-line support to around 800 Cancer Research scientists and their supporting staff in a high-pressure environment spread across two sites. One to one, telephone and email user support for Mac OSX, Windows 7, MS Office Suite, Citrix, 2X, FileMaker Pro, Adobe CS. • Procurement, installation, maintenance and support for a range of commercial and freeware scientific software such as FlowJo, Graphpad Prism, Lasergene and Matlab. • Use of DameWare, Apple Remote Desktop, Microsoft Management Console. • Administration of Exchange, Active Directory, Dell Kace, JAMF Casper, Sassafras KeyServer, Sophos AV, Sophos Safeguard, Cisco switches, Retrospect backup. • Package up software for deployment en-mass via Kace and Casper. • Enhanced desktop security through the implementation of Group Policy. • Deal with software issues related to scientific equipment such as microscopes and chromatographers. Show less