Senior Consultant

• Jul 2021 - Present

Technical Solutions Manager - Data Protection

• Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

* Management of small, highly skilled team including active technical involvement providing infrastructure management/support to secure data of internal systems and on-premises/cloud hosted managed service clients. (Commvault v10.x/v11.x (backup/archive), Veeam, MS DPE, N-Able)* Commvault CASP support partner managing and monitoring 20+ CommCells- performing BAU support and point of escalation - planning, designing and implementing new infrastructure/services through project delivery - performing regular Commvault system healthchecks to verify optimal system performance, identify improvement opportunities and authoring Healthcheck Report documentation* Project impacting, capacity and management reporting* Software updates and Hardware migration* License, vendor and vendor training/certification management* People management* Author of technical articles and technical training material, delivered to end users

Storage Engineer

• Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

* Planning, designing and implementing new infrastructure/services through project delivery * Infrastructure Management and support of secure Government departments data (Commvault v11.x, NBU v7.7, HPE Data Protector v9.x/v10.x)* Escalation point* Implementation and management of HPE StoreOnce storage systems and HPE StoreEver MSL tape libraries* License & vendor management * Planning, designing and implementing new infrastructure/services through project delivery * Infrastructure Management and support of secure Government departments data (Commvault v11.x, NBU v7.7, HPE Data Protector v9.x/v10.x)* Escalation point* Implementation and management of HPE StoreOnce storage systems and HPE StoreEver MSL tape libraries* License & vendor management

Storage Engineer

• Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

* Infrastructure Management and support of secure Government departments data (Commvault v11.x, NBU v7.7, HPE Data Protector v9.x/v10.x)* Management of HPE StoreOnce storage systems and HPE StoreEver MSL tape libraries* License & vendor management * Infrastructure Management and support of secure Government departments data (Commvault v11.x, NBU v7.7, HPE Data Protector v9.x/v10.x)* Management of HPE StoreOnce storage systems and HPE StoreEver MSL tape libraries* License & vendor management

NetBackup Analyst (Contract)

• Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

* Infrastructure Management and Support securing internal system data (Unix clustered (including stretched) master servers, Unix, Solaris and Windows media servers)* Management of IBM TS3500 tape libraries* License & vendor management * Infrastructure Management and Support securing internal system data (Unix clustered (including stretched) master servers, Unix, Solaris and Windows media servers)* Management of IBM TS3500 tape libraries* License & vendor management

NetBackup Lead

• Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

* Management of highly skilled team providing infrastructure management and support securing data in the largest test bed in Europe comprising 6000+ virtual servers and 500 physical servers.* Plan, design and implementation of new infrastructure* Project impacting, capacity and management reporting * Technical involvement as still active in NetBackup Engineer role

Netbackup Engineer

• Aug 2012 - Sep 2014

* Infrastructure Management and Support securing data in the largest test bed in Europe (Win2k8 clustered master servers, Win2k8 media servers. Win 2k3 master/media servers)* Management of Oracle SL3000, L700M and SL500 and Dell PV320 tape libraries* License & vendor management

Support Consultant

• Dec 2000 - Aug 2012

* Infrastructure Management and Third Line Support of the World’s first National Intranet for Education. * Third Line Support of the company’s Core Products and Services.* Engagement and Consultancy Services to all of Scotland’s Local Authorities. * Design, implementation, maintenance and delivery of training program to all of Scotland’s Local Authorities including authoring and maintenance of training materials.* Onsite liaison with Local Authority contacts for resolution of delicate customer care issues.