Cloud Platform Engineer

• Oct 2022 - Present

Associate Consultant

• Apr 2022 - Present

Director

• Jan 2018 - May 2022

Associate of ScopeAT working on projects for Telefonica / O2 Associate of ECS working on projects for Tata (TCS) and M&G Prudential Associate of Adlere UK working on projects for Red Hat Associate of ScopeAT working on projects for Telefonica / O2 Associate of ECS working on projects for Tata (TCS) and M&G Prudential Associate of Adlere UK working on projects for Red Hat

Solutions Architect

• Jan 2018 - May 2022

Unix System Specialist

• Jan 2017 - Apr 2019

Systems Engineer (AVP)

• Nov 2016 - Jan 2018

Unix Technical Specialist - Midrange Engineering

• Sep 2007 - Oct 2016

Platform – RHEL/CentOS 5,6 & 7, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris Virtualisation / Cloud – KVM, RHEV, Xen, VMWare, Amazon EC2, AWS Automation – Puppet, Foreman, R10K, Jenkins, Terraform, Packer, Serverspec Tools – LVM, VxVM, SDS, OCFS2, Oracle ASM, GFS, GPFS, ZFS, ext3/4, RedHat Cluster,YUM, DHCP, PXE, Kickstart/Jumpstart, DNS, Pulp,Git, RedMine, vCentre, HP Virtual Connect, HP OneView, ControlM, TSM Scripting – Bash, Python Hardware – HP Bladesystem c7000, HP ProLiant DL/BL Gen6,7,8 &9, SUN(Oracle) Sparc/x86, Egenera Open Source Community – Community Leader for RH GSS Show less

AVP

• Mar 2002 - Aug 2007

Platform provisioning – SUN, IBM eServer BladeCentre, HP, Egenera/Fujitsu Bladeframe O/S experience – Sun Solaris 2.5.1 to 10, RedHat AS3.0, SuSE ES9.0 Virtualisation – VMWare ESX 3.0, Solaris Zones Support and Operations – 24/7 global support. Fully disted environments. Mixed platform. Application support – Proprietary and third party Network and infrastructure design – TCP/IP, DNS, PXE, DHCP, Internet, Firewall, NIS, VPN, Samba Development – shell script, perl, SQL Technical project management Strategic Planning - Deployment of RHAS on IBM Blades for Reuters Market Data farm. - Provision of LOM to provide OOB support - Technical lead in deployment of VMware 3.0.1 - Successful BCP/DR planning and testing - Deployment of Oracle 10g clusters - Hardware refresh and upgrade - Rationalisation of physical server real estate - Consolidation onto single backup solution - Core fit out of industry standard, award winning production and DR data centres Show less

System Analyst

• Oct 2000 - Nov 2001

Headed the Operations Team, responsible for maintaining all aspects of the IT infrastructure covering office operations, development and prototype systems and providing on site support services for our clients. Headed the Operations Team, responsible for maintaining all aspects of the IT infrastructure covering office operations, development and prototype systems and providing on site support services for our clients.

System Support Analyst

• Sep 1999 - Sep 2000

System Support Analyst serving Europe and AsiaPac. Providing our clients with on site operation support services, enhancing and monitoring RoX Equity trading and backoffice applications. Responsible for identifying real and potential problems, communicating these to developers and deploying the patches and fixes. System Support Analyst serving Europe and AsiaPac. Providing our clients with on site operation support services, enhancing and monitoring RoX Equity trading and backoffice applications. Responsible for identifying real and potential problems, communicating these to developers and deploying the patches and fixes.

Computer Operator - Operations Shift Leader

• Oct 1998 - Sep 1999

Support for NT and Unix platforms for local government, financial institutions and health trusts Support for NT and Unix platforms for local government, financial institutions and health trusts

Computer Operator

• Sep 1991 - Nov 1994

Not even sure anymore !

• 1910 - 1920