Stuart Priest
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Joseph Miller
Stuart came to us a time when we really needed support in our cloud infrastructure. He was recommended completely separately by several of his former colleagues at the University of York, who all sang his praises. He is calm and calming in equal measures, methodical, and with the reassurance of vast experience in large scale Unix environments. He's an excellent communicator at all levels, and a lot of fun to work with, as well as being acutely aware of business value and priorities. He's supportive, patient and a good mentor for more junior colleagues. He quickly identified several major areas of improvement, around cost, efficiency, security and resilience, and was able to achieve an incredible amount in the 2 days a week he offered us support. It's worth pointing out that many Systems Administrators struggle to transition to a cloud environment, where the focus moves from 'maintaining the system' to automated elastic architecture. Working with someone like Stuart who has made that mental leap gives you the power of the cloud, and the experience of the fundamental underlying concepts, which are extremely thin on the ground, and very valuable. If you are losing sleep worrying about whether your architecture will stand up to the load, get in touch with Stuart.
Kate Allen
Stuart is an enthusiastic, inspiring and motivational individual, who cares a lot about what he does and this is something that comes through in the work he does.
Joseph Miller
Stuart came to us a time when we really needed support in our cloud infrastructure. He was recommended completely separately by several of his former colleagues at the University of York, who all sang his praises. He is calm and calming in equal measures, methodical, and with the reassurance of vast experience in large scale Unix environments. He's an excellent communicator at all levels, and a lot of fun to work with, as well as being acutely aware of business value and priorities. He's supportive, patient and a good mentor for more junior colleagues. He quickly identified several major areas of improvement, around cost, efficiency, security and resilience, and was able to achieve an incredible amount in the 2 days a week he offered us support. It's worth pointing out that many Systems Administrators struggle to transition to a cloud environment, where the focus moves from 'maintaining the system' to automated elastic architecture. Working with someone like Stuart who has made that mental leap gives you the power of the cloud, and the experience of the fundamental underlying concepts, which are extremely thin on the ground, and very valuable. If you are losing sleep worrying about whether your architecture will stand up to the load, get in touch with Stuart.
Kate Allen
Stuart is an enthusiastic, inspiring and motivational individual, who cares a lot about what he does and this is something that comes through in the work he does.
Joseph Miller
Stuart came to us a time when we really needed support in our cloud infrastructure. He was recommended completely separately by several of his former colleagues at the University of York, who all sang his praises. He is calm and calming in equal measures, methodical, and with the reassurance of vast experience in large scale Unix environments. He's an excellent communicator at all levels, and a lot of fun to work with, as well as being acutely aware of business value and priorities. He's supportive, patient and a good mentor for more junior colleagues. He quickly identified several major areas of improvement, around cost, efficiency, security and resilience, and was able to achieve an incredible amount in the 2 days a week he offered us support. It's worth pointing out that many Systems Administrators struggle to transition to a cloud environment, where the focus moves from 'maintaining the system' to automated elastic architecture. Working with someone like Stuart who has made that mental leap gives you the power of the cloud, and the experience of the fundamental underlying concepts, which are extremely thin on the ground, and very valuable. If you are losing sleep worrying about whether your architecture will stand up to the load, get in touch with Stuart.
Kate Allen
Stuart is an enthusiastic, inspiring and motivational individual, who cares a lot about what he does and this is something that comes through in the work he does.
Joseph Miller
Stuart came to us a time when we really needed support in our cloud infrastructure. He was recommended completely separately by several of his former colleagues at the University of York, who all sang his praises. He is calm and calming in equal measures, methodical, and with the reassurance of vast experience in large scale Unix environments. He's an excellent communicator at all levels, and a lot of fun to work with, as well as being acutely aware of business value and priorities. He's supportive, patient and a good mentor for more junior colleagues. He quickly identified several major areas of improvement, around cost, efficiency, security and resilience, and was able to achieve an incredible amount in the 2 days a week he offered us support. It's worth pointing out that many Systems Administrators struggle to transition to a cloud environment, where the focus moves from 'maintaining the system' to automated elastic architecture. Working with someone like Stuart who has made that mental leap gives you the power of the cloud, and the experience of the fundamental underlying concepts, which are extremely thin on the ground, and very valuable. If you are losing sleep worrying about whether your architecture will stand up to the load, get in touch with Stuart.
Kate Allen
Stuart is an enthusiastic, inspiring and motivational individual, who cares a lot about what he does and this is something that comes through in the work he does.
Experience
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Kakapo Energy Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director
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Apr 2020 - Present
Kakapo Energy helps SMEs to move to a green energy supplier and help them with their environmental management. Kakapo Energy helps SMEs to move to a green energy supplier and help them with their environmental management.
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Circus Skills York CIC
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United Kingdom
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Performing Arts
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Director
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Oct 2017 - Present
I'm the director of Circus Skills York, a Community Interest Company providing circus skills around York. We run every thing from circus related PE lessons for primary schools to circus workshops for community groups and run team building workshops for anyone. We can also provide a team of circus artists for performance work for events. I'm the director of Circus Skills York, a Community Interest Company providing circus skills around York. We run every thing from circus related PE lessons for primary schools to circus workshops for community groups and run team building workshops for anyone. We can also provide a team of circus artists for performance work for events.
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IT Systems Administrator Consultant
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Feb 2018 - Mar 2023
Overseeing and expanding existing IT compute cloud infrastructure. I've helped my current client with 1. Migration of their traditional IT server room computing resources into the AWS Cloud 2. Migrated their Database engine from EC2 instance based resources to RDS Aurora 3. Migrated their Database engine software environment to new release versions 3. Optimised their usage of AWS Cloud resources and dramatically lowered their monthly computing bill 4. Managed their company website Drupal service Show less
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University of York
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Bioscience Computing Manager
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Aug 2001 - Sep 2017
I was the manager of a largely UNIX based high end computing resource, including high core single image systems, high memory systems with large directed attached storage, web servers and database servers. I also ran the "App Challenge", a York Award course (http://www.york.ac.uk/study/careers-skills/york-award/) which helps to develop employability skills of our students. I was the manager of a largely UNIX based high end computing resource, including high core single image systems, high memory systems with large directed attached storage, web servers and database servers. I also ran the "App Challenge", a York Award course (http://www.york.ac.uk/study/careers-skills/york-award/) which helps to develop employability skills of our students.
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ioko
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Unix Administrator
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2000 - 2001
Administering Unix systems with special responsibility for the company's Legato based backup service. Administering Unix systems with special responsibility for the company's Legato based backup service.
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York Structural Biology Laboratory Computer Manager
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1986 - 2000
Managing VAX/VMS and UNIX systems in an Internationally respected research group. Managing VAX/VMS and UNIX systems in an Internationally respected research group.
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Education
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1983 - 1986
University of York
Chemistry, Chemistry -
1976 - 1983
Brentwood County High School
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