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SUMMARY
OF IT EXPERIENCE
I have 15+ years experience in the Information Technology field
working in the Financial, Telecoms and Energy sectors. I have
specialised in Open Systems that demand expertise in designing,
implementing and supporting Unix, SAN & Storage environments in
a client server architecture. I have
a blend of technical skills and project skills, including
implementation of SAN / Storage and server, structured system /
storage administration, business continuity & disaster recovery.
Software
& Applications Tools
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Operating Systems: HP-UX , AIX, ICL, DG-UX , SUN, Fabric OS
& Windows ,
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Volume Manager: LVM, VxVM & Flashsnap
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Clustering: MC/ServiceGuard, VCS
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Backup OmniBack, Netbackup.
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San / Storage Continuous Access, Secure Manager,
Business Copy, Raid Manager, True Copy,
Shadow Image, CCI, Performance Manager &
Adviser, Fabric OS, Command View, Remote Control, Storage
Navigator.
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Others Perfview, HP Ignite, ITO,
Measureware
Hardware
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HP Superdomes, HP RP range, V/K/N/L Class
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Brocade SAN Switches (2400 through to 12K’s), MPR Switches, HP
Hyperfabric switches
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HP XP256, XP512, XP1024 & XP12000, HDS storage 9960 & 9980,
USP600
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IBM RS6000,
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DG Aviion 8500 & 9500.
Technical Training, Education & Skills
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Fundamentals of the UNIX Operating System, HP-UX System Admin,
Posix Shell Programming
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Unix Performance and Tuning, HP-UX Network Administration
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MC/ServiceGuard, HP-UX LVM & Mirroring, Veritas Cluster Server,
Veritas Volume Manager
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XP Disk Arrays installation and Configuration
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Fibre Channel Protocol & Standards, SAN & Brocade switches.
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PCNT 4.0 Administration, SQL Basics,
Employment Summary
Organisations
Designation Duration
[snip] Storage
Analyst February 2006 – July
2006
[snip] San
/ Storage Technical Consultant November 2005 -
February 2006
[snip] Storage
Technician November 2000 -
November 2005
[snip] Senior
Technical Consultant March 2000 - November 2000
[snip] Unix
Consultant December 1999 -
March 2000
[snip] (Holland) Technical
Consultant September 1999 - December
1999
[snip] Systems
Administrator June 1998 - January 1999
[snip] Systems
Administrator September 1987 - June 1998
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
[snip]
Storage and
Unix Analyst February 2006 to July 2006
[snip] is a top three global law firm with offices in
over 20 countries around the world.
They built a small team of in-house IT professionals to take
over the support and development of the GPMS infrastructure and
environment from [snip] who left in April 2006. The environment
consisted of XP1024’s, Brocade Hubs and switches, DataProtector,
Openview and ServicesGuard running on HPUX servers on two sites
in London. I was the sole SAN / Storage person within the GPMS
environment with overall responsibility of documenting,
supporting and troubleshooting the environment and then
eventually designing and evolving the environment to provide
full database resilience, both local and remote.
[snip]
San / Storage
Technical Consultant November 2005 to February 2006
I was part of the implementation san and storage team
responsible for building and supporting the [snip] project for the
London Region. This involved setting up processes, procedures as
well as supporting and building the environments to cater for
the medical records of over seven million people in the Greater
London area. The infrastructure consisted of two sites spread
80km apart on Sun and Windows platforms, connected to XP12000
storage arrays, Brocade 12000’s and MPR san switches, HP NAS
Clusters and MSA Drives. HP was the technical partner in this
project with British Telecom Global Services and as such we
adhered to their tight ITIL guidelines and worked from their
command centres that monitored the national [snip] infrastructure.
Due to the progress we made in the short four month period, BT
changed their interim agreement with HP services to a permanent
three year deal.
HP required us to set up the tools, processes and procedures so
that staff working for British Telecom Global Services would
have guidelines to support this environment on a 24/7 basis. We
built and configured the environment, set-up the monitoring and
created troubleshooting guidelines that would be used by the
onsite and oncall staff with the duty of the ongoing maintenance
of the infrastructure.
[snip]
Storage
Technical Consultant June 2002 to November 2005
I worked as part of [snip] Storage Team, which had
responsibilities for the Storage arrays, SAN and Veritas backup
infrastructure for the organisation. These environments
consisted of 9 XP512’s, 5 XP1024’s, 2 XP12000’s, 2 HDS (9960 &
9980) arrays, 5 EMC (Symmetrix,
DMX) Arrays and one of the
largest cross site data centre brocade san infrastructures in
Europe.
My role was varied and required me to design, plan, configure
and support the Storage and SAN element of a number of key
billing and CRM applications. This involved liaising with
solutions and applications architects and vendors to implement
the appropriate environment. Projects I worked on included:
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As part of a small technical team to implement a cross site
clustered solution with two Data Centre’s 26km apart, using
Veritas Cluster Server 3.5, Veritas Volume Manager and Flashsnap
3.5, 6 XP512’s, 4 XP1024’s and two dual fabric San’s on a
Brocade core / edge design using 3900’s and 12K’s. I was
responsible for the Storage, SAN and backup implementation.
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SAP MIS solution which required me to the layout of 6TBs of
Storage / SAN solution with two Business Copies (local and
Remote) and CA relationship on XP1024 arrays with a dual fabric
SAN.
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Electricity billing system which required a Primary and 2
Business Copies to enable tape backups during operational hours
and a second copy to allow easy restore capability, this was
implemented on XP512’s and Brocade 3900’s.
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Reviewing existing storage implementation, updating and
documenting these to defined standards to enable a consistent
Disaster Recovery plan.
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Member of a data centre migration team, this involved
implementing new SAN and Storage to enable application
migration.
[snip]
Technical
Consultant December 2001 to June 2002
[snip] initiated this project to bring a large number of their
legacy systems together and so hence created one of the largest
CRM projects in the world. The project created one of the
largest SAN’s, SAP and Siebel installations in Europe. My
involvement was to help design, build, document, test and hand
over to BAU (Business As Usual) the large number of HP Unix
systems that the project delivered. This project enabled me to
enhance my existing skills with further exposure to HPUX 11i,
VCS, Veritas Volume Manager, XP storage Arrays, Superdome’s and
all the new Unix servers that [snip] purchased.
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Building new systems with HPUX 11i (RP5400’s, RP7400’s, RP8400’s
and Superdome’s)
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Configuring files systems using LVM and VxVM
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Building and testing Veritas Cluster Servers on [snip]
machines.
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Documenting and testing the DR and HA solutions with CA on
XP512, XP1024 and brocade switches.
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Document and handover all servers to BAU.
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Supporting and troubleshooting all environments.
[snip]
Technical Consultant November 2000 – December 2001
I worked as part of a small team designing and building the
Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery) for the Electricity
Billing Systems of [snip]. The project provided High
availability and Disaster Recovery for key Electricity related
systems, which generated over £500,000 of revenue for the
business every day. This involved installing and configuring MC/ServiceGuard
on HPUX 10.20 systems and VCS software on HPUX 11.00 and HPUX
11i, to provide High Availability locally.
For Disaster Recovery we used Continuous Access (CA) and
asynchronously replicated the live data from the Production
XP512 primary disks to the remote site, across the DWDM
backbone. My Responsibilities included building, designing,
implementing and documenting the SAN XP512 solution for [snip]’s electricity systems. Testing the Continuous Access
for DR and implementing changes to the horcm files and Secure
Manager for the CA disks for the separate consistency groups in
the array.
[snip]
Senior
Technical Analyst March 2000 – November 2000
My contract was with CMG (IT Management Consultancy) who sourced
my technical skills out to [snip].
[snip] were carrying out a Pan European and African Data Centre
Consolidation project with the United Kingdom chosen as the
location for these two consolidated Data Centres. I was involved
with the UK migration part of this project. My duties included
gathering all server configuration details, collating them into
reports, detailing possible problems, issues and corrective
action, then backing up the data on the old servers and building
the new environments from tapes and ignite builds. As we were
one of the first countries to migrate, we devised plans that
simplified the migration process and the teams that followed us
were asked to adhere to the same procedures to avoid any
unnecessary problems.
[snip]
Unix
Consultant December 1999 – March 2000
This was initially a one-month contract that was extended a
number of times. My role originally was to administer the day to
day running of the Live and Development HP Environments whilst
the permanent staff were trained on the new IBM RS6000
replacement servers. This role eventually changed and expanded
and I was tasked with reconfiguring the MC/ServiceGuard clusters
and the AutoRaid disk arrays, rebuilding various Unix servers
with HP-UX 11.00 and applying patches. I also assisted with
basic AIX administration when staff shortages were an issue.
Responsibilities – Day to day support of Unix environment
including administering the ServiceGuard cluster.
PERSONAL
POINTS
I am loyal, enthusiastic and adaptable. I can equally work as
part of a team or on my own. My main strengths are that I am
conscientious, hard working, punctual and have a very good
attendance record. If you would like a full copy of my CV
instead of this concise copy please request and I would happy to
provide.
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