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Date of Birth :
8 December 1961
Nationality
: British
Full UK driving
Licence
Security
Clearance: To BC level
Skills Summary
Over fifteen years
experience in technical architecture and infrastructure roles
working for a number of large companies. Extensive experience of
developing and presenting architecture/infrastructure designs at
all levels of management. Exposure to the following
technologies; Business Continuity planning and design, Data
centre disaster recovery planning and design, Consolidation
planning and design, Technical Refresh, Middleware technologies
including mySAP, SAP ECC, SAP NetWeaver, Tibco, Web Methods.
Extensive experience of Windows Server, Oracle database
architecture, Citrix, SAN design, Cisco and Brocade SAN
switches, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion, EMC Timefinder and SRDF,
HP XP12000, XP1024, HP Business Copy and Continuous Access, Sun
and HP Enterprise servers, Data Backup and Recovery, Veritas
Netbackup, HP Data Protector, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas
Replication, HP Service Guard.
Employment History
October ’05 – Date
[snip],
West Midlands. In the following contract role:
Senior Technical
Architect:
working on HM Government/security cleared projects. The team
cover all HM Government projects UK wide.
The technical
landscape is as follows; various EMC DMX arrays, NetApp
clustered filers, EMC Timefinder/Mirror and SRDF, NetApp
Snapshot and Snaprestore, Veritas Netbackup, HP Data Protector,
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Citrix, and Wintel servers, Fujitsu
Flexframe running mySAP ERP applications, Oracle 9.x and 10g
databases, Java and WebMethods middleware, Tivoli Workload
scheduler. These cover a number of data centres UK wide which
provide DR.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
To examine the
current infrastructure and look at the benefits of using new
technologies to drive through change. The benefits are captured
and developed into technical solutions via high-level and
low-level designs (HLD and LLD). I then present the designs to
senior management and the BAU teams to explain the benefits and
risks associated with the proposed change.
Create and present
technical end-to-end designs for the HMRC portal that use mySAP
ERP Business Suite, Java, and Web Methods middleware. The
designs include SAN, storage, backup and recovery, business
continuity and DR. I act as the technical design authority/lead
during the development, test, clone, and live phases and make
decisions relating to business impacts. I engage with the
application architects to ensure all requirements are correctly
understood.
Create technical
designs to implement a disaster recovery environment using EMC
SRDF/S between data centre sites in Canary Wharf and Essex. The
storage arrays are a DMX3000 and DMX-3, Cisco MDS switches,
Veritas Netbackup, Oracle 9.x and 10g databases.
Create technical
designs and test implement a disaster recovery environment
between data centre sites in Canary Wharf and Essex for the
National Tax Credit (NTC) environments. The designs were
presented to and agreed with all stakeholders from senior
management to the BAU teams. Act as the technical design
authority/lead during the development, test, clone, and live
phases and make decisions relating to business impacts. I engage
with the application architects to ensure all requirements are
correctly understood.
Create and present
technical designs for the implementation of incremental Oracle
Recovery Manager (RMAN) backups for data held on EMC DMX and
NetApp storage. This is a move away from using EMC Timefinder/Mirror
for all Oracle databases. The designs were presented to and
agreed with all stakeholders from senior management, to the
Oracle architects and the BAU teams.
Systems
Various Sun
servers; E25K, V880, V440, HP Superdome, rp8420, rp4440, rp3440
servers, Windows 2003 servers, Citrix servers
Storage
EMC Symmetrix DMX
2000/3000;Enginuity level 5670 and 5671, DMX-3; Enginuity level
5771, NetApp FS3050C, EMC Connectrix switches, Cisco MDS 9509
and 9140/20 switches, Storagetek SL8500 tape libraries
Software
Oracle Recovery
Manager (RMAN), Veritas Volume Replication, Veritas
Netbackup Advanced Client, HP Data Protector, EMC Timefinder/Mirror,
Timefinder/Clone, SRDF/S and SRDF/A, NetApp snapshot and
snaprestore, SAN zones, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, networking,
Java, WebMethods.
May ‘05 – October
‘05
[snip],
London. In the following contract role:
Senior Technical
Architect:
assigned to the
BASEL II team. [snip] are implementing the BASEL II Accord to run
in parallel with their current BASEL I implementation. The
project is due to go live in September 2006. I was assigned to
the Group Risk Data Warehouse (GRDW) project responsible for the
technical architecture of the UNIX systems, EMC storage, Oracle
databases, CISCO network, and desktop clients. The role of the
Infrastructure Architecture is to plan, design, present, and
oversee the technical architecture using high-level and
low-level designs (HLD and LLD). The remit also covers cost and
pricing analysis.
The current BASEL
I data are held on mainframe and EMC DMX 3000 storage. The EMC
storage is cross-site protected using SRDF, and protected
on-site using EMC TimeFinder/Mirror technology. Open systems
data is held within Oracle 9i databases. The Basel I servers are
HP Superdome’s.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
The designs are
produced after consultation with the business and application
architects, the Oracle, UNIX, network, and support teams to
understand target service levels. The architectural designs
include full testing of a site failure for disaster recovery and
the backup/restore of data. All designs are submitted via the
Change Management system for approval/implementation.
Systems
Various Sun
servers; E25K, V880, V440, HP Superdome servers, Windows NT and
2003 servers
Storage
EMC Symmetrix 8830
and DMX 2000/3000; Enginuity level 5670, IBM mainframe, EMC
Connectrix switches (McData), Storagetek L5500 tape libraries
Software
Veritas Netbackup,
Veritas Volume Replication, Legato Networker, EMC Timefinder
Mirror, Timefinder Clone, Timefinder Snap, SRDF/S and SRDF/A,
Infoman, Veritas Cluster Server, HP ServiceGuard, SAN zones,
networking
October ‘04 - May
‘05
[snip],
Gallows Hill, Warwick.
In the following
contract role:
Lead
Technical Architect: assigned to the Learning Management
System (LMS) team. [snip], having sold their first LMS in the
UK to [snip], required complete end-to-end architectural
designs to implement the product.
The role of the
Infrastructure Architect is to plan, design, and oversee the
technical architecture using high-level and low-level designs (HLD
and LLD). The architecture was based on fire-walled Windows 2003
web front-end access, MS-SQL database and Windows 2003
application servers, Sun Solaris database and application
servers. The storage was NetApp filers and EMC Clariion disk
arrays and the SAN was Brocade 3900 switch based. There were
also separate disaster recovery and test/development
environments between two [snip] sites. Connectivity between
sites was via virtual private networks (VPN). The SAN was
dual-fabric.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
Architectural
designs were created after consultation with [snip] and the
application architects and all requirements were documented.
Once the designs were approved, the team decided upon the best
platform solution, responded to RFPs, and ordered all hardware
and software. The team were responsible for costs analysis. We
then created the acceptance test specifications and documented.
Once all hardware and software was installed the team implement
the design solution. The environment was fully tested for
site-failure disaster recovery and backup/restore functionality
using disk-to-disk-to-tape. The team provided support before
handing over to the Business As Usual (BAU) team.
Systems
Sun Fire V440,
V480 running Solaris 9.x, IBM X series running Windows 2003
Storage/Network
EMC Clariion,
NetApp FAS920 and FAS270 Filers, IBM DS400, Sun Storedge 3310,
Brocade 3900 Switches, IBM 3582Tape Library, HP MSL6060 Tape
Library, Nokia Firewalls, Cisco Pix Firewalls
Software
Veritas Netbackup,
Veritas Volume Replication, Windows 2003, Solaris 9i RAC, Oracle
9i, EMC Control Centre Navisphere, Tibco ActiveEnterprise,
Security Hardening, SAN zones
January ‘03 –
October ‘04
[snip],
Isleworth.
In the following
contract role:
Lead Technical
Architect/Technical Lead:
assigned to the Data Centre Consolidation (DCC) team. The DCC
project was responsible for providing technical designs for a
new data centre on the Isleworth site and a disaster recovery
site in Southampton. The new data centres were used to
consolidate existing systems and storage and also housed the new
digital platform for [snip] play-out.
The role of the
Technical Architect is to plan, design, present, and oversee the
technical architecture using high-level and low-level designs (HLD
and LLD). The design for the digital play-out was based around
HP rp8420 servers, Sun V880 servers, Windows 2003 servers and
Citrix servers. The storage was an EMC DMX1000 disk array, the
SAN used a mixture of Brocade and McData directors and switches,
and the backup device was a Storagetek L80 tape library. The HP
rp8420 servers use HP-UX 11i, Veritas Volume Manager, and
Veritas Cluster Server. The data was backed-up using Veritas
Netbackup from the fibre SAN using EMC Timefinder/Mirror. The
applications were a mixture of Oracle 9.x and Informix 7.x
databases as well as in-house software.
The disaster
recovery site had a mirror of the hardware and software
components as the production site. Once implemented,
site-failure scenarios were tested.
The data
consolidation design looked at reducing the foot-print of the
current data centre by consolidating storage and servers into
larger units.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
Consultation with
the in-house and third-party application providers, and the
current support groups, when evaluating a number of technologies
before best of breed were chosen. The team responded to RFPs,
ordered all hardware, software and support, and was responsible
for all cost and pricing analysis. The team liaised with
third-party vendors for installation and support. All cabling,
and racking of equipment fell under the team’s remit.
Architectural
designs were produced which included the inter-connect of all
systems and network, backup and recovery of data, systems
management, Oracle and Informix design, full site failure, and
server/network failures.
The team provided
systems support until the environment was fully documented and
handed over to the business-as-usual team. This entailed file
creation, kernel tuning, backup and recovery of data, allocation
of storage, and UNIX script writing.
Systems
HP rp8420 and
rp3440, Sun V880, Windows 2003, and Citrix servers
Storage/Network
EMC DMX1000 disk
array; Enginuity 5669, Brocade and McData directors and
switches, StorageTek L80 tape library, Cisco Pix Firewalls
Software
HP-UX
11i, Windows 2003, Oracle 9i, Informix 7.x, EMC ControlCentre;
Symmetrix Manager, Symmetrix Optimiser, Brocade Fabric Manager,
Brocade OS, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server,
Veritas Volume Replication, Veritas Netbackup, EMC Powerpath,
EMC Timefinder SymCli, OV Operations 7.x for UNIX, OV Service
Desk, SAN zones
January ‘02 –
December ‘02
[snip], Bracknell, Berks.
In the
following contract role:
Technical
Architect:
assigned to the
Pretel project team. [snip] were partnering with mobile provider Pretel. Pretel were producing a suite of applications for their
mobile telephone offering. [snip] provided all hardware/software and
systems applications. The technical architects were responsible
for creating the technical architecture design, creating the
Acceptance Test specifications, overseeing the implementation of
the design solution, and assisting with the initial support
of the solution before
handing over to the Business as Usual team.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
The
solution was based around a SAN consisting of an XP1024 array,
connected to multiple HP 9000 clusters, with an HP tape library
connected via fabric switches. The solution included scripting
HP BusinessCopy for backup and recovery into the Omniback
environment.
The team provided
systems administration until the environment was fully
documented and handed over to the BAU team. This entailed file
creation, kernel tuning, backup and recovery of data, allocation
of storage, and UNIX script writing.
Systems
HP rp74000 servers
running HP-UX 11.x
Storage
HP 1024 Disk
Array, Brocade Switch Infrastructure, Brocade Fabric Manager,
StorageTek L180 tape library
Software
HP-UX 11i, Oracle
8.x, HP LVM, HP Service Guard,
Commandview XP, HP
LUN Configuration Secure/XP Manager, HP Omniback, Openview
Operations, HP BusinessCopy/XP, SAN zones
January ‘99 -
December ‘01
[snip], Bracknell, Berks.
In the
following contract role:
Server/Storage
Architect:
assigned to the
Digifone team. HP provided technical resources to Digifone,
Dublin. The technical architects were responsible for creating
the designs, creating the Acceptance Test specifications,
implementation of the design solution, and initial support
of a systems management
solution based in Dublin and Limerick.
The
solution was based around the HP Openview IT/O solution and
backed-up using HP Omniback.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
Architectural designs were produced based around a SAN
consisting of an EMC Symmetrix 8830 array, connected to multiple
HP 9000 clusters, with a Storagetek tape library connected via
fabric switches.
The main
application used Oracle 8.x. EMC Timefinder/Mirror symcli was
used to create point-in-time mirrors of the data. Oracle was
also integrated into the Omniback environment via Oracle
Recovery manager.
The team built the
Openview Operations server, installed HP-UX, Windows, and Oracle
agents onto the hosts, then created and tested scripts to
capture events and forward these to the Openview Operations
server.
The team provided
systems administration until the environment was fully
documented and handed over to the business-as-usual team. This
entailed file creation, kernel tuning, backup and recovery of
data, allocation of storage, and UNIX script writing.
Systems
HP N-Class servers
running HP-UX 11.x
Storage
EMC
Symmetrix 8830 disk array, Brocade switch infrastructure,
Brocade Fabric Manager, StorageTek L700 tape library
Software
HP-UX
11i, Oracle 8.x, HP LVM, HP Service Guard, HP Omniback, Openview
Operations, EMC Timefinder SymCli, SAN zones
January ‘96 -
January ‘99
[snip], Bracknell, Berks.
In the
following contract role:
Technical
Architect:
assigned to the
EDS/Inland Revenue team. [snip] provided technical resources to
EDS/Inland Revenue for the COTAX/CICs project. The project was
based on the Revenue’s capability to collect company taxes.
Key Deliverables
for [snip]
Architectural designs were produced based around a highly
available cluster of HP9000 V-class servers, and EMC 3930
Symmetrix array, StorageTek 9710-tape library, to support five
projects.
The main
application used Oracle 7.x and I used the EMC TimeFinder/Mirror
symcli to create point-in-time mirror copies of the data. Oracle
was also integrated into the Omniback environment via Oracle
Recovery Manager (RMAN).
The team provided
systems administration until the environment was fully
documented and handed over to the business-as-usual team. This
entailed file creation, kernel tuning, backup and recovery of
data, allocation of storage, and UNIX script writing.
The
role also includes specifying all hardware/software/support
components of the design, checking that all items are delivered
correctly, and liaising with third-party vendors for
installation and support.
Systems
HP
V-Class servers running HP-UX 10.2
Storage
EMC Symmetrix 3930
Disk Array, Brocade Switch Infrastructure, Brocade Fabric
Manager, StorageTek 9710 Tape Library
Software
HP-UX
10.2, Oracle 7.x, HP LVM, HP Service Guard, EMC Timefinder
SymCli, HP Omniback, SAN zones
March ‘94 -
January ‘96
[snip], Bracknell, Berks.
In the
following contract role:
Openview
Consultant:
assigned to the
[snip]
team. HP
provided technical resources to
[snip] to
work with their customer [snip]. The team’s role was to
design and implement an application-ready environment. The
design was based around HP’s Openview suite.
Systems
HP
K-Class servers running HP-UX 10.2
Software
HP-UX
10.2, HP LVM, Openview Operations
June ‘92 – March
‘94
[snip], Leigh-on-Sea.
In the following
contract role:
Technical
Architect:
responsible for
the iimplementation of a
highly available service based solution throughout sites in
Europe. The service supported the company’s JIT systems for the
automotive plants. Using HP9000 servers and SwitchOver/UX and
MirrorDisk/UX.
Work
Experience at [snip]
Systems
HP
K-Class servers running HP-UX 9.x
Software
HP-UX
9.x, HP Switchover/UX
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
August ‘79 – June
‘82 Lancashire Polytechnic, Preston
Industrial Information
Technology BSc (hons) 2:1
September ‘72 -
July ‘77
Meadway Comprehensive School
5 GCE ‘A’ Levels & 9 GCE
‘O’ Levels
TRAINING
November ‘04
Hewlett-Packard - Technical Pre-sales Consultancy
September ‘04
Veritas - Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas
Netbackup
January
‘04 Hewlett-Packard - Advanced Openview
Operations
May ‘03
Hewlett-Packard - Service Guard
January
‘00 EMC - Timefinder and SRDF |
