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Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Secondary
School: Marr College (1988 – 1995)
Standard
Grade: - Technological Studies – 1, Math’s – 2, English
– 2, Physics – 2,
History – 3, French – 3,
German – 4
Higher
Grade: - Technological Studies – A, Physics – B,
Math’s – B, English – B,
Biology – C
University: Kilmarnock College (1995 –
1998)
(B.Eng) Batchelor
Engineering – Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Additional
Qualifications:
A+ Compaq Certified
Dell Hardware certified
engineer – trained by Dell in Austin - TX.
MCSE (2000): following
examinations (5 Core, 2 Electives)
Exam Code
C
70-210 Installing and administrating 2000
Professional
C
70-215 Installing and administrating 2000
Server
C
70-216 Implementing and administrating
2000 Infrastructure
C
70-217 Implementing and administrating
2000 Directory Services
C
70-226 Designing 2000 Infrastructure
E
70-218 Managing a 2000 Network Environment
E
70-226 Designing web solutions on 2000
server
Installing and configuring
Red Hat Linux Server (Learning Tree Course)
Working
Career:
[snip]
(contract: October 2005 – present day)
Working
within the [snip] Integration department for the Criminal Justice
Department
This
contract role is based within a secure Data Centre
Integrating
the Criminal Justice Departments secure online system, to a new
data centre with new hardware.
The current
hardware service contract was due for renewal. CJIT decided to
move the entire infrastructure to a new secure data centre.
Building
complete 2003 Server systems (two rigs – one for Production, the
other for Pre-Production)
Each rig
comprises of 23 servers.
Building,
testing and configuring the following configurations:
4 node SQL
2000 Cluster - with EMC SAN connectivity for Quorum, data tables
and transaction logs
2 node
Application Cluster – with EMC SAN connectivity for Quorum and
Application data
2 MOM 2005
servers for monitoring and reporting of server hardware,
application and database alerting.
1 Exchange
2003 Server, 4 ISA 2000 servers, 2 Biztalk 2002 Enterprise
servers, 2 Portal servers and 8 further 2003 Enterprise Servers.
Backup of
Servers and SAN are through NetBackup utilising a clarion array
configured as virtual tape devices.
Within this
position, I built and configured the servers and all
applications to strict CJIT requirements.
On
completion of the build process, Penetration Testing and
application testing, the system was then tested by CJIT for user
acceptance testing.
The new
system has now successfully gone live and the decommissioning of
the old servers in the old data centre have begun, whilst we
also support the new infrastructure.
Due to the
nature of this role, I have signed the official secrets act.
This does
not allow me to fully disclose all aspects of this position, but
I can give certain further information on request.
[snip] (HMCE)
(contract: Dec 2004 – Oct 2005)
Working
within the e-Business development team.
This
contract role is based within HMCE, supporting and
designing the e-business infrastructure.
Currently
designing and implementing the bridge between systems from HMCE
– Inland Revenue.
Previous
architecture included NT4.0 and 2000 Server (mixed mode)
New
infrastructure comprises of 2003 and 2000 servers in web farms
(clustered)
Now
changing to HMRC (Her Majesties Revenue and Customs – as of
April this year)
Through
this position I am now CTC (Counter Terrorist Check – MOD)
cleared.
Granting me
access to MOD protectively marked material up to and including
Confidential assets.
Due to the
nature of this role, I have signed the official secrets act.
This does
not allow me to fully disclose all aspects of this position, but
I can give certain further information on request.
[snip]
(contract: 2003 – 2004)
Working as
the team leader of the AIS support team.
The main
contracts that I supported were:
CIS
Internet LTD (www)
Design and implementation of the [snip] web farm.
The
[snip] site is a 39 server solution, 20 of which are
clustered web servers, 2 SQL 2000 clustered databases, 4 ISA
servers (for there image web cache functionality), 2 chat
servers, 2 payment servers (secure SSL), 4 tool servers, 2 mail
servers, 1 NAS and 2 admin servers (utilized for backups and
administration of the site)
Through
[snip] I now support there daily server / site
maintenance.
[snip]: Design and implementation of there UK wide WAN
configuration.
[snip] has multiple offices across the UK and Europe.
There
entire network is routed through there London office, all remote
offices have there own Exchange server attached to the single
[snip] domain.
Through
[snip] I now support there daily support for Citrix,
Network, Domain controllers and Exchange servers.
[snip]:
(Collective of 5 insurance companies) Design and implementation
of there London office LAN and domain.
[snip] have
800 workstation users in there London office.
Through
[snip] I designed and implemented there entire office
Active Directory, based on the 2003 Server OS.
User’s
workstations were ranging from NT4.0, 2000 Professional and XP
professional.
[snip] now support there infrastructure 24/7.
[snip] is primarily a troubleshooting and support company.
Listed are
some of the contracts I have resolved: [snip] (firewall and VPN resolution),
[snip] (site/server and network issues), [snip] (Dundee office to Edinburgh backup resolution,
network/domain issues), [snip] (firewall and VPN resolution)
and [snip] (security audit and network hardening).
[snip]
(2001 – 2003)
- Senior
Systems Engineer L3 (Microsoft Support Team)
This Role,
for a successful Managed Hosting company first started in there
London – UK data centre/office
From there
I was transferred to there main office in San Antonio TX.
Dealing
with varying customer server configurations, supporting there
servers operating system, hardware and third party
applications*.
Where
uptime and customer quick issue resolutions are of the highest
priority.
Administrated NT4.0, 2000 and 2003 along with some Linux and
FreeBSD experience.
Building
customers servers and supporting hardware failures
[snip]
currently has 4 Data Centres worldwide housing over 11000
servers.
*(Third
party application experience is listed to the end of this
resume)
[snip]
(2000 – 2001)
- Technical
Sales Engineer
[snip] is a recruitment software company.
Dealing
with customers from the initial meeting through to supporting
there needs.
[snip] - available through either there own web servers or the
customers own dedicated server.
The
software ran client and server side, requesting relevant data
from an Oracle DB.
Dealing
with relevant customer requests/issues along with demonstrating
the products.
[snip]
– (1999 – 2000)
- Scottish
Field Service Engineer
[snip]
were a subcontractor for [snip].
[snip]
are the extended warranty company that deal with the [snip]
Completing
all work requests for system upgrades and failures at customer
sites.
24/7 on
call for [snip]
[snip]
– (1998 – 1999)
- Network
design and support technician
[snip] were a local company, dealing with small business
systems.
Going to
the companies sites then designing, implementing and supporting
there systems.
Usual
company size only required for 2 servers and 15 workstation
configurations.
Products I
have supported and configured include, but are not limited to:
Backup
Solutions - Backup Exec, Net Backup and Computer
Associates ARC.
Mail
Solutions – MailMax, Imail, Exchange 2000/2003, Kerio and
MailEnable.
Operating
Systems – Windows 95, 98(ME), NT4.0 (Workstation and
Server),
2000 (Professional, Server
and Advanced Server), XP,
2003 (Web,
Standard and Enterprise Server), Linux Red Hat 7.2, Redhat
Fedora, (Limited FreeBSD experience) Netware and
OS
additional: ISA 2000, ISA 2004, Biztalk 2002
Office
Applications - Office 98 – 2003, Visio 2000 – 2003,
SharePoint Services (for 2003 Server), Project 2000 – 2003 (both
Server and Client side),FrontPage 2000 – 2003 (and 2000 – 2002
Server extensions), Sage and Adobe Acrobat Pro V5 and V6.
Web
Development - Swish (Flash Development), Macromedia
Studio MX, FrontPage 2000-2003, Visual Studio.NET and Home Site
builder.
Database
- SQL 2000, MSDE, Oracle 9i, PostgreSQL and
MySQL
Code/scripting - ASP, ASPX, HTML and CFX.
Web Server
apps - Cold fusion, Bulletproof FTP, ASP.NET, Guardian
Angel (and Site Angel), Urchin, BlackIce, portslock, packetalarm,
IIS 5.0 – 6.0 ,Apache, aspmail, Ensim, WhatsUPGold, Symantec
Corp AV, Computer Associates AV, EMC Powerpath and Ghost
7.0-10.0.
Virtualisation - VMWare ESX Server, Marathon
Technologies (RAID1 of physical servers)
VMWare worksatation and
VMware GSX.
With
multiple network/hardware configuration/support experience.
Dealing
with both software and hardware firewalls.
2000/2003
VPN and Cisco VPN.
Configuration/support of multiple manufacturer’s routers,
switches and hubs.
Dealing
with the following Hardware:
Cisco PIX,
Netscreen 5XP, Nokia Checkpoint, F5 Load-balancers, 3Com and
Cisco managed switches.
Dell,
Compaq and other manufacturer servers and storage devices.
Dell Open
manage, Dell Servers/workstations and Poweredges.
Compaq
Servers and workstations
EMC
Symmetrix and clariion devices
ALL server
hardware including RAID/SCSI, SATA, EIDE, motherboards and
devices.
Additional:
SC
(Security Cleared – MOD) cleared until 2010
I have both
a Full UK driving license and a state of Texas driving license.
A current 3
year USA work visa – expires March 2006
My interest
include Kickboxing (of which I hold my Yellow belt), socializing
with friends and work colleagues, WRC and online computer
gaming. |
