|
IT
Infrastructure Specialist with 9 years’ investment banking
experience and 20 years’ experience of Unix systems with a
broad knowledge of all the major IT technologies. Specialist
at implementing global IT systems which enable business
applications to meet their performance, scalability,
availability, recoverability, security and audit
requirements. Acknowledged as a key advisor and influencer,
and adept at managing complex environments and maintaining
standards whilst balancing conflicting priorities.
Key Skills
|
·
Project Management
·
Team working
·
Problem solving
·
Planning and organising
·
Meeting delivery
targets |
·
Unix & Linux
·
Business Continuity
Planning
·
High-availability
systems
·
IT security
·
Disaster Recovery |
Career and Achievements
Freelance/Contract
Jun 2006 – Nov 2006:
Website Implementation Project Manager
Consultant for the
redesign of a new website for [snip] including specification,
writing an RfP document, management of the RfP process, vendor
negotiation and final selection, and subsequent liaison with
copywriter, vendor and PfC management.
[snip]
Jun 1998 – Nov 2005:
Senior Architect & Infrastructure Manager, [snip]
[snip] was responsible
for the design, development, implementation and support of all
real-time and batch/reporting applications for Credit, Market
and Collateral Risk globally. The server infrastructure was
Fujitsu and Sun (Solaris), HP and IBM (Linux & Windows), IBM
blades (Linux & Windows), EMC SAN and NetApp NAS, with Oracle
and Sybase databases.
Major achievements
·
Introduction of a
Linux/Data-Synapse GRID, saving $1million over alternatives.
·
Specification and management of
infrastructure upgrades throughout the period when Risk moved
from batch to real-time systems to support global trading.
·
Planning and implementation on
numerous upgrades to the data warehouse infrastructure
(Solaris/Sybase), including the implementation of Informatica
for ETL and the migration to SAN storage, as volumes grew 2000%
in 7 years.
·
Author of “Developing Unix
Applications Securely”, subsequently adopted by IT Security
as the basis of a bank-wide security remediation programme.
·
Minimising operational risk by
ensuring applications and infrastructure adhere to consistent
design, security and DR/HA standards.
·
Migration of the main
Collateral Management systems to Linux, saving $400k.
·
Migration of development
systems to new datacentre in London.
·
Migration of production systems
to new datacentre in Zurich.
·
Conversion of all Oracle and
Sybase database servers to SAN storage.
·
Appointed Associate Director in
1999 and Director in 2002.
Key responsibilities
·
Project management of all
infrastructure changes (projects up to several months).
·
Planning and coordination of
all datacentre, server and storage migrations.
·
Project management of all
recent annual BCP/DR tests (all successful).
·
Liaison with IT production
teams (datacentre, Unix, Wintel, database, storage, network,
facilities, etc.) in several locations globally.
·
Working with project teams to
ensure applications and infrastructure adhere to business
continuity and disaster recovery design principles.
·
Liaison with all project teams
to plan and schedule infrastructure changes.
·
Coordination of all IT
production changes which could affect [snip].
·
Advising project teams of the
bank’s security and audit requirements.
·
Performance monitoring, tuning,
capacity planning and hardware forecasting.
·
Managing the hardware capital
budget (several million $).
·
Providing a longer-term
strategic view of application infrastructure.
·
Documentation of application
and system configurations.
·
Regular management reporting
with RAG status of active projects.
·
Member of [snip] management
team.
·
Member of various working
groups defining bank-wide IT standards and policies.
·
Product Owner and Vendor
Relationship Manager for Splus & R software.
·
3rd level support
for infrastructure issues.
[snip]
Jun 1996 – June 1998:
Project Implementer
·
Ensuring applications met
production support and security standards.
·
Coordinating development and
production teams’ work during the release process.
·
Implementing disaster recovery
solutions for applications.
[snip]
Jul 1993 – Jun 1996:
Senior Analyst
- Managing the
integration of various legacy Unix systems and networks into
one.
- Development and
implementation of standards for Unix and application
installations.
[snip]
Jan 1992 – May 1993:
Senior Engineer
- Project managing
the subsystem integration of mobile phone designs.
- Unix systems and
application software administration.
[snip]
Jun 1986 – Dec 1991:
Senior Engineer
- Circuit design and
simulation using Unix-based applications.
- Unix systems and
application software administration.
Jul 1983 – May 1986:
Junior Engineer
- Electronics design
and acoustic testing of corded telephones.
[snip]
Jun 1982 – Jun 1983:
Test Engineer
Education
|
1979 – 1982: |
University of Leeds
BSc (Hons),
2(i), Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
|
1972 – 1979: |
Boldon Comprehensive School
A-levels:
Maths (A), Physics (A), Further Maths (C) |
Personal Information
|
