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Full Clean
UK Drivers Licence
UK Citizen
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Status:
Single |
Willing
to travel/relocate
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CERTIFICATION
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Microsoft
Certified Professional |
Windows NT
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Microsoft
Certified Professional
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Windows NT
WORKSTATION |
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IBM
AIX System Administration
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Sun Micro
Systems (SA380)
Solaris TCP/IP Network Administration
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INDUSTRIES WORKED IN
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Consulting Services including “Big Five” , “SUN
Professional Services” and Facilities Management,
Banking, Financial Services, Reseller (VAR),
Insurance, Telecommunications, Retail,
Manufacturing (OEM), Distribution, Publishing, Printing
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Personal
Experience / Qualities |
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A
strong track record of delivery large
scale complex Multi-Vendor project for Blue Chip
Clients
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Clearly
adding value to the business and
processes, I have updated
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Strong
believer in “Teamwork” and the benefits to be
gained through the sharing of skills and
opinions
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Highly
motivated “Self-Starter”, working well alone
and un-supervised, getting on with the job in
hand
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Hard
working, conscientious, reliable, trustworthy and
honest
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Thorough
and methodical in my approach - I will weigh
up all the risks taking a suitably calculated course
of action, ideally with an identifiable
recovery plan
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Quick
Learner, looking for challenges, always willing
to broaden my skills, more often than not leading me
to becoming a recognized expert in that
chosen field
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Proactive
and innovative, always looking for ways to
improve “out-dated or technology starved”
processes
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Logical problem solver
- if something is not right, it will bug me till I
fix it
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Flexible
attitude, open to the opinion of others, yet
able to confidently argue the point for any
case in which I have a strong belief
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Maintain
a clear focus on the objective yet able to
multi-task and rapidly adapt to changing
circumstances and put the needs of the business
first
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Used to
working within tight budgetary constraints
attaining best-fit solution with the
available resources
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More
than willing to travel, as needed, and meet
clients face to face
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Excellent commercial and technical
knowledge, with a broad understanding of currant and
future technologie
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Travelled the world and gained an
appreciation of how to handle people and
difficult situations
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Infrastructure Consultant.
February 2002 – Date
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Working at D.R. Mathews with overall
responsibility for design, implementation, configuration
and training of staff for the delivery of the
estimation, stock and order systems
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Converted the business needs and processes to technical
a specification (business analysis)
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Creation of an option list with a cost to benefits
hierarchy. Listing several option for a delivery of the
applications on various scales and options
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Providing technical presentations to board
level to justify the costs to benefits for proposal
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Utilising the pre-existing HP and network equipment to
give the best Return on Investment (ROI)
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Managing relationship, and delivery by third party
vendors and Value Added Resellers
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Designed and implemented the procedures for the systems
upgrade and new hardware
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Tested new configuration and agreed all work done
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Designed and documented the operations and support
staffs procedures for management of the system
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Trained support staff on new equipment and procedures
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Implemented a rolling backup and recovery path for
client on HP systems and a future DR path
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Liaised with development team to create new options and
improvement to customise application
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Performance tuned HP-UX systems at kernel level
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RS
Components
Enterprise Infrastructure Design
Architect.
August
2001 – October 2002
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Working at RS with overall technical
responsibility for the delivery of the Clustered
and DR E10Ks
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Producing Robust, Available, Scalable (RAS),
E-Commerce (OLTP), Analysis (DSS) systems
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Managing relationship, and delivery by third party
vendors and Value Added Resellers
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Providing real world advice for
implementing a zero down time environment
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Providing technical and implementation
expertise on systems consolidation, scaling,
through put, implementation, integration,
application consolidation in an Internet/Intranet
environment
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Providing detailed technical project management
for specific tasks for multiple projects migrating
to the E10Ks
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Qualified new products to run on the E10K in a HA,
Multi-application environments
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Built Development and Production HP Openview backend on
Veritas Cluster
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Defining security, system access, and
configuration policy in varied applications domains
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Configuration of Cisco 6000 switches and routers
for the EBS Projects network access
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Evaluate application performance and suggest
improvements
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Responsible for implementing Best Practice to a rapidly
expanding
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Dixons
Stores Group
Migration Consultant
Clustering/E10K Consultant
May 2002 – July 2002 |
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Responsible for overall technical Migration of
the live applications between
two
data centres and E10K domains at
one time
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Sole creator of the “migration strategy”
which was basis of the plan to keep all apps
available
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Providing detailed technical project management
for specific tasks for migration the E10K
domains
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Designed, planned, created and executed procedures for
smooth application migration/systems move
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Troubleshooting of the Enterprise platforms with Veritas
Cluster and their associated applications
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Domain reconfiguration for resource sharing / System
migration (E10K) to new Data Centre
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Migrated
data on SAN between domains
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Team Leader
of Migration group (6 people), lead coordinator for all
departments move |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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Dixons
Stores Group
Team Leader |
Clustering/E10K Consultant
May
2001 - September 2001
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Sun Professional Services (SUN PS) |
On site
at Atmel and Crestco
Clustering/E10K Consultant
March
2001 - April 2001
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Dixons Stores Group (F I GROUP) |
E10K
and Cluster specialist
Enterprise Infrastructure
Design Architect
April
2000 - November 2000
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Sun
Professional Services (SUN PS)
On site at Cox Insurance and
Vodaphone
Clustering/E10K Consultant
December 1999 - March 2000
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Chase Manhattan / News International
Credit Suisse F B / Barclays Bank
Reuters / Swiss Reinsurance
Senior Systems Administrator
1997 –
1999
Team Leader / Senior Systems
Administrator for Sun/IBM systems |
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SKILLS PROFILE |
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Hardware
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Software
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Sun Fire 15K and SC
Enterprise 10K and SSP
V880, E6000, E4X00, E3500, E4X0R, E2X0R
Ultra 1/2/5/60/ Blade 100/1000, Netra T1
Sparc Storage Array (SSA), Baydel Raider 5
Photons A5x00, A1000, D1000, T3, S1
HDS rebadged as SUN, EMC, (SANS)
Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, Token Ring, SCI, Gigabit
Rj45, B10T, B105, 100FX, ATM, terminal con.
SOC, FCAL and GBIT, PCI, SCSI, JNI data cards
Fibre to ether switch (Milan, Crossroads)
Various backup media -
DLT, DAT, AL, L180, L700 tape silos.
HP/Cannon/Kyocera printers
IBM RS/6000 F50/80/5X0, IBM 7331 SSA
HP 9000 PA_RISC rp54X0 rp22X0
Compaq Deskpro range
Intel x86 P.C
Cisco Routers and Switches
2500/3500/6000
Extreme Networks Giga-switch
Brocade SAN switch
Mycom voice and data rack
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Solaris, SunOS
Sybase / Oracle
SAM, SMIT, Veritas Cluster / Sun Cluster
Veritas Volume Manager, VXFS,
Mirror-UX
ODS / SDS / LVM, Raid Manager, T3 manager
Sun MC / Remote Console / Graphtrack
NetBackup / Legato / Omniback /
fbackup
Sun Bandwidth Manager / Sun Resource Manager
SMS, SSP, Flexlm, Jetadmin, Adminsuite,
Cron, BMC, Autosys - job scheduling
CDE, Openwin, Sendmail, Samba, Linux,
Sed, Awk, Perl, Sudo, traceroute, top
Netscape, Apachie, Websphere, Iplanet
Jumpstart, custom Jumpstart
and Interactive installs
TCP/IP, X25, PPP, SLIP, NetBEUI, ISDN, xDSL
HTTP, WINS, DHCP, VPN, IPsec, NAT, Ldap
NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, XNTP,
RIP, BGP
FireWall-1, Fidessa, Triarch
AIX 3.X / 4.X HP-UX 11/11i
Windows 2000, NT 4/3.5.1, XP, Win 9X
MS Office Products, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, Visio, NAV
Solaris 2.x For Intel / Interactive UNIX
Cisco IOS 10/11 Lan/Wan configuration
Mycom - Multimedia to the desktop |
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I
have over 10 years commercial SUN Unix systems
experience, six years of NT/XP/95/WfW/DOS exposure on
PCs, four years IBM and Cisco
and
two years of HP systems exposure
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REFERENCES |
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References
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