Alan Garde Email & Phone Number

Bracknell

Reading, United Kingdom

Continued role on Hutchison 3G/Three UK account after outsource of infrastructure to IBM.

Reading, United Kingdom

Continued role on Hutchison 3G/Three UK account after outsource as a managed service to Wipro.

Reading, United Kingdom

Continued role on Hutchison 3G/Three UK account after outsource as a managed service to Ericsson.

• UNIX 3rd line support, implementation and service delivery for telco from pre-launch to multi-million customer.• Design/implementation support of Veritas Cluster (HA, RAC, CVM/CFS) and supporting products (VxFS, VxVM).Build and deployment from barebones datacentre to Solar 1200+ UNIX server environment.• Designed and implemented Solaris infrastructure for environment and support tools.• Design authority and implementation for all H3G Solaris OS installations from Solaris 8 through Solaris 10, including security, network requirements, OS standards.• Development of UNIX CMDB/change recording system (MySQL, PHP, Perl).• Developed all operational standards for Solaris deployments within H3G.• Hardware/software evaluation and integration for new SUN/Solaris products entering H3G's infrastructure (from 280R through to M-series and T-series, Solaris 8/10, ZFS, zones, Veritas products).• Designed and implemented of multi-site content replication system holding backing store of content served to customers.• SPOC for operational acceptance of new Solaris project designs.

Hook

Multiple project design/development/administration/implentation -• Tru64 UNIX/TruCluster/NT/Open VMS deployment, configuration, integration, support.• TruCluster design and implementation for Hong Kong international airport.• Onsite implementation/upgrades/Y2K support for Hong Kong international airport.• Supported 140 development staff, their hardware and the Dev/T&I environment software stack including AIX, RTM, Insure++, Cantata for a major ATC development project.• Developed internal helpdesk system.• Administration of NT/exchange/filesystem environment across multiple sites for call-centre based client.• Designed/implemented network/server infrastructure for a multiple site consolidation/relocation of central systems/dev and test staff.• Design and implement NT build control processes for EDS Defence project.• Integration of COTS, bespoke NT/UNIX software and defence approved hardware systems.• Developed web functionality (CGI, perl, php, C, NT batch) for defence system.• Designed/implemented firewall configuration for connection to external interfaces.• Design/implementation of secure apachy proxy solution to connect to external interfaces.• Design/implementation of system to simulate external SMTP/HTTP/HTTPS feeds for SIT testing.• Onsite interface configuration and testing and handover to customer.• Designed/Implemented server/network/firewall infrastructure for test/support environment

Reading, United Kingdom

• UK System/Network Administrator for multinational freight-forwarder. Administrator for multiple site UK PC LANs (Novell/,Powerlan/Windows NT 4.0 Server) and UK WAN infrastructure (bridged TCP/IP networks & terminal servers/dumb terminals via mux'ed serial lines). • Provide network/hardware/systems software support for corporate office and 8 remote offices. Provide technical advice for all Europe/Middle-East agents and company partners.• Administrator for HP-UX 9.04/10.20 machine, central node of a distributed freight tracking database application. Participate as part of a global support team providing 24x7 support for database nodes in Reading, Los Angeles, Frankfurt and Johannesburg via SITA X.25 (TCP/IP) backbone.• Administrator for UK based Unix machines. DG-UX (accounts/ocean freight applications) and Linux (email gateway) machines based at Reading and the SCO Unix (customs clearance) machines at branch offices, • Email administrator for UK, countrywide ccMail administration (v5 and v8 incl. SMTP gateways, routers, etc), regional openmail administrator, companywide Internet postmaster. • Implemented NT 4.0 Server network at corporate office, replacing previous Novell network.• Implemented systems as needed in 'C'/shell s to interface internal systems with external customer systems (b2b). Implemented first UK company intranet.

London, United Kingdom

• Debugged, documented, and further developed an existing electronic trading system, used to trade securities and futures on the Swedish OMLX exchange.• Developed software for connecting Juno to the OMLX and the DTB (German Electronic Futures and Options Market). Interfaces were written in C under OS/2 as well as server software, also in C on AIX to connect in-house trading systems with the external systems of the futures and options exchanges. Interfaces received real time price and deals information, and placed orders back into the market’s. At the time Juno was the second company to trade on the Frankfurt based DTB from London.• Developed systems in C, Tcl and Tk to extract market information from DTB Motif based trading screens, and to simulate user input by sending key strokes back automatically to those applications, allowing a more automated trading environment.• Administered company network of 30 PC’s with OS/2 (2.0 through Warp Connect)/Windows, performing PC hardware upgrades, etc., as needed. • Administered IBM RS/6000’s running AIX, two located remotely in Frankfurt (via leased circuits), and a number of PC X Server’s and PC’s running Linux, and the Cisco routers connecting them. Provided constant help desk support for traders, accounting and other trading staff in a mission critical environment. Liaison with exchange staff over system and API upgrades.