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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.