Andre Smith Email & Phone Number

Bradford, GB

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• In this role, I led all aspects of the hosted engineering function, including 24/7/365 running of the hosted data centre estate including backup, recovery, and security. I also participated with other teams in.
• Demonstrated expertise in organising and coordinating all teams and vendors engaged in the EOSL infrastructure migration.
• Exhibited excellence in migration of EOS SAN Storage and reduced the carbon footprint.Key Projects delivered:
• Refresh of entire physical host estate, including replacement of the blade enclosures, which were deployed whilst keeping clinical data available to the customer (2014).
• Storage – Refresh and reduction of the footprint, migrating 4PB of data to All Flash Array Storage. This project reduced the size of the footprint from 8 42U racks to 4 across 2 data centres (2015).
• Played pivotal role in planning of the proposed migration from MS Hyper-V to VMware to reduce costs and introduce automation. This will facilitate an expedited deployment of complex always-on clinical systems (2021).

• As Hosted Engineering Environments Manager, I was responsible for overseeing and coordinating activities of two core teams of platform (operating systems) and database administrators. While doing that, I also built a.
• Played pivotal role in introducing change and licensing processes to ensure EMIS Health maintained their ISO accreditations.
• Reacted to VMWare pricing model change and managed team who migrated from VMWare to Hyper-V.

Rawdon, Leeds

Responsible for directing Software, SQL and Database Administrator Managers, Overseeing and coordinating activities of teams of Software and Database Administrators

Leeds, United Kingdom

• In this role, I planned and implemented new services and improvements to existing services in hosted environment. To install new hardware into Data Centre, I led delivery of new hardware and software, and also.
• Deployed new private cloud infrastructure from old rack-mounted servers to C-Class Blade servers.
• Utilized expertise in project execution to switch from standalone windows servers to VMWare.
• Held previous roles as Server Farm Engineering Team Application Team Leader, Technical Consultant Systems Integration Department, Regional Manager (North) Network Consultants, and Senior Network Consultant.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Manage a team of 7 consultants who are responsible for the emis Hosted Windows Server / SQL Environment, AD management, AV and Monitoring solutions, also providing second line support to the Operations Team.

Built VMware ESX 3.1 hosts, deployed Windows Operating systems, installed emis bespoke software solutions. Provided on call and 2nd line support to the Operations Team.

Field Based

Manage team of 35+ network consultants, mixture contract and permanent staff covering the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland

North Of England And Scotland

Installed / configured / repaired a variety of computer hardware, server and desktop based systems. Installation of Windows Server, MS SQL and Exchange.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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