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Kingston Upon Thames, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

I have joined this fast-paced and vibrant Fin-tech company where my primary objective is scaling up and the internationalisation of technology stacks to support the company's massive growth in web traffic. Scaling up to support 10s of millions of users in multiple markets globally.Working as a Principal in the Platform team I have become the owner of parts of the platform and ensure the high-quality delivery of many upgrades, migrations and system changes to drive the wider organisation’s ambitious plans for growth.Technologies I am working on at ClearScore are:• Linux (CentOS, CoreOS and Alpine)• Ansible• Docker• Kubernetes - KOPS, HPA, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Operators, Cluster Deployments• Python, Java, Scala and Node.JS• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB• ElasticSearch• AWS EC2, IAM, S3, API-Gateway, Lambda, Kineses, Redshift, Route53, Custom AMIs, VPCs, VPNs and SES• Jenkins, CircleCI, Spinnaker• GitHub• Atlassian Jira (in both Sprint and Kanban style)• JFrog Artifactory• Continuous Integration and Deployment• Monitoring with SignalFX, Statsd, Prometheus, Grafana and Pingdom• Vulnerability Assessments• Data Protection• AWS Costing, Billing Analytics, Resource Sizing, Tagging Strategy• International Expansion• Cloudflare Enterprise

I am a Technology Integration Specialist with a wealth of experience in delivering high quality and reliable solutions, focussing on content systems and data services for financial services and mobile solution providers.I have founded this limited company to pursue short and medium-term contract positions in the following areas:Collaborating with development teams to convert monolithic applications into dockerised 12-factor microservices.Delivering infrastructure as code for highly available self-healing global platform.Working on CICD Tools to deliver a KPI of 100's of deployments per month to improve business agility.Monitoring and CICD tools to deliver a KPI of low downtime minutes per month.High availability and capacity scaling to deliver a KPI of millions of active daily users globally.Information security, data protection and industry compliance (PCI, data protection and vulnerability assessments).To get in touch please see http://www.mtech-integration.com

I'm working on Spoke's annual PCI-DSS assessment which involves reviewing all policies and procedures with regard to their Credit Card donation services and Card Data Processing environment. Watchguard firewall and Cisco router OS updates as well as internal and external penetration testing.A few additional components that I'm working on is preparing on-prem servers and systems to be migrated to Microsoft Azure. VMWare to Hyper-V migrations and LAMP server upgrades to CentOS 7, Nginx and PHP 7.

London, England, Gb

I joined a fast-paced and vibrant Fin-tech company where my primary objective was scaling up and the internationalisation of technology stacks to support the company's massive growth in web traffic from approximately 2.8 million to 10+ million users.Working embedded in Agile teams and lately in the Platform team I have become the owner of parts of the platform and ensured the high-quality delivery of many upgrades, migrations and system changes to drive the wider organisation’s ambitious plans for growth.Technologies I am working on at ClearScore are:• Linux (CentOS, CoreOS and Alpine)• Ansible• Docker• Kubernetes - Helm, Charts, HPA, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Operators, Cluster Deployments• Hashicorp Stack - Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad• Python, Java, Scala and Node.JS• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB• ElasticSearch (both self-hosted and 'As A Service' AWS versions)• RabbitMQ• AWS EC2, IAM, S3, API-Gateway, Lambda, Kineses, Route53, Custom AMIs, VPCs, VPNs and SES• Jenkins, CircleCI, Spinnaker• Git (GitHub and GitLab Enterprise)• Atlassian Jira (in both Sprint and Kanban style)• Artifactory, Nexus• Continuous Integration and Deployment• Monitoring with Instana (previously AppDynamics), Statsd, Prometheus, Grafana and Pingdom• Vulnerability Assessments• Data Protection and EU GDPR Readiness• AWS Costing, Billing Analytics, Resource Sizing, Tagging Strategy• International Expansion• Cloudflare EnterpriseContracted on an Assignment till Oct 2019

Vantage insurance products allow clients a new experience in safeguarding success based income, whether for the player, the club, its employees or the broader local community. And it uniquely blends this with charitable and grassroots giving.https://www.vantage-sports.comThis is a part time contract role where I have consolidated and set up the company's website hosting, corporate email and cloud document storage for the global company and its Football, Cricket and Tennis teams.Technologies I have worked with are:AWS (Route53, Cloudfront, S3, WorkDocs, WorkMail)GoDaddy (DNS and Email)SquareSpace

This contract assignment for the EL Discover group is to provide future development consulting and implement reliable, redundant and cost effective hosting for two of the group’s web sites:http://www.el-go.comhttp://www.elgazette.com The EL Go web site is a new service which has just been launched which has been developed using Laravel PHP and a Custom CMS. The site is hosted on Amazon AWS (in multiple languages) – and just recently has been launched in the Far East with Chinese Language Support being added soon.http://cn.el-go.comThe EL Gazette site hosts the digital edition and archives of the group’s monthly print publication which focusses on English Language studies, news and teaching. This site is based on Joomla CMS and I’ve just completed its migration to AWS from the previous service provider’s shared hosting platform.Technologies involved with the hosting of these two sites are:• AWS (EC2, RDS, Elastic Load Balancers, Elastic Search, Elastic Filesystem, S3)• PHP (Laravel and Joomla)• Linux (Ubuntu and Amazon)

Hove, Gb

I am working on dedicated and cloud infrastructure with 6 hosting providers to improve and streamline Chroma's infrastructure management capabilities.My main focus is on consolidation and optimisation of server resources.Further improvements to fault tolerance and redundancy of core Database servers.System upgrades of Operating Systems and Development Frameworks on Application and Web servers.The final stages of the project is to develop workflows for newly created AWS environments which are 100% redundant, scalable and integrated with development team tools like Git, Jira and Slack. Supporting workflows for multiple teams of designers and developers working locally and remotely.Technologies that I've used at Chroma are:• AWS (EC2, RDS, Elastic Cache, Elastic Search, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, Multi-Container Docker, Security Groups and IAM Policies)• IOMart, Memset, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, WP-Engine• Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and Redhat Enterprise)• Ansible• Scripting (Bash, Python, PHP-Cli)• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment• Unit Testing (PHPUnit)• Git (Github, Bitbucket and Beanstalk)• CircleCI, DeployBot, AppVeyor• PHP (Laravel, Expression Engine, Zend)• Node.JS• MySQL (HA clusters and replication)• Web Servers (Apache, Nginx)• Networking (DNS, Firewalls, Routing, VPNs and Load Balancers)• Security (SSH, SSL & TLS)• System Hardening and Pen Testing• Team Tools (Atlassian Jira & Confluence, Slack)• Monitoring (Pingdom, Server Density & LogEntries)

This was a short contract assignment where I developed a new section in Spoke’s custom Content Management System in order to provide a new messaging product for Premier League Production’s live Fanzone show.See https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/01/img-premier-league-global-brand for some information about Spoke’s client – Premier League Productions that produce this show at IMG Studios.The new sections in the CMS where developed using the following technologies:• PHP (Zend framework Model View Controller Design Patterns with Smarty Templating)• Microsoft SQL Server (Database Design, Queries and Stored Procedures)• C# .Net framework for XML SOAP Web APIs• JavaScript (JQuery, Prototype and Scriptaculous)

I'm working on Spoke's annual PCI-DSS assessment which involves reviewing all policies and procedures with regard to their Credit Card donation services and Card Data Processing environment.Reviewing and implementing new hardening to Servers, Systems and Firewalls to bring the compliance level of their network in line with PCI-DSS version 3.There are also new IVR servers being deployed which will enable Spoke to further optimise and streamline their management capabilities with regard to hosting of bespoke services. The new servers are being deployed in the Card Holder Data environment.

Blackfriars, England, Gb

This was a short contract assignment to set up new staging and production reverse proxy servers using Nginx as load balancer and caching servers in front of PHP LAMP application servers based on Apache, Drupal and MySQL.Skillsets required in order to complete the assignment:• TCP/IP addressing and ports• Ubuntu Linux• Nginx and Apache web server configuration• Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer configuration• Nginx Cache configuration and optimisation• Virtual host configuration• HTTP and HTTPS protocols and status codes• SSL certificates• Strong SSL hardening using custom SSL protocol and encryption settings• DNS subdomains• Redirects to support SEO optimisations

Spoke provide mobile and other interactive solutions that enable consumers to engage with your brand across a wide range of formats.We work with leading brands, agencies, broadcasters, charities and print media owners providing everything from strategy and creative concept development to deployment, management and analysis.We offer a broad portfolio of mobile and interactive solutions, social TV and other social media, billing and donation solutions.www.spoke-interactive.comI'm a Lead Systems Engineer that specialises in back end service design and development in hybrid environments. I have created numerous secure web based admin interfaces for B2B management of campaigns. My main strengths are in Application Design, Workflow and Data Handling, APIs, 3rd party Integration and System Architecture. The companies I have worked for in the past have usually been small to medium sized businesses (startups included) which have required me to exercise a wide range of skills in my roles as I have been required to cover many design, development and maintenance aspects of mobile products and services.For high profile clients such as the BBC and Channel 5 I am responsible for the technical delivery of the broadcaster’s mass televotes and competitions that we run and manage on their behalf.Main Skills:- PHP (MVC, OO Design Patterns, Zend Framework)- C# .Net (Web Services for SQL Server integration and Desktop Applications)- MSSQL, MySQL and Oracle (System Admin, DB Design, SQL and Performance Tuning)- iOS and Android (see Spoke's Digital Watermarking - Code Building, Testing and Release to Apple iTunes and Google Play)- AGILE software development (Redmine - Design, Build, Test and Release Cycles)- Visual Studio 2013 (incl AnkhSVN)- Zend Studio and Eclipse (PHP PDT, Subclipse, Java and Android)- xCode (iOS app building, provisioning and release to Apple Store) - APIs (SOAP, XML, REST, and JSON)Contact me via LinkedIn messaging to request my full CV.

Us

Action Engine, the On-Device Portal (ODP) Company™, enables media companies and network operators to build, deploy and manage highly personalized and intuitive suites of mobile applications that deliver a superior user experience.My role was to support the UK based sales team which involved requirements gathering, research and development of custom data feeds, storyboarding and prototyping application screens and screen flow (using Adobe Photoshop CS3), application development (using the SDK), testing and also developing processes for provisioning the applications to mobile devices.Application types I worked on include mobile storefronts, media sharing, email, contacts integration, instant messaging and other web and mobile portal based data services such as location services, news, maps, weather, television programming guides, shopping and restaurant guides.www.actionengine.comTechnologies for client side development included:- XHTML- CSS- Custom Action Engine XML extensions (AEML)Technologies for server side development- C# .Net- XSL- SQL tables, queries and stored procedures.- Report design and implementationTypical tasks for supporting the sales team involved:- Requirements gathering- Research and development of custom data feeds- Storyboarding- Prototyping- Designing application screens and screen flow (using Adobe Photoshop)- Application development (using the SDK, Visual Studio and SQL Server)- Testing- Provisioning the applications to mobile devices (WAP Push and Direct Download)

Juice Mobile Entertainment was a well known mobile media licensing company. They signed and developed the mobile rights of recording artists, models, cartoon characters, athletes, brands and personalities and marketed them internationally via a number of distribution channels.My responsibilities at Juice where focused on the company’s web site, content distribution and technical communications between Juice and their distributors. I supplied consultation to artists and studios on mobile content formats and device limitations to ensure that the best results where achieved in the production of the content.Juice also started outsourcing its distribution services to a French company (Mobibase) where I project managed the integration of the services they provide with our existing distributors.www.juiceme.co.uk

High Wycombe, Bucks, Gb

Wireless Information Network's mission is to be the leading provider of value enhancing wireless data services to mobile operators and business enterprises based on messaging and next generation wireless technologies.My main job function at WIN was to integrate a new content management system supplied by Materna (Germany) into the WIN infrastructure. Many changes needed to be made to get the system up and running in the UK and the new content management system now hosted on site at WIN’s offices in High Wycombe.The system runs on JBoss with Redhat Enterprise Linux and an Oracle Database for the backend. My main areas of focus where developing content loading processes, doing device research and creating customized websites for road show demo’s and launches.I also developed WAP sites for T-Mobile (www.t-zones.co.uk) and did C# .Net web development and SQL2000 database work to integrate the T-Mobile and WIN wap sites and backend processes.www.winplc.com

West Chester, Pennsylvania, Us

QVC is a 24 hr shopping channel on SKY Television Network.I did a short contract (3 weeks) at QVC’s UK head office in Vauxhall working as an Access Database Contractor in the procurement department. Here I worked with the full time staff to get the data from the catalogues of their suppliers imported correctly and synchronized with the other QVC supply chain departments’ databases. I had to prepare and process data from various sources (web interfaces, Excel spreadsheets and database exports) and ensure that integrity was maintained throughout the procurement department’s system whilst updating existing data and importing new data from the variety of new sources.www.qvc.co.uk

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

iTouch is a media company that provides information, entertainment, content and messaging services to mobile users.I was the lead developer on the Mobile Magic product, a B2C content delivery platform and did development on the front end processes and interfaces for this product (www.mobilemagic.co.za and www.35050.co.za) using WEB, WAP, IVR and SMS technologies.This suite of products is also used by mayor content partners of iTouch like Vodacom (www.vodacom4me.co.za), M-Web (www.mweb.co.za) and Independent Online (www.iol.co.za).I supplied technical support and consultation for iTouch’s partners and worked closely with them on site integration, content production and delivery processes.www.itouch.co.za

I worked at Heltronic as an Electronics Technician specialising in Industrial Electronics, which I studied for and received qualifications for as an Electrical Engineer (Light Current) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. www.heltronic.co.zaThe company specialises in Sales, Service and Upgrades of equipment in the Printing Industry and as a qualified light current Electrical Engineer I worked on upgrade projects and maintenance tasks in all areas in the business which involved Electronics and Digital Process Control.Here is list summarising my main specialities:Lithography Department- Digital Temperature and Speed Controllers for Film Development- UV Shutters and Exposure Controllers- Colour and Ink Calibration Equipment such as Densitometers- CAD Printing and Large Scale Prototype Drawing EquipmentPrinting Rooms- Safety Equipment - Proximity Sensors and Electronic Barriers- Optoelectronics and Inductive Sensors for Counters, Speed and Process Control- UV Shutters and Ink Drying arrays- Digital Controllers for Ink Density Control- Stepper Motor Controllers- Micro Processor Programming- PLC ProgrammingPost Printing- Automatic Motorised Digital Measurement and Cut Controllers for Guillotines- Safety Equipment - Infrared Laser Barriers for Guillotines- Digital Paper Counters- Paper Folding AutomationElectronics Workshop and Lab- PCB Design and Manufacturing- Prototyping Control Circuits and Test Beds- Expert Soldering and Circuit Board RepairEngineering Management- Job Estimates and Quotations- Costing and Invoicing of Parts and Labour- Part Sourcing and Procurement

Cissp, Cyber Security

Electrical Engineering (Light Current), Industrial Electronics, Control Systems, Microprocessor Programming, Digital System Design

Mongodb

Desktop Audio Production, Digital Music Editing, Studio Recording, Mastering, Production

Mcse, Microsoft Server Technologies