Andy H. Email and Phone Number

I worked in a number of challenging roles before entering the IT profession. Formerly employed as a care worker for people with Cerebral Palsy, in a variety of capacities as a manual worker and also as a contract cleaner, this wide range of experiences has helped me bring a unique perspective to my work.In championing virtualisation I took the x86 server environment of The University of Sheffield in 2006 from ~100 physical servers to a consolidated environment now of 40 blade servers running VMware. This enabled the University to not only save money on hardware costs and to become much more environmentally friendly, but also allowed expansion of services running in the VMware environment enabling greater innovation - the VMware environment now runs ~2600 live servers and ~200 development servers.Specialties: Server architecture, server virtualisation using VMware, Netapp enterprise storage, multi-protocol access to server systems, and providing high quality technical guidance and advice to University wide projects.I am motivated to provide all technical assistance from a position guided by diplomacy, understanding, and an interest in achieving best value for the organisation and all of those involved. In short - Running the fundamental infrastructure systems that keep the bits, bytes, chit & chat moving behind the wainscoting that masks the grubby, but delightful, fabric of our environment.