Barry Weatherston Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• I joined Strathclyde University to further my experience in IT Infrastructure, with a specific focus on Storage and Windows Server. Due to a lack of resources I became a key member of the project team to replace our.
• Deploying, managing and administering a Commvault Simpana instance to perform regularautomated backups of all our servers at database, application, file, or virtual machine level.
• Managing and maintaining our virtual server environment of Hyper-V 2008 and 2012 machines.
• Monitoring and administering our HP BladeSystem Infrastructure, including the migration of blades from an old machine hall to a new one with limited impact to the business.

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• I moved to the Service Operations team to be more involved in the infrastructure side of IT. Due to my background, my primary responsibility became our IBM iSeries environment as our sole iSeries administrator..
• Ensuring the availability of 3 physical iSeries systems, running a total of 9 LPARs on two different levels of the operating system.
• Keeping all LPARs up to date with appropriate PTFs and application patches.
• Providing a reliable backup solution that does not impact system performance.
• Performing regular Disaster Recovery simulations to ensure an accurately documented process, as well as demonstrate full system functionality.As part of the team I have many further responsibilities across our estate:
• Supporting our Wintel environment, including deploying, monitoring and patching of physical machines as well as VMWare virtual machines.

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• I joined Robert Wiseman Dairies straight out of University as an iSeries developer. Originally this was with the idea of developing in Java to move some of our systems from green-screen to web-based solutions.Within a.
• Creating new programs for our Sales and ERP systems based on requests from the business
• Providing third line support for our Sales, ERP, Milk Procurement and many other systems
• Carrying out upgrades to our Payroll, HR and Milk Procurement systems
• Suggesting improvements to business practices and implementing these where possible
• Following the ITIL framework to deliver the above in the most efficient and effective way possible