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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Management and improvement of the M&S Capacity Management process.
• Chairing of regular capacity meetings and management of actions.
• Accountable for the development of infrastructure and application capacity plans.
• Accountable for the acceptance into service of project capacity deliverables.
• Ownership and enhancement of automated capacity reports.
• Analysing performance & license trends, identifying bottlenecks and recommending appropriate resolutions.

• Evaluate storage needs and develop long-term plans to meet business requirements.
• Verify all storage requests, ensuring best fit solutions.Advice storage team on allocations, considering factors such as DR, expected performance and environmental impacts.
• Review performance and recommend performance improvements to senior management and application teams alike.
• Produce and publish regular capacity plans to a wide senior audience, illustrating expected consumption, growth and management of growth. Produce 12 month procurement plan for senior management, by using trending and.
• Continually monitor IT resource usage and promptly identify capacity issues. Keep updated weekly/daily/monthly reports on consumption across various platforms and technologies.
• Assess Incidents/problems and make appropriate capacity recommendations to improve service performance

• Development and management of the storage capacity plan which is produced for senior management.
• Managing capacity across a number of operating systems and virtualised environments.
• Ensuring capacity deployment ahead of the curve in order to meet planned business growth
• Data collection, analysis and reporting recommendations
• Generation of Capacity Planning & Performance reports for senior management
• Production of capacity planning forecasts for senior management

• An integral part of a Storage team accountable for the development and day-to-day operation of a diverse enterprise storage infrastructure consisting of dual data centers, 80+ terabytes of disk technology, virtual and.
• Responsible for the management of all storage devices within the mainframe
• Working knowledge of Storage fundamentals, z/OS(MVS) fundamentals, and Storage Devices
• In-depth knowledge of storage management software products including the IBM DFSMSxxx products, CA products, TDMF and others.
• Monitoring storage utilization.
• Monitor and Maintain data migration environment (HSM).

Consistently delivered technology & solution commitments, on behalf of Fujitsu Siemens Computers Professional Services, to a wide range of multi-national organizations. Core Tasks include: Install and configure backup/restore solutions, in particular FSC's virtual tape library CentricStor, into a wide range of storage environments from mainframe to SAN..

Citibank Provided 24/7 UAT support for business applications across the company's EMEA systems.Core Tasks include: Backup and restore files as when requested, through various methods - DSS, TSM, HSM.Responding to user requests to modify/create new batch schedules through Tivoli Workload Scheduler to site standards. Ensuring requested files are transferred.

Valuable member of the company's Client's Backup & Storage team, helped to provide first class service to customers within their Data Centre Services (DCS) business unit.Core Tasks include: Administration and configuration of storage and backup environments using Veritas NetBackup environments. Managing, monitoring and maintaining disk and tape storage.

Primary responsibilities include:Development and support of a multi-platform (z/OS, TSM, AIX, NT, W2K, Linux) backup and recovery solution.Central point for TSM administration, creating backup schedule, backup restores.Configure disk arrays and distribute disk space across storage platforms.Providing 24x7 support for the storage environment and any.

First line support for all batch, network and application issues. Managed incidents and liaising with relevant parties to reach a resolution.Provided overnight support to Safeway's national network providing support to stores, depots and area offices.Compiled reports detailing missed service level agreements to management when necessarySingle-handedly.