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• Delivered on a greenfield strategy for a brand new tech stack in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Built a small team of SME’s acting as a successful start up in a large international bank
• Design and delivered cloud first ‘infrastructure as code’ environments for PoC’s to production
• Created and manages a cloud governance framework for RBSI accommodating multiple regulators
• Collaborates with Innovation forums / franchises to encourage ‘thinking differently’
• Educates and shares knowledge on modern technologies removing the fear factor

• Merge and consolidate core and cloud infrastructure teams to a single dynamic delivery team
• Design and provision cloud first code based infrastructure for all PoC and Pilots
• Designed and migrated on prem Datacentre to full cloud solution
• Manage preview and beta solutions from cloud vendors, providing standard templates for PoC’s
• Investigate and design solutions for cutting edge technologies, including data analytics, AI and Machine learning

• Created DevOps team and delivered cloud based collaboration toolset incorporating platform, domain, governance and repository
• Rolled out code delivery patterns using CI/CD advising on best practise
• Encouraged and nurtured a high performing ‘2 pizza team’ acting as a start-up in a corporate world
• Evaluated new tech, tools, monitoring and security for cloud based and micro-services infrastructure
• Delivered PoC’s through to pilot at pace provisioning SaaS, IaaS and PaaS and Container technologies
• Managed and maintained an Enterprise RedHat OpenShift environment

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Delivery of a robust infrastructure platform to allow the Solution Centre to demonstrate business benefit through the use of innovative technology solutions
• Manage the life-cycle of technologies through the Solution Centre and ensure effective product adoption / operational acceptance Architecture & Strategy function in an agile and responsive timescale for those products.
• Actively contribute to the translation of business problems/opportunities in to a range of viable tactical and/or strategic technology solutions based on an understanding of the RBS technology and business strategies
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders, peers and senior managers within the RBS business and Services organisation
• Provide support to stakeholders and senior management in developing strategies associated with new technologies and solutions
• Provide support to senior management in assessing, selecting and adopting new technologies and solutions

Working in a unique and exciting consultancy role working on high priority/visible services. - Rapid problem and incident resolution- Complex issue analysis and diagnosis - End to end service mapping- Transaction footprinting- Risks, issues and resolution analysis- Cross platform, multi tier infrastructure knowledge- Identifies, collects and trends KPI’s.

• Senior Unix Technical Analyst responsible for Provision of technical services within the UNIX Team.
• Design, test and build UNIX Servers fit for purpose, ready for production status.
• Ensure the delivery of the project service to a project.
• Provide a single point of contact for a project for all technical issues for the specialism.
• Provision of consultancy and delivery of changes.
• Ensure all deliverables are to time, budget and standards.

• Senior Systems Engineer responsible for the infrastructure of site IT systems.
• Maintaining and monitoring of a HPUX MC/Serviceguard cluster
• Managing site backup and DR using Veritas Netbackup, HP Ignite and Altiris
• Manage the integration if a 20 node 40 cpu Linux cluster, using SGE batch scheduling and 3rd party batch schedulers.
• Administration on all SGI (Irix) equipment for scientific applications.
• Managing Internet/VPN connectivity for site based, home users and travelling users running checkpoint secureclient on a Nokia appliance.

• Unix Systems Administrator for all manufacturing control systems, database and mail system.
• Planning, Documenting and testing effective disaster recovery backup and restore procedures for UNIX and NT systems.
• Administering user internet/mail access and privileges
• Monitoring and improving transaction processing-related performance problems.
• Monitoring Oracle tablespaces, memory utilisation and user privileges.
• Installation, upgrading and patching various OS Servers.