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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• Acts as cloud SME for multiple high profile programs of work

• 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• Collaborated with partners, customer and stakeholders offering innovative solutions to real problems

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 to be progressed to production• 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• Lead the technical elements of the Solution Centre Engineering Team and deliver data centre infrastructure and end user technology enablement / delivery for the Solution Centre

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 to assist in problem determination- Proficient in a number of applications such as wireshark, Infinistream, Introscope, fiddler and generic Wintel / Unix OS tools - Performance tuning across platform - Provides tooling capability for knowledge sharing and education- Provides and facilitates overall service view for purpose of separation of brand specific services (build a bank)

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.• Identify non-conformance to PA requirements and highlight risk to the Project Manager.• Work with the Technical Design Lead to ensure adherence to standards and quality of deliverables.

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. •General day to day administration and monitoring on all systems including managing systems resources (disks, printers, users, network).Project managementInvolved in managing several projects that had a large impact on the infrastructure of the site. HPUX Unix MC Serviceguard HA environment.Linux Cluster implementationInternet / VPN solution Backup upgrade

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.•Managing systems resources (disks, printers, terminals).•Development of shell system monitoring programs.•Generating web based monitoring tools.