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Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

Devon

Senior Systems Engineer providing systems, network and operational management both for on-premises and Cloud deployed IT assets, all connected and protected by secure managed firewalls. Technical specialist of vSphere environments working closely with the financial and payroll sectors completing several vSphere migrations through all phases of design, implementation and continued support.Manage Windows and Linux systems with entire security protection including remote monitoring, Commvault backup systems and Anti-Virus solutions.

Brentwood Essex

Norfolk

Systems Engineer providing 3rd line support and analysis for the virtual and physical infrastructure.Provided technical advice on current and future modes of VMware vSphere implementation and planned migration to vSphere 4.1

Subject matter expert during the initial stages of a transformation project; dealing specifically with the first tranche of applications delivered on HP ProLiant C7000 blade solution and VMWare Virtualisation.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Technical Specialist for the distributed ecommerce customer innovation centre assisting project managers and design architects. I had to complete and develop test strategies from proof of concept through to live integration. This involved creating server builds, application installation and testing of environments prior to functional testing on 400+virtual servers and 250+physical servers.

Infrastructure Specialist supporting the AVIVA account during their outsourcing program completing full system audits, implementing new change process and decommissioned over 150 servers reducing heat, power consumption and air conditioning issues.

Delivered solutions from proof of concept through to system test; working as part of the customer innovation centre providing day to day administration and project work with designers and delivery managers.

Worked as a systems analyst in the virtual infrastructure team; carrying out analysis of the virtual infrastructure estate of 180+ ESX servers. During this period I was seconded to several projects working closely with the project manager and external organisations. I integrated a 3rd party virtual infrastructure (RAC) identifying best working practices and baselines whilst meeting future migration plans performing 3rd/4th line analysis on the current virtual and physical environments.

Day to day running of Wintel server infrastructure including operational system analysis, consisting of 4000+ Wintel servers (Compaq/HP/IBM/Dell hardware) with a user base of 35000.

Technical Support Team Leader and mentor for a team of six 2nd/3rd line support technicians supporting 1500 users nationwide including maintenance and analysis of 120+ servers located at Head Office and remote regions throughout the UK.

Air Defence systems advisor on the Rapier weapons system. An Instructor and manager travelling all over the world managing delivery of training needs analysis, system specification with high level presentations to foreign dignitaries including members of parliament and royalty.