Product manager for the global Storage - Backup, Recovery and Archive team, with members located in America, Asia, Europe and India.Responsible for:* Managing budget, project roadmaps and resourcing.* Engineering backup and recovery solutions to meet business and regulatory requirements. Utilising Dell NetWorker, Dell Data Domain and Quantum Scalar tape libraries.* Developing internal software for automation.* Certifying vendor hardware/software and deploying into production with all necessary monitoring and documentation for level 1 support teams.* Working with internal and external auditors along with performing risk assessments of the environment.

Named Executive Director/Vice President in December 2011.Global technical lead and subject matter expert for the NetApp production environment.Co-designed and developed the global storage alerting system used to monitor NetApp, Symmetrix and Hitachi Data Systems in real-time.As part of a global team, designed the automation and inventory for the NAS environment. This allowed us to migrate over 50,000 users into qtrees with defined quotas, snapshot policies and end-user capacity notifications. The same design was used to provision application shares for both *nix and Windows.

Moving into the Storage team in Aug 2006, responsible for the European backup systems, Storage Area Network (McData/Cisco), EMC based storage systems and NetApp filers.Technical lead and project manager for two London SAN related projects:1) To replace Cisco MDS 9509 directors with Cisco MDS 9513 directors in the SAN core.2) To migrate the cross site SRDF fabric from McData directors to Cisco MDS 9513 directors.Both projects were successful with no production impact.European technical lead on a global project to outsource NetApp level 1 support to offices in India. This involved developing global standards and producing detailed documentation for a wide range of support tasks such as system installation, troubleshooting, vfiler failover and provisioning of vfilers/volumes and qtrees.Technical lead to move the London backup and restore infrastructure from one data centre that was being decommissioned to a newly built data centre. IBM TS3500 tape libraries were used with enterprise class tape drives.

Converted to a permanent employee at Goldman Sachs.A member of the Infrastructure Applications team, responsible for the European backup systems as before, job scheduling (AutoSys) and server monitoring systems (Hawk/Netcool).Technical lead during an eight month project to completely refresh the London backup and restore infrastructure. The solution involved deploying two expanded IBM 3584 UltraScalable Tape Libraries across two data centres with an ADIC Scalar 1000 for legacy tape restores. As part of this project, the Frankfurt, Milan, Paris environments were folded into the London legacy restore system. EMC NetWorker was used to control the environment.

Six month contract position at Goldman Sachs via the umbrella company Parasol IT.A member of the Infrastructure Applications team, responsible for the European backup systems (running NetWorker) hosted in Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris and Zurich. Tape libraries used were an expanded ADIC AML/E and ADIC Scalar 1000's.

Claranet acquired Netscalibur UK in July 2003.Throughout the 5 years working in the ISP industry, I experienced two company acquisitions but ultimately my team and responsibilities remained the same.Working in a team of systems administrators for an Internet Service Provider. Responsible for hundreds of servers, covering services such as backup systems, DNS (BIND), FTP, mail (Postfix/Cyrus IMAP), news, network monitoring (Nagios) and web servers (Apache httpd). Servers ranged from Sun Cobalt RaQs to Sun E4500s and Intel based servers running Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD and Linux. Programming mostly in Perl and shell with some C.* Unix and Microsoft Windows system administration.* System design, development, implementation and maintenance.* Primary architect and administrator for LEGATO NetWorker backup system deployed across two data centres. Consisting of one server and one storage node backing up hundreds of servers running various Operating Systems. Developed various reporting scripts using Perl.* Developed DNS architecture consisting of master, slave and cache servers. Implemented a zone file management system written in Perl using a well defined API which allows interaction via a web interface, command line scripts or directly via the billing system.* Developed corporate instant messaging system using Jabber. Custom authentication back-end and user management written in Perl.* Implementation and support of mail infrastructure for tens of thousands of customers.* Supporting shared web servers for thousands of customers on both Windows/IIS and Solaris/Apache platforms.* Producing web interface tools using Perl, for both customers and support staff.* Hostmaster role (RIPE and DNS management).* Supervising junior staff.* Security maintenance.* 24/7 On call duties.* Access to Global Switch, Telehouse and SunGard data centres in Docklands.

Netscalibur acquired Direct Connection in July 2000.