Dan Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff

Infrastructure Operations, supporting, administering and expanding Microsoft Azure and on-premise systems.

I worked on a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Proof of Concept, configured for Software Defined Networking. This was with another engineer to proof out and test a possible solution, with a longterm plan of consolidating and simplifying the IT Infrastructure .

Swansea, United Kingdom

BAU Server team operating in a team of 8. Day to day system administration of a number of environments running VMWare vSphere 5.5, Citrix XenServer, XenApp and Xendesktop 6, HP Proliant c7000 Blade hardware and Proliant DL380 servers. Fabric connected HP SAN EVA 6400, P2000, Whiptail arrays. Administration and management for 4 HP Brocade 510 switches. Lead Engineer on the Storage migration project to move from 6 legacy storage arrays to a Nimble Flash array with 2nd offsite replication… Show more BAU Server team operating in a team of 8. Day to day system administration of a number of environments running VMWare vSphere 5.5, Citrix XenServer, XenApp and Xendesktop 6, HP Proliant c7000 Blade hardware and Proliant DL380 servers. Fabric connected HP SAN EVA 6400, P2000, Whiptail arrays. Administration and management for 4 HP Brocade 510 switches. Lead Engineer on the Storage migration project to move from 6 legacy storage arrays to a Nimble Flash array with 2nd offsite replication array. MS SQL 2008 database backend applications, MS Server 2008 and 2012 with Win 7, 8 and 10 client, Exchange 2010 administration, Smoothwall Web Proxy, and a number of 2008 Clusters. Adhering to Service Management, Change Management, Project Management and Incident Management process and procedures with the Service Desk tool Assyst.Backup system administration with Symantec Netbackup 7.6.1.2 Show less

Cardiff & Aberystwyth

A contract role employed as BAU 3rd line engineer working for the GIS Department of the Welsh Government. The role covers day to day system administration of a number of environments, each running on VMWare vShpere ESX 5.5 on HP Blade hardware, with additional HP physical servers. Day to day administration duties include the HP EVA SAN allocation, virtual data store migrations and management, virtual machine creation and administration, Citrix Xendesktop, with Provisioning and Desktop… Show more A contract role employed as BAU 3rd line engineer working for the GIS Department of the Welsh Government. The role covers day to day system administration of a number of environments, each running on VMWare vShpere ESX 5.5 on HP Blade hardware, with additional HP physical servers. Day to day administration duties include the HP EVA SAN allocation, virtual data store migrations and management, virtual machine creation and administration, Citrix Xendesktop, with Provisioning and Desktop Delivery services, Netscaler and presentation server administration, disaster recovery planning, all actions carried out within an ITIL environment. Show less

Cardiff, United Kingdom

A contract role working as a Technical Support Analyst dealing with all aspects of support for 2nd and 3rd line calls. Based in Cardiff, covering the South Wales region with sites in Newport, Swansea, Port Talbot and Barry.

Cardiff

A member of the Wintel Build team, working on projects implementing Wintel and VMWare infrastructure, also working with SAN storage, SQL, Citrix and enterprise backup solutions, as well as GIS applications. Working within an ITIL framework. Responsibilities were to review Low Level designs, and implement. Update designs where necessary following best practice. I would work closely with the other build teams responsible for Network and Desktop elements. I left this position to move into the… Show more A member of the Wintel Build team, working on projects implementing Wintel and VMWare infrastructure, also working with SAN storage, SQL, Citrix and enterprise backup solutions, as well as GIS applications. Working within an ITIL framework. Responsibilities were to review Low Level designs, and implement. Update designs where necessary following best practice. I would work closely with the other build teams responsible for Network and Desktop elements. I left this position to move into the contract market. Show less

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Trowbridge, Wiltshire

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