Dave Staddon Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, GB

North Ryde, NSW, AU

London, London, GB

• Selected and designed automation tooling for a new infrastructure platform to support customer services for the entire business.
• Led a new team focused on automation, developing into a high performing infrastructure DevOps scrum team.
• Automated all aspects of tooling installation and configuration, including automated pipelines for CI/CD.
• Provided ‘building blocks’ for the deployment of services, including automated testing, examples and documentation.
• Supported service deployment teams deploying services for multiple top-tier UK broadcasters.

London, London, GB

• Designing and implementing CI/CD tooling and solutions for software deployments to test and production environments.
• Championed agile methodologies such as Kanban, and DevOps techniques such as Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Deployed multiple business services via automation, to high standards of stability and security.
• Provide support for application and system administration escalations across a large number of newand historical customer services.

San Jose, California, US

• Part of a global team supporting McAfee Labs business critical functions globally.
• Ensuring all production systems were to standard, supported OS and apps, located in appropriate datacenter, contained redundancy for BCR/DR.
• Part of the Change Control Process, reviewing and approving Change Requests.
• Moving to a DevOps model, introducing continuous integration/deployment, release pipelines using tools such as Go and Puppet.

San Jose, California, US

• Managing a team of five engineers supporting the McAfee Labs infrastructure and Build System.
• Focus on complete discovery and support of all business critical systems. Introduction of host and service monitoring (Nagios) and network monitoring (Smokeping).
• Server virtualization (VMWare vSphere) to improve supportability and provisioning, and to reduce datacenter footprint.
• Designed and implemented capability/maturity model for supported systems, including backups, disaster recovery, security, supportability, documentation.

San Jose, California, US

• Supporting the business critical daily DAT build, test and release system.
• Led the successful introduction of Scrum to the Infrastructure team. Support and maintenance of any tools required by engineering and ‘labs’ teams.
• Designed and built reporting systems for metrics and KPIs to senior management.

San Jose, California, US

• Joined McAfee as a Build Engineer in a team of three, soon gained sole responsibility for the automated build system written in Perl. Oversaw number of builds increase from 5 a week to many hundreds.
• Support of machines from Windows to Linux to multiple Unixes (BSD, AIX, Solaris, Unixware).
• Designed and implemented a web GUI in HTML and Javascript. Continually added functionality to support the Dev/QA teams, including automated smoke testing, production of source code metrics, and automated source escrow.
• Took over support and maintenance for many development related shared resources such as version control (SourceSafe, CVS, SVN), project websites (SharePoint, TWiki), and introduced virtualisation to the build system.
• Introduced ticket management system; later extended to the wider Infrastructure team and used globally.

Centennial, CO, US

• Software developer working on a rapid application development environment written in C, Fortran, Java.

Bsc. (Hons) Mathematics And Computer Science

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