David Bridge Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Engaged to provide support for a wide range of disk and tape based storage systems as part of a geographically diverse team. Responsible for providing support for day to day running of various storage systems and.
• Identified, implemented and migrated data to a replacement storage system for Channel 4 addressing end of life issues. Installed Diva solution and managed data migration. Migrated 5 PetaBytes of data with no impact to.
• Managed the consolidation of old DivArchive infrastructure fabric consisting of 2 Brocade Silkworm switches, in conjunction with the move of the Diva and Tape library infrastructure onto newly purchased Brocade DC4xs.
• Relocated Diva server infrastructure of 24 servers to a new location to provide much needed space in the data hall for a new client. Relocation was achieved with minimum downtime for the live Diva Manager and provided.
• Managed the consolidation of 5 end of life tape libraries into a single enterprise solution. Specified the technical solution, project managed infrastructure implementation and managed the data migration to new tape.
• Specified and installed new SL8500 tape library reducing business support costs and rate card costs to customers and greatly reducing archive infrastructure downtime.

• Engaged as Principle Engineer, responsible for supporting the DivArchive and TSM tape based archiving/backups for Red Bee Media clients, reporting to the Infrastructure Manager. Provided supported for the day to day.
• Implemented a reporting system for trending and charging clients for capacity use on a DivArchive system. Extracted data daily from Diva, implemented data storage system using XMLDOM and created web front using Google.
• Successfully managed the upgrade of TSM from version 5 to 6 and installed new server infrastructure coordinating downtime with clients. Installed version 6, performed database extraction and conversion with new TSM.
• Installed 3 tape libraries for Channel 4 to provide archive storage driven by TSM and Ardome using TSM LAN free archiving via Storage Agents.
• Managed upgrade of Quantum Scalar 10K library from LT02 to LT05 drives for a new 1PB archive provision for BT Sport.
• Delivered upgrade of Quantum tape library from i2000 to i6000 in order to upgrade from LTO2 to LTO5 drive and tapes for UKTV archive expansion.

11/2006 to 04/2008: Red Bee Media: acting Principle Engineer11/2005 to 05/2008: Red Bee Media: Supervisory Engineer10/2004 to 10/2005: BBC Broadcast: Supervisory Engineer12/1999 to 09/2004: BBC: Broadcast IT Engineer 09/1998 to 10/1999: BBC: Trainee Broadcast Engineer06/1994 to 10/1998: Freelance Sound Operator11/1984 to 05/1994: BBC: Sound Operator