David Hooper Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Focus on building an effective team through recruitment, leadership, management and support. Guiding the team to achieve company goals whilst maintaining a wide range of technical responsibilities. Overall responsibility for DCIM, Engineer project management, core networking (administration, monitoring and backup) and business continuity backup/recovery/testing strategies. Recent projects include automation and physical infrastructure efficiency. Automation took the form of creating and implementing strategy to standardise engineering practices through use of automation, utilising automation in the modernisation of legacy solutions and expansion into Public Cloud technology. Evolving further through the use of CI/CD to applied engineering tasks. Increasing data centre efficiency included a variety of modernisation through virtualisation, utilising newer hardware with more density to reduce rack usage, physical server re-organisation and rack migrations.Management tools used; Kanboard(KanBan), GitLab (Planning and documentation), XMPP (Chat) & Google Meet (Extended remote working).Automation tools used; Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, Hashicorp VaultDCIM tools used; Netbox (Documentation and planning), Observium (Network monitoring), Oxidised (Network backup)

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Web Hosting systems consultancy, design, sales, implementation and support of managed and bespoke enterprise hosting solutions in both the physical and virtual environments. Supporting growth through data centre infrastructure developments to meet the challenges of expansion.DCIM projects including; planning and executing full rack migrations to improved data centre facilities, design and implementation of Layer 3 networking using both Dell and Cisco routers across multiple geological locations, introduction of cross data centre disaster recovery backup strategy. Development of virtualisation fleet to support existing bare metal infrastructure, designed and developed bespoke (DRBD) NAS backends for VM hosting.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Creation and deployment of new shared and managed hosting environment infrastructure development and support. Implementation and management of Layer 2 networking Dell PowerConnect.Concentration on sales to expand the customer base and heavy focus on supporting existing customers.

Sheffield

Development, management and support of streaming media services for the Community Media sector. Projects include building and maintaining streaming media services to allow community radio to develop in the UK and the development of a streaming video archive where I was lead video encoder for archive of Community Media Archive videos(Pre-YouTube) with Adobe Premier. Building web hosting services in-house, responsible for administration of web servers, web applications and mail server software.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Hardware maintenance and user support.