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London, United Kingdom

A responsible and challenging technical contract that began with updating then supporting the back-office infrastructure of a fast-growing multi-national Oil & Gas company with two substantial bases in the UK. Recent Career Highlights.• Technical design resource for two complete vSphere upgrades, v3.5 to 5.0 and 5.0 to 6.0.• Designed and configured LNG (GDF sister company) VMware farm (vSphere 5.0) achieving considerable consolidation and cost saving.• Planned and executed data centre server move to accommodate business premises relocation.• Produced and carried out detailed plans for virtualising existing server estate across two geographically diverse sites. • Instigated ground-up rebuilds for pre-existing VMware hosts ensuring consistency and reliability. • Technical design resource for host upgrade to cisco UCS blade-based hardware and fabric.• Created and documented host and virtual machine build templates based on industry-wide best practices. • Instigated regular updates and patching schedules for VMware estate ensuring reliability and security.• Configured performance and resource utilisation monitoring for both VMware and server estate • Created and assembled a library of standardised documentation• Installed and configured entire Cygnus (rig) rack-mount hosts, UCS mini and VMware vSphere 5.5

Televison Centre, Wood Lane, London.

Acting as a flexible resource to the Digital Media Integration Project, this contract involved working to strict design goals and tight project management timelines.

Masons Hill, Bromley. Kent

Providing in depth support and resources to facilitate the refresh and consolidation of the IT Infrastructure following the merger of several housing associations into one group.Key Achievements.o Achieved highest BCS membership status (CITP) after submission of document detailing business beneficial work done at Affinity Sutton.o Infrastructure Rebuild – Designed virtualised consolidation solution of existing infrastructure o Automated Monitoring Project - consisting of Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007o Automated Patching - Microsoft Windows Server Update System (WSUS). o Virtualised (Test) Environment - Complete copy of live (Blade) environment on HP Rack mount hostso Backup System Technical Review – in-depth review of backup system with recommendations / presentation for expansiono Server Best Practice Guide – Creation of formal guidelines for building range of HP / Windows servers.o ‘The Book’ - Technical and contact manual designed to be a day-to-day operations manual for the new Servicedesk.o Daily Checklist – Created to check critical systems / disk space / External / Citrix access to avoid major outages.o Review of Storage and Infrastructure Procurement document from 3rd party supplier. Recommendations presented to management.

Blackfriars Road, London.

Server Team. Day-to-Day duties including:Break-fix / support / project work / back-fill and documentation to server support team. Project: Infrastructure Consolidation and refresh from Tonbridge Data Centre to purpose built and managed data Centre in London Docklands.Day-to-day. Working from call-logging system within SLA agreements to ITIL standards. Fault-finding, break-fix, service requests. Patching and upgrades, routine maintenance, Backups, performance monitoring. Documentation to corporate standards.Citrix. Application installation, Writing and modifying user logon scripts, Writing and modifying Application compatibility scripts, Licensing reviews, Load balancing (server NIC teaming) and LBA. Performance monitoring using Perfmon and Citrix. Server maintenance including scheduled reboots, dead session clearing, regular defragmentation schedules.

Bsc (Honours), Computer Science, Ongoing

Ongoing Computer Science Studies.

Gcse, English Language And Literature, General, Grade 'C' And Above.