Leading a combination of SME Oracle, Postgres Database Engineers and UNIX Engineers to support Ocado's Webshop and Logistics Systems

Working as an experienced technical Team Leader and People Manager in a fast a paced infrastructure department at Ocado Technology. Providing skills and experience of information technology skills both Legacy and digital Cloud technologies in following areasTechnical Leadership: Providing roadmaps and strategic direction for the department’s services. Engaging with vendors and resellers to help architect solutions, provide Proof of Concepts, High Level Designs and review new solutions for Ocado’s future requirements.People Management: Helping every member of my team to fulfil their potential. Proactive in my approach to everyday situations helping to guide project outcomes. Respecting the individuals in my team allowing them to collaborate. Working with them to help them achieve their very best through 1-2-1s and reviews through an appraisal system. Promoting fun alongside professionalism and creating trust through active listening, engaging conversations and empathy with team members. I encourage the team to keep their skills up to date with cost effective online training.Project Management: Working in an Agile methodology to structure day to day activities and using Jira Kanban to help direct the team's workload. Working closely with the Project Managers to enable a successful conclusion to a large number of projects within the department’s portfolio.Finance and Budget: Working with a large budget using Roadmaps of the technologies to gain tight controls on spend. Looking at how the budget can be minimised. Liaising and creating relationships with Vendors and Resellers to gain maximum discounts, extended finance terms moving Capex to Opex where possible to help control yearly spend.Tech and SW: IT tech onPrem and Cloud based including Docker, Ubuntu, AIX, IBM pSeries, IBM Flash Storage, NetApp 7Mode/CDot, NetApp, Terraform, Ansible, Azure, AWS, GCP and NetApp SnapVault. Software and applications include gSuite, Jira, Pagerduty, Confluence and ServiceNow.

Providing experience as an IT Manager within one of the UK’s critical and strategically important businesses. Providing the key integral skills to run a technical team. Collaborating as a team of Infrastructure Managers to create a positive working environment, practices and processes for the Network and Hosting department’s 100+ employees. Leading by example and shaping a team in an empathetic, enthusiastic management style to build an efficient and collaborative team with business led outcomes. Creating process improvements and guiding implementation towards automation with a focus on KPIs, pro-active maintenance, Security Compliance, Service performance and availability. Striving towards a one-team department with virtual teams breaking down old ways of working.Regular engagement and vendor management, negotiating support contracts to provide cost effective flexible subscription based services leading to overall cost savings against a prolonged period contract.

Working as an experienced technical Team Leader and People Manager in a fast a paced infrastructure department at Ocado Technology. Providing skills and experience of information technology skills both Legacy and digital Cloud technologies in following areasTechnical Leadership: Providing roadmaps and strategic direction for the department’s services. Engaging with vendors and resellers to help architect solutions, provide Proof of Concepts, High Level Designs and review new solutions for Ocado’s future requirements.People Management: Helping every member of my team to fulfil their potential. Proactive in my approach to everyday situations helping to guide project outcomes. Respecting the individuals in my team allowing them to collaborate. Working with them to help them achieve their very best through 1-2-1s and reviews through an appraisal system. Promoting fun alongside professionalism and creating trust through active listening, engaging conversations and empathy with team members. I encourage the team to keep their skills up to date with cost effective online training.Project Management: Working in an Agile methodology to structure day to day activities and using Jira Kanban to help direct the team's workload. Working closely with the Project Managers to enable a successful conclusion to a large number of projects within the department’s portfolio.Finance and Budget: Working with a large budget using Roadmaps of the technologies to gain tight controls on spend. Looking at how the budget can be minimised. Liaising and creating relationships with Vendors and Resellers to gain maximum discounts, extended finance terms moving Capex to Opex where possible to help control yearly spend.Tech and SW: IT technologies onPrem and Cloud based including Docker, Ubuntu, AIX, IBM pSeries, IBM Flash Storage, NetApp 7Mode/CDot, NetApp HCI, Azure, AWS, GCP and NetApp Cloud SnapVault. Software and applications include gSuite, Jira Service Desk, Confluence and ServiceNow.

My role was extended to take in day to day running of the provisioning team with an overall responsibility for 21 UNIX Technical consultants. Still very much hands on, system admin and hands on giving very strong problem determination methodologies. This is a challenging role working with stakeholders and project managers from inception to completion in a timely manner and within budget.AIX, RHEL, Virtualisation, HMC, VIO, Pseries, Power, P6, P7, P8, NPIV, TSM, LANFREE

Working as a Technical Team Leader with the Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Team at SSE looking after the transition of New systems and complicated upgrades to the BAU teams within SSE. Managing a team of Operational Acceptance Tests, to make sure fluid and tight timescales are met with the correct resourcing are met. Extensively using MSP waterfall project management to help enable successful projects.

Technical lead for the UNIX Project team running a team of 21 technical consultants. Implementing projects with RAQ, Veritas, AIX and Redhat. Administering TSM and implementation of LANFREE large database backups. A very dynamic and fast moving role using key leadership skills and in depth technical knowledge.

TSM Administrator. Building new TSM 6.3 servers. Upgrading to 7.1. Migrating TSM Servers from 5.5 to 6.3.5. Working with ACSLS, TDPO, RMAN, Oracle SL8500 Library and LTO4,6 technologies. Working with all flavour of TSM Clients (Linux, Windows)

Pseries / AIX / HACMP / VIO / HMC

Primarily and AIX / TSM consultant, but working on many flavours of UNIX, building P-Series boxes and new TSM Servers

AIX Systems specialist managing AIX RS/6000 Servers through to P6 Pseries servers performing support and project work.

AIX / TSM / HSM / HACMP Consultant initially hired to audit the TSM setup. After this performed rebuild and upgrades of all environments.