John Longbottom Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Achievements and responsibilities:Installation, support and management (Virtual Center) of VMWare ESX Server in a HA and DRS environment, including P2V conversions of PCs and serversUpgrade of VMWare ESX from ESX 3 to ESX 3.5 and then to ESX 4 vSphere and migrated to a HP blade environmentInstallation and support of Citrix Presentation server, Citrix Web Interface and Citrix Access Gateway and supporting remote usersSupport and management of NetApp filersAdministration of Oracle 9i and 10g on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux platformsProviding DBA support for production MSSQL Server 2000/2008 cluster and Oracle RAC environment, implementing backup and recovery strategies, maintenance plans and other maintenance related tasksMigration of a MSSQL 2000 cluster to a MSSQL 2008 clustered environmentSupport of in-house VB and Java based production applications that depend on the Oracle, NetApp, VMWare and MSSQL backend systemsInstallation, support and configuration of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux production systems, including installation and configuration of Apache, Tomcat and Sun One Web serverInstallation, support and configuration of Windows Server 2000 and 2003Support of HP servers including HP bladesManagement of Cisco PIX and Checkpoint firewallsManagement of Cisco switchesReport writing on both MSSQL and Oracle using T-SQL, Crystal Reports and Business ObjectsBES support and administrationActive Directory support and administrationExchange server 2003 support and administrationGeneral network support and administration including DHCP, DNS, WINSProviding professional and responsive support to 300+ users via an intranet based help desk system and phoneProviding professional and responsive support to customers using the Java based customer facing websiteInvolvement in and support of projects as required

Achievements and responsibilities:Providing professional and responsive Desktop support to 200 users, including offices in Paris and New YorkSupport of Microsoft Windows Servers on HP and Dell hardwareProviding DBA support for production SQL Server 2000 Databases implementing backup and recovery strategies, maintenance plans and other maintenance related tasksSupporting the customer facing web siteDesigned and implemented a SQL Server 2000 Cluster on HP Hardware using Veritas Clustering TechnologyDesigned and implemented a file server clusterDesigned and implemented a web farm for hosting customer facing web siteWriting T-SQL queries for reports, stored procedures and triggers in a production environmentExposure to replication and DTS tools within Microsoft SQL Server

Achievements and responsibilities:Supporting IT systems used by staff at head office

Education record

G.C.S.E

passes at Grade C and above, including Science and English.