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Birmingham, GB

Runcorn, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• SysAdmin - Linux Cloud serversSolely responsible for managing the Linux estate of up to 300 servers at any point out of a total of over 900 over a year.
• Use a combination of cloud, bare metal and virtualized servers ensuring performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Standardising production, development and staging environments by using automation and virtualisation together with version controlled configurations.
• Planning and configuring networking between the various servers
• Collaborating with developers - both as part of new features, or improving performance
• Delivering smooth system changes and upgrades through meticulous planning and coordination

Birmingham

• Ticket redemption for customers and staff, plus a ‘pass out’ system on a widely distributed system with unreliable comms and power. Ticketing redemption comes with very hard deadlines - if you have 60,000 people in a.
• Managing equipment for over 100 events / 800 entry points per year with a single event up to 75,000 people - 60 servers (online and on-site) and 220 barcode scanners over 40 locations.
• Coordinating with clients and service providers to establish requirements and advise them of the best solution and back-up plans.
• Using a range of applications to achieve goals including a bespoke Android scanner application, rabbitMQ, MySQL, PHP, Apache, Windows, Rocky Linux.
• Creating training material/instructions for site staff, ensuring the unboxing is as smooth as possible and support calls are reduced.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Exploratory testing - excellent at playing devil’s advocate to break systems
• Load testing of Event Entry System - using JMeter to create events and test tickets, then Ansible, JMeter and network traffic shaping to create 10s of servers representing festival entrances, testing redemption of.
• Load testing of Ticket Sales - Using Blazemeter to simulate “on-sale” for high-demand events. Especially spreading requests between many ip addresses to allow distribution of load between Azure machines.
• Functional testing Ticket Sales - 1000s of orders combinations of instalment tickets, including failing transactions on differing instalments. Generated a definitive list of what orders had succeeded, which tickets.
• API testing - android ticket scanning internal API using a combination of JMeter and Telerik Fiddler
• Managing bug reports on Redmine and Microsoft DevOps server.

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

• Design, implementation and commissioning control systems for thermal engineering - panel design, PLC and SCADA development.
• Cross-discipline commissioning - software, electrical and control systems, hydraulics, gas burners, etc.
• Introduced simulation software to effectively test the PLC software before getting to site.
• Most work was abroad, so I needed to adapt to local cultures - I travelled to the Middle East, South America, Europe, Iceland, China
• Often the sole company representative on-site for a multi-million-pound contract.