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United Kingdom

Netherlands

Primary engagement was to developed a program to automate rapid deployment of Solaris 10,Redhat and application software on HP Proliant without using jumpstart, PXE or DHCP.

Provided Solaris and Linux support in a large scale server migration to a new data centre. Administration of Solaris 2.6 to 10 (Sparc & Solaris x86), RedHat 4 & 5, SUSE 10 Linux and VMware 3.5 & 4 (VSphere) client. Role included server design specification, builds, patching and upgrades.

Barclays Global Investors, Tower Hill, London

Root cause analysis and rectification of Solaris & Linux faultsWrite technical documentation on fault detection and resolution for 1st line Unix support staff.

Provide day to day administration of over 1900 Solaris (2.6 to 10) and RedHat (version 3 & 4) Linux servers. Supported the following technologies:- Sybase, Oracle, Samba, Apache, Tibco, Veritas Netbackup, Volume manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster, Disksuite, Automount, Autosys,Tivoli monitoring, EMC & Netapps Storage, NIS, SunMC, RSA ACE (SecureID), NFS, DNS, NIS and SSH.

Nomura International Plc, London

Provide technical support for Solaris and Netbackup enterprise storage for several hundred Unix servers in a high paced banking environment. Core technologies:- Volume Manager,Veritas File system, Veritas cluster,Samba, DNS, printing, NIS, NFS, mail, FTP, Apache, automounter, SSH, Sybase, Oracle and RSA ACE (SecureId).

Scottish & Southern Energy, Havant

Unix implementation and support in a production environment comprising Unix platforms running Solaris 2.6 to 10, HP UX and Linux Redhat.

Citigroup, Canary Wharf

Managed servers running VxVm, VxFs, Veritas Cluster, DiskSuite, NIS+, Samba, Legato Networker, DNS, NFS,Sybase, Oracle, QIP, Netcool for fault alerts, NIS+, EMC.

Engaged by Sun on a 90 day project to design, procure and deploy several Unix cluster servers and provided support for their client at Centrica Plc, Mitcham, Surrey.

Bp Oil, Pinners Hall, London

Senior member of the Unix Delivery team working on the Data Center Migration project plus design, install and configure Unix servers.

Fortis Bank, London

Managed Unix server builds, trading applications e.g. Eurex, Liffe, Trafic (Trace), HiInvest (OpenData Warehouse), Sybase 12.5, DiskSuite, RSA ACE server (SecureID), Electronic/Internet banking system running the Misys Fontis application. Check Point Firewall security implementation and management.

Contracted to implement a Legato Networker data storage and recovery solution for Unix servers plus general Unix system administration for Solaris

M & G Investments, Chelmsford

Solaris and Legato Networker administration.

British Telecom, Bletchley,Milton Keynes

Performed general Solaris build, system configuration and management in the Internet & Multimedia Systems department.

British Telecom, Bibb Way, Ipswich

Provide first line technical support and general Unix system administration in a multi-platform environment (Sun, Tru64, Sequent and HP-UX).

Ionica Telecomunications Plc, Cowley Road, Cambridge

Managed a staff of 10 support engineers responsible for resolving network faults over the Fixed Radio Access WAN and provide second line support to field engineers.

Managed the data communication system.

Gec Plessey Telecommunications, Liverpool, Uk

Install and test System X telephone exchanges throughout the United Kingdom