Peter Lowdon Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Peter moved to HP joining the Midrange Sun Farm team supporting/maintaining the DWP Sun server estate ranging from V240 entry level servers to E25K high end servers. After 4 months Peter moved into the Team Leader role, monitoring/scheduling work for the team as well as liaising with other teams in the DWP estate and external suppliers.In September 2011.

Peter provides the Registers of Scotland Programme with infrastructure consultancy to development projects within the programme as well as a central infrastructure design/build resource. As well as the more mundane day to day system administration activities Peter also provides Unix/network/security services to service projects as and when required.

Peter worked on a short term contract for Computacenter on a BT project designing LAN/WAN installations for Department of Work and Pensions many local offices as part of a larger convergence programme

Peter took over as technical project manager for the GC Exchange project, the CGI supplied component of a much larger Government Connect Programme. Peter led a small team developing GC Exchange, a central resilient messaging service for the translation and routing of XML formatted messages within secure HMG network environment. Peter had overall.

Oct 03 – Jan 05 (Individual Learning Account Scotland)Peter had sole responsibility establishing a stable, fit for purpose infrastructure for the ILA system which he accomplished through;- Production of an Infrastructure Plan detailing environment and server configurations, together with a Microsoft Project delivery schedule for each phase, server build.

On moving to ITSA Peter was initially employed as a programmer where I was part of a team on a large project developing software on a Unix based client-server platform using expert system tools. In November 92 Peter was temporarily promoted to an Analyst/Designer, the main duties being designing and prototyping amendments to current software, as well as.

Upon joining the Polytechnic staff Peter’s main duties as a computer operator were the general running of the Polytechnic's main student computer facilities, as part of a team on a shift basis. Upon transfer to the User Services section Peter became a Computing Officer. Where his duties then changed to maintaining systems and development of new software.