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Leicester, United Kingdom

After spending time reflecting on my past career decided to take up a new challenge working in the devops team. Learning lots of new skills as well as brushing up on some old ones.

London, United Kingdom

Driving our key cloud portfolio products to market, helping our business grow. Providing solutions that meet our customer needs whilst maintaining quality, flexibility and costs.Facilitate the design of the migration from private cloud to a competitor cloud, meeting the concerns of all parties involved, successful execution of the design and met customer expectations.Consulting on an exit solution design from our cloud platform. Produced a high level design.Consulted with confidence and knowledge on the company’s portfolio services. Presented NetApp storageCloud platforms both private and public. Managed and completed private cloud upgrades.Membership of the CMI after passing the Consultancy course. Consulted on international proposals and UK deals. Drove the storage design for a large automotive customer

Worked on several large customer projects in delivering and managing solutions and resources. Customer focus and driven to provide first class solutions to meet customer expectations. Gained experience in NetApp snapmanager and snapdrive and how to integrate into MSSQL, Oracle and SAP backup designs. Managing the day to day HLD to LLD design requirement and making sure that we deliver what the customer has requested from a storage and backup perspective.Develop relationships between UK and Offshore staff. Successfully integrated staff into a motivated team.Drove the standards for SDE management and reporting for Storage. Redeveloped the storage SAN & NAS LLD standard templates to drive standards and quality throughout the business.Delivered NetApp SQL Snap Manager configurations. Delivered working backup solution to provide data recovery for the customer.Delivered NetApp Exchange backups and applying Snap Manager for ExchangePlanning manager; Co-ordinated operational support teams and third party suppliers. Main task was to make sure that everyone worked as a virtual team and supplied all the technical input that was required.Project management for non-project manager’s course. HDS VSP knowledge update

Slovakia

Managing the SAN team, responsible for Daily Operations and Projects for SAN, leading a team of initially 8 people and growing it to 15 as new projects and transitions were requested.Develop, grow and mature the team into supporting SAN for multiple customers in technical skills whilst also improving their soft skills.Managing the Storage team of 23 people. Responsible for operations SAN and NAS for multiple customers.Developing and leading the team, developing good team spirit. Responsible for new projects and transitions.Managerial trainingLed Technical meetings in all aspects of the data department. Led weekly meetings with counter parts.Responsible for setting and keeping my budget targets, Monthly meetings with finance.

Responsible for all technical aspects of data management in the telecoms stream for the company.Drove the redesign on SAN using Brocade DCX to reduce complexity, power and cooling reducing data centre footprint

Hatfield

Responsible for a team of 12 people that supported UK CustomersManaged key activities including near-shore staff into the team to support backup operations.Managing & mentoring new team members. Inclusion into the team was successfully achieved.Developed the training plan and delivering it to near-shore staff.Maintaining UK relationships to achieve full co-operation between staff.Responsible for managing a storage consolidation and a SAN refresh.Team Meetings, Application upgrade support/handover, Solutions Sign off, Project Resourcing, Incident Management, Bench Marking Storage & Backup support, Change Approval Board sign off meetings, Employee Appraisals & Developments, Project Documentation.

Hatfield

Promoted to Principle Analyst in 2004Experience in EMC Storage technologies, from Enterprise solutions to midrange and low level. Backup solution experience gained whilst being responsible for large customer facing projects. Large customer migration and disaster recovery. During this time, I gained extensive knowledge in.EMC 8830’s, DMX800, DMX1000, DMX2000, DMX3000, DMX2-3000 and DMX3 arrays. SAN switches such as ED64M, ED140M, DS24, 2640, 1620, IBM 2109-16, IBM 2109-32 and IBM 2109-M14.Software EMC TimeFinder, BCV’s, CLONES, SRDF, SRDF/A and SRDF/DM. EMC Networker, Symantec Netbackup.Responsible for large migration projects in SAN and backup environments.Responsible for migrating a large billing system from Bristol to London.Acting team leader, responsible for setting up virtual team to help implement the Disaster Recovery design

Borehamwood, New Barnet

Joined One2One as a member of the UNIX team. Responsible for HP VClass machines and the EMC storage Array’s connected to them. HP UNIX and HP Service Guard training, implementation, maintenance and upgrades. Solaris 2.2 & 3 Clusters, trouble shooting, maintenance and upgrades.Legato Networker, training, implementation support and upgrades.Migrations from old EMC hardware to newer 8830 arrays.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Worked on Unix systems and storage array that supported Large international customers and local UK businesses. Responsible for the operations of UNIX systems

Post Grad Diploma, Computer Science

Studied Computer programming.

Hnd Production Engineering, Production Processes

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Badminton Club