Martyn Thomas Email & Phone Number

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Poole

As a hosting solution architect manager I manage the small team that are responsible for the design, planning and implementation of GCIs infrastructure that spans the cloud portfolio. My team and I strive to ensure that each platform is designed and built to be scalable, resilient and easy to maintain.I also act as the point of escalation for the.

Poole

As a hosting solution architect I am responsible for the design, planning and implementation of GCIs infrastructure that spans the GCI cloud portfolio. I strive to ensure that each platform is designed and built to be scalable, resilient and easy to maintain.I also act as the point of escalation for the hosting team.I work with the following.

Poole

As the technical team lead for the Blue Chip Hosting team I am responsible for the day to day running, maintenance and configuration of the hosted platforms. Each platform is built and run using the following technologies. VMware ESXi 5.5 HypervisorsVMware vCenter Server 5.5Vmware vCloud DirectorHP Proliant DL3xx hardware for management hostsHP Proliant.

• As a Senior Network Engineer and consultant at Blue Chip I am responsible for the design, planning, implementation and documentation of technical solutions. These solutions range from something as small as simple.
• VMware ESX 3.5 / vSphere ESXi 4 / 5
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• EMC Clariion / Celera / VNX / VNXe SANs
• Dell Powervault Storage
• HP MSA / P Series SANs

• In this role I functioned as an implementation lead responsible for assessment and management of multiple infrastructure projects. I am involved in the full project lifecycle (planning through implementation) and deal.
• Infrastructure analysis and support of site openings/closures/relocations.
• Server build and decommissioning (virtual and physical)
• Server hardware capacity expansion and technology refreshes
• Server-based application layering with full UAT and QA testing
• Windows 7 VDI deployment / XP MigrationTechnical platforms and technologies I used on a daily bases include but are not limited to:

Whilst at Sunseeker I was working as part of a team of four dealing with the network & server infrastructure requirements and support for over 400 users spanning across the south coast. The infrastructure that I managed consisted of around 40 HP Compaq Servers, approximately 75+ thin clients and around 300+ Windows XP workstations and laptops linked via.