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London, England, United Kingdom

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Virtigon Ltd, Farnborough, United Kingdom (a permanent role)Nutanix Engineer (January 2021 – November 2021) Primarily responsible for deployment or expansions of Nutanix clusters with either AHV or the VMware hypervisor, built on either Nutanix, HP-DX or Lenovo FX Series hardware. Attended pre-deployment calls with clients to determine site readiness, and managed client expectations throughout the engagement. Provided knowledge transfer to clients and created both a comprehensive test document and an As Built Guide upon completion of the engagement.Key Achievement: Achieved numerous accreditations from Nutanix, and completed dozens of Nutanix deployments

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

 Skilfully managed the technical aspects of the Federated Authentication Programme for accessing enterprise, cloud-based applications via Single Sign-on (SSO) with Azure. Validated 5000 HR email addresses held in a discreet database, ensuring they matched the associated Active Directory universal principal names (UPNs), so that Single Sign-on (SSO) would work for ~all employees first time.Key Achievement: Delivered numerous Azure SSO-enabled applications, moving them through test, UAT and into production

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Accomplished bottom-line results by building and executing the VMware SRM 8.2 Appliance solution in new VMware vSphere 6.7 environment off-shore. Crafted operational documents regarding creation of CSRs and the installation of custom machine certificates for both VCSAs (vCenter Server Appliances) and SRM appliances. Utilised HP OneView to manage all ESXi 6.7 hosts in the production and DR vCentres, maintained host profiles while ensuring compliance with company guidelines, and setup monthly patching of all hosts with VMware Update Manager (VUM).Key Achievements: Conducted and documented detailed operational acceptance testing (OAT) on the entire new virtual estate (including network & storage) offshore, prior to handover to the BAU Team.

Havant, England, United Kingdom

Maintained a multi-domain Windows Server estate of 4000+ servers, most of which are hosted within the VMware 6.0 Enterprise Plus estate. Key Achievement: Utilised Service Now and assured efficient management of all problems, changes, requests, functions, and incidents in compliance with set guidelines.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Managed new server environments in the Platform Transition Programme (PTP). Performed in-depth analysis of VMware 6.5 estate by leveraging RVTools and vROPS and offered troubleshooting and performance monitoring of production SQL and application servers. Orchestrated the PTP-specific SCOM dashboard in order to provide client a view of the PTP server estate health.Key Achievement: Delivered technical verification testing (TVT) and operational acceptance testing (OAT) for the new platforms.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Supervised the overall functions of the Azure-hosted, AD Federated Office 365 tenancy containing 2000+ mail accounts utilising AAD Connect. Provided storage/fabric/server support, overcame vCentre or ESX host and BAU issues, and oversaw data centre operations. Leveraged technologies such as EMC storage, Brocade switches, Datacore for storage virtualisation, Data Domains and EMC Networker for backups, VMware 5.5, Citrix 6.5, Hyper-V 2012 R2, and the usual estate of clustered SQL and Exchange services.Key Achievements: Drove the execution of Clearswift secure email gateway solution, owned the SPF/DKIM/DMARC records, drafted operational documents, and guided/mentored colleagues. Led this competent team to eliminate vulnerabilities and outdated Windows 2003 servers to meet public services network (PSN) compliance requirements.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Served as a VMware subject matter expert (SME). Upgraded the VMware estate from 3.5 to 4.0/4.1 to 5.1/5.5 over seven years. Managed the IBM SVC, HP, Nexsan, and Oracle storage, and the HP c7000 enclosures. Developed Oracle’s MaxRep solution for data replication to the DR site with 2 x Axiom 600s. Commanded the storage, hosts, VMware, and IBM SVC from their respective CLIs and managed the autonomous fabrics - 2 x 9509 Cisco fabric switches.Key Achievements: Delivered the innovative Xsigo System’s VP780 I/O Director InfiniBand solution to eight HP c7000 enclosures ~100 blades, and ensured the smooth running of the entire production estate at the same time. It replaces a server’s multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces with a single high-speed InfiniBand card. Multiple virtual Ethernet interfaces (vNICs) and virtual Fibre Channel interfaces (vHBAs) can be software-defined on each server. Improved ability to provide ongoing management and support of Nutanix installed base of 2x6-node clusters based in Switzerland and ensured smooth running of new VMware Horizon VDI estate; completed the Nutanix Platform Professional course and obtained the certification (NPP4).

England & Canada

Technical Support Engineer, R Twining & Company Limited, Andover, United Kingdom, July 2006 - July 2008 (a permanent role)Open Systems Engineer Consultant, JP Morgan Chase, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, December 2005 - June 2006 (on contract)Server Support Consultant, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Poole, United Kingdom, December 2004 - November 2005 (on contract)Server Support Consultant, SYAN Limited, Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom, August 2004 - November 2004 (on contract)IT Consultant, EDS Canada, Toronto, Canada, May 2003 - June 2004 (on contract)IT Consultant, Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, Toronto, Canada, March 2002 - December 2002 (on contract)Novell Netware Consultant, IBM Canada Limited, Toronto, Canada, July 2001 - January 2002 (on contract)Server Support Consultant, Mackenzie Financial Corporation, Toronto, Canada, June 2000 - June 2001 (on contract)Technology Analyst Consultant, City of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 1999 - February 2000 (on contract)Server Support Consultant, IOF Foresters, Toronto, Canada, September 1998 - November 1999 (on contract)

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