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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

I worked as an AWS DevOps consultant applying the Well architected framework to client projects involving the use of AWS organizations, implementing organizational wide strategies for backups and patching to deliver enterprise level AWS account management.I also designed and deployed CloudFormation and CDK managed infrastructure to implement CMS sites.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

I rejoined my previous team at MYOB on a short term contract to assist with an urgent migration - to plan and then migrate the PayGlobal Online service to Windows Server 2022. This was completed on time, with minimal customer disruption

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

I designed and implemented a performance testing client environment in AWS using terraform, Resources included the network (VPC/subnet/security groups/internet gateway) the compute power (autoscaling group/launch configuration/userdata script) the testing scripts (s3 bucket/s3 keys/iam role and embedded polices)I Identified gaps in the platform.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

I identified the need, made the business case then planned and executed a change of FTP service to a commercial product that supported SFTP encrypted connections to enable secure transfer of bulk data.I implemented multiple CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps/Pipelines using a yaml/IaC approach to enable github version control on the pipeline definition. The.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Passed AZ-204 Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure on the 9th November 2021.Designed a strategy to provide highly reliable access to HTTPS microservices. I implemented the healthcheck (is this instance healthy) and the service check ( can we service requests ) components for the microservice side, and defined the strategies for the circuit breaker and.

Auckland & Christchurch, New Zealand

Recruited from the UK to bring technical DevOps leadership to a new DevOps team that was inheriting the operation of a ClickOps managed platform that provided enterprise level payroll to NZ and AU enterprise customers (PayGlobal Online).Defined the technical vision for the team, Designed then lead the implementation of the CI/CD pipeline delivering AWS.

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• IntechnologyWifi are a company that was attempting to create a commercial market out of providing free Wi-Fi in large public spaces. Their flagship deployment was in Edinburgh city centre.I started by analysing the.
• A well defined Software delivery pipeline
• TeamCity build server delivering software unit testing, artefact packaging with triggers for executinginfrastructure deployments when required.
• The use of puppet to deliver predictable and repeatable deployments on EC2 instances.
• The use of AWS Code deploy and bash scripts to ensure coordinated, reliable and reversibledeployments, including validation scripts that trigger automatic rollbacks when the validation tests fail.
• Puppet components to implement the configuration of nginx, php and laravel third party software.

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

• Control F1 are a company specialising in delivering commercial websites. Clients include some house hold names as well as a range of smaller businesses.I took on the devops lead role within Control F1, and has.
• Application deployment for a multi tier telematics project with puppet / AWS Code deploy and AWSAutoscaling. Puppet facts (implemented in ruby) and puppet modules written in puppet scripts,templates and hiera following.
• Dynamic AWS IAM role and policy creation based on puppet facts and hiera configuration implementedin ruby as puppet resource modules
• Continuous Integration and automated Deployment for multiple customer IIS deployments usingTeamCity, powershell scripts and web deploy packages.
• Powershell scripted initialisation of new servers including software installation, configuration, warmup& verification and managed introduction into the active environment
• Managing Control F1’s AWS infrastructure - build environments, shared servers and managed customer environments

Clay Cross, England, United Kingdom

• Formula E were building a compelling mobile application experience to complement their race series.Directed and assisted in the implementation of the server farm, from meeting with hardware suppliers, specifying kit.
• Set up and managed the Development tool chain using Task management (Fogbugz), Source control (git), Build server (Team City), Repository (Artifactory). Used MAAS to deploy 40 servers, installed and configured riak (6.
• Implemented real time reporting on the system behaviour using splunk to perform log analysis and generate operations panels and performance analysis.
• Monitored the systems during the first live event, maintaining service throughout.
• Specified Server specifications, cpu, memory, disk and I/O configuration, designed rack layout to maximise redundancy and optimise performance of the system as a whole.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Recruited as a developer on this role, but my biggest impact was in assisting the company towardsa devops style approach to monitoring and deployment. Their key products are ‘one off’ specialist welding machines.
• Updating their development, testing and release process, using Kanban and git.
• Introduced Isotek to logging and log analysis as a strategy to monitor a live system, allowing identification and investigation of unexpected behaviours in the live environment.
• Updated the build and deployment strategy for the python packages, eliminating external dependencies on remote repositories, eliminating the need for development tools on client machines and ensuring developers were.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Recruited to act as a Technical Tester for performing non-functional testing on this project, howeverwith his developer experience, plus scripting and linux skills, his role quickly expanded into a software engineer.
• Deployment of software across 15 servers using puppet, including identifying and fixing puppet issues.
• Creating operations panel for monitoring of test runs, reporting on performance, investigating data anomalies and making recommendations for areas needing more precise detail.
• Scripting complex tasks into usable shell scripts to abstract away the complexities of an unfamiliar operating system and complex product.
• Installation and configuration of Riak, RabbitMQ Redis and other software dependencies, updating puppet scripts to add additional configuration options and ensuring repeatability of the install and update process in.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

bet365 is a UK based online gambling company with an international and substantial customer base that expect 24 hour website access.The primary projects were based around the NoSQL product GemFire. The data cache related projectsinvolved writing C++ and C# Gem Fire clients libraries providing GeoLocation data, capture tracking data and managing website.

Watford, England, United Kingdom

Telehealth Solutions identified the need to reduce their fixed cost base to either gain further investment, or for sale to a new owner. To assist with this, I volunteered for redundancy and then continued to provide defined software functionality for a up front agreed prices.This line of work ceased when Telehealth Solutions was transferred to a new owner.

• Telehealth Solutions is a provider of healthcare products aimed to enable patients to perform the routinehealth tests themselves, allowing the clinicians to centrally monitor patient’s wellbeing.I used a combination of.
• Integrating medical devices, normally using C# communicating over RS232 serial ports to obtain measurements and other device status information. Occasionally C++ was needed to meet specific timing requirements.
• Implementing and updating MS –SQL (2008) databases for the care-pod and occupationalhealth-pod products.
• Connecting to Patient Management Systems. Typically using C# and COM, SQL or WebServices to talk to the clinical database.
• User interface screens using C# & WinForms, including multi language support
• User Interface screens using C# Xaml/WPF and multi language support.

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

At DSP Design, Michael was involved in writing C++ test programs to test and validate various Epic and PC104+ embedded computers. Tests development involved using a combination of either high level Win32 api's to play sound files, video files, echoing data over serial cables – these are typically production tests used in the manufacture and assembly.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Raima UK was the UK reseller of the Velocis RDM. Michael used C++ to deliver new features on the company reporting tool including Unicode and MBCS support, added an enhanced user model to the Database engine, and created several wizards that assist the creation of reports using MFC. Michael changed the pre-existing company culture of “hacking code” and.

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

Pocket Link is a small firm set up by a colleague from CSL. We created several pocket PC and Palm applications in C & C++. Michael and Barry tended work together using most aspects of extreme programming.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Argo Group was a venture capital funded expansion, delivering a “proxy server” software solution to improve customer experiences of WAP sites handling the limitations in the different device capabilities and enabling cross site portal branding. Development was performed following extreme programming methodology in C++ for Windows, Linux and Solaris.

Epsom, England, United Kingdom

Bacon & Woodrow is a firm of actuarial consultants.I Delivered a number of C++ ATL COM components that were used by internal customers. Products included a range of random number generators, distribution layers and an Implementation of Andrew Smith’s economic modeller.I also worked on the simulation of final salary pension funds project.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

CSL, at that time was a data warehouse provider for the pharmaceutical markets. Michael Used Visual Basic to implement data manipulation in Access 95, 97 and SQL Server 7 databases and to extract the data in the right format for Esprit, CSL’s OLAQP data reporting tool. Michael spent his last year there working on the OLAP cube viewer, a C++ ActiveX control.