Engage in the performance management process such as performance reviews, daily feedback, and mentoring.Review scope of work and assign tasks based on system administrator skills/abilitiesCommunicate successes and challenges faced by the team to the Director of IT.Lead team of Systems Administrators to assist with the installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Bardel’s tech infrastructure; authentication, messaging, DHCP/DNS, licensing, data transfer (FTP, Aspera, Signiant), deployment systems (Foreman, Puppet, FOG).Maintain and Manage the Netbackup / Quantum based backup and archival system.Maintain and Manage the network infrastructure; Switches, Firewalls & VPN.Maintain render farm machines onsite & offsite.Administration and Maintenance of our NAS & Caching infrastructure.Administration and Maintenance of our Virtual and Cloud infrastructure.Preparation and Maintenance of infrastructure documentation on all systems, procedures and solutions to issues.Maintain and Manage Bardel’s array of monitoring tools: OCS, Icinga, and Observium.Recommend and Evaluate open source and off the shelf software solutions.Recommend and Evaluate server, storage and network hardware solutions.Troubleshooting and Resolving issues with production and administration applications (including: Maya, Nuke, Vray, Harmony).Provide input into potential improvements in efficiency, reliability and performance of the animation pipeline.Assist & Mentor the desktop support team.

WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS FOR MEDIA PixIT Media provide highly scalable, efficient and enterprise-class storage, network and archive solutions for the Post Production and Broadcast industries. Based in the UK and featuring some of the top content creation and distribution facilities in the world, PixIT Media are the perfect partner for the supply and support of Media workflow solutions of any size. Featuring Scale-Out Storage, Cloud, WAN Acceleration and Data Management solutions powered by an enhanced version of IBM's General Parallel File System, PixIT Media architectures are designed to offer consistent, predictable streaming performance and automated asset tiering from disk to desktop and beyond. Interoperable with low-cost commodity server and storage technology from a wide range of hardware manufacturers, PixIT Media frees its customer from vendor lock-in and provides a limitless, cost-effective strategic platform for data growth. Specialties End-to-end, centralised scale-out network, storage and NAS solutions for all media workflows, near-line, archive and backup solutions, short and long-term consultancy evaluating existing end-to-end tapeless workflows

ArcaStream delivers bespoke software defined scale-out storage and data management solutions designed to meet the specific needs of research and simulation users across the life science, education, research and oil & gas sectors.

With 9 year experience in Commercials, broadcast and film VFX Sand Point Media offer design, implementation and support for studios both large and small, Working with some well respected Industry leaders we aim to  provide a cost effective service whatever your needs,   Sandpoint Media have partnered with industry leaders to offer affordable, fully scalable workflow solutions.  With our knowledge and experience across multi disciplines and vendor neutral attitude we are able to design best in class solutions using the latest processing technology and power saving systems. We are able to offer a full bespoke studio infrastructure design and build.  Our breadth of experience allows us to not only design industry leading renderfarms but also comms rooms, structured cabling, server management and large scale storage solutions. We are able to manage all your technology needs so that you may get maximum benefit and return on investment Partner relationships and industry knowledge enables us to provide solutions with maximum performance from both hardware and software without the high costs usually associated with enterprise systems

Since 2008 we have been involved in two Feature films "Arthur Christmas" which was released 2011 and "Pirates an adventure with misfits" released 2012 I have been heavily involved in the creation of Ardman Animations Linux Pipeline, which is now being used through CGI/VFX for Feature and commercials.I am responsible for the Back office and storage design and managed all procurement for both features and commercials.StrengthsHigh performance computing, server architecture, storage architecture and management, open source, post-production, visual effects,vendor management, budgeting.

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