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Transforming organisational IT to increase efficienciesAgile, DevOPS, Cloud, Containers, Continuous this and that... Everyone has heard of all these buzz words and everyone has ‘Digital Transformation’ on their roadmap, but what does it actually mean for your organisation??Our mission at EAS is to take the latest and greatest of these emerging technologogies and map them to the business problems YOU are facing rather than implement a buzzword compliant platform that doesn’t deliver to value.Having served as the technical authority on some of the first and largest cloud implementations; internal, external and hybrid, EAS are able to utilise the successes and more importantly the pitfalls these projects and organisations faced to ensure a more streamline solution for our customers.We have entered an era where the marketplace has expanded such that the larger vendors in the market are complemented by smaller partners that are small enough to ensure knowledge and experience is distributed equally throughout it’s people but also large enough to make meaningful differences to organisations agility and cost profile.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for mentoring and driving adoption of agile development methodologies, TDD, BDD and scrum/kan-ban methodologies.Making use of, designing and advocating CI/CD pipelines to reduce change failures, track change throughput and enhance knowledge transfer within the teams during sprints.Design and implementation of source control solutions GIT/SVN and automated triggers for configuration management and Jenkins driven automated package, build and test.Design of PaaS solutions to enable multi-tenanted runtime and RDBMS solutions using Node JS, MySQL, Postgres etc to reduce developer lead times and remove infrastructure as the barrier to entry.Key responsibilities;* Overall design and delivery of CSA 3.01, HPOO 9.07 and HPSA 9.14* Overall design and delivery of CSA 4.1, HPOO 10.10 and HPSA 10.10* Migration from CSA 3.01 to 3.1* Migration from CSA 3.1 to 4.1* Relational database design - ERD* Leadership of a team of 6 specialist resources covering HP SA, OO and CSA.* Translation of customer requirements into detailed technical designs.* Development and testing of an integrated solution within extremely aggressive timescales.

London

Responsible for architecting and delivering advanced server automation solutions to multiple blue chip clients. Specialising in HP's BSM/BTO/ITPS automation suite including HPOO, HPSA, HP Sitescope, HP uCMDB and solutions including CSA4M and CSA. Also responsible for Open Source automation and configuration management solutions most recently using Puppet and mCollective.

Design and develop an automated enrichment, transformation and provisioning process utilising HPOO to orchestrate. Development of re-usable dynamic workflows to orchestrate business critical endpoints which aid enrichment, transformation and execution to enable a user friendly seamless provisioning process. Provide a tools and processes approach to infrastructure delivery with integration from request management through to asset configuration reducing deployment time.Built around the HP BTO toolset including HP Operations Orchestration, Service Manager 7, HP Network Automation and uCMDB.

Planning and progressing a data migration project across Unix and Wintel platforms from source legacy IBM SAN arrays to energy efficient target Hitachi SANs. Carrying out scheduling, pre and post positive vetting procedures and documentation to assist. Developed automated pre/post checking routines for use in pre-prod and production environments.Developed workflow based automation routines to perform data centre lifecycle management.

Providing technical direction and design for an enterprise scale estate relocation and consolidation project. Design and implementation of domain level restructure and expansion. Requirement gathering, planning and automation of OS upgrades from Windows 2000 to 2003/2008 to comply with code requirements. Assisted with CA NSM server monitoring integration and design-level implementation and data collection. Designed and developed HPOO interactions, integrations and workflows. Administered and configured server automation using Opsware/HP Server Automation, created and applied packages, policies, baselines and auditing. Configured and applied security compliance baselines to include hardening and patching to PCI standards. Planned and implemented phased physical to virtual migrations of 85% of existing Wintel estate across physical locations with minimal disruption and downtime to critical services. VMWare/Vsphere installation and configuration for HA.

Newbury

Carried out a domain integration following the acquisition of Borland software. Performed CSVDE and LDIFDE exports/imports along with schema extensions and related trusts. Primary engineer of the UK integration and migration of multiple domains on a global scale following 2 major acquisitions. Initiating connectivity across the global WAN and domain trusts. Active Directory CSVDE and LDIFDE exports, modifications and imports along with requirements gathering from key teams across the companies to ensure smooth transfer of business critical resources. Migration of users with use of ADMT v2 along with troubleshooting end user issues during and following migration/integration. Re-location of users’ mailboxes/calendars/shared resources across exchange servers and information stores. Implementation of sendmail mail gateway under Suse Linux with webmin front end.

Responsible for design, build, install and maintenance of server/network infrastructure for a new medical imaging implementation/expansion. Installed virtual environment using VMWare, Hyper V, Server 2008,SQL Server, SAN Citrix XenServer including secure gateway Implemented, developed and administered SharePoint MOSS 2007 for use as a social networking/collaboration of information purpose. Installed and administered SQL 2005 server. In charge of troubleshooting and improving network infrastructure as well as a review on Cisco\Checkpioint hardware security.

Responsible for a team of 3 field support engineers operating a nationwide field response for troubleshooting server/network infrastructure across 97 production sites across the UK. Dealing with technologies such as Server 2003/2008, SQL Server, AS400, Citrix Xenserver, VMware ESX, Exchange 2003/2007, MAC and SAP plus various bespoke systems. Also managed company wide web caching proxy as well as access policies for perimeter security devices - PIX/ASA. Implemented RSA secure VPN access company wide using safeword tokens combined with the PIX firewalls.

I was responsible for day to day maintenance of multiple high importance government networks, servers, desktops and laptops including Cisco hardware/IOS, Sonicwall firewall, VPN, PIX, ASA, active directory, exchange and troubleshooting networking issues. Team lead for user training for implemented technologies and current Microsoft infrastructure. Also in charge of the Disaster recovery team for my duration due to my data recovery background including use of Arcserve backup. Exposure to Server 2008 and Exchange 2007 64 bit environments install and configuration in test environments.Main Responsibilities:Maintain ongoing and efficient operation of high importance project based networks and servers, including remote and Site to Site VPN access.Document and test knowledgebase articles for customer use.Dell & HP Server installation maintenance and patchingDisaster Recovery testing, documentation, troubleshooting including Intelligent Disaster Recovery. Use of Symantec System Recovery and Backup Exec 12d. Also configuration and maintenance of Symantec Netbackup and CA Arcserve Backup.Network Surveying, planning, install and implementation and configuration. Turnkey solutions - Hardware, infrastructure and software levels.