Roger Milton Email & Phone Number

Exeter, England, GB

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Line manager for 1 collaboration team member and 1 IT Apprentice.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Purpose of jobTo provide technical leadership in the planning, development and support of products and services, providing technical solutions in accordance with Met Office ICT strategy and ensuring products and services are delivered in accordance with recognised best practice.Job responsibilitiesProvide technical consultancy to Portfolio Managers.

Responsibility for delivery of OLA’s covering Met Office LAN, WAN, firewalls, remote access systems and mobile and fixed telephony systems and providing development project support.Manager for team consisting of up to 3 Networks Technical Leads, 7 Senior Networks Administrators, 7 Networks Administrators, 2 IT Trainees and 5 contractors.

Responsible for supporting Linux Team Leader to deliver Linux desktop and server estate to agreed SLA’s and for developing the technical capability of the team.Line manager for 3 senior Linux System AdministratorsActed as technical lead on HP-UX Migration project which successfully migrated a large number of key services from legacy UNIX to virtual Linux.

Team Leader / Service Manager responsible for sub-team providing delivery and running of Met Office wide UNIX production server estate, alongside sub-teams delivering a UNIX and Linux Desktop service and supporting UNIX and Linux applications.Line manager for 4 senior UNIX system administrators.Installed and configured the Met Office’s first.

Handling day-to-day user requests and inquiries. Creating new user accounts. Filesystem backup and restore. System performance monitoring. Shell scripting.HP-UX 11 roll-out project to 100 workstations, replacing systems at HP-UX 10.20 with a standardised installation.Wrote, maintained and documented for use by others in the team a set of scripts to.

Acting Team Leader 07/2000-10/2000. Full staff management responsibility for four programmers, managing day-to-day activities ensuring delivery of SLA.Senior Graphics Team member responsible for the PV-WAVE package (2D scientific data visualization). Support and development of Met Office wide library of routines. Handling day-to-day user requests and.

Developed original software for processing and analysing satellite data for the global identification and study of high altitude ice clouds, using a number of experimental statistical techniques, evaluated against other satellite and observation datasets.

Master'S Degree, Scientific Computing, Pass

Modules included: Software Engineering, Computational Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Graphics, Data Collection and Image Processing..

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electronic And Communications Engineering, 2.2

Main subjects: Electronics, Communications Systems, Digital Systems, Control Theory, Maths and Computing. Options: Expert Systems, Digital.

A’Levels: Maths(B), Physics(B), Chemistry(B). 8 O’Levels, Including Maths (A), English (B).