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Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Defining requirements within central team for transfer of Enterprise Data volumes from on-premise data storage to Azure Cloud infrastructure (Data Lake). Liaising with Business areas to record Business requirements for on-boarding, reconciling and reporting of financial data.• Defining technical requirements for validation and reconciliation of vendor provided financial data• Documenting current and future state working practices for data transformation to company standards• Analysing large data sets to define tolerances for automated transformation systems• Creating/Managing user stories in JIRA within Agile working environment

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Day to day oversight of EMEA applications, tracking status of key control metrics including Risk Classifications (ARC), Control Assessments, breaks and remedies by application for inclusion in regular dashboard reporting to Senior ManagementTechnical SME for Risk & Control issues within application space, preparing DR plans/Architecture diagrams.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Windows Engineer, working closely with lines of business, vendors and other technical teams to resolve complex security vulnerability issues.Production of Powershell scripts to check and remediate configuration issues for windows servers across multiple domains and network tiers in enterprise environment.Management of SCCM 2007/12 environments and creation of automation runbooks in SCOrch environment to automate corrective actions for alerts.

Infrastructure Delivery Engineer responsible for solutioning and implementation of new technologies as required for PepsiCo International UK.• Lead Engineer for server refresh programme in Leicester DataCentre involving remediation and update of operating systems and hardware at market leading processing plant. Physical build of servers including racking and cabling in 2 data centres to PepsiCo documented standards.• Creation of Network Load Balancing and Windows Failover Cluster standard reference documentation for team/support areas. Provide training as required to technical staff for deployed cluster technologies.• Responsible for implementation of new documentation templates to ensure standardisation of handover to support across multiple projects. Creation of support documents and runbooks for new projects.• Investigation of technical issues reported by Server support team and creation of solution scripts and documentation as required. Provide technical consultancy to Project Managers and Solutions Architect team

Management of global Windows 2000/2003 server support team for Treasury Services. These included SAN boot, ESX servers, Virtual machines and Clustered servers running on HP Proliant hardware.Project Management of upgrade cycles and maintenance activities across all servers and supported operating systems. Creation of supporting plans in accordance with ITIL change control framework and presentation to supported lines of business for agreement.Reduced application outage of Multiversa application ($5b/day throughput) from 4 hours to 17 minutes using automated scripting techniques with controlled restart, event logging and alerting routines.Managed transfer of knowledgebase for all supported servers and applications from Bournemouth to Mumbai, requiring extensive technical documentation writing and leadership of remote staff.Production of Disaster Recovery solutions for key applications and servers using Linux scripts and SAN frame management.

Supported 300+ Windows NT/2000/2003 servers for Treasury & Security Services. These included SAN boot, ESX servers, Virtual Machines and Clustered servers running on IBM xSeries and HP Proliant hardware. Deputy team leader for support/project team of 12 staff.Build engineer for ESX server farm requiring remote installation and configuration using ILO.Deployment of new hardware and operating systems using SAN or local storage as required, management of handover to production support with complete documentation and change control processes.Lead support technician, responsible for daily management of support teams located in UK/India. Management of update cycles to ITIL change control processes and on-call systems.Creation of monitoring scripts to record daily disk fragmentation of clustered SQL servers complete with weekend failover and corrective maintenance routines.

Working in team of 4 engineers responsible for security monitoring application delivery across EMEA.Project Management and lead implementation Engineer for Symantec Anti-Virus v8.x update across 500+ servers. Technical Support Engineer for all Anti-Virus issues within region, co-ordination with Symantec for technical queries and threats.Lead Engineer responsible for implementation of Pentasafe Monitoring platform and co-ordination of agent deployment across 500+ servers located in EMEA. Technical Support Engineer for all technical queries in region, co-ordination with Pentasafe for technical queries.Creation of security patching scripts for Wintel support team fo facilitate automated patching of windows servers. Reduced man hours for applying security patches from 8 man days to 4 hours, complete with logging and rollback routines.Creation of reporting scripts for monthly management reports detailing server base, operating systems, systems availability and health status. Reduced report collation time from 2 days to 2 hours and facilitated standard reporting format.

Initially employed to facilitate knowledge transfer to staff of NetWare 4 during migration to new networking infrastructure. Transferred to newly formed Security Monitoring team within 6 months to lead NetWare/Windows NT monitoring of user accounts and groups.Created new in-house monitoring database. Systems capable of monitoring 5 NT Domains and 2 NetWare trees for inactive accounts. Automated reports to SysAdmin staff of inactive accounts for checking, provision for suppression of system ID's from reports. Automated scripts to disable/delete inactive accounts after checking. Reduced time to manage inactive accounts from 12 man days per month to 1 man day per month.Created in-house monitoring scripts to track group changes. SID resolution built-in to enable unauthorised changes to be escalated to management, complete with back-out routines.Creation of automated account creation scripts for on-boarding bulk numbers of new starters. Reduced time taken to create accounts from 30 minutes per account to 30 seconds per account.Lead security advisor for rights remediation project to enable clear definition of user roles and responsibilities.Creation of Lotus Notes databases and standard forms to facilitate account requests/changes to be standardised.

Member of 4 man team responsible for support of desktops of 500+ staff at AEA Technology Nuclear facility Winfrith in Dorset. Maintenance of NetWare 3 and 4 file servers including backup/restore. Management of AutoSys and Pafec DOGS CAD systems running on SunSparc systems with VAX file server storage management system.Microsoft Project Subject matter Expert for Project Management team in Design BranchCreation of ISIS web pages detailing support agreements, outages and ongoing issues for management reporting.Creation of 3D solid model of Nuclear reactor wall penetrations for decommissioning project, enabling all pipes and opening in reactor wall to be identified and included in plans without need for staff to enter secondary containment building.Mechanical Design Engineer (50%) responsible for stress and termal testing of intumescent paints for Nuclear Transport FlaskDesign of portable Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment facility enabling water to be separated from waste for safe disposal.

Higher National Certificate, Mechanical Engineering

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