Stuart Bell Email & Phone Number

Stanford-le-Hope, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

Working in the Data and Insights team within Enterprise Engineering I was responsible for a team of engineers (6 software engineers, 1 scrum master) To provide Engineering Metric data to the Platform Leads for the Enterprise Engineering domain, this included toolsets utilised by the banks software engineers to ensure they are getting optimal.

London Area, United Kingdom

Set-up green field service delivery team to enable the function within the Enterprise Engineering area. Working closely with the service delivery manager & utilising my in depth understanding of ServiceNow I was tasked to setup reporting, dashboards and email alerting for the key functions (Certificate expiry, server lease expiry, Application Instances.

London Area, United Kingdom

Created the feature team to develop and support the inhouse written software delivery platform (Digital Web Service), a blend of technical specialists (Ansible, Vault, RHEL) and developers (JAVA, Go). Worked with customers around issues and enhancement requests and these were understood by the development team for delivery. Defined the product backlog.

London Area, United Kingdom

Delivered the operational platform for the Open Banking, working with the lead developers for the project to implement a true DevOps platform. The delivery catered for external customers (TPPs) and setting up a service desk system for them to log tickets. Created Splunk dashboards for performance of the AISP and PISP services, real time monitoring with.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of 20 engineers supporting global platforms for all external facing applications (including the API gateways, Citrix Load Balancers, Layer 7 Web Application Firewalls) in the investment arm of the bank. Implementation of a 24/7 support model by recruiting a team of engineers in India, streamlined and improved the certification (SSL).

London, United Kingdom

Program was to deliver automation for code delivery for applications,

London, United Kingdom

July 2012 - September 2013Delivered two months ahead of schedule the migration of 300+ servers and appliances from a legacy data centre to the company's new strategic data centre as part of a wider reaching DC closure programme.This was a lift and shift exercise for the vast majority of the servers with key appliances being bought and configured in place.

London, United Kingdom

Headed up the Server (Windows 2003 & 2008, ESX4 & 5), Storage (EVA and 3PAR), Desktop (Windows XP & 7) and SQL (2005 and 2008) DBA teams (total of 9 staff) for 2nd & 3rd line functions, supporting Windows Operating system environment on HP hardware platform 24x7 supporting 750 users worldwide. Provided project management functionality, with assistance in.

Team Leader of 20 UNIX System Administrators, moved up from the technical role to run the Unix team and was tasked with improving the environment in both BAU support and delivery of projects primarily for the Equities business area. Main ResponsibilitiesEscalation point for all service outages involving Unix serversResponsible for technical sign off and.

Reporting to the Team Leader and supporting approximately 800 servers, responsibilities involved dealing with server outages (this will include diagnostic and error resolution liaising with vendors), ensured implemented process are followed and escalated as required to the team leader.

I joined the Operations department and moved up to Senior Operator the following year, we covered a 24x7x365 shift pattern and ran batch and monitoring operations for all applications (ranging from VMS, Unix and NT).

London

Worked for the following companies on short term contracts; Cap Gemini, Digital FM & Cantor Fitzgerald.

London, United Kingdom

I worked for these companies for a continuous 6 year period (IFM was bought out by Sungard), I started as an Output Distribution Clerk and worked my way up to the position as Senior Computer Operator within 3 years.