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United Kingdom

• Tasked with ensuring the continuing success of Chef’s customers
• Led the technical approach in both pre and post sales functions on some of Chefs largest contracts
• Covered capacity issues in engineering by producing content for strategic customers
• Operated as the technical expert for the regions biggest customers, Also assisted in helpingrevive ‘at risk‘ customer accounts
• Experienced in troubleshooting Chef products, customer infrastructure (cloud or on-prem),and other third-party software tools
• worked with chef’s customers to implement monitoring and metrics gathering for their Chefbased infrastructure

Fleet, England, United Kingdom

Worked as a solution architect for Nokia’s newly formed global cloud design centre. The team wastasked with formulating an infrastructure as code and continuous delivery approach to the production of Telco clouds.

Reading, United Kingdom

Worked in both the Operations team, and as part of a team focused on automating all aspects of the Datasift platform. Designed, built, and maintained OpenStack private clouds and created a bare-metal deployment system for provisioning private clouds from code.

Member of the newly formed platform team, the team was formed out of a need to establish a more formalised and recognised platform development structure within the technical services department. Main role involves automating deployments of both platform components and in-house applications using puppet.Also responsible for the technical services networks.

Worked closely with the deploying, debugging and the administration of applications to a production environment. I was also tasked with developing better ways to monitor new and existing areas of core infrastructure. Some of which included; a web based monitoring tool for the ems/jms messaging services, monitoring and graphing of JBoss application servers.

United Kingdom

Joined cognito as a network support engineer after graduating university, making up a team of threesupport personnel. The job involved supporting all of the companys core networking and systems infra-structure.Technologies used include:Linux - primarily RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 / Centos 6VMWare - provisioning and monitoring VMs with VSphere 5 ClientMSSQL.

Internship with Sun Microsystem’s during the third year of my degree. Roles included configuring enterprise servers to meet the needs of Sun engineers, working in a production environment maintainingour own servers that looked after lab infrastructure and being part of a team helping to develop, test and improve in-house software.Assisted in Parisian Lab.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

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