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London, United Kingdom

Part of the Infrastructure Team (now Operations Team) 80% Project | 20% BAUWorked on delivering various projects including new 6.0 vSphere stretched environment with metro storage between two Data Centres. As well as deploy all-flash storage solution, taking it from PoC to production. Most recent projects currently delivering are new vSphere 6.5 environments for Managed Services and Developer environments.Trouble shoot various issues in any of the four vSphere environments over 2 Data Centers. Handle upgrades of various inter-dependant systems. Mentor and teach junior team members.

London, United Kingdom

Part of a team of Vmware specialists supporting large public vCloud environment. Other duties include working on various projects to expand, upgrade, update and generally maintain Public vCloud environment in both company's datacenters.Worked with team to upgrade and maintain vCloud based test and development environment (working with Customer Portal Developers) as well as on office vSphere environment. Other areas of work include ongoing maintenance of Solidfire Enteprise flash SAN as well as IBM storage.Major positive contributions include various Standard Operation Procedures written and updated which are used by technical staff of all levels.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

- Implemented VMware vCenter Operations Manager for local VMware infrastructure

Cambridge, United Kingdom

- Administration of VMware vSphere infrastructure (Enterprise Plus)- Administration of Company Windows Domain- Administration of EMC VNX SAN storage- Administration of EMC Avamar storage- Implementation and administration of (new) Cisco UCS / VMware vSphere 5.5 environment- Creation and administration of various Windows and Linux (virtual) servers- Staff support

Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk

- Design, implementation and administration of Company Windows domain and network- Design, implementation and administration of Samba based SMB/CIFS fileserver system- Design, implementation and administration of Nagios network monitoring system- ISO 9001:2008 authoring, developement, implementation and administration- Customer and Staff support

Ely, Cambridge

- Support and maintain Redhat servers- Support, implement and administration of Firebrick based Company network- Customer support- Customer account management- Open Retail EPOS system support, maintenance and developement

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Btec National Diploma, Computer Studies

8 Gcse'S, Gcse