Education

• University of Dundee – Dundee, Scotland
  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
  September, 1992 – Graduated August, 1995
• Swanley Comprehensive School – Swanley, Kent
  A-Levels (Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics)
  September, 1990 – September, 1992

Professional Qualifications:

• Solaris 10 Certified Professional
• Redhat Linux Certified Engineer
• Certified Scrum Master

Training Courses:

• ScrumAlliance Certified Scrum Master – 2010
• Sun Solaris 10 for experienced Systems Administrators – 2006
• F5 BIG-IP v9 Advanced and Essentials – 2006
• Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer – 2004
• Oracle 8i Performance and Tuning – 2001
• Oracle 8i Database Architecture and Administration – 2001
• Oracle 8i Backup and Recovery – 2001
• Internetworking with Cisco Routers – 2000
• Veritas Volume Manager with Sparc Storage Arrays – 1998
• MS Project 3.1 – 1997
• Windows NT 4.0 Administration – 1997
• Solaris, Performance and Tuning – 1997

Skills

Operating Systems:

• Solaris (2.3 – 10) Solaris Certified Administrator, Linux (various distributions)
• Mac OS X, UNIX (FreeBSD, NetBSD), Windows 2000/XP
• VMware ESX 3i – 4.0

Computer Languages:

• Proficient in PHP, Perl, Python, UNIX Shells (bourne/korn), SQL
• Familiar with C, TCL, Expect, Java, Ant and JSP

Tools and Systems:

• Experience in the design, administration and maintenance of large-scale heterogeneous computer networks of 500+ servers.
• Using UNIX systems to provide core network services (NIS/DNS, Distributed file services (NFS/CIFS), security, routing, diagnosis and management).
• Excellent in Apache [Both 1.x and 2.x], DNS/BIND, CVS/SCCS/subversion, Caching/Compression (Squid and Hardware Appliances [Redline Networks, Bluecoat Caches, F5 Network's BIG-IP]), SNMP
  
• Experience with java application servers, including Tomcat and Websphere 6.0
• Proficient with Oracle [9i - 10g and 10gRAC], MySQL [3.x - 5.0], Postgres, OpenSSL, Exim, Qmail, Samba
• Clustering technologies (Veritas Cluster Server), Disk Management technologies (Veritas Volume Manager, Solstice Volume Manager)
• Excellent with firewalls and security products (Firewall-1, ipfw)
• Network topographies and WAN considerations
• Virtualisation using Solaris 10 zones, and VMware Virtualisation suites (3.x – 4.0)
• Experience in managing and using the Atlassian range of products including JIRA, Crowd and Confluence

Experience:

European Directories – London, UK

Enterprise Architect: August 2008 – Current

• Help guide strategy with Group CIO, CIO and Online Managing Director on both site performance, development practices and driving cost efficiencies.
• Design, build and assist in the development and migration of a high capacity Internet Yellow Pages platform for the European Directories group websites and migrate all existing IYP sites onto this platform.
• Design, build and administer all the development and testing environments for all internal and external development partners across the group
• Successfully implement an Active/Active mapping and routing platform using both TeleAtlas sourced and bespoke map tiles
• Perform triage and diagnostic of issues that the hosting provider was unable to identify
• Provide group level technical assistance when scoping projects – including across Windows Server deployments

Escenic AS

Senior Consultant: August 2007 – August 2008

• Installation/architectural and scaling support to Escenic customers, including configuration of caching, webservers, databases and network filesystems
• Coaching and training for aspects of the software stack and general website delivery
• Pre-sales assistance to the sales department

Symbian Software Limited – London, UK

Systems Analyst: May 2007 – July 2007

• Provide strategy for Symbian’s Solaris and Redhat linux infrastructure, whilst looking to provide server consolidation onto a mixture of VMware ESX server clusters and Solaris 10 zones.
• Implement a global rollout of Bluecoat proxy devices across US, Europe and Asian offices.

News International Newspapers Limited – London, UK

Senior Technical Architect: July 2006 – May 2007

• Design, develop and document the new online platform as well as providing support and guidance to the technical teams and business units, utilising a multi-node Oracle 10g RAC cluster, and websphere clustering on Sun Opteron blade servers spread across 6 chassis.
• Understand and drive security best-practices on the online platform and investigate breaches in security platform and liaise with the security manager to audit changes and incidents.
• Provide cost/benefit guidelines to key stakeholders for further investments and direction of
  maximising growth from existing invested infrastructure and software.
• Own and direct investigations into critical performance enhancements within a J2EE infrastructure to deliver key business objectives.
• Assist the main business units with problems and liaise with other internal and external agencies to provide support and consultancy services.
• Consolidate some of the existing server real-estate into a Solaris 10 zone based platform.

News International Newspapers Limited – London, UK

Senior Systems Administrator: September 1997 – June 2006

• Manage 100+ UNIX servers providing infrastructure behind the internet presences of News International’s websites (The Times, The Sun, and Page3) including back-end systems, including Oracle High-Availability Clusters and appliances.
• Give design and architectural guidance to development teams for new software projects and fix software pinch points as they are encountered.
• Provide guidance and develop the vignette server platform, and own the growth and architecture of current and future projects.
• Prepare capital expenditure requests for annual predicted growth and give justification on future platform requirements, this is to include the changes in physical environment and logical architecture to cater for the continuing three figure growth that the Online titles have since the beginning of the millennium.
• Maintain the Linux servers and build/design bespoke Linux based appliances for the Newspaper production process.
• Develop tools and scripts to improve reliability and functionality of the network and infrastructure including the use of SNMP.

SBC Warburg – London, UK

Distributed Computing Engineer: May 1997 – September 1997

• To develop the UNIX client-server infrastructure and to implement and test new applications and servers
• Redesigned existing Naming Services and migrated from NIS to DNS to provide core machine name resolution.

Demon Internet – London, UK

Senior Systems Administrator/Postmaster: March 1996 – May 1997

• Provide rapid response to problems; regular maintenance to the SMTP infrastructure and services, from basic network services to application layer services
• Migrate an ISP from it’s existing infrastructure into the core Demon infrastructure and provide a migration framework to move the user-base.