Certification
- PRINCE 2 Project Management (Foundation & Practitioner)
- ITIL (Foundation, Service Design, Service Transition & Continuous Service Improvement)
- RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer)
- AIX (IBM Unix)
- HP-UX (HP Unix)
CAP Money Coach
- 1 in 9 Uk Households have “Unmanageable Debt”, I trained to help people learn the basic life skill of budgeting.
Job History
Head of Cloud, Infrastructure & Tools
- Digi.Me
- Tongham, Surrey
- May 2017 to present
- Manage the day to day running of
- Infrastructure Department
- DevOps
- QA Department
- Release Management
- Manage the day to day running of
- Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure
- New Platform
- K8s Cluster over 3+ fault zones
- Production, Staging, Integration, Development and Several Test Environments ran the “same” dockerised application at various stages of release.
- Baseline Machine infrastructure built using Terraform
- Containers configuration managed via SaltStack
- Containers built by Jenkins on “Tagged Commit” of code by Jenkins
- K8s Cluster over 3+ fault zones
- Legacy Platform
- Machine Infrastructure built with Terraform
- Machine configuration built with Chef
- New Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Monitoring
- All logging sent to Elasticsearch via Kafka & Logstash
- Internal Monitoring performed by Prometheus/AlertManager
- External Monitoring performed by StatusCake
- Alerting performed through PagerDuty, fed by Prometheus/AlertManager or StatusCake
- Security incidents troubleshot using Splunk
- Software / DevOps
- Source control in Git (github.com)
- Maven Repository used for storing JAR files and building Android clients
- Continuous integration performed by Jenkins
- Automatic Builds for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
- Code Vulnerability Scanning performed at build time.
- Automatic Builds for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
- Source control in Git (github.com)
- Testing
- Automated Testing with TestRail, custom Framework written and combines multiple testing technologies
- Cucumber
- Calabash
- Test Robot
- Automated Testing with TestRail, custom Framework written and combines multiple testing technologies
Head of Network Operations
- Red Matter Ltd
- Croydon
- July 2016 to February 2017
- Managed Network Operations Team
- Responsible for the 24×7 management of a Telco Network
- Responsible for the replacement and repair of physical equipment in multiple datacentres
- Responsible for the 24×7 management of a Telco Network
- Technology Used
- OpenSIPs
- FreeSwitch
- Configuration
- Packages delivered using in-house developed DevOps tooling
- Newer services delivered by Docker on CoreOS created with Docker compose
- Older packages delivered via custom made rpm packages
- Changes logged via Jira
- Documentation is written into Confluence
- DataCentre Management
- UK Datacentres
- US Datacentres
- Nordic Datacentres
- Asian Datacentres
- Australian Datacentres
- Managed Network Operations Team
CTA
- CenturyLink (formerly known as Savvis)
- London / Reading
- November 2011 to July 2016
Technical Services Manager
- MarkcoMedia
- London / Croydon
- January 2010 to November 2011
Chief Executive Officer
- UnixGuru Hosting
- East Grinstead
- May 2009 to November 2011
Managing Director
- UnixGuru Consulting
- East Grinstead
- May 2009 to December 2009
Technical Services Consultant
- Aquila Group Holdings
- Redhill
- August 2004 to May 2009
Senior Unix Technical Specialist
- Homebase
- Wallington
- April 1999 to August 2004
Senior Systems Administrator
- Credit Suisse Asset Management
- London
Deputy Operations Supervisor
- Veritas
- Crawley