Experience

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  La alarms

  Jul 2004 - Sept 2005

  Alarm & electrical technician

  • Assisted in technical fitting of sensitive secure services and systems as part of regional market leader.

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  Bishop gore comprehensive school

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Exam invigilator & lab technician

  • Implement secure exam board examinations invigilation policy.• Deliver safe handling procedures for hazardous chemicals in support of classroom experiments.

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  High beeches

  Nov 2008 - Feb 2009

  Book keeper

  • Create profit and loss profile for a local business.• Translate and extrapolate substantial data points to a user friendly database.• Assist in development of data processes and advanced HFI in support of more frequent staff interaction.

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  University of plymouth

  Apr 2009 - Jul 2009

  • High profile presentations to potential University candidates.• Supported University team recruitment activity at varied public engagements. • Skipper Dive Centre’s support vessels as part of BSAC Ocean Diver courses. • Preparation of dive equipment ready in the morning, • Plan and deliver safe surface operating dive environment• Plan and respond to Dive emergencies as part of the safety team.

  • Student Ambassador

    Oct 2008 - Jul 2009

  • Support Boat Skipper

    Apr 2009 - May 2009
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  University of plymouth

  Sept 2010 - Jul 2011

  Widening participation work

  • Liaise with mainstream education in support of higher education programs.• Prepare and deliver high profile briefings to diverse student base on opportunities within higher education.• Advise and prepare students on degree opportunities and funding paths.• Deliver polished front of house activity in support of University recruitment goals.

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  Mining searches uk

  Nov 2010 - Oct 2011

  Remote it consultant

  • Provide a comprehensive plan for a new office network.• Advise company on servers for use with Geo-Spatial databases.• Advise on different types of data backup and recovery.• Provide an insight into remote office working.

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  Pisys.net ltd

  Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

  It systems engineer
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  Adapt (a datapipe company)

  Jun 2014 - Apr 2017

  Principal Infrastructure Engineer for one of Adapts PODs.Providing, 3rd/4th line support, Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to a dedicated customer base. Also participating in company-wide product development. 2nd Line Infrastructure Engineer for Adapt.Day to day responsibilities;To manage and have part ownership over flagship backup platform. This includes developing new methods to carry out backups along with updating and expanding the platform.To act as a senior point of call for MSC Infrastructure queries and help develop the graduates that reside within MSC. Junior 2nd Line Infrastructure Engineer for Adapt.Day to day roles and responsibilities;To manage and have ownership over Adapts smaller clients backup platforms. In addition to this act as first response for incidents and requests for Adapts smaller clients and shared platforms, these range from VM to SAN queries.

  • POD Infrastructure Engineer

    Jul 2015 - Apr 2017

  • MSC Infrastructure Engineer

    Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  • MSC Junior Infrastructure Engineer

    Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
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  Datapipe europe

  Apr 2017 - Apr 2018

  Providing, 3rd/4th line support to Datapipe's EMEA & Global customers along with providing Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to the EMEA customer base. Helping to develop Datapipe EMEA products. Principal Infrastructure Engineer for one of Adapts "A Datapipe Company" PODs.Providing, 3rd/4th line support, Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to a dedicated customer base. Also participating in company-wide product development.

  • Senior Cloud Engineer

    Dec 2017 - Apr 2018

  • POD Infrastructure Engineer

    Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Rackspace technology

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

  Providing, Level 3 Virtualization support & architecture design to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers. Providing, Level 2 Storage support & architecture design to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers. Providing, Level 3 Backup support & architecture design to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers. Working as a principal engineer (Virtualization, Storage, Backups) & architect for Rackspace Data centre migrations. Providing, 3rd/4th line Storage support to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers along with providing Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to the EMEA base. Providing, 3rd/4th line Virtualization support to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers along with providing Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to the EMEA base. Providing, 3rd/4th line Backup support to Rackspace Legacy EMEA & Global customers along with providing Solution Architecture and Technical Design Authority functions to the EMEA base.

  • Virtualization Engineer III

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Storage Engineer II

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Backup Engineer III

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Migration Engineer

    Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Storage Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Virtualization Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Backup Engineer

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
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  Bae systems digital intelligence

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Cross Domain Solution Architect & Team Lead

    Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

  • Infrastructure Designer

    May 2019 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Analyst Team Lead

    Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Infrastructure Engineer

    Mar 2019 - May 2019
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  Kaer morhen consulting ltd

  Jul 2022 - now

  Director
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  Uk ministry of defence

  Jul 2022 - now

  Provide technical project management support and technical lead functions as well as architectural oversight for NSoIT in the following areas;- UK based infrastructure- Program virtualization, SDDC & SDN- System monitoring and assurance

  • Design Office Infrastructure Architect NSoIT

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Infrastructure Virtualisation Engineer OpNET

    Jul 2022 - Nov 2023