Graeme Sutherland

Graeme Sutherland

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  • About me

    Advisory Systems Engineer - Unstructured Data Solutions at Dell

  • Education

    • Anderson High

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    • The Open University

      2004 - 2009
      BSc Psychology
    • The University of Edinburgh

      1995 - 2000
      MEng Electronics
  • Experience

    • The Learning School

      Sept 2001 - Jun 2002
      Group Coordinator

      Team leader for group of eight high-school graduates on an education research project looking at "Student Self Evaluation"Researched at :Anderson High School, UKBobergsgymnasiet, SwedenWittebome High, South AfricaLanga High, South AfricaNara Women's University Sec School, JapanLed presentations to staff at each school.Managed the creation of reports for each school, and final report submitted to Professor John MacBeath at the University of Cambridge.

    • Shetland Islands Council

      Dec 2002 - Aug 2003
      IT Technician

      IT administration for 29 schools. Supported Windows Server NT, Windows NT, 98, 2000 and XP workstations. Also supported Apple networks. Created a training programme to help teachers learn Microsoft Office. Led a number of training sessions in the schools at request of the head teachers.

    • Kildrummy Technologies Limited

      Sept 2003 - Apr 2005
      Information Systems Administrator / Customer Services

      Systems Administrator for all Kildrummy offices; Lerwick, London and Houston.Management of Windows Server 2000 domain.Management of "First Class" email server and clients.Management of SQL server, performing basic DBA tasks.Assisting in QA, testing and support of Kildrummy software products.Providing on-site support for Kildrummy products for both private and public sector clients.

    • The Scottish Government

      Jan 2006 - Nov 2007
      Systems Administrator

      Used Remote Assistance and Terminal Services to support customers.Investigated and resolved faults on Windows XP / Server 2000.Administered Active Directory and Exchange 2000Managed ArcServe backups on core Government servers.

    • General Register Office for Scotland

      Nov 2007 - Apr 2010
      IT Operations Team Lead

      Line manager for a team of eight IT professionals.Management of VMware VI3 environment.Management of CommVault v7.Management of EMC CX3-40 SAN.Management of EqualLogic SAN.Management of Brocade Fibre switches.Management of Mitel IP telephony system.Management and support of systems required to deliver Scotland's 2011 Census and registration of "vital events" (births, deaths, marriages).

    • Wood Group

      Apr 2010 - Feb 2014
      Enterprise Architect - Virtualisation

      Design, implementation and global ownership of Wood Group's private cloud.Primary data centres in Aberdeen, Houston and Perth (AUS).Global environment consisting of 150 VMware vSphere hosts and approximately 1800 VMs. Creation of assessment reports and three year road maps for virtualised estate.Investigation and testing of new technologies related to virtualisation.Solutions architect for Business Systems' projects.Current and past projects include:Investigation into DaaS offerings for 3D graphics capabilities using nVidia GRID and Cisco UCS.Cisco UCS B and C series installationService Catalogue re-design Isilon InstallationEmbotics vCommander PoCVMware Mirage PoCUpgrade of vSphere environment to 5.1Data centre migration of approximately 80TB of dataSAN replacement exercise (NetApp FAS 3160 to EMC VNX7500)Hyper-V 3.0 proof of concept CISCO UCS proof of concept vCenter Operations Management Suite proof of concept F5 ARX implementationVMTurbo PoC Show less

    • Plan b IT Professional Services

      Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
      Infrastructure Specialist
    • Dell Technologies

      Jun 2014 - now

      Supporting customers across finance, global enterprise & UK public sector, designing solutions to meet the demands of projects requiring large scale unstructured data storage. Supporting customers with their Big Data, AI, HPC and IOT projects. Part of the presales team, focused on providing solutions to customers across Scotland.

      • Advisory Systems Engineer - Unstructured Data Solutions

        Sept 2022 - now
      • Senior Systems Engineer - Unstructured Data Solutions

        May 2019 - Sept 2022
      • Senior Systems Engineer

        Jun 2014 - May 2019
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • EMC Proven Cloud Architect Expert

      EMC
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Jan 2024
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    • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Jun 2024
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