Graeme Sutherland

Experience

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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).

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  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

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  Plan b IT Professional Services

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2014

  Infrastructure Specialist
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  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