John Simmonds

John simmonds

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  • Timeline

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

    System Administrator

    Pack-IT Group
    Feb 2005 - Jan 2006

    Technical IT Service Desk Analyst

    Logica
    Apr 2006 - Aug 2007

    Computer Engineer

    NHS Wales
    Sept 2007 - Jan 2011

    Computer Officer - Linux & Real-time Systems

    University of the West of England
    Feb 2011 - Feb 2012

    System Administrator

    University of Oxford
    Current Company
    Jun 2022 - now

    Electro-Technical Officer Cadet

    Clyde Marine Training Ltd
  • About me

    Electro-Technical Cadet & Advanced Linux System Administrator

  • Education

    • Llandovery college

      1992 - 1997
      Secondary education

      Activities and Societies: Rock Climbing Computing Society This was a public boarding school where I was a full time boarder and left after gaining my GCSEs.

    • City of glasgow college

      2022 - 2025
      Hnd electro technical officer maritime studies

      MNTB/MCA-approved Course with Certificate of Competency and HND ETO

  • Experience

    • Pack-it group

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2004
      System administrator

      Started out programming a new bar-code stock control system and e-commerce interface for a warehouse using Linux server technology and MySQL with PHP for the back-end. Also involved development of Win32 based client programmed in Visual C++. After working on this project, I waspromoted to system administrator, maintaining and deploying several servers including Linux and Microsoft Servers. Day to day activities included providing IT Services & maintaining all servers as well as scheduled back-up routines. I deployed SuSE Linux Open Exchange, Outlook client/ Linux server environment and several other new services. Show less

    • Logica

      Feb 2005 - Jan 2006
      Technical it service desk analyst

      What can I say, I needed the money back then. I did enjoy the ITIL foundation based training and went on to provide IT Help Desk support for Britannia Airlines and Transport for London (TfL). I provided support on Windows NT through to Windows XP and Macintosh environments as well applications deployed via Citrix.

    • Nhs wales

      Apr 2006 - Aug 2007
      Computer engineer

      Working via an agency called Max20 working primarily with the Microsoft Windows based platform, networking and telecommunications.

    • University of the west of england

      Sept 2007 - Jan 2011
      Computer officer - linux & real-time systems

      Sole responsibility as the Linux System Administrator for the Department of Engineering, Design and Mathematics as well as the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology. I continually assisted my colleges in UNIX, Macintosh and Windows, providing specialist Linux expertise and general cross-platform IT service delivery. For instance I took responsibility for maintaining the Faculty wide storage system working in a heterogeneous environment as well as their remote access services. Was extensively involved with development of the service, having pioneered many new projects including a SAN based HA storage solution based on GlusterFS. I also implemented the first HA virtualisation environment using Xen. My users ranged from students, support staff and allot of direct support of academics. Show less

    • University of oxford

      Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
      System administrator

      Working in the Mathematical Institute supporting post-graduates, researchers, faculty staff and research. I work heavily with a wide range of application, services and platforms, the most frequent often being Linux and UNIX based systems.

    • Clyde marine training ltd

      Jun 2022 - now
      Electro-technical officer cadet
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