Experience

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  Teksys is now part of dimension data

  Mar 1998 - Dec 1998

  Field service engineer

  Provided 2nd & 3rd line support to numerous clients, either onsite or as a field engineer.

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  British gas

  Jan 1999 - Dec 1999

  Technical support

  Provided 2nd line support to British Gas HQ.Participated in NT Client Rollout.Client builds, hardware upgrades etc.

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  Mortgage trust ltd

  Jan 2000 - Apr 2004

  Support analyst

  Designed and Implemented WebSweeper cluster.Supported NT Domain.Supported Exchange 5.5Provided 1st, 2nd & 3rd LIne Support to the business.Participated in On-Call rota.

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  Bp

  Apr 2004 - Dec 2014

  Designed and built BP's Global Test Facility from the ground up. This is a fully independent environment more akin to a data centre at a medium sized organisation.Built and administer:-CheckPoint Firewall-VMware vSphere farm-ISA Servers-Terminal ServersDesigned power and cooling requirements for the environment, rack designs, cabling diagrams and administration model. Managed BP's Global Windows Server Patch Release process.-Design the releases.-Drafted and agreed schedules with senior management-Managed global change control-Coordinated global release teams to ensure delivery took place within time frames agreed. Assessed and approved HP and Dell server hardware for use in BP's environment.Involved working with technical teams to ensure server builds were stable on new platforms and seeking signoff.

  • Global Test Lab Manager

    Apr 2004 - Dec 2014

  • Windows Server Release Manager

    Jun 2009 - Apr 2011

  • Windows Server Hardware Standards Manager

    Apr 2004 - Apr 2011
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  Hewlett packard enterprise

  Jan 2012 - Mar 2017

  In addition to the Windows Server TDA role, as Chief Engineer on the BP Account I am responsible for overseeing Architectural ownership of the Converged Infrastructure platform across multiple disciplines including Host Hypervisors, guest Operating Systems, physical host hardware, networks & storage.The role also involves regular steering group sessions with both senior HP Architects & client Design Authorities to roadmap the evolution of the clients private cloud Converged Infrastructure offering as well a looking beyond to the next iteration of the clients Private Cloud solution. Show less Design and document Windows Server builds for use in BP's infrastructure.Manage ongoing development and improvement of server platforms via release and upgrade processes.Design and Document Server patch and upgrade deployments.Participate in working groups that oversee platform futures, release processes & technical changes.Liaise with BP stakeholders to ensure platforms in design meet BP's diverse requirements.Work with projects to support, & customise documents and procedures to suit needs. Show less

  • Chief Engineer

    Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Windows Server Architect - BP Account

    Apr 2011 - Oct 2015

  • Technical Design Authority

    Jan 2012 - Jul 2015
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  Bp

  May 2017 - now

  Service Owner for On-Prem Compute.Responsible for Wintel, Unix & Virtualisation technology and standards for bp's On-Prem compute capability.

  • Staff Enterprise Technology Engineer

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Staff Platform Engineer

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Platform Engineering Lead

    May 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Service Delivery Manager

    May 2017 - May 2020