David Irvine

David Irvine

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  • About me

    Storage Specialist at Atos

  • Education

    • Garrion Academy

      1977 - 1982
  • Experience

    • Scottish Homes

      Jan 1986 - Jan 1988
      Technical Support
    • Abbey

      May 1995 - Jul 2007
      Technical Analyst

      Worked in Technical Services & Support as part of a team based in Glasgow. Team responsible for infrastructure provision. Key tasks to design, develop and manage the infrastructure required to support the company’s critical data and systems.In later years, I was responsible for the definition and guiding principles in the storage environment and managed the implementation of a SAN infrastructure and a NAS storage solution based on Network Appliance filers. This knowledge was used by the bank in a larger implementation using EMC products.Expected was a clear understanding of the hardware and software components required to support many infrastructures including: NT4, Windows Server 2000 / 2003. In-depth knowledge of WINS, DNS, DHCP, DFS and MS Exchange.Other Projects included:- Involved in project to implement Microsoft Exchange as primary e-mail corporate messaging solution.- Implementation of Enterprise-wide Fax Server solution.- Design and implementation of a corporate backup solution for distributed environment using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).- Primary contact for project to deliver an Enterprise Management solution using CA Unicenter Framework. Show less

    • MUFG

      Dec 2007 - Apr 2008
      Storage Administrator

      Administration, configuration and support of two site active-active storage architecture.- EMC Celerra NAS gateway with Celerra Replicator.- Clariion Arrays with Navisphere / Mirrorview / iSCSI.- Hosted storage for VMware ESX.- Documentation creation for support teams including design, configuration, procedures and best practices.

    • Capita Life & Pensions

      Apr 2008 - Nov 2009
      Storage Specialist

      Worked as a Storage Specialist in a busy financial environment.Implementation, configuration and support of EMC Celerra (NS80), configuration and support of clustered NetApp filers, taking care of all administration / Snapshot and SnapMirror functions, quota and share management (Data Management / Permissions). Remit also included Capacity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning

    • Glasgow City Council

      Dec 2009 - Apr 2010
      Migration Specialist

      Specialising in domain consolidation from NT legacy domain to Active Directory domain.- User migration to AD- Data migration to NAS- Consolidation of application servers to VMware.- Analysis of environment / dependencies / workload / application audits.Use made of ADMT / VBScript / PlateSpin / Active Directory Toolsets / Excel functions

    • Atos

      Oct 2010 - now
      Storage Specialist

      Versatile storage specialist working on many projects including: Design, Implementation and Configuration of NetApp (7-Mode, Clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT)) / Multi-Site / Implementation and Build of EMC VNX / Networker / Data Domain. Hosting activities on VMAX. SAN Configuration and Zoning on Brocade DCX. Data Hosting/Consolidation/Migration. Host Clients including VMware, Exchange, AIX, RedHat, Wintel.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Specialist - Systems Administrator, VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Solutions Version 2.0

      Dell EMC
      Dec 2017
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    • Storage Administrator, NetWorker Specialist Version 6.0 (EMCSA)

      Dell EMC
      Oct 2016
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    • Storage Administrator, VNX Solutions Specialist Version 8.0 (EMCSA)

      Dell EMC
      Oct 2016
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    • NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP

      NetApp
      Mar 2024
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