Alasdair Smith

Experience

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  Rotech

  Jun 2001 - Jun 2004

  IT Engineer

  Rotech Engineering is a research engineering company which specialises in the developments of innovative drilling tools for the Oil and Gas and Geothermal markets. Rotech Subsea is a provider of specialist subsea equipment based on a similar technology to that used in the Rotech Engineering hydraulic drilling motors. My duties with Rotech Engineering & Subsea involved:• Supporting the company IT Network and CFD and 3D CAD design software• Problem solving involving Cisco Routers, Linux webserver, all versions of Microsoft operating system and office including ME, Exchange 5.5, NT and 2000 Server, Veritas, Alchemy phone system manager, CFX and AutoCAD licensing server. • Computing and electronics support for testbed services used to test innovative hydraulic motors for drilling and subsea applications Show less

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  Operation Mobilization

  Jun 2004 - Jun 2005

  IT Engineer

  Operation Mobilisation (OM) is an international charity working in approximately 200 countries with 3,500 staff worldwide. The OM International Communications Team (ICT) is responsible for defining and meeting the technology needs of the overall organisation. My duties within ICT involved:• Providing daily support to the Carlisle office, 3 satellite offices and individual remote users operating internationally. • Working in a dynamic delivery focused team that serviced IT needs of a combined staff of approximately 100 people requiring an understanding customer requirements and providing innovative solutions to problems. • Working with Linux based server applications and in house developed Linux server software.• Understanding the need for structured systems and communicating this strategy clearly to users and IT professionals alike. Show less

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  EMIS

  Jun 2005 - Nov 2006

  Network Consultant

  Emis provide computer software services to NHS Primary Care Trusts throughout the UK and internationally. As a network consultant I was responsible for:• Upgrading, troubleshooting and problem solving at client premises on EMIS installed systems running in house developed software • Performing hardware upgrades and resolving hardware issues on a variety of workstations and server types• Creating and improving current procedures for installation and troubleshooting of hardware and software• Liaising with users and managers to determine the nature of problems, develop solutions and manage user expectations as to how and when issues will be resolved Show less

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  Harris CapRock Communications

  Nov 2006 - Sept 2012

  Global Support Engineer

  The clients that we support are primarily Maritime or Oil and Gas. Often the customers are in remote locations and communications is key to their business. We have to meet strict SLAs for escalation and the KPI are monitored by management. As a result clear records keeping and fault prioritisation is very important. I primarily focus on troubleshooting Cisco equipment to isolate root cause and apply a fix remotely.We are also directly customer facing and keep them informed and manage expectations throughtout faults Show less

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  SpeedCast

  Sept 2012 - Apr 2022

  OSS Infrastructure and Automation Engineer

  During the past ten years I have been a member of a team, often working remotely, that maintains and develops operational applications for a company that provides satellite communications to remote locations. At present I lead and support a group of five other engineers. My particular role has included the following projects: • NMS agnostic data migration to AWS Redshift for standardised reporting and portal access• ServiceNow Event Management and Email to Incident• VM Estate Infrastructure Expansion for Dataminer roll out across four continents• ServiceNow Event Management • NMS to CMDB integration• AWS integrated Portal Roll out Show less

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  SYNALOGiK Innovative Solutions Limited

  Apr 2022 - now

  Systems Engineering Manager

  Scout is a one-of-a-kind data aggregation platform capable of automating complex fraud and enhanced due diligence investigations across multiple datasets. I have led my team to:• lower the total cost of operations.• incident management and point of escalation. • successful DR testing.• roadmap planning and execution.