Graham Massey

Graham Massey

Assistant Operations Manager

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  • About me

    2nd / 3rd Line Support, Operations and Observability Engineer

  • Education

    • University of Chester

      2012 - 2013
      PGCE Teaching Good with elements of Outstanding

      2012 - 2013: PGCE Primary, Qualified Teacher Status - University of Chester“Good with elements of Outstanding”

    • University of Sunderland

      2006 - 2009
      Bachelor's degree History with Business Management 2:1

      2006 - 2009: BA History with Business Management (2:1) - University of Sunderland

  • Experience

    • Jodrell Bank

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
      Assistant Operations Manager

      ● Managed public and educational group bookings.● Organised corporate events for international companies such as Kverneland Agricultural Group, Royal London Insurance, and smaller private events. Tailored events infrastructure to meet client needs. Managed staffing and catering, liaising with client to provide a first-class service. ● Raised requisition orders, purchase orders and managed ordering and invoicing systems. Certified training on use of Oracle Financials and iProc. ● Managed weekly and monthly banking procedure.● Operated as part of front of house team, providing outstanding customer service in a retail and visitor environment. ● Responsible for admin tasks, banking procedures and delivering presentations to large audiences. Show less

    • The Fallibroome Trust

      Sept 2014 - Aug 2023

      ● 2021-23: Undertook Leadership Matters: Aspiring Senior Leaders and National Professional Qualification: Senior Leadership qualifications, developing 7 key leadership behaviours. Self-study; group workshops; Performance Coaching sessions and evaluating performance. ● Extensive experience as subject leader: Managing and delivering new whole school projects; leading formal large group training and informal mentoring of staff. Continuously being aware of latest developments and best practice in subject area; and working closely with outside organisations and other school colleagues in CPD and research opportunities. ● Involvement in performance management of staff against KPIs, delivering feedback to achieve best practice. Continual monitoring of data gathered and assessing next steps based on evidence.● Analysis of trends in academic performance data; managing and monitoring safeguarding records and children’s personal information in line with GDPR. Show less

      • English Subject Leader

        Sept 2016 - Aug 2023
      • Teacher

        Sept 2014 - Aug 2023
    • Upton Priory

      Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
      School Governor

      School Governor – Upton Priory Primary School2019 – 2023● Elected staff governor- helping school to run efficiently and effectively, supporting, and challenging the headteacher and helping to direct school vision and ethos.● Evaluating school strategy, assessing data and helping in creation of School Development Plan. ● Presenting information to school board on area of subject expertise and current projects.

    • BBC

      Aug 2023 - Jun 2024
      Operations Engineer

      My role as an Operations Engineer in the Digital 24/7 Operations team is mainly providing 2nd / 3rd line operational support for Windows and Linux based platforms that exist on virtual, cloud and physical hardware infrastructure, as well as supporting systems that are used to produce, publish and serve content for all BBC online products across mobile, tablet, desktop, and IPTV.In addition to this, a large part of my role is incident management; communicating with internal staff, senior stakeholders and 3rd parties across the organisation, keeping them informed across the incident lifecycle whilst performing technical triage, diagnosis and resolution of incidents.● Part of a remote 24/7 operations team to triage, resolve and escalate incidents as they occur across the BBC online estate in a 2nd / 3rd line support capacity. ● Ticket logging in line with best practices, working to ITIL methodologies to ensure services are maintained effectively and SLAs are met.● Using fault finding and analytical skills to apply fixes with mostly proprietary BBC component stacks, hosted across AWS, GCP, and on-prem infrastructure. ● Utilising proactive triage and prioritisation to handle multiple critical incidents at once, and effectively communicating and delegating to a wider team when required.● Utilisation of a variety of monitoring tools to respond to alarms, providing support for a variety of internal systems● Undertaking complex stakeholder management throughout the incident lifecycle. ● Meeting with third parties and product teams to discuss and resolve on-going incidents, problems and to implement continuous improvement strategies.● Self-development including formal BBC training and using the internal skills matrix within Confluence to learn and maintain technical skills. Show less

    • Bet365

      Jun 2024 - now
      Junior Observability Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C01

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Sept 2023
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    • Leadership Matters: Aspiring Senior Leadership Programme

      Leadership Matters
      Mar 2021
    • Full Stack Observability Practitioner Exam

      New Relic
      Aug 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • New Relic Observability Practitioner Badge

      New Relic
      Jul 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • New Relic Observability Foundations Badge

      New Relic
      Jun 2024
      View certificate certificate
  • Volunteer Experience

    • School Governor

      Issued by School Governor – Upton Priory Primary School on Jan 2019
      School Governor – Upton Priory Primary SchoolAssociated with Graham Massey