Branch : IT Outsourcing Company
Company/Institution : STERIA France Department: Shared Service Center Storage
Contract type : Freelance Contractor Renewals (every 3 months)
Assignment : Storage Specialist Sophia Antipolis Cote D Azure France
Duration : June 2011 November 2012
Title : SAN Storage and Virtualization Specialist
Technical Engineering and Management at Steria’s Shared Service center for Sterias portfolio pool of business Clients working as a SAN storage virtualization Specialist with
Technical emphasis to providing technical SAN engineering Administration and solutions in a large and varied enterprise environment for many diverse clients and projects.
DMX4 symcli expert storage integration and management provisioning Luns and storage and
BCVs and replication setups including migrations, operational work adding and removing storage in the enterprise.
Clariion management integrations and operational work, to expert level
VMAX Storage provisioning and SRDF replication and setup
VNX Management expert level including Recover point setup for replication
Vplex provisioning host and LUN integration and new client setup
IPSTOR and ESX management of Storage
Management of IBM storage arrays Extra Duties for on call for all of the Storage Environment
Cisco Zoning and switch management setup of new clients management of existing infra.
Cisco fabric and device manager and brocade switch administration
New service take on and integration for new clients unisphere and navisphere and recoverpoint
Daily production management Stars Ticket requests enterprise work
Storage array moves and relocations
Recent take on of Netapp and HDS storage
Management of netapp Aggregates, qtrees, shares, vifs, thin provisioning, and provisioning
My time is booked by capacity management on timed projects for delivery for all of Sterias
Portfolio of customers.
Planning and execution of Change requests and break fix problem resolution.
My Clients Freelance Contractor Prestige Include :
Lichtenstein Landes Bank Zurich, ALSTOM Schweiz, UBS Monaco WMI, UBS WMI Zurich Switzerland,
ZURICH Financial services Zurich, IBM France HQ, BP Central London and Docklands, Accenture & British GAS UK, o2 Munich Germany, T-systems Muenster Germany, EDS Germany, STERIA France, National Westminster Bank UK
Branch : Systems Engineer: Required for Concept work and extra SLA work not met by the outsourced project.
Company/Institution : LLB & Swisspartners Zurich Outsourced iTRUST
Contract type : LichtensteinLandesbank
Assignment : Specialist
Duration : (short term backfill to fulfill extra SLA tasks fixed short term contract over Christmas period)
Title : Senior Systems Engineer Wintel Engineering
December 2010 & January 2011
Senior Systems Engineer Wintel Engineering
Design a Maintenance Window Concept for entire site infrastructure (Patching, firmware, Software matrix updates).
Design a notebook integration concept for VMware VDI and improve & secure laptop security policy lock USB ports
Implemented Active Directory Clean Up best practice
Breaks fix 3rd Level Microsoft Environment Problems
Integrate pimphony VOIP desktop phone into VMware sessions & Finapps
Integration of an IP management tool, Vital QIP
Put in place Change Management Processes which had not previously existed
Review of Backups and cleanup of monitoring alarms.
Improve the current patching concept and processes.
Documentation to a high level
New product evaluation – Purchases (recommendations). IP man QIP.
TLS encryption certificates for mail system LLB Zurich & Lichtenstein
VMware Site Recovery Manager solution and proposals ESX fallback DR
Presentations Support of VDI infrastructure via support calls.
Documentation Produced & Work Completed ahead of schedule.
The work schedule of 3 months completed in advance.
New product evaluation – Purchases (recommendations). IP man QIP.
TLS encryption certificates for mail system LLB Zurich & Lichtenstein
VMware Site Recovery Manager solution and proposals ESX fallback DR
Presentations Support of VDI infrastructure via support calls.
Documentation Produced & Work Completed ahead of schedule.
The work schedule of 3 months completed in advance.
Branch : Transport Turbine and Power Company
Company/Institution : ALSTOM (Switzerland) Ltd.
Contract type : Contractor
Assignment : Wintel Engineering and Project Management
Duration : October 2007 – October 2010
Title : Senior Project Systems Engineer
European Data Centre consolidation program similar to my assignment duties previously at Zurich
Financial Services Zurich and UBS Zurich and UBS Monaco. Supported ALSTOM Business
Transport, Power and Turbine Businesses.
Third Level Support specialist and project support Microsoft systems Engineer (senior) and on-call Duties.
Technologies: HP Blade c/7000 Enclosures and Proliant and IBM e-series
Windows 2000 Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 R2.
VMware ESX Server
Citrix Management Applications and HA and DR.
Production and Project support in Engineering Capacity.
Tasks :
Migration of server infrastructure from all over Europe to Switzerland
Blade and Vmware solution adopted on rapid project delivery to new standards, HP family hardware and operating system on Windows 2003 and also extensive SAN integration.
Support of Citrix applications.
Delivery of Server Infrastructure Installation Configuration and AD integration.
Planning and Delivery of new concepts, design and implementation work.
Extensive Change Management Planning for Large Infrastructure Changes
Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Domain Controller Upgrade Programs
Regular virtualization of servers to save costs of physical hardware where possible and server decommissioning. Delivery of new Infrastructure and Wintel estate management and in addition daily business. Maintenance Weekend SW Updates firmware and patching
Matrix implémentation.
Management of HP service packs and baseline software and management.
3rd Level Systems engineering and Administration of Windows 2000 and Windows 2008R2
Deployment and configuration and enterprise management of the OS.
3rd Level break fix remedy call handling
San Intergration Expert of Virtual Connect Configuration and Intergration
Extensive Project and Business Support and Management Meeting
Branch : Banking
Company/Institution : UBS Wealth Management International Zürich
Contract type: Contractor
Assignment: Wintel TSG
Duration : Feb 2007 Contract extended until October 2007
Title : Wintel TSG Senior Wintel Engineer
Produced a corporate standard build revision with all the relevant software and patches per hardware platform Dl300-(G1, G2, and G3).
MOM Server management monitoring Alarm point & Net-cool.
Maintenance weekend work and ON-Call duties & Testing of DR
Management and processing of AD and Samurai internal banking systems and bespoke apps. Configuration and setup of Control-M and other bank applications.
Moved to UBS Monaco: Sent on-site to Grande Bretagne in Monaco
Pilot Rollout W-XP program EUPI Server Migration W2KA W2003 WS.
Staged new servers and all infrastructure and services and migrated
DHCP, WINS, Home Directories, User Profiles, Group shares, Printers, Net-backup, and
File and print servers & Large corporate data moves.
Local Server security policy and server hardening.
HP Servers and IBM server specialist including all infrastructure management a successful pilot was completed successfully and documented the model was then replicated for all other satellite sites by the local support.
Provided Site PC support Functions for raised tickets.
Branch : Zürich Financial Services Unterrohrstrasse 5, 8952 Schlieren Zürich CH
Company/Institution : Insurance
Contract type : Freelance Contractor Senior Systems Engineer
Assignment : E-Server management and Wintel enterprise engineering & Project Migration.
Duration : 27 August 2005 – January 2007
Title : European Infrastructure Engineer Technical Projects
European Wide Data Centre Consolidation program from the rest of Europe to Switzerland Data Center.
Migration of HP and Other Hardware to IBM Brick and Blade Servers San Setup
Performed P2P and P2V migrations to blade Enclosures additionally provided project support and was country manager for UK and Germany Migration responsibilities.
I worked as a 3rd Level Enterprise Engineer specifically in Microsoft Engineering as a Data Center Engineering IBM Blade E-series and HP Proliant and VMware Management. SAN intergration
Branch: British Petroleum 108 Pinners Hall Moorgate Central London EC2N 1ER
Company/Institution: BP London
Contract type: Freelance Consultant for BP Smart centre Program
Assignment: BP Global (Project OPSWARE-ATE asset tracking)
Duration: 01 March 05 – 26 July 05
Title: Global Project Infrastructure Engineer
The setup and deployment and support of infrastructure to facilitate global asset tracking discovery for OPSware-ATE and deployment of a discovery detection capability within 4 data centers Naperville, Tulsa, Houston, European data center, and rest of the world regions (Global).
Staged deployment of asset tracking agents to entire BP infrastructure including all industry recognized multiplatform Hardware and Software platforms in the BP corporate estate and 85000 desktop clients incorporating various methods of delivery including passport explorer.
A great deal of corporate wide communication and authored change control to facilitate project advancement as a technical hands on project engineer which also required building strategic relationships with BP corporate operating units, owners & stake holders. BP was able to accurately cost the Oracle License cost burden with this tool based on my reporting which was a high level issue.
Branch: Accenture
Company/Institution: Accenture (UK headquarters)
Contract type: Freelance Consultant
Assignment: Accenture Clients British Gas Global, Banking clients, plus assignment.
Duration: April 2004-January 2005
Title: Wintel Enterprise Management and Project Engineering.
Outsourcing Job for various customers, British gas, banks, rail & transport.
Pre-timed & Pre-costed special project secondments, run deal, Div. project work.
Documentation server builds patch revision level matrix deployment and implementation of standards.
Scripting for global replication of data for video management video conf.
Capacity planning and 2nd and 3rd Level break-fix for Large Wintel Environments.
Express and server take on Advanced monitoring configuration.
Server Patching with Shavlik for entire Managed Wintel estate
Application Support SAN intergration
Branch: IBM La Gaude NICE South of France (IBM France Headquarters)
Company/Institution: IBM Global Services Consultant (EMEA) (clients Aviation and Banking)
Contract type: Contractor Freelance
Assignment: Production & Enterprise Management for Honeywell & Partners EMEA
Duration: Feb 2003 – March 2004
Title: Wintel Enterprise Production Engineer (Ramp-up, Transition, Migration)
Windows estate management Windows 2000, Windows 2003, IBM Blade centre 2nd and 3rd
Level support and projects.
Implementing IBM standards backup, AV, security policy Tivoli Monitoring
Administration of Citrix and NT 4.0/2000, XP, IIS, NAV 2nd & 3rd Level Infrastructure
Support
Tivoli monitoring and advanced configuration.
Documentation Client Project Support
Branch : Telecommunications
Company/Institution: o2 Germany Gmbh & Co OHG
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 23-25 80992 Munich, Germany
Systems Engineer – Enterprise Management systems
Consultant
Title : Oct. 2002 – Feb. 2003
Enterprise management of 129 o2 SHOPS and Partners throughout Germany
Contract Type: Enterprise production specialist
Duration : Wintel platform and Oracle and Apps 3rd Level support o2 Shops.
Duties : Administration of multi-platform systems and in house applications
Infrastructure & application support & critical systems Failure analysis
Writing DCL and SQL scripting within infrastructure projects
Management of inventory DB information and inventory load distribution.
Authoring of Change controls and change management
SW release / deployment & execution.
Management of Wintel infrastructure and builds and infrastructure.
Management reporting statistics MS access and formatting report to Excel i-SQL reports Writing tools sales Statistics excel formatting and delivery
Data Archiving and historical Data management.
Database Management and performance analysis rebuilds.
Migration testing Out of hours working remote support & Documentation.
Branch : Telecommunications
Company/Institution : T-SYSTEMS Germany
WölbeckerStr.168, 48153 Munster – NRW, Germany
Title : Production and enterprise engineer
Contract Type: Consultant Technical engineer with project delivery responsibilities
Duration: May 2001 – September 2002
Duties : Production VMS systems Manager Administration Oracle VMSRDB DBs.
Large Enterprise management open VMS and Solaris & NT platforms
Supporting T-mobile infrastructure databases and applications and shops
Batch Rating and Billing + Call records database management
Mobile Net Activation module management on air and satellite HLRs.
Change meetings & conferencing and change management control planning
Data work flow on enterprise network management within project plan.
TIVOLI call handling 2/3rd level support Calls/tickets.
Siebel 7 & Administration of multi-platform in house.
Management meetings Status production Conferencing and reporting.
Remote HLR Satellite management and Documentation of the environment.
Implementation of new systems and infrastructure installations and configuration and change management planning.
Branch : Outsourcing Computing Compaq global Account Co
Company/Institution : EDS Electronic Data Systems (Global Compaq)
143b Rosenheimer Strasse
Munich, Germany / Relocated later to Riem Contract
Title : VMS and RDB Specialist Systems infrastructure Engineer supporting (EMEA)
Contract Type: Consultant.
Duration: October 1997 until May 2001
Duties : 3RD Level support Engineer Open VMS & Oracle V 7 DB management: SEPS2000 &
Management of Compaq Customer Services & administration portfolio suite of systems.
Administration and implementation of Microsoft Engineering and Client Server technology delivery and support and furthermore Oracle server Database management and VMS legacy support and management.
Company/Institution : National Westminster Bank
37 Broad Street, Bristol, Avon, BS99 7NQ, England
Title : Systems Analyst
Contract Type : Contract Consultant Team Leader
Duration : 24-Oct-1995 – September 1997
Duties : Support to 1600 NT file server systems and VAX clusters in a mixed legacy Wintel client server enterprise environment.
Administration of applications and bank transaction processing and batch work, including operations tasks and extensive platform support and shift work including shift leader duties on a team of seven persons.
Extensive in-house application support and processing.
Company/Institution: Insurance / Banking
National Westminster Insurance Services
Aztec West Industrial Estate, Cribs Causeway, Bristol
Title : Systems support Officer and Team Leader
Contract Type: Permanent
Duration: October 1990 – August 1994
Duties : VMS and Wintel Systems
Supported 700 Corporate Users
VMS + Wintel systems management Oracle Database Systems Admin
Shift-Leader Responsibilities shift pattern.
Managed and optimized Batch work, provided 2nd and 3rd Level support (Life Insurance, Commercial system, Personal Insurance, Home protector loans, Motor system (Bull) running Unix)
NT workstation Client Roll Out and server upgrades in a Client Server enterprise environment.
Company/Institution: Private Medical
Title : Frenchay Healthcare Trust Authority
Contract Type: Permanent
Duration: August 1989 – September 1990
Duties : VMS Systems Manager
Provided Services in an Operations Department and maintained DEC VAX Clusters and Hospital systems and hosted and managed Patient Data.
Maintained the VMS platform provided operational support and maintenance and planned and executed software upgrades and installations and third level break fix and application support including recoveries and upgrades.
Upgraded the entire PC rollout HP VECTRA PCs on the hospital Campus.
Company/Institution: Digital Equipment Corporation
Title : Computer services Officer Information Systems department
Contract Type: Permanent
Duration: July 1988 – July 1989
Duties : Trained as a VMS systems Operator and Systems Manager became advanced in DCL programming and VMS operational support in a department that supported Software Application Services, DEC products, Allin1& Logistics.
Education :
GCSE Passes in : Business studies, Mathematics, English literature & English-language
Marlwood School : German Language French Language South West Credit Chemistry & Biology
Alveston England,UK : Home Economics History, Communication and design
Official Microsoft Certification MICROSOFT ID 1803865 :
MICROSOFT ID 1803865 Core technologies expert achieved in 2000
NT 4.0 Workstation and Novell
NT 4.0 implementing and supporting NT server
NT 4.0 Supporting windows NT in the enterprise ( Inc ‘Novell Net-ware’)
Networking Essentials
MCSE
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Administration
Branches:
Banking (Private, Investment Banking, Wealth Management and Retail) Insurance, Telco, Blue Chip
Energy and Transport IT Outsourced Projects Freelance Consulting.
Suitable for : Technical role Infrastructure Specialist, Storage and Virtualization Enterprise
Core Skills:
SAN Storage Specialist and Virtualization Expert
EMC DMX4 VMAX VPLEX CISCO BROCADE VNX CLARIION CISCO FABRICS
ESX and VMware Administration
Wintel Senior Systems Engineer Infrastructure Specialist.
Microsoft Systems Engineering NT4, W2000, W2003, W2008R2
Specialist in Large Consolidation and Migration projects for Data Centers.
Infrastructure Specialist Project based work.
Specialist VMware ESX and Blade Technology Integration
HP Blade systems Expert C7000 Virtual Connect Expert Blade Management Enterprise
Enterprise Consolidation and virtualization P2V V2P P2P.
3rd Level engineering break fix Enterprise Management.
Change Management (ITIL) full cycle.
Infrastructure Design and Disaster Recovery planning and implementation.
Monitoring and reporting configuration alarms & tools.
Cluster Management and High Availability systems.
Technical Documentation of Environments to high standard.
Hardware installation in Data Centers and Data center management
Support of Bank Applications and Citrix Management
Former VMS systems Manager and Open VMS DCL specialist.
Training Courses VAX/VMS
- VMS systems management
- VAX concepts
- VAX programming languages
- VMS DCL I+II
- Logic/hardware
- Cluster Manager
- Programming languages,
- VMS system Installation
- Volume Management
- Managing Dec Scheduler / Compaq UC4 scheduler.
ORACLE
- Total Oracle RDB Administration 1+2+3
(Oracle – Reading, London)
- SQL programming
- Building SQL queries Compaq CBT
- Oracle Enterprise
EMC Official Training
- SAN Administration
- Clariion
- DMX4, VNX, VMAX
MICROSOFT
- Windows 2000, 2003, Windows 2008 R2
- Enterprise Integration Expert Compaq
- Client server technology
- SQL server
- Security and Firewall management and planning
- Server/Workstation 4.x Administration
- ODBC configuration management Compaq
- MS TCP/IP CBT
- IIS 4.x + Proxy server
- Windows 95/98, Windows XP/2000 server installation and management
- DNS &WINS Configuration
- Directory services management
- Networking. Basics Compaq
- FrontPage CBT
- MS-SQL server + PL/SQL
- MS-SMS 2.0
UNIX
- SUSE LINUX 8.0 Administration.
- SUN Systems Administration I + II Sybase
- SUNPLEX Manager suite SUN
- HP-UX - operator
Linux
- Linux Systems engineer Compaq CBT
Adhoc
- OPAL (Online prepaid phone card project)
- GENESYS and CTI workshop training
- VMware vSphere Fundamentals
- VMware ESXi: Administration
- VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Fundamentals
- VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4.0 Fundamentals
- VMware vCenter Chargeback Fundamentals
- VMware vCenter AppSpeed Fundamentals
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.1 Fundamentals
ITIL (Baden Switzerland)
Official Formation ITIL v3 Course
Hardware:
-EMC Storage Arrays Symmetrix
-IBM storage Arrays
-HP proliant Servers
-NETAPP
-Digital: VAX Alpha RISC
-11/785, 6410’s,6510,6530, MicroVAX II, Digital RAID Array
-CRAY T-mobile/T-systems
-SUN:Sun3/{280,260,160,140,80,75,60}, SPARCstation {1,1+, 4,5,10,20},
-Sun Enterprise: V880, 3000, 3500, 4500, 6500, 10000(StarFire)
-Other File servers Sequent, Auspex (NS5000), Netapp File Server
-Siemens MX500 und MX300
-Compaq Proliant (1850R, 6500, 5500,DL360, DL380,DL385)
-Routers Cisco Router 1003 to12000 GSR
-Switches Cisco and Brocade
-Hubs – 3com, Cisco
-Qlogic & Broadcom SAN and NIC
-IBM e-server range bricks and blades.
-HP Proliant Family to G6 and c7000 Blade Enclosures
-Dialup routers Cisco, Shiva, Ascend, PC ISDN cards
-EMC DMX VMAX CLARIION IBM ARRAYS NETAPP
-Load balancers ES from Nortel/Bay, BigIP (F5), Server iron (Foundry)
-Printers Apple LaserWriter’s, HP DeskJet’s, Matrix printers
-PC IBM PC's and compatibles..
-Firewall: NOKIA, PIX from Cisco, Watchguard
-IBM e-server series Bricks and blades
Server/Client Applications : Apache, IIS, DNS, Netscape, HTTP/HTTPS, Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, SSH, MS-MSG, Lotus notes,TIVOLI, Remedy ARS, PC-Anywhere, iSQL, RADMIN, PC-DUO. PL/SQL, RADMIN, TOAD,Remotely anywhere, Remote PC. Robocopy. Shavlik, Achronis, Altiris, DFS, NAS filers
Programming languages : SQL, PL/SQL, Cobol, open VMS-DCL, NT Batch Scripting / secondary skill C++ HTML.
Monitoring : Tivoli, BMC Patrol, MOM, NetIQ Hobbit ECC console
VPN : Cisco Router, PIX von Cisco, Checkpoint (IPSec, FWZ1, DES, 3-DES) Anti Virus scanners, Norton, Trend Micro, McAfee, RSA Secure ID token / SMS password 2x Challenge Authentication
Office Software : MS Office, MS Project, Outlook, MS Back Office suite, MS Access, Lotus SmartSuite, Publisher, Island Draw, Visio, MS Access. FrontPage. Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel.STARS
Personal Development :
Personal Excellence Program
Time Management (TMI)
DEC (digital) professional Customer awareness
Supervisory skills
Management and team skills
Communication and telephone skills (cats in house NATWEST-Bank)
Partnership in Performance
Total project management COMPAQ
Project Manager Professional PMP.
Prince Project management mythologies self paced
Microsoft Project
Languages:
Fluent English,
Fluent German,
Fluent Swiss German
Basic French