
Virtualisation Engineer at Barclays Capital
London, United Kingdom

Virtualisation Engineer at Barclays Capital
London, United Kingdom
Unix systems expertise. Engineering and development while maintaining a close eye on the business and processes which surround the server infrastructure
Solaris, RedHat & ESX operating system expertise. C programming, shell scripting, performance analysis, problem solving, systems architecture and design
(Public Company; BARC; Investment Banking industry)
March 1996 — Present (13 years 9 months)
Providing solutions, standards and consultancy for the firm. Leveraging best practises and over 20 years of experience to ensure that the corporate IT infrastructure operates at its most efficient level.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1995 — March 1996 (1 year 2 months)
Providing consultancy and training for HP Openmail and Unix Administration to clients of the Uniplex sofwtare portfolio.
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
November 1989 — March 1994 (4 years 5 months)
Unix systems administration, engineering and programming using Primos, HP-UX, AIX and AT&T System V. Languages used included SPL, Shell, C and AWK
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1984 — November 1989 (5 years )
System administration on Primos and AT&T System V based mid-frame servers. Programming using PRIME INFORMATION (PICK), CPL and SPL.
Designed and wrote a system performance graphing system which was published to all development staff to provide performance trending across all key system metrics.
Physics, Mathamatics, Computer Science 1982 — 1984
1977 — 1982
Golf, Fitness, Nutrition, Cycling, Music
Bedfordshire Golf Club, vmworld
RedHat Certified Engineer
Veritas certified Engineer