Dave Hatton

Current

• Consultant to O2 (Prepay Mobile Phone) at Hewlett-Packard
• Director at Starground Data Ltd (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Consultant at Vodafone
• Consultant to O2 (Prepay Mobile Phone) at Hewlett-Packard
• Consultant at ntl

• Consultant at BT Syntegra
• Consultant at Oxford University Press
• Consultant to Nokia UK at Hewlett-Packard
• Consultant at Madge.web Limited
• Consultant at NTL
• Consultant at Railtrack
• Consultant at Thames Water (SEMA Group)
• Consultant at Panasonic UK
• Consultant at AT&T Communications (UK) Ltd
• AIX Technical Consultant at IBM

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Education

• University of Greenwich

Recommended

2 people have recommended Dave

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Company

Dave Hatton’s Summary

Consultant for UNIX and Open Systems Management
20 years experience

Dave Hatton’s Specialties:

Solaris ~ HP-UX ~ AIX ~ Linux ~ Oracle DBA
System Management
Technical Project Management
Technical Design and Architecture

Dave Hatton’s Experience

• Consultant to O2 (Prepay Mobile Phone)

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  RHEL and Oracle 10g upgrade of a TB scale mobile phone platform
  Platforms include RHEL, Oracle 10g, HP servers and EVA SAN

• Director

  Starground Data Ltd (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 1994 — Present (15 years 5 months)

  My UNIX and Open source consulting company,

• Consultant

  Vodafone

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)

  Consulting on tools and processes for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) monitoring.
  Platforms include HP-UX, Solaris, RHEL

• Consultant to O2 (Prepay Mobile Phone)

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Various projects for O2s prepay mobile phone platform
  Infrastructure capacity uplift from 8M to 20M subscribers
  Upgrade SAN environment
  Construction of representative test lab
  Configuration management system
  Platforms include RHEL, Oracle RAC, HP servers and SAN

• Consultant

  ntl

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ntli; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

  Supplying systems management and support services to this large ISP

• Consultant

  BT Syntegra

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2004 — July 2004 (4 months)

  Design, Capacity Planning and Implementation of Oracle 9i and Oracle 9i RAC on Solaris 9 systems to support the development and testing effort for the NHS project.

• Consultant

  Oxford University Press

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2003 — March 2004 (11 months)

  Planning, sizing and implementation of a major software upgrade for the Solaris and Oracle systems supporting the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and its on-line version.

• Consultant to Nokia UK

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2001 — April 2003 (2 years)

  Managing the customers’ servers which supported this telecoms research & development site on behalf of HP.
  Server rationalisation and relocation project.

• Consultant

  Madge.web Limited

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Services industry)

  December 2000 — May 2001 (6 months)

  Design & implementation of a worldwide system-monitoring platform for this web hosting company.

• Consultant

  NTL

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2000 — December 2000 (7 months)

  Design & installation of servers supporting a development of Oracle Financials in a 1000 user environment

• Consultant

  Railtrack

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  July 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 11 months)

  Technical project management.
  Technical design authority for UNIX & open systems projects.
  Manager of Open Systems and Database Group.

• Consultant

  Thames Water (SEMA Group)

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Utilities industry)

  January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)

  Representing this outsourcing company on their customer’s site.
  Installation of development, test and production systems to support a new Peoplesoft HR implementation for 300 users.

• Consultant

  Panasonic UK

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  Management of the development, test and production environments supporting the Accounting and Data warehouse systems for this manufacturer.

• Consultant

  AT&T Communications (UK) Ltd

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 4 months)

  Set up and ongoing support of development, test and production environments for a ‘Greenfield’ Telco datacentre.

• AIX Technical Consultant

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1991 — September 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Dave Hatton’s Education

• University of Greenwich

  1984 — 1989

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• My Company

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•    UNIX United Professionals

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