James Jeffrey

Past

• Hosting Consultant at Environment Agency
• Director at Heslington Networks Ltd
• Technical Lead at ioko

• Senior Hosting Engineer at Technophobia
• Network Engineer at Objectronix
• IT Technician at Allerton High School

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Industry

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James Jeffrey’s Summary

Engineer, Consultant and Technical Lead with proven experience in a wide variety of web hosting technologies from the database to the network border.

I have the ability to implement, design, document and communicate practical solutions to complex problems as a team member, team leader, or on my own.

James Jeffrey’s Specialties:

Redhat Linux, Weblogic, J2EE Systems Integration, Tomcat, Zeus, MySQL, Oracle, Python, Kontiki, Quova Geo-IP, Apache, Solaris, Python, Bash, Java, Cisco CSS, Netscaler

James Jeffrey’s Experience

• Hosting Consultant

  Environment Agency

  (Government Agency; Environmental Services industry)

  October 2008 — August 2010 (1 year 11 months)

  I was part of a team working to improve the agency's hosting infrastructure. My task is to update, improve and where necessary redesign or replace the web and application tiers. The main technologies I'm working with are Weblogic, Apache and Tomcat.
  
  In addition I worked as part of the security team to assess and improve the security of the agency's web applications and systems.
  
  I also provide 3rd line support to other teams as required.

• Director

  Heslington Networks Ltd

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — August 2010 (2 years 1 month)

  Directory at Heslington Networks Ltd. IT contracting, consultancy and services. We specialise in Weblogic, Apache, Zeus Load Balancers / Traffic Managers, Kontiki, PHP, MySQL, Sun and Linux High Availability technologies, hosting and services.

• Technical Lead

  ioko

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2004 — September 2008 (4 years 4 months)

  I led a team of engineers looking after the channel4.com website platform and 4oD Video Download services.
  
  The key technologies were RedHat, Solaris, Kontiki P2P, Weblogic, Apache, J2EE, Windows, Windows Media DRM amd ZXTM.
  
  I also worked on projects for BBC, ITV and Sky. I was promoted twice and worked in a variety of roles. My previous titles at ioko included Senior Engineer, Lead Engineer, UNIX Engineer.

• Senior Hosting Engineer

  Technophobia

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 5 months)

  With a small team I was responsible for building, running and maintaining all IT systems, both internal and customer hosting services. The customer base included companies such as Greenflag, Co-Operative Bank and Vernons Pools.

• Network Engineer

  Objectronix

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Worked as a firewall engineer, dealing with support queries and firewall policy change requests from the managed service customers. This included brands such as LastMinute.com and Channel 4.

• IT Technician

  Allerton High School

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)

  Responsible for the build, running and maintenance of all school IT systems as well as helping in class.

Additional Information

James Jeffrey’s Interests:

Reading, Films, Sailing, Websites

James Jeffrey’s Groups:

PCG

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