John Harrison

Information Technology and Services Professional

Luton, United Kingdom

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Education
  • 2TTS RNZAF Wigram
  • St Kentigern College
  • Mulberry Grove School
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John Harrison’s Summary

Working as a freelance consultant in the UK since 1999, after 10 years as a permanent employee in technical roles in NZ.

10 years of (often project based) contracts & my thirst to keep learning more have gained me experience in a wide range of different technologies, work environments & industries including; banking, telecoms, technology, media, health, law enforcement, military.

I have developed a love of variety & a taste for challenges both technical & logistical.

I take pride in being able to finish roles knowing I've added value to my client's business. It is important to me to be able to leave my mark in a positive, beneficial & meaningful way at each site I work on, both for my own satisfaction & also so I will be remembered well & sought again when new tasks arise.

John Harrison’s Specialties:

Perl Development (12yrs), Linux & shell scripting (15yrs), Linux / Unix business application development & support. Internet technologies. Technical mentoring, supervision & training. Quick to adapt to & learn new environments & technologies. Professional with a strong customer focus.

John Harrison’s Experience

  • Senior Unix Engineer

    Nomura International plc

    (Public Company; 8604 JP; Financial Services industry)

    September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  • Perl Developer

    Alcatel-Lucent

    (Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)

    July 2009 — August 2009 (2 months)

    Created an attended automated application for bulk provisioning & update of Cisco 7200 & 10K router configs to carry out network migration for one of the largest communication companies in the world.

  • Perl Developer

    Cartesian

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2009 — April 2009 (3 months)

    Perl development to create tools to import and manipulate data extracts into their processing system for their customer's mobile network subscriber information.

  • MIS Software Application Technical Lead

    AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research

    (Public Company; T; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2008 — January 2009 (1 year )

    Software Development and Application Support for systems processing telecommunications transaction data on Solaris & Linux platforms.

  • Perl Developer

    NXP Semiconductors

    (Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

    July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)

    Perl development to update & enhance an in-house license ordering & processing application.

  • Perl Developer

    Cambridge University Press

    (Non-Profit; Publishing industry)

    November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)

    Perl development to upgrade custom Content Management System (DataFlow PPC) to ISBN13 from ISBN (10). Installation of Oracle 10g, Perl 5.8.7 and DBD::Oracle on Solaris

  • Perl Developer

    Philips Semiconductors

    (Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

    August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)

    Perl development to manage installation and monitoring of 270 FLEXnet Agent installations.

  • Perl Developer

    Citigroup

    (Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)

    August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

    Provided Perl Developer services to EMS (Enterprise Management Systems) team.

    Responsible for writing several major applications in Perl for reporting and process automation involving large amounts of Sybase database and SNMP work. Assisted with generation and process improvement of reports coming from mainframe.

  • Linux Consultant

    Mobix

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  • Perl Developer

    French Thornton

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  • Perl Developer

    CACI

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

  • Unix Security‭ & ‬Systems Engineer

    Gilbarco Veeder-Root

    (Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)

    December 2004 — December 2004 (1 month)

    Security review and enhancement, to comply with standards requirements (SOX) prior to integration of European network into Danaher international network.

  • Contractor

    Morse Group

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  • Perl Developer

    WarnerCo CGD

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  • Unix Specialist (Consulting to Cable & Wireless)

    Atos KPMG Consulting

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  • Internet Application Developer

    Quadriga Worldwide

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  • Unix Specialist / Perl Developer

    Morse Group (Consulting to Vodafone)

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  • Perl Developer

    Demon Internet

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  • CAE Support

    Philips Semiconductors

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2002 — 2002 (less than a year)

  • Unix Consultant

    Acuma

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

  • Internet Development Engineer

    Cable & Wireless

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • Senior Unix Consultant

    Cable & Wireless

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  • Unix Shell Scripter

    KPMG

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  • Operations Analyst

    NZHIS

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  • AFIS/Unix System Administrator

    New Zealand Police Information Technology

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1995 — 1997 (2 years )

  • Technical Services

    Microsoft Product Support Services

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 1995 — December 1995 (1 year )

    Datacom Services / Microsoft Product Support Services
    Product Support on Windows 95 & Office products (Word & Excel)

  • Avionics Tradesman

    Royal New Zealand Air Force

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1989 — 1994 (5 years )

John Harrison’s Education

  • 2TTS RNZAF Wigram

    Avionics Technician 1990 — 1993

  • St Kentigern College

    1985 — 1986

  • Mulberry Grove School

    1976 — 1983

    http://www.mulberrygrove.school.nz/

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John Harrison’s Groups:

Great Barrier Island

  •    Facebook.com
  •    Kiwi Scrum
  •    Cable & Wireless Alumni
  •    Wellington, NZ
  •    Nomura Group
  •    LIVE JOBS AT -P.S. Resourcing & Recruitment Solutions -LIVE JOBS
  •    Premier Group Recruitment

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