Owner, Achean Limited
Bristol, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Consultant at Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Founding Director at Achean Limited
- Past
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- Database Administrator at DVLA
- Consultant at Gloucestershire Constabulary
- DBA at Capgemini
- Education
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- University of Bristol
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Jon Mercer’s Summary
A widely experienced consultant with knowledge of several industries as well as the public sector.
Has designed and built numerous complete architectures and seen these through the complete life cycle.
Looking for challenging projects.
Jon Mercer’s Specialties:
Database Administration, SAN administration, Technical Architecture, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Jon Mercer’s Experience
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Consultant
Gloucestershire Constabulary
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Return to Gloucestershire Constabulary to complete thorough training and handover on Linux, SAN and Oracle RAC and to architect a training and testbed environment.
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Founding Director
Achean Limited
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Technology consulting, using open source software for server and desktop computers. Reducing reliance on proprietory software to achieve lower TCO and greater integration with other systems. Provider of training and support and implementation services.
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Database Administrator
DVLA
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Database Architect looking after the renewal of the DVLA's systems with IBM and Fujitsu. Contracted to IBM in this role.
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Consultant
Gloucestershire Constabulary
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)
September 2005 — July 2006 (11 months)
Brought in through Achean to manage databases, ended up producing a resiliant database cluster based on Linux.
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DBA
Capgemini
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 10 months)
To follow...
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Senior Consultant
eLoyalty
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ELOY; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — October 2002 (3 years )
Data architect working on complex data integration projects in the CRM field. Several major projects completed in the government and private sphere.
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DBA
Convergys
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CVG; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Jon Mercer’s Education
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University of Bristol
Economic and Social History , History, Economics , 1992 — 1995
Additional Information
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Open Source Universe -
Unix and Linux Professionals Europe -
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Berkeley Software Distro Corner -
SC or DV Cleared Professionals (use it or lose it) -
Google Android -
Europe 2.0 - web 2.0, startups, funding, & entrepreneurship in Europe -
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Android Developer Group (2,000+ and growing!) -
European Space Agency - Friends -
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MOTODEV -
virtualization and virtual machine -VMware, XEN, Hyper-v, Dalvik (Android's) -
Google Wave Interest Group -
iPhone & Android Applications: Marketing & Outsourcing
Jon Mercer’s Contact Settings
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