Paul Shannon

Current

• Lead Consultant - Data Centre Technologies at ANS Group plc
• Owner at VM-Aware (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Virtualisation System Specialist at Triangle Computer Services
• Network Administrator at Arden Software Ltd
• Website Manager at D. Grant Crawley Limited

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Education

• The Open University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Paul

Connections

138 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Paul Shannon’s Summary

Server consolidation & virtualisation (VMware 2.x & VI3) - VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Storage virtualisation (DataCore SANmelody & SANsymphony) - DataCore Certified Implementation Engineer (DCIE) & DataCore Certified Solutions Architect (DCSA)

Storage Implementation - Brocade Fabric, Qlogic Fabric & Heterogeneous Fabric installations

Desktop Virtualisation (VMware VDI 2, VMware View)
Application Virtualisation (ThinApp, Citrix XenApp 5) Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (PlateSpin & VMware Capacity Planner)

Virtualisation backup & Disaster Recovery (Vizioncore, PlateSpin, DoubleTake)

IBM Server & Storage (xSeries & System Storage/TotalStorage)

Microsoft Active Directory & Operating System deployment

Linux administration (OS, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Paul Shannon’s Specialties:

Server Consolidation - VMware
Storage Virtualisation - DataCore
Storage Configuration - Qlogic, Brocade, IBM
Capacity Planning - VMware

Paul Shannon’s Experience

• Lead Consultant - Data Centre Technologies

  ANS Group plc

  (Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Owner

  VM-Aware (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  I work on producing technical documents and relaying useful information that I have discovered during my time working with virtualisation products from:
  
  VMware - ThinApp, Virtual Infrastructure, VMware View/VDI
  DataCore - SANmelody, SANsymphony
  IBM - Storage, Servers and software

• Virtualisation System Specialist

  Triangle Computer Services

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2007 — February 2009 (2 years)

  Large project based implementations, revolving around:
  
  VMware VI3
  VMware View/VDI
  IBM Storage
  DataCore Storage Virtualisation
  Brocade Fabric
  
  Seeing projects through from pre-sales discussions, project design and implementation with a variety of customers.

• Network Administrator

  Arden Software Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — March 2007 (5 years 7 months)

  Microsoft Active Directory management
  Linux administration
  Web site administration
  VMware 2.5 & VI3 management

• Website Manager

  D. Grant Crawley Limited

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 8 months)

  Website administration
  Game reviews (games consoles)

Paul Shannon’s Education

• The Open University

  BSc (Honours) , Information Technology and Computing , 2004 — 2009

Additional Information

Paul Shannon’s Websites:

• My Blog

Paul Shannon’s Interests:

VMware and associated applications, new technology, storage virtualisation, international travel, music and concerts

Paul Shannon’s Honors:

VMware VCP
Citrix CCA (XenApp 5)
DataCore DCIE & DCSA

Paul Shannon’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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