Paul Shannon

Current

Lead Consultant - Virtualisation 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

10 people have recommended Paul

Connections

188 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Blog

Paul Shannon’s Summary

Storage virtualisation (NetApp) - ASAP, NCDA & NCIE

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

Paul Shannon’s Experience

Lead Consultant - Virtualisation

ANS Group plc

(Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Owner
VM-Aware (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 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)