UNIX Specialist
Guildford, United Kingdom
- Current
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- UNIX Specialist at VocaLink
- Past
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- Sun/Solaris Consultant at Revera IT Ltd
- Consultant/Technical Account Manager at Sun Microsystems
- UNIX Consultant at Thom Ltd
- Education
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- Brooklands Technical College
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Philip Scarlett’s Summary
Having worked in many large UNIX environments worldwide, I have a proven track record as a strong technical lead with extensive experience in engineering, project and production support environments. Over the past 20 years I have gained real-life experience within demanding environments including Defence, Investment & Retail Banking, Telecoms, Oil and Gas, Retail and Consulting.
Philip Scarlett’s Specialties:
Sun, Linux & HP
- Technical Team Lead
- Solution Design and Engineering
- HA Design, Implementation and Administration
- Good Knowledge of Industry Best Practices
- High End System Design, Installation & Administration
- Documentation and Training
Philip Scarlett’s Experience
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UNIX Specialist
VocaLink
(Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
As the senior member of the UNIX engineering & architecture team responsible for VocaLink’s rapidly expanding payment processing systems, my work includes Solaris engineering and detailed design of UNIX environments, including creating custom environments for Proof of Concepts.
In order to provide the level of High Availability and service uptime required I've been working extensively with the following technologies - Solaris 10, SPARC/x86, Sun Cluster, Oracle RAC and custom solutions for data centre failover.
I'm also working on other engineering tasks to keep
ahead of the game and be in a position to deploy when vendor support is available. These include,
- ZFS Boot (now supported in U6 & U7)
- OpenSolaris (test the future today)
- Sun Clustered zones -
Sun/Solaris Consultant
Revera IT Ltd
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 4 months)
While working for Revera IT, I was based on-site at various companies in the UK predominantly in the Finance/Banking sector.
These included;
- Barclays - Cheshire, UK
- Abbey - London, UK
- JP Morgan - London, UK
- Royal Bank of Scotland - London, UK
- VISA - Hampshire, UK
Technologies/Skills used included;
- Solaris up to version 10 (zones, SMF, Dtrace)
- Clustering solutions inc. Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster and HP's HACMP
- Sun Hardware up to 15/25K
- Veritas Volume Manager, Filesystem, NetBackup
- HPUX up to version 11
- Scripting
- Documentation & Training
- Technical Team Lead
- Associated 3rd Party Products (e.g. Keon, AutoSys, Control-M) -
Consultant/Technical Account Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2000 — March 2003 (2 years 9 months)
While working in Sun's Professional Services organisation I was engaged in roles ranging from technical support to systems design and technical management. In June 2002 I moved from the Professional Services division to become a Technical Account Manager for several key accounts in Alberta, Canada.
Activities during my employment with Sun included,
- Designing and implementing HA solutions
- Installing and configuring Sun Cluster 3.x
- Installing and configuring Veritas Cluster Server 2.x
- Minimising and hardening of Solaris for secure environments
- Working within existing customer infrastructure (e.g. networks, defined policies)
- Installing and administering E10K and F15K servers
- Installing and administering SunFire server range (F3800-F6800) -
UNIX Consultant
Thom Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1997 — July 2000 (3 years)
Thom Ltd was my UNIX consultancy practice providing specialist Design, Installation and Support Services. I worked on the following accounts;
- British Telecom - London, UK
- AGIP - Aberdeen, UK
- Scottish Power - Glasgow, UK
- Talisman Energy - Aberdeen, UK
- BP - Aberdeen, UK
- Sun Microsystems - Camberley, UK
Philip Scarlett’s Education
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Brooklands Technical College
ONC/HNC , Electro-Mechanical Engineering , 1983 — 1987
I was privileged to be accepted for one of the finest Electro-Mechanical Apprenticeships in the UK with Racal Defence. Over this period I was mentored and guided by many of the leading engineers in this field.
I passed my ONC/HNC theory and practical exams with merits and distinctions.
Additional Information
Philip Scarlett’s Websites:
Philip Scarlett’s Interests:
Mountain Biking, Walking, Watching rugby (too old to play now) and learning the blues.
Philip Scarlett’s Groups:
LOSUG (London Open Solaris User Group)
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The Professional Contractors Group -
Revera IT Colleague -
OpenSolaris -
Sun Certified Solaris Administrator -
UNIX United Professionals -
The IT Job Board -
VocaLink
Philip Scarlett’s Honors:
- Certified Solaris System Administrator (Solaris 10)
- Certified Solaris System Administrator (Solaris 9)
- Certified Solaris System Administrator (Solaris 8)
- ONC & HNC in General Engineering
- City & Guilds in Fabrication & Welding and Electrical Installation
Philip Scarlett’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
