Ray Heffer

Current

• Technical Infrastructure Manager at The Pensions Regulator

Past

• Senior Technical Consultant at Civica
• Network Manager at Affinity Sutton Group

Education

• University of Hertfordshire

Recommended

12 people have recommended Ray

Connections

80 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Computing Magazine - Award
• VMware Case Study
• BCS virtualisation training

Ray Heffer’s Summary

I have been working within the IT industry since 1997, including the public sector, government and commercial environments. My extensive experience is backed up by my VMWare VI3 VCP, CPSA and MCSE certifications and the passion I have for technology.

My current role is Technical Infrastructure Manager and previous roles have included Senior Technical Consultant, Data Centre Manager for Civica, and Network Manager for a large housing association.

I would best describe myself as a senior technical specialist, with an excellent approach to team leadership and lead management of technical projects. My main area of expertise is virtualization and server infrastructure (VMware, Linux and Microsoft technologies), including storage solutions (Datacore, EMC and HP).

• Infrastructure management; Team manager and project lead, focused on ITIL v3 methodologies.
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure: Technical lead and award winning success with server consolidation project in VI3. 55% physical server reduction and 37% power consumption saving.
• SAN Solutions: DataCore, EMC and HP storage specialisations. Successful migration from EMC to DataCore including VMware, Exchange and SQL clusters.
• Web hosting solution: Technical lead for infrastructure design of highly resilient government web portal for large data collection application. Benefiting from Zeus ZXTM VA, SQL 2005 cluster, and VMware VI3 virtual infrastructure.
• ISP enterprise technologies: Lead consultancy and technical authority at ISP for Redhat Linux; BIND, LAMP web hosting, Perl scripting. Complimented by Cisco network and firewall support, hosting solutions and customer product design.
• Microsoft technologies: Senior consultant for Microsoft technical solutions. Active Directory, Exchange 2003, ISA 2004 / 2006, SQL, and clustered / NLB solutions.

Ray Heffer’s Specialties:

VMware VCP, Platespin CPSA, ITIL v3 Foundation, Microsoft MCSE.

Infrastructure Manager, team leader, technical project lead, data centre manager.

Ray Heffer’s Experience

• Technical Infrastructure Manager

  The Pensions Regulator

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Senior Technical Consultant

  Civica

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 10 months)

• Network Manager

  Affinity Sutton Group

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1997 — April 2004 (6 years 8 months)

Ray Heffer’s Education

• University of Hertfordshire

  HND , Business & Information Technology , 1995 — 1997

Additional Information

Ray Heffer’s Websites:

• Computing Magazine - Award
• VMware Case Study
• BCS virtualisation training

Ray Heffer’s Interests:

IT: VMWare (VI3), Web development (Perl / CGI), Server hardware (HP / Dell), Web Technologies (ISA 2004/06, Cisco PIX / ASA, WebSense, MailSweeper) Language: Japanese Language Other: Audio design (in-car), Photography (DSLR, landscape, macro, animals)

Ray Heffer’s Groups:

•    VMware Virtual Community
•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
•    VM People Virtualization & Cloud Group
•    VMware Consolidation

Ray Heffer’s Honors:

2008 IT Department of the Year (Computing Magazine)

Ray Heffer’s Contact Settings

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