Overall design responsibility and focal point for all physical infrastructure components within the VM estate, an environment that included over 150 Unix and Windows servers, Brocade/HDS/NetApp SAN and NAS storage, Oracle and SQL Server databases, VMWare and Citrix technologies.

Managed the Infrastructure Design team (2 Infrastructure Architects), including task planning, mentoring, reviews and personal development.

Role involved ensuring the necessary budget is in place each year for any technical projects as part of the annual IT budgeting process, as well as creation of Infrastructure related projects and driving them forward with key business stakeholders.

Key Achievements:

Creation of an Infrastructure Strategy and roadmap for Virgin Mobile.

Design of a multi-tier, scalable and resilient infrastructure using x86 hardware, Linux, Oracle RAC and GigiSpaces technologies to support the new Virginmobile.com website which has reduced downtime and increased customer sales and self service.

Design, build and system management of an interim development and test environment using VMWare/Linux/Oracle services for virginmobile.com project prior to outsourcing of the service to IBM.

Proposed and designed a number of solutions which have financially benefited VM including the implementations of Njini IAM and BladeLogic, both of which have delivered significant ROI values.

Management of the upgrade of the VM Citrix environment to Citrix Presentation Server 4.

Key infrastructure contact for the design and planning for the implementation of Work Area Recovery and Data Centre Disaster Recovery services through a specialist 3rd party availability provider.

Infrastructure lead for the transition of VM’s outsourcing from CapGemini to Atos Origin, a Data Centre relocation project that moved all Unix and SAN infrastructure from Bristol to Daresbury, with minimal impact to the business.

Ownership of the redesign and implementation of an upgrade to the HDS/Brocade based SAN infrastructure resulting in improved performance and negating the need for further capital investment.

Infrastructure contact from RFP to implementation of the IBM Desktop Management Service project which replaced over 1200 Desktop and Laptop computers with a fully automated and externally managed solution.

Core Infrastructure:

• Hardware:

  Sun, HP, IBM, Dell, Windows Servers, HDS, NetApp, Brocade Storage

• OS

  Sun Solaris, HP UX, Windows Server 2003, RedHat Linux

• Software

  Oracle, MS SQL, VMWare, Veritas, Citrix, Tibco, GigaSpaces, Singl.eView Billing, ePoint CRM, Strategix ERP, Apache, Tomcat, BladeLogic, Njini

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• Joined CGEY as a member of the Bristol Oracle DBA team, having a brief to increase the revenue and effectiveness of the whole UK Oracle DBA business.

Key Achievements:

Worked with a number of clients on improving their Oracle implementations, as well as working with most of the CGEY in-house DBA teams.

• Provided Oracle Technical Governance throughout CGEY UK and put together a simplified DBA toolset using CA applications. This change significantly reduced CGEY internal costs and meant they were able to provide a more cost effective service to their clients.

• Appointed primary technical contact for Virgin Mobile (VM) account. Main point of contact for Oracle service migration during the project to transition the VM services to the CGEY Toltec data centre.

• Environment Manager for VM, resourcing and and managing CGEY Unix, DBA and Operations teams for the builds of the required integrated development, test and production environments.

• Role evolved into having responsibility for most of the VM infrastructure and its usage. This included Windows and Unix Servers, Oracle databases, SANs and associated backup infrastructure.

• Project managed the implementation of a new backup infrastructure for VM.

• Infrastructure Lead for the implementation of the Singl.eView Billing system and its integration via Tibco with most of the core VM applications including their CRM and ERP systems.

Responsible for the management of multiple Oracle databases, most of which were supporting front-end web applications for different clients.

Ad-hoc Sun Solaris system administration in addition to the Oracle Database Administration due to the number of hosted web sites and supporting infrastructure, but only having a small team to support them.

Additional duties included performing Oracle consultancy for a number of clients. This involved installation, setup and configuration of Oracle to the client’s requirements.

Whilst at Oracle I worked on a number of projects at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Development centre in Laindon Essex.

Responsible for project leading 2 graduate trainees.

Employed in a database administration role

Worked on a DEC VAX Oracle based project management system.