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Infrastructure designer and engineer
Steven Davidson
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Lincoln, United Kingdom
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17 years of IT industry experience within the public and private sector.
• Experienced infrastructure consultant who has produced high and low level infrastructure designs for over the last 10 years for an array of applications and systems for small businesses to enterprise clients.
• Worked as an infrastructure lead on full project lifecycle of a datacentre migration from design to end state.
• Continue to be hands on implementing such solutions as VMware vSphere vSAN clusters, multi site SQL Always on, SAN Fabrics, Backup Solutions.
• Expertise and knowledge to adapt and pick up new applications and technologies with relative ease
• Excellent professional manner, comfortable working with any area of the business.
• Open, honest and no leading down the garden path
• Experienced infrastructure consultant who has produced high and low level infrastructure designs for over the last 10 years for an array of applications and systems for small businesses to enterprise clients.
• Worked as an infrastructure lead on full project lifecycle of a datacentre migration from design to end state.
• Continue to be hands on implementing such solutions as VMware vSphere vSAN clusters, multi site SQL Always on, SAN Fabrics, Backup Solutions.
• Expertise and knowledge to adapt and pick up new applications and technologies with relative ease
• Excellent professional manner, comfortable working with any area of the business.
• Open, honest and no leading down the garden path
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
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My experience
2017 - ?
freelance
LEAD INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTANT ON DATA CENTRE MIGRATION PROGRAMME
ASDA.
Migration and consolidation of 5 x server rooms over 3 locations to 2 highly available co-location datacentres.
• Implemented at two new co-location datacentres
• VMware vSphere vSAN clusters
• VMware vSphere FC storage backed clusters
• EMC VNX's (re-purposed)
• HP C7000's (re-purposed)
• Brocade SAN Fabrics (Some re-purposed)
• NetBackup Backup Solution
• Migration's
• Created design to free infrastructure within source server rooms to be re-purposed within target datacentres. Some within location migrations required to be make this feasible.
• Planned, architected and implemented the migration of the LAB and DEV Environments consisting of over 200 servers over two weekends.
• Manged capacity and performance at target throughout migration
• Lead and performed the initial pilot migrations with IBM for production before handing over cookie cut process to IBM
• Provide consultancy and 4th line support to IBM on behalf of Asda for the programme.
• Implemented at two new co-location datacentres
• VMware vSphere vSAN clusters
• VMware vSphere FC storage backed clusters
• EMC VNX's (re-purposed)
• HP C7000's (re-purposed)
• Brocade SAN Fabrics (Some re-purposed)
• NetBackup Backup Solution
• Migration's
• Created design to free infrastructure within source server rooms to be re-purposed within target datacentres. Some within location migrations required to be make this feasible.
• Planned, architected and implemented the migration of the LAB and DEV Environments consisting of over 200 servers over two weekends.
• Manged capacity and performance at target throughout migration
• Lead and performed the initial pilot migrations with IBM for production before handing over cookie cut process to IBM
• Provide consultancy and 4th line support to IBM on behalf of Asda for the programme.
Design, VMware, SoMe, Support, Infrastructure, Backup, Storage, Server, SAN, Production, EMC, Cookie
2014 - 2014
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TECHNICAL LEAD SQL/VMWARE
NTT DATA.
Hired initially to design a SQL clustering solution which could be hosted upon VMware for a proof of concept to digitalize patients records with software provider IBM. Designed, implemented and documented solution.
• Extended contract additionally to audit existing infrastructure to improve service of legacy environment. This included storage, virtualization, database and SAN fabric. Produced report with recommendations highlighting risks, potential mitigations and improvements.
• Assisted local team with implementation restoration of HA to SQL estate, SAN Fabric and improving overall storage performance.
• Extended contract additionally to audit existing infrastructure to improve service of legacy environment. This included storage, virtualization, database and SAN fabric. Produced report with recommendations highlighting risks, potential mitigations and improvements.
• Assisted local team with implementation restoration of HA to SQL estate, SAN Fabric and improving overall storage performance.
Design, Sql, Database, VMware, Audit, Service, Implementation, Virtualization, Infrastructure, Software, Storage, Audit, SAN, Tech lead
2007 - 2012
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SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
NHS.
• Technical Lead on Exchange Migration project. Designed, implemented and migrated to the solution.
• P2V physical estate to virtual.
• upgrade vSphere estate from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4 Hosts.
• OS Upgrade project planned, designed and migrated server infrastructure of IIS, SQL, DC's, DNS, DHCP and various bespoke applications servers from Windows server 2000/2003 to 2008/R2
• NHS 111 project designed setup data feed links between 999 service and external partners through secure IIS and firewall NAT's.
• Blackberry server project. Designed and implemented a HA BES solution. Consolidated 900 users split across 3 x BES environments to single BES environment with 2 node HA.
• Designed MacAfee Safeboot (Endpoint encryption) solution for EMAS and implemented.
• Backup project. Designed a consolidated solution of existing backup environment of various toolsets to single backup solution Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3
• P2V physical estate to virtual.
• upgrade vSphere estate from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4 Hosts.
• OS Upgrade project planned, designed and migrated server infrastructure of IIS, SQL, DC's, DNS, DHCP and various bespoke applications servers from Windows server 2000/2003 to 2008/R2
• NHS 111 project designed setup data feed links between 999 service and external partners through secure IIS and firewall NAT's.
• Blackberry server project. Designed and implemented a HA BES solution. Consolidated 900 users split across 3 x BES environments to single BES environment with 2 node HA.
• Designed MacAfee Safeboot (Endpoint encryption) solution for EMAS and implemented.
• Backup project. Designed a consolidated solution of existing backup environment of various toolsets to single backup solution Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3
Sql, Exchange, Windows server, Windows, Node, DNS, Firewall, Service, IIS, Infrastructure, Backup, Server, Tech lead
2002 - 2007
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TECHNICAL TEAM LEADER
F1GROUP LIMITED.
• Started as trainee engineer and worked up to team leader. Leading a team of 5 Technicians ensuring that the IT infrastructure team met all client expectations in terms of project design, implementation and maintenance contracts
• Carried out 1st site visits with Sales Manager offering technical guidance and capturing requirements.
• Developed in house formal documentation for design and configuration documentation.
• Carried out 1st site visits with Sales Manager offering technical guidance and capturing requirements.
• Developed in house formal documentation for design and configuration documentation.
Design, Contracts, It infrastructure, Sales, It, Implementation, Infrastructure, Contracts, Manager, UP
My education
2001
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2002
Aberdeen College
Hndhncorequivalent, Computing
Hndhncorequivalent, Computing
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