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Consultant Systems Integration Engineer
Stuart Swaffer
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Guildford, United Kingdom
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A highly numerate and articulate OSS & hybrid cloud consultant systems integrator with extensive end-to-end solutions, pre-sales, telecoms and cloud experience who is a team player and totally motivated by delivering results and solving problems.
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2019 - 2019
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Consultant Engineer - Customer Success, EMEA
Turbonomic.
Providing consultancy, custom integrations, pre- and post-sales support for hybrid cloud for Turbonomic customers across
EMEA:
§ Primary technical post-sales subject matter expert for DXC Turbonomic deployments across the EMEA and Australia/New Zealand regions providing technical deployment and advanced customisation support across a wide
range (30+) of DXC's end customer hybrid cloud deployments.
§ Designed and developed a new automated pre- and post-sales value capture and value dashboarding mechanism. A
broad range of real-time and historical activity and performance data is collected via API and database queries using
JavaScript and Go. This is then shipped in JSON format to a stand-alone ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) stack
hosted on docker instances with pre-defined dashboards. This provides both pre-sales and post-sales teams to instantly
communicate the unique value of Turbonomic to a wide range of audiences.
§ Regular assistance in pre-sales activities for potential new and upsell DXC Turbonomic deployments including
performing and presenting multiple PoV (Proof of Value) sessions.
§ Development of a BI integration solution between Turbonomic and PowerBI for Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer to enable senior management to visualise the value of Turbonomic.
§ Development for Morgan Stanley of a Turbonomic health dashboard collecting and presenting system health from multiple Turbonomic instances.
EMEA:
§ Primary technical post-sales subject matter expert for DXC Turbonomic deployments across the EMEA and Australia/New Zealand regions providing technical deployment and advanced customisation support across a wide
range (30+) of DXC's end customer hybrid cloud deployments.
§ Designed and developed a new automated pre- and post-sales value capture and value dashboarding mechanism. A
broad range of real-time and historical activity and performance data is collected via API and database queries using
JavaScript and Go. This is then shipped in JSON format to a stand-alone ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) stack
hosted on docker instances with pre-defined dashboards. This provides both pre-sales and post-sales teams to instantly
communicate the unique value of Turbonomic to a wide range of audiences.
§ Regular assistance in pre-sales activities for potential new and upsell DXC Turbonomic deployments including
performing and presenting multiple PoV (Proof of Value) sessions.
§ Development of a BI integration solution between Turbonomic and PowerBI for Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer to enable senior management to visualise the value of Turbonomic.
§ Development for Morgan Stanley of a Turbonomic health dashboard collecting and presenting system health from multiple Turbonomic instances.
Sales, Go, Hybrid, Logstash, Performing, Kibana, BEE, Health, Development, Presenting, Support, Javascript, Integration, Management, Elasticsearch, Deployment, Cloud, Database, JSON, Docker, API
2016 - 2019
freelance
Consultant
PG Services.
End Customer - SAP, St. Leon-Rot/Walldorf, Germany:
§ Designed, developed, deployed and supported full-stack Elasticsearch solution for performance monitoring of SAP's
unified communications estate (Skype for Business, MS Exchange, Polycom/Rigel meeting room hardware)
§ Hardened the Elasticsearch stack with X-Pack security features and TLS encryption.
§ Deployed Elasticsearch machine learning and developed multiple complex machine learning jobs for alerting on
anomalies in the unified communications estate.
§ Developed and deployed Wazuh (SIEM) solution for monitoring security breaches, configuration changes and rollback
in the ViPR SRM environment.
§ Responsible for development of custom ViPR SRM reports for performance management of SAP's storage estate
including EMC VNX & VMAX and NetApp platforms.
§ Developed, tested and deployed a number of ViPR SRM reports for SAP storage resource monitoring including CMDB
and chargeback focussed performance reports covering all SAP storage platform technologies.
End Customer - Mobilink/Warid, Pakistan:
§ Co-architect for the next generation performance monitoring & KPI management solution for merged Mobilink, Warid
2G, 3G & 4G/LTE RAN utilising Talend (ETL), MemSQL & Tableau.
§ Responsible for the development and delivery of the customised ViPR SRM and Smarts OTM components for the Mobilink UFM environment.
§ Creating custom systems integration points between EMC Watch4net and underlying management platforms for
collecting performance metrics from a wide range of sources including VMware Hyperic, AppDynamics and Netcool,
§ Development of a Huawei U2000 topology adapter to enable end-to-end optical management using EMC Smarts.
§ Designed, developed, deployed and supported full-stack Elasticsearch solution for performance monitoring of SAP's
unified communications estate (Skype for Business, MS Exchange, Polycom/Rigel meeting room hardware)
§ Hardened the Elasticsearch stack with X-Pack security features and TLS encryption.
§ Deployed Elasticsearch machine learning and developed multiple complex machine learning jobs for alerting on
anomalies in the unified communications estate.
§ Developed and deployed Wazuh (SIEM) solution for monitoring security breaches, configuration changes and rollback
in the ViPR SRM environment.
§ Responsible for development of custom ViPR SRM reports for performance management of SAP's storage estate
including EMC VNX & VMAX and NetApp platforms.
§ Developed, tested and deployed a number of ViPR SRM reports for SAP storage resource monitoring including CMDB
and chargeback focussed performance reports covering all SAP storage platform technologies.
End Customer - Mobilink/Warid, Pakistan:
§ Co-architect for the next generation performance monitoring & KPI management solution for merged Mobilink, Warid
2G, 3G & 4G/LTE RAN utilising Talend (ETL), MemSQL & Tableau.
§ Responsible for the development and delivery of the customised ViPR SRM and Smarts OTM components for the Mobilink UFM environment.
§ Creating custom systems integration points between EMC Watch4net and underlying management platforms for
collecting performance metrics from a wide range of sources including VMware Hyperic, AppDynamics and Netcool,
§ Development of a Huawei U2000 topology adapter to enable end-to-end optical management using EMC Smarts.
Integration, EMC, Storage, Skype for business, KPI, Development, Monitoring, Hardware, Security, Machine learning, Management, Elasticsearch, Performance Management, Tableau, ETL, VMware, Exchange, SAP
2007 - 2014
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Senior Solutions Architect
EMC.
Technically leading a small, international, team of solutions architects responsible for installation, configuration and solutions integration of EMC software across the EMEA region. EMC Professional Services includes responsibility for designing and delivering EMC & VMware software solutions providing fault, configuration and performance management features for virtualised and physical network, compute & storage environments.
EMEA-wide subject matter expert for the EMC SAS suite (comprising SMARTS, Watch4Net and NCM)
Trained in design and deployment of the EMC ViPR SRM solution (Watch4Net)
Primary Solutions Architect for a highly complex upgrade and re-architecture of 5 of Vodafone Hosting’s (former C&W) OSS environments providing network assurance and performance across Vodafone’s managed services, client VPN, access and backbone networks.
EMC Cloud architect for an internal private cloud solution at NICE, Israel.
Lead services consultant for major self-service public cloud opportunity with Vodafone, Egypt.
Lead solutions architect for a 500k device configuration management solution using Voyence/NCM for BT.
Primary developer and design responsible for the Optical (SDH & DWDM) management of BT 21CN including custom integration between Ciena OnCenter, Huawei T2000 and the EMC SMARTS solution using CORBA TMF814.
Senior design responsibility for multiple delivery paths in the BT 21CN SMARTS deployment across iNode (OI/Notif), Optical (OTM), Metro/Core (IP APM, MPLS, NPM, TSM, ASAM) & IP-OTM Cross-Domain.
Significant experience in developing robust (Perl & ASL) scripting for a wide range of customisations.
Extensive experience in customising and developing SNMP Trap parsing rules for events from various OSS platforms into SMARTS using both the SMARTS SNMP Trap Adapter and Notif.
Developed customised certifications for integrating Alcatel OmniSwitch devices into SMARTS including the additional Redundancy, VRRP and VRF functionality for later delivery in production releases.
Multiple EMC deployments and customisation across EMEA for tier 1 service providers, enterprises and secure government clients.
Integrated, developed and delivered the event handling aspect of the BT Global Services Smarts OTM solution including the development of complex Perl scripts to handle events from Alcatel, Lucent, Ciena and Marconi SDH and DWDM equipment via Netcool.
EMEA-wide subject matter expert for the EMC SAS suite (comprising SMARTS, Watch4Net and NCM)
Trained in design and deployment of the EMC ViPR SRM solution (Watch4Net)
Primary Solutions Architect for a highly complex upgrade and re-architecture of 5 of Vodafone Hosting’s (former C&W) OSS environments providing network assurance and performance across Vodafone’s managed services, client VPN, access and backbone networks.
EMC Cloud architect for an internal private cloud solution at NICE, Israel.
Lead services consultant for major self-service public cloud opportunity with Vodafone, Egypt.
Lead solutions architect for a 500k device configuration management solution using Voyence/NCM for BT.
Primary developer and design responsible for the Optical (SDH & DWDM) management of BT 21CN including custom integration between Ciena OnCenter, Huawei T2000 and the EMC SMARTS solution using CORBA TMF814.
Senior design responsibility for multiple delivery paths in the BT 21CN SMARTS deployment across iNode (OI/Notif), Optical (OTM), Metro/Core (IP APM, MPLS, NPM, TSM, ASAM) & IP-OTM Cross-Domain.
Significant experience in developing robust (Perl & ASL) scripting for a wide range of customisations.
Extensive experience in customising and developing SNMP Trap parsing rules for events from various OSS platforms into SMARTS using both the SMARTS SNMP Trap Adapter and Notif.
Developed customised certifications for integrating Alcatel OmniSwitch devices into SMARTS including the additional Redundancy, VRRP and VRF functionality for later delivery in production releases.
Multiple EMC deployments and customisation across EMEA for tier 1 service providers, enterprises and secure government clients.
Integrated, developed and delivered the event handling aspect of the BT Global Services Smarts OTM solution including the development of complex Perl scripts to handle events from Alcatel, Lucent, Ciena and Marconi SDH and DWDM equipment via Netcool.
Storage, Cloud, VMware, Installation of IT systems, IT consultant, Performance Management, Network design, Networking, Cisco
2006 - 2007
job
Senior Consultant
Ericsson.
Part of the Ericsson Global Services' global competence centre for transmission, offering technical consultancy in all aspects of network design, network performance improvement and managed services for Ericsson optical and microwave transmission
and data networks.
§ Team product responsibility for global FTTH and FTTB solutions utilising GPON technology.
§ Sole responsible for the IP DCN network design (using OSPF) for Vodafone's (Ireland) and Digicel's (Guyana) MINI-
LINK microwave networks.
§ Provided 8 weeks managed service consultancy to Telecom Namibia advising on bringing their core optical network
back under management as well as instilling other best-practices within the organisation.
§ Responsible for significant network performance improvements to the IP and OSI DCN of the national backbone and access network for Warid in Bangladesh including Ericsson MINI-LINK & Marconi Microwave transmission.
and data networks.
§ Team product responsibility for global FTTH and FTTB solutions utilising GPON technology.
§ Sole responsible for the IP DCN network design (using OSPF) for Vodafone's (Ireland) and Digicel's (Guyana) MINI-
LINK microwave networks.
§ Provided 8 weeks managed service consultancy to Telecom Namibia advising on bringing their core optical network
back under management as well as instilling other best-practices within the organisation.
§ Responsible for significant network performance improvements to the IP and OSI DCN of the national backbone and access network for Warid in Bangladesh including Ericsson MINI-LINK & Marconi Microwave transmission.
Design, Management, Service, Network, Technology, Network design, Telecom, Organization, Backbone
2004 - 2006
job
Transmission Solutions Manager
Ericsson.
Providing technical sales support and solutions across the Ericsson Broadband Networks portfolio towards customers in the UK and Ireland. Responsible for end-to-end solutions based on all Ericsson transmission and broadband access products
(OMS, AXX, EDA, DXX, MINI-LINK and associated NMS) for UK customers.
§ Technical solutions responsible for the Next Generation multi-service ADM project to supply Verizon Business Europe
with AXX equipment to enable their access network to provide Metro Ethernet over SDH services.
§ Solutions responsible for the future development and eventual replacement of the existing Ericsson EDDF solution for
O2. Using the latest optical equipment, the solution is able to drastically reduce the footprint and power consumption
whilst significantly increasing the capacity and flexibility over the existing platform.
(OMS, AXX, EDA, DXX, MINI-LINK and associated NMS) for UK customers.
§ Technical solutions responsible for the Next Generation multi-service ADM project to supply Verizon Business Europe
with AXX equipment to enable their access network to provide Metro Ethernet over SDH services.
§ Solutions responsible for the future development and eventual replacement of the existing Ericsson EDDF solution for
O2. Using the latest optical equipment, the solution is able to drastically reduce the footprint and power consumption
whilst significantly increasing the capacity and flexibility over the existing platform.
Sales, Service, Network, Support, Development, Power, Manager
2003 - 2004
job
Solution Delivery Engineer - Transmission Network Planning Tools
AIRCOM INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Supplying network planning and optimisation software to mobile operators and solutions providers worldwide. Responsible for
project management and consultancy services during the software rollout and data migration of Aircom's transmission
planning software including Oracle data migration and integration using XML.
project management and consultancy services during the software rollout and data migration of Aircom's transmission
planning software including Oracle data migration and integration using XML.
Project Management, Oracle, XML, Management, Integration, Optimization, Network, Software
2003 - 2003
freelance
Telecom Services Consultant - Symbian Software Test & Development
CELL TELECOM LTD.
July 2004 to October 2004
Offering technical and professional services to the telecommunications industry including Symbian OS software development and testing, project management, web development and integration solutions. Responsible for software test services for
Symbian OS using simulated test platforms.
Offering technical and professional services to the telecommunications industry including Symbian OS software development and testing, project management, web development and integration solutions. Responsible for software test services for
Symbian OS using simulated test platforms.
Project Management, Software development, Software test, Management, Integration, Test, Testing, Telecom, Development, Software, Web
My education
1992
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1996
University of South Wales
BSc (Hons) 2:1, Computer Science
BSc (Hons) 2:1, Computer Science
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