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Private/Public Cloud Expert with a passion for Automation
Sam Harris
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Taunton, United Kingdom
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Passionate about realizing the rewards of technology, always looking for new approaches and delivering solutions that are cost-effective, reliable and repeatable.
Always striving to break down barriers.
Always striving to break down barriers.
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2013 - ?
job
Head of Infrastructure / Technical Lead
Eloquent Technologies.
Outline
Responsible for the technological strategy and delivery that enables excellent service to customers. Eloquent is a Managed Service Provider, primarily providing hosted servers on a fully owned private cloud platform based in some of the biggest datacentres in London.
Final escalation point for technical queries within the company
Led the way on automation within the company to provide the scale and agility needed for the growth experienced year on year.
Worked alongside the sales team ensuring there was a story to get behind by providing truly industry leading solutions, backing this up with technical expertise in customer meetings.
Designed and deployed the private cloud platform across multiple sites with diverse, low latency, high throughput network connectivity allowing for real-time replication to deliver the RPO todays businesses need.
Built and maintained supplier relationships for the core infrastructure negotiating contracts and rates for the building blocks of the platform (racks, power, circuits etc..).
Designed and deployed an ISP grade network to reduce cost, improve reliability and increase performance, ten-fold. Utilising only Tier-1 providers and removing all reliance on Tier-2/3 providers in order to deliver industry leading uptime. Enabling delivery of ethernet services and HA solutions.
Designed and deployed the Desktop-as-a-Service platform based on Citrix technologies allowing best in-class remote working solutions.
Mentored senior engineers to enable delivery of exceptional service to customers by teaching core skills and techniques. Strong focus on approach, specifically around trouble shooting problems while maintaining open communication.
Responsible for the technological strategy and delivery that enables excellent service to customers. Eloquent is a Managed Service Provider, primarily providing hosted servers on a fully owned private cloud platform based in some of the biggest datacentres in London.
Final escalation point for technical queries within the company
Led the way on automation within the company to provide the scale and agility needed for the growth experienced year on year.
Worked alongside the sales team ensuring there was a story to get behind by providing truly industry leading solutions, backing this up with technical expertise in customer meetings.
Designed and deployed the private cloud platform across multiple sites with diverse, low latency, high throughput network connectivity allowing for real-time replication to deliver the RPO todays businesses need.
Built and maintained supplier relationships for the core infrastructure negotiating contracts and rates for the building blocks of the platform (racks, power, circuits etc..).
Designed and deployed an ISP grade network to reduce cost, improve reliability and increase performance, ten-fold. Utilising only Tier-1 providers and removing all reliance on Tier-2/3 providers in order to deliver industry leading uptime. Enabling delivery of ethernet services and HA solutions.
Designed and deployed the Desktop-as-a-Service platform based on Citrix technologies allowing best in-class remote working solutions.
Mentored senior engineers to enable delivery of exceptional service to customers by teaching core skills and techniques. Strong focus on approach, specifically around trouble shooting problems while maintaining open communication.
Contracts, Teaching, Automation, Cloud, SoMe, Sales, Citrix, Service, Network, Growth, Infrastructure, Power, Tech lead, Contracts, UP, LED
2011 - 2013
internship
IT Technician Apprentice
Lentells Limited.
Outline
Internal IT support for 70 staff over 4 offices working closely with key stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
• Management of Citrix Virtual Desktops and underlying XenServer estate
• End user support
Key achievements/projects
• Successfully deployed Citrix Desktop environment
• Resolved major issues on first day with XenServer platform
• Stabilised the IT infrastructure
• Developed BC/DR policies
Internal IT support for 70 staff over 4 offices working closely with key stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
• Management of Citrix Virtual Desktops and underlying XenServer estate
• End user support
Key achievements/projects
• Successfully deployed Citrix Desktop environment
• Resolved major issues on first day with XenServer platform
• Stabilised the IT infrastructure
• Developed BC/DR policies
It support, It infrastructure, Management, Citrix, It, Support, Infrastructure
2007 - 2013
job
Self employed
Self employed.
work while in education to gain experience in industry, learnt a lot about Linux, virtualisation, software development and gained valuable commercial awareness by selling virtual machines online.
Key responsibilities
• End user desktop support
• Software development (PHP)
• Hypervisor management / Virtual machine sales
Key achievements/projects
• Recovered from a major datacenter failure affecting the dedicated servers used to host customer virtual machines
• Sold first web application (online text-based wrestling game)
• Massively added to skill set
Qualifications/Courses Completed
Courses Completed
* ACloudGuru
• AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2020 - https://verify.acloud.guru/2338CCC25F9D
GCSE
* Maths Grade A
* Business Studies Grade A
* English Language Grade B
* English Literature Grade A
* Science Core Grade B
* Science Additional Grade B
* Religious Studies Grade B
* Certificate in Digital Applications (Equiv of two GCSE's Grade A)
* PSHE Level 2 (Equiv. of GCSE Grade A*-C)
* Electronics Grade A
Key responsibilities
• End user desktop support
• Software development (PHP)
• Hypervisor management / Virtual machine sales
Key achievements/projects
• Recovered from a major datacenter failure affecting the dedicated servers used to host customer virtual machines
• Sold first web application (online text-based wrestling game)
• Massively added to skill set
Qualifications/Courses Completed
Courses Completed
* ACloudGuru
• AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 2020 - https://verify.acloud.guru/2338CCC25F9D
GCSE
* Maths Grade A
* Business Studies Grade A
* English Language Grade B
* English Literature Grade A
* Science Core Grade B
* Science Additional Grade B
* Religious Studies Grade B
* Certificate in Digital Applications (Equiv of two GCSE's Grade A)
* PSHE Level 2 (Equiv. of GCSE Grade A*-C)
* Electronics Grade A
Php, Linux, Azure, Software development, Microsoft azure, C, Management, Sales, Support, Development, Electronics, Software, Datacenter, Science, Web, Online
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