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Enterprise Unix/Linux Consultant and High Availability Expert
Grenville Whelan
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Prestbury, United Kingdom
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I am a seasoned Technical Consultant and Enterprise Systems specialist looking for a new challenge. My most recent position was a Pre and Post sales High Availability Storage technology specialist working for a software supplier to ZFS-based Software Defined Storage companies working widely with reseller and distributor channels globally.
I have an extensive background in technology and software having worked extensively with Solaris and Linux in Enterprise Computing and Internet technologies for over 20 years. This has included roles as Technical Architect, CTO, IT director, project manager, technology evangelist and consulting roles with enterprise software and infrastructure technology.
My career, experience and capabilities have spanned many technology shifts from pre-internet on-premise data centres through to “As a Service” Cloud infrastructures, and I have provided consulting and project management capability across all industry segments with a strong emphasis on High Availability, Resilience, Performance and Scalability. I believe I have solid multi-disciplinary and multi-industry experience and keep myself informed with business and technology shifts and insights.
I have an extensive background in technology and software having worked extensively with Solaris and Linux in Enterprise Computing and Internet technologies for over 20 years. This has included roles as Technical Architect, CTO, IT director, project manager, technology evangelist and consulting roles with enterprise software and infrastructure technology.
My career, experience and capabilities have spanned many technology shifts from pre-internet on-premise data centres through to “As a Service” Cloud infrastructures, and I have provided consulting and project management capability across all industry segments with a strong emphasis on High Availability, Resilience, Performance and Scalability. I believe I have solid multi-disciplinary and multi-industry experience and keep myself informed with business and technology shifts and insights.
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
1996 - ?
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Director & Co-Founder
High-Availability.Com.
Ltd, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK
I co-founded High-Availability.com to take to market a High Availability (Cluster) product that I designed and co-built for the Sun Microsystems Enterprise market.
Initially, I helped get the product to market, and was heavily involved in pre-sales, implementations, post-sales, customer training and marketing activities, including customer presentations, trade-shows, seminars etc. and recruited developers, technical support, sales and marketing staff.
The company now successfully sells a mature Clustering product (RSF-1) to many organisations throughout the world on mission-critical environments, (on Sun, IBM, HP, Microsoft, FreeBSD and Linux platforms), and has remained profitable throughout.
I co-founded High-Availability.com to take to market a High Availability (Cluster) product that I designed and co-built for the Sun Microsystems Enterprise market.
Initially, I helped get the product to market, and was heavily involved in pre-sales, implementations, post-sales, customer training and marketing activities, including customer presentations, trade-shows, seminars etc. and recruited developers, technical support, sales and marketing staff.
The company now successfully sells a mature Clustering product (RSF-1) to many organisations throughout the world on mission-critical environments, (on Sun, IBM, HP, Microsoft, FreeBSD and Linux platforms), and has remained profitable throughout.
Marketing, Linux, Training, Sales, Support, Enterprise, Founder
2006 - 2012
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Technology Director and Investor
Frooition Limited.
UK
Project Managed, architected, built and managed highly availability and responsive elastic system architecture on Amazon AWS to support hundreds of thousands of business users and tens of millions of product listings daily on various ecommerce platforms including: eBay, Magento, BigCommerce, Shopify, Amazon and social media channels. Managed development and support team to support local and international customers.
Worked extensively with AWS, Red Hat Linux, MySQL.
Project Managed, architected, built and managed highly availability and responsive elastic system architecture on Amazon AWS to support hundreds of thousands of business users and tens of millions of product listings daily on various ecommerce platforms including: eBay, Magento, BigCommerce, Shopify, Amazon and social media channels. Managed development and support team to support local and international customers.
Worked extensively with AWS, Red Hat Linux, MySQL.
Social Media, Mysql, Linux, Ecommerce, AWS, Shopify, Magento, Technology, Architecture, Support, Amazon, Development, Ebay, International, Responsive, Social
2005 - 2006
job
Interim CTO and Investor
Genicap BV.
Belgium
Project Managed team to develop and integrate the company's unique graphics design software with Adobe range of products (Photoshop, Illustrator).
Project Managed team to develop and integrate the company's unique graphics design software with Adobe range of products (Photoshop, Illustrator).
Design, Illustrator, Cto, Adobe, Software, Interim
2001 - 2002
job
Senior Director Northern Europe
Exodus Internet.
Netherlands
Worked extensively with European Enterprise customers and ecommerce start-ups to bring their on-premise infrastructure to Exodus new Amsterdam data centre. Heavily involved with bids and tenders, pre-sales meetings and project managing data-centre deployments.
I also recruited and managed a 20-strong Professional Services team to support the pre-sales and post-sales deployment efforts and oversaw a large number of successful large managed service deployments.
Worked extensively with European Enterprise customers and ecommerce start-ups to bring their on-premise infrastructure to Exodus new Amsterdam data centre. Heavily involved with bids and tenders, pre-sales meetings and project managing data-centre deployments.
I also recruited and managed a 20-strong Professional Services team to support the pre-sales and post-sales deployment efforts and oversaw a large number of successful large managed service deployments.
Ecommerce, Deployment, Sales, Service, Support, Infrastructure, Enterprise
2000 - 2001
job
Regional Director
Exodus Internet, Knutsford, Cheshire.
Reporting to Exodus' US board, I acted as regional director to integrate recently acquired Professional Services Company into Exodus' growing UK team, helping 50 consultants and staff into new roles and opportunities whilst retaining and developing the acquired company's customers and strategic partners.
1995 - 2000
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Managing Director & Founder
Grenville Consulting Ltd.
UK
I founded Grenville Consulting (UK) Ltd in 1995 and built the business from scratch to a 50 person strong team with revenues over £3m within 5 years, growing the company revenue and capability by 50% year on year. I proactively sought exit opportunities and engaged with five prospective active industry partners before agreeing to be acquired by Exodus in August 2000.
Initially, I was highly involved with technical enterprise consulting delivery, business generation and recruitment, but after 2.5 years, focused on growing the company. I successfully built and developed strong industry partnerships with Sun Microsystems (Professional Services), and most Sun resellers and integrators in the UK (including ICL, Horizon, Computacenter, Veritas, Acuma, Fujitsu etc.) and became leading supplier to most of these organisations, as well as developing a number of direct key accounts, including Deutsche Bank.
Our business was responsible for implementing many large-scale and critical enterprise-computing environments and for ongoing 24x7 on-site system administration that we did for a large number of high-profile clients including: BT, lastminute.com, Egg Bank, Nat West Markets, Deutsche Bank and Yorkshire Electricity.
I founded Grenville Consulting (UK) Ltd in 1995 and built the business from scratch to a 50 person strong team with revenues over £3m within 5 years, growing the company revenue and capability by 50% year on year. I proactively sought exit opportunities and engaged with five prospective active industry partners before agreeing to be acquired by Exodus in August 2000.
Initially, I was highly involved with technical enterprise consulting delivery, business generation and recruitment, but after 2.5 years, focused on growing the company. I successfully built and developed strong industry partnerships with Sun Microsystems (Professional Services), and most Sun resellers and integrators in the UK (including ICL, Horizon, Computacenter, Veritas, Acuma, Fujitsu etc.) and became leading supplier to most of these organisations, as well as developing a number of direct key accounts, including Deutsche Bank.
Our business was responsible for implementing many large-scale and critical enterprise-computing environments and for ongoing 24x7 on-site system administration that we did for a large number of high-profile clients including: BT, lastminute.com, Egg Bank, Nat West Markets, Deutsche Bank and Yorkshire Electricity.
Administration, Consulting, System administration, Recruitment, Enterprise, Founder
1992 - 1995
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Technical Director & Founder, Pro
Services (GMS) Ltd.
UK
Co-founded and developed this technical consulting company from scratch to a team of 6 consultants and revenues of over £250k within three years, and solidified strong industry partnerships with many blue-chip clients, including Sun Microsystems. Worked extensively with CAD system on-site deployments based on Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics workstations with 2-D CAD and Pro/Engineer solid modelling systems.
Co-founded and developed this technical consulting company from scratch to a team of 6 consultants and revenues of over £250k within three years, and solidified strong industry partnerships with many blue-chip clients, including Sun Microsystems. Worked extensively with CAD system on-site deployments based on Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics workstations with 2-D CAD and Pro/Engineer solid modelling systems.
CAD, Consulting, SOLID, Founder
My education
1987
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1991
University of Cleveland
BSc, Information Technology
BSc, Information Technology
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2016
Manchester Metropolitan University
MBA, Technology
MBA, Technology
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