Engineer Project

David Vincent Dawkins

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Professional Summary

Highly experienced adaptable, disciplined, tenacious IT Architecture Consultant individual, with meticulous System Design / Software Development / Customer Support / Operational and Project Management skills.

A successful IT Architect with a wealth of analytical, technical and commercial transferable skills acquired across a wide range of demanding roles. Accomplished in achieving delivery targets within budget and establishing full life cycles on various complex service models, industries and projects from initial conception, systems design, programming, testing to successful implementation. Improving efficiencies and profits through relationship building, negotiating and liaising with senior management and customers.

Current Career Goal

Now seeking next challenging and rewarding Information Technology Architecture opportunity to demonstrate substantial abilities, and make an effective contribution in a successful, end user focused team.

Key Transferable Skills and StrengthsAnalysing and Problem Solving - Identifies problems and gathers information, making judgements based on facts.Showing Energy and Drive - Shows energy and enthusiasm for meeting difficult goals and taking on new responsibilities.Planning and Focusing on Quality - Plans activities and projects, using time effectively to produce high quality work.Leading and Taking Responsibility - Takes responsibility for own actions and for leading others.Managing Change and Pressure - Adapts to changes, remains calm and reacts positively to challenges.Working with Others - Works well with people by listening, understanding and supporting others.

Work History

Datadean Limited

IT Architecture Consultant, Truro, Cornwall May 1994 - Present

As an Architecture Consultant, my role has been to run a successful comprehensive IT consultancy service company, offering fully managed Architecture contracting services to public-sector, leading multi-national and banking corporate companies.

High-Level responsibilities within this role included:End-to-end project management, encompassing design, installation, migration, and configuration that ensured completion within time, and budgetary parameters.Standardising ICT system designs to reduce costs and to simplify ITIL support methods, and procedures.Developing custom made hardware and software solutions for customer IT systems, and relational database application issues.Preventing unplanned system and application downtime by implementing effective pro-active monitoring solutions.Stabilising applications and systems to lower IT support costs and increase up-time.Negotiating project requirements, targets, time-scales, resources, and costs.Applying a broad range of business-critical application, development, and administration technical skills.Displaying a flexible helpful approach towards others and having a need to belong to a company culture environment.Investigating/profiling hardware and software performance problems, and evaluating the most cost-effective solutions.Recommending hardware and software vendor solutions based on past experience and vendor relationships.Explaining complex application and system issues to a broad audience to ensure quick resolutions.

Detailed Architecture Experience and AchievementsCreated 7 dual IBM VIOS 1.5.2 cluster environments, and reorganised the IBM p595 adapter card locations for resilience and performance.Created HACMP 5.4 cluster designs for the production SAP/Oracle servers. Created an IBM AIX rootvg build Golden-image now being used by Atos Origin for all their other clients AIX server builds. Created detailed 60 Tb EMC storage designs, for SAP / Oracle 10g IBM VIOS LPARs using customer SAP requirements. Delivered major DVLA Drivers Re-engineering Project 'Infrastructure Testing' design work packages, development, system test, and Integration, UA, Pre-prod, and Production environments. Manage / train a team of Junior IBM Infrastructure Technical Architects, Testers, and Graduate trainees. Designed / implemented automated SAP file system build processes using a logical volume to file system excel template, csv files, and perl script.Delivered over 1000 automated, and manual, infrastructure and security tests for importing into Test Director, based on the new and existing Infrastructure which comprised of IBM AIX 5.2, IBM VIOS LPAR, IBM HACMP, CSM, Windows server 2000, 2003, Active-directory, Oracle 9i, Weblogic 8.2, Apache, MQ, QAS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, SAN, Apache, and IIS web-servers, ISA Linux and PIX firewalls, Cisco load balance switches and routers.Designed using IBM SPT (System Planning Tool), and built to design fifteen Production, User Acceptance, and Development AIX, dual VIO LPARs (Logical partitions) for the million pound IBM POWER5 pSeries 570 Server Consolidation Project in three days. Impact: Allowing the decommissioning of fifteen other UNIX systems, that run British Telecom's UK network monitoring applications.Designed, developed, implemented and tested IBM TSM / TSM DP for mySAP database and UNIX server backup solution for the SSC Development environment.Designed/validated 70 LPAR sysplan designs for 3 x p595, and 2 x p570 IBM frames using IBM SPT.Documented RS6000/Bull AIX system design proposals, as a Software Engineer in LEB Distributed Systems Application Support, for the Streetwise HHD Sybase 4.92 AIX 3.25 server system, before acceptance, purchasing, implementation, and final testing, & live usage on the 20th March 1995. Established the design templates for DVLA Test Director Application, organised the tests so they were grouped by components and then by various sections of that component.Liaised with the London Electricity bill MINDER project team, to successfully design and develop another file transfer program, in ANSI C to reside on the project RS6000/BULL AIX UNIX computers, and for DOS platforms, using command line arguments, to interrogate a mainframe generated repository file and an XCOM configuration file, to extract the file transfer parameters to use during the XCOM file transfers, to and from the IBM mainframe.Redesigned the existing Swansea NSL, and new System test environment to implement new Nokia PIX firewalls, to eliminate network and server instability due to virus activity.Redesigned and upgraded the ABS Production and Disaster-Recovery system hardware, for resilience, upgrade the IBM AIX 4.13 OS, and upgrade the Sybase 11 SQL servers with replication 11 to 11.5 Adaptive Server.Redesigned the existing IBM Production and DR RS6000 p690 HACMP / CMS systems, 1 Terabyte SSA disk configuration design for improved AIX 5.1 DB2 v 7.2 databases disk I/O performance.Redesigned, and upgraded the five IBM AIX 4.1.3 IBM RS6000 S70, R50 Production ABS servers, for resilience, implemented VERITAS Volume Manager, Sybase ASE, Sybase Replication Server, performed upgrades to Sybase 11 SQL servers with replication 11 to ASE 11.5, then relocated the systems from the LME, at St. Catherine's Dock, to Cap-Gemini's DR data centre, at South Bank, London.Performed logical and physical database re-design (documented using LBMS System Engineer), Sybase 11.02 Database tuning / administration of development and production databases, AIX / network system performance tuning, support for all IBM AIX 4.1 UNIX and Sybase 11.02 database problems, Business requirements Analysis, System disaster and Recovery documentation, and implementation of an EPOS X25 Link for approx. 100,000 daily Nat West banking transactions.Performed IBM AIX Infrastructure design deliverables and quality standards to GSI / DVLA security standards.Predicted IBM server, application, and network infrastructure requirements through AIX System and Curam application performance mathematical modelling.Reviewed / amended the project NetBackup technical design documents from Symantec, and integrated the new IBM AIX systems using the NetBackup solution to the existing BT production NetBackup environment.

Detailed Career HistoryMay - September 2012 .NET Application Architect at Datadean, Truro, Cornwall, UK.May 2011 - May 2012 .NET Application Architect at Datadean, Truro, Cornwall, UK 2/2/2011- 4/4/2011 PHP MySQL Application Architect at Microtel, of New York, USA.19/7/2010 - 6/9/2010 IT Systems Consultant with Cornwall Council at Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK.5/12/08 - 10/04/2011 IT Architect at Lang-Bennett's Chartered Accountants, Truro, Cornwall, UK.27 March - 30 October 2008 IBM Architect at Atos Origin, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 1 August 2007 -26 March 2008 Infrastructure Architect at Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Blackpool, UK. 17 May - 1 July 2007 IBM Infrastructure Architect at Computacenter Limited, Manchester, for British Telecom.17 January 2006 -1 April 2007 IBM Infrastructure Architect at the DVLA for Fujitsu Services in Swansea, Wales, working on the EDRMS, SSC, VSS, TACHOnet, and Elise projects.10 September 2004 -31 December 2005 IBM Infrastructure Architect at the DVLA for Fujitsu & IBM, in Swansea, Wales, working on the DRP Project.March 2003 -September 2004 UDB DB2 Database Applications Performance Architect, IBM, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire.November - December 2002 Sybase Replication Architect, for the Sybase Replication Implementation Project, Standard Bank, Hong Kong & London.2002 BS7799 / BS17799 Systems Applications Security Engineer, Datadean Limited (various Datadean consultancy clients), Truro, Cornwall.April 2001 - July 2002 Senior Development Sybase DBA / Oracle DBA / Solaris UNIX Systems / Security / RDBMS Data Migration Engineer, Hewlett Packard, Bristol / European Bank R&D, London.October 2000 - April 2001 Senior Sybase DBA / Network Technical Architect, Vizzavi / Vodafone, London (Telecoms).August 1999 - September 2000 Senior Sybase DBA Team Leader / Security / Network / Consultant, Electronic Data Systems GmbH (EDS), Frankfurt, Germany (Facilities Management Services). July - August 1999 Production Senior Sybase DBA / HP-UX UNIX Systems Consultant, Debis Systemhouse for Viag Interkom, Munich, Germany (Telecommunications). January - July 1999 Production Senior Sybase DBA / Solaris - UNIX / Consultant, Perot Systems for Warburg Dillon Read, Zurich, Switzerland (Investment Banking).August - November 1998 Production Senior Sybase DBA / AIX & Solaris - UNIX Consultant, London Clearing House Ltd, London (Investment Banking Clearing).November 1997 - July 1998 Oracle DBA / HPUX UNIX Consultant for Test Environment, Legal & General Assurance Ltd, Kingswood, Surrey, UK (Financial - Pensions).February - November 1997 Production Sybase DBA / AIX UNIX consultant, Oasis Holiday Villages Ltd., Three-Bridges, Crawley, Sussex.December 1995 - January 1997 Sybase DBA / Solaris UNIX Consultant, Aspect Telecom UK Ltd, Southall, Middlesex.July - December 1995 Oracle 7 DBA / Solaris UNIX Consultant, National Rivers Authority, Exeter, Devon.March - June 1995 Informix DBA / SCO UNIX Consultant, GSI Travel & Transportation Ltd, Stanhope Road, Camberley, Surrey.December 1994 - March 1995 Sybase Application Support Consultant, London Electricity PLC, SE1, London.August - October 1994 Informix DBA / AIX UNIX Consultant, Sun Life Assurance, Bristol, Avonmouth.May - August 1994 UNIX Systems Engineer, Royal Mail Parcel-Force, Bootle, Liverpool.

IT Systems Engineer, Truro, Cornwall September 1981 - April 1994

In my role as IT Systems Engineer, I worked for leading national and multi-national IT / Petro-chemical corporate companies, Chevron (UK) Limited, McDermott's International (USA) Inc, Dubai, UAE, Van Reitschoten & Howens, Vlissingen, Holland, Shell Petroleum BV, Thayyem, Syria, British Petroleum, Falmouth, Winchester Electronics Co., Southampton, and W. Churches & Sons Ltd., for IBM at Hursley, Winchester.

EducationEastleigh Technical College, Electrical Engineering, 1976-1977Loughborough College, Electronics Engineering, 1977-1977City & Guilds of London Institute, Industrial Electronics & Electrical Engineering, 1978-1981(Diplomas gained with Credits & Distinctions)HND in Computer Studies Course, Southampton University, Southampton, 1985B.Eng. H611 Computer Engineering Systems Course, Plymouth Polytechnic, Devon 1986-1990

TrainingSecret Clearance Level Security Cleared, by Department Of Transport, from 2005 to 2010.Sybase Registered Support Plus, Sybase (UK), Maidenhead, Berkshire, 2001.

Interests

Gardening, Walking, Family life.

References

Available from my LinkedIn page at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidvdawkins

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