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System Administrator Software

Location:
Hoo, ME3 9EX, United Kingdom
Posted:
October 24, 2013

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Resume:

Steve Crew

*** **** ****

Hoo, Rochester

Kent

ME39EX

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Profile:

Many years experience in IT working primarily in the financial and business

sector with a grounded and thorough knowledge of the planning, development,

delivery and support of commercial IT services.

A background that combines an understanding of internal application

structures with knowledge of operating systems over a range of platforms

and architectures in a real time trading, back office or test environment.

Comfortable with first and second line support in a team structure. Will

work as a dedicated resource on a specific problem under pressure to

deliver SLA's. Able to pick up and run with new technologies for delivery

of services to a client. I have in recent years attained initial

qualifications in assessment and teaching. I volunteer in my spare time

for local charities.

Personal Details:

Mobile: 078**-****** Email:

**********@***.***

Systems:

HP-UX HP-VMS (Alpha/Vax)

Sun Solaris (SPARC and X86) Linux Red Hat

Storage (Symmetrix,DMX,Clarion)

Skill set:

OpenVMS to 8.2 HP unix to 11.11 Solaris

8 to 10

Linux - Red Hat EMC Storage (Symcli, BCV, SRDF) JumpStart

Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Volume Manager

Legato/Netbackup

CA Unicentre Remedy to V6

Employment History (key dates):

Date: Febuary 2012 - present

Company: Cookiereports

Position: Support

Working part time from home supporting the Cookiereports product.

Cookiereports provides clients with an audited report on the usage of

cookies over its web estate. I am involved running an initial domain screen

and analysis for the client. I also support the regular audits of clients

and the production of completed monthly reporting runs.

Date: August 2011 - January 2012

Company: Black Coral

Position: Fitter

Undertook a number of short term contracts as a fitter for Black Coral.

Black Coral are a sign fitting business based in West London. The work was

part time to fit in with study and volunteer work.

Date: January 2011- July 2011

Company: Nomura

Position: DCM Systems Administrator

Worked within the Data Centre Migration team in a joint Solaris and Linux

Red Hat environment. Delivered the migration of legacy name space into

Nomura Shinkyo Global NIS. Identified by application the personal and

service account uid and guid clashes in the environment and resolved these.

Initiated the change control process to migrate application and user

accounts and groups over to the new environment. Undertook the

coordination, with project management and application support teams, to

prepare for account migration into the new global environment. The work was

undertaken outside of business hours to deliver a convenient and accurate

migration that was transparent to the user. Responsible for the change

process which involved the detailed recording of the investigation,

preparation and execution of the project to its completion.

Date: January 2010 - December 2010

Invested in and initiated the creation of an on line shop for the family

craft business. This involved the research and planning of the shop, the

purchase of the off the shelf software and design of the site layout.

Responsible for photographing, pricing and adding the stock to the website.

Date: January 2009- December 2009

Company: RBS

Position: System Administrator (shift and on call position)

Support the migration of ABN/EDS systems to RBS. Handover of systems and

current practices to an RBS Team. Maintain strategic services to the

client. On call for Unix and OpenVMS platforms. Worked within the Unix team

on special projects, such as installation of third party software in bulk.

Reviewed and ensured patch levels on all Platforms, HP, Solaris and Linux

were up to date. Maintained and audited NIS services and accounts locally

and across multiple NIS environments for the Unix Team.

Date: March 2003- December 2008

Company: EDS Financial Systems

Position: System Administrator (shift and on call position)

Support and migration of ABN Systems for EDS as part of outsourcing.

Migration of applications away from local to SAN Storage. Clustering, de-

clustering and decommissioning environments. Planning and running Disaster

Recovery testing and live DR running with its implications to o/s, storage

and application delivery. Development, planning and completion of storage

migration projects. On call for Unix and OpenVMS platforms. Worked within

the Unix team on special projects, such as installation of third party

software in bulk. Reviewed and ensured patch levels on all Platforms, HP,

Solaris and Linux were up to date. Maintained and audited NIS services and

accounts locally and across multiple NIS environments for the Unix Team.

Involved in signing off server builds and checking that Unix build Sa's had

adhered to requirements laid down in the project run book and had achieved

the build standard agreed between Engineering, business teams and the

customer.

Date: May 1997- March 2003

Company: ABN Amro UK Securities

Position: System Administrator (shift and on call position)

Manage the running and development of systems and IT processes. Responsible

for the upgrade of the o/s and the maintenance of patch levels across

platforms. Designing and implementing the backup strategies for the data

infrastructure, local and third party SAN storage. Interfacing with

external and internal Auditors for the Unix/VMS team and resolving any

identified and agreed upon security issues.

Further historical Contract/Permanent employment:

Details available on request

Education:

Roan School for boys, Blackheath 1974-1980

Educated to O-Level pass in 8 subjects

Courses attended:

Alpha systems Mgt (HP) - Token Ring Inst and Mgt (Clarion) - Alpha Cluster

Mgt (HP) - Intro to Data Comms (HP) - Vitalink Bridge (Vitalink) - Intro to

DSM (ACT) - ST400 Intro and Ops (Swift) - SettleNet Gatway Mgt (Syntegra) -

Introduction to CMP (Wilco) - Crest Swift gateway (Crest) - Intro to

SuperXTAS (ACT) - Tru64 Advfs,LSM and Raid Config/Mgt (Global Knowledge) -

Tech intro to MQSeries (IBM) - Intro to Tru64 Unix and Advanced Adm (CRS) -

EMC Control centre (EMC)

Level 3 Award in Understanding The Principles and Practices of Assessment

MidKent College April 2012

Level 4 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)

MidKent College Oct 2012

ITQ Level 1 award in IT User Skills - OCR Oct 2012

Includes Database software, E-presentation, Desktop publishing software,

Spreadsheet software

ITQ Level 2 CLAIT Plus award in IT user Skills - OCR Oct 2012

Includes Database software, E-presentation, E-Document production



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