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