Engineer Manager

Paul Belfield

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Profile

Experienced unix specialist with extensive design and administration skills. Before moving into consultancy worked in a number of environments including a variety of start-up and multi-national blue chip companies. Now focussed on delivering consultancy services focussed on virtualization and consolidation primarily on the Oracle Solaris platform.

Experienced unix support and implementation specialist.

More than 20 years unix systems experience.

Team leadership expertise.

Career Summary

Sainsburys : London, England Jun 09-Sept 15

Technical Consultant

Infrastrucutre design required to support multi data centre implementation of Oracle Enterprise Ops Cente.

Implementation of large scale SPARC Consolidation / Virtualization project using Solaris 10 / 11, Ops Center server pools, LDOM’s and zones running on Oracle T4/T5 hardware saving over 150k/yr in support costs.

Installation, build, testing and BMR of Solaris and Redhat servers on Oracle & IBM hardware platforms.

Re-design of existing DR process to allow failover to standby data center for all tier-1 and tier-2 unix based systems in a 4-6 hour timeframe.

Upgrade of the DR backup network from 100mb/s to gigabit allowing backups to meet required SLA in the event of a disaster

Inteq Professional Services : Leicester, England Nov 07-Jun 09 Lead Technical Consultant

Mobile Telecomms – Re-platform HLR system to Solaris 10 on Oracle x86 hardware.

Grocery Retailer – SPARC consolidation of RMS re-platform to Solaris 10 on SPARC/x86 hardware.

Asset Management Company – Provision of on-site consultancy during Murex trade processing upgrade.

Scottish Council – SPARC consolidation including site to site fail-over of guests domains and training. Keystone Computer Group : Uttoxeter, England Dec 06-Nov 07 Unix Consultant

Provision of Solaris telephone support to the Keystone customers.

Delivery of on-site consultancy to external customers. City of Stoke on Trent SFC : Stoke-on-Trent, England Sep 06-Oct 06 LRC Support

Provided desktop support to 40+ windows XP desktops in the learning resources centre. Electronics For Imaging (EFI) : Foster City, California (through acquisition) Nov 03-Apr 05 Senior Systems Engineer

SOX auditing and key control testing of SAP/R3 to ensure compliance with SOX Section 404 for IT systems.

Enterprise wide backup re-architecture, providing a framework standardizing 7 different hardware and software technologies leading to a 40% reduction in media costs and a 50% faster restore time.

Enterprise wide DNS audit and redesign eliminating 95% of DNS related trouble tickets. Printcafe : San Jose, California (through acquisition) Oct 02- Nov 03 Senior Systems Engineer

Migration of printChannel.com data centre from San Jose, CA to Pittsburgh, PA.

Developed training to transition support of the printChannel infrastructure to the Printcafe data centre team. printChannel.com : Stoke-on-Trent, England Jun 00-Oct 02 IT Operations Manager

Designed and implemented multi-tear architecture to support printChannel.com applications scaling from a single Ultra 5 during the startup phase of the company through to a 6 rack co-located cage.

Planned, directed and resourced the activites of the operations team to ensure aligmnent with business objectives, development and implementation of technical standards, training, guidance and direction of a globally distributed team of four.

Sun Microsystems Feb 91-Jun 00

Professional Services Engineer (1998-2000) : Coventry, England Systems Technologist 3 (1997-1998) : San Jose, California European Application Support Engineer (1994-1997) : Manchester, England Systems Technician (1991-1994) : Camberley, England STC Technology Limited : Newscastle-under-Lyme, England Aug 88-Feb 91 System Support Technician

Key Skills

SunOS 3.x and 4.x, Solaris 2.x, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (SPARC & x86) Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Virtualization (Logical Domains/OVM and Zones)

Sun Storage : A1000, D1000, A5x00, 6140, 6540, 2530 & 2540 Sun Jumpstart (JET)

Solaris and Veritas Volume Management Products (ZFS, SVM & VxVM, VxFS) Cluster (VCS)

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