Curriculum Vitae
Profile
I am a very hard working, imaginative, enthusiastic and friendly solution developer, who works with a variety of technologies. Comfortable working either on my own or as part of a team, flexible enough to cope with every challenge. I handle responsibility with care and am adept at communicating with users and stakeholders alike.
Current Role(s)
Vertical Plus Ltd
July 2020 to Present. Vertical Plus is a leading SAAS provider in the e-commerce sector
Developing and maintaining production infrastructure and mission-critical internal systems. Liaising with development and management teams to define and deliver the infrastructure needed to support the strategic direction of the company. Staying up to date with the latest security threats and best practices for hosting environments and mitigating any potential threats. Helping maintain the ISO 9600, 27001 accreditation, preparing for cyber essentials and assisting where required on other documentation, data management, security and governance tasks as required. Additional project work included migration of customer websites and email accounts between servers as well as migration to Office 365/Google Apps. Lead project manager for the office move, disposal of WEEE equipment, secure data destruction and decom/move all existing infrastructure.
Technical skills...
AWS Puppet Bolt Terraform Kibana ElasticSearch Icinga Virtualisation Linux Windows Mac API's Postman PHP Python Flask Django Javscript HTML CSS Shell Qualys SSL & PK Security Vulnerability Management PCI Compliance ISO 27001 Compliance Secure Networking VOIP Training DocumentationAWS skills...
EC2 RDS Route53 IAM S3 EFS CLI VPN SES SNS CloudFormationCareer History
Airport Direct Travel Ltd T/A Rezcomm
August 2017 to June 2020
I have held three posts with this company, rising from web development manager, through head of systems and operations, to IT Infrastructure Manager.
IT Infrastructure Manager
January 2020 to Present
Key responsibilities are the optimisation of the existing infrastructure, development of new infrastructure solutions and maintenance of key security and maintenance programs to maintain our PCI compliance as a Level 1 Service Provider.
- Reduced cost of Infrastructure by more than 50% monthly while maintaining solid reliable infrastructure
- Secure decommissioning and removal of older components and software from infrastructure
- Implemented a Kibana based monitoring system
- Migrated EC2 instance based Databases to AWS RDS
- Upgraded existing Icinga monitoring infrastructure to latest version
- Moved legacy VPN systems to AWS
- Assisted with the deployment of EFS based file stores for SAAS client specific data
Head of Systems and Operations, Airport Direct Travel Ltd T/A Rezcomm
November 2017 to January 2020
Responsible for all Development, Infrastructure, Support and Processes for ecommerce systems, with a focus to develop and maintain PCI and ISO27001 compliant polices and working practices. PCI compliance was achieved twice in late 2018 & 19, with processes developed to ensure continual compliance. Managed dev and support staff
- Developed Internal documentation portal and assistance with developing Customer facing contact and support systems using Jira and hubspot
- Working alongside the Dev team to streamline, optimise and improve the companies ecommerce solutions, transforming a monolithic single server app into collection of highly optimised, highly scalable independent micro services
- Alongside this, optimising the infrastructure and moving all infrastructure and services to AWS
- Moving all SSL certificates to Let’s Encrypt
- Migrating all user data (docs & emails) and shared server assets to office 365
Web Development Manager, Airport Direct Travel Ltd T/A Rezcomm
August 2017 to November 2017
Main responsibility is building and leading the dev team for ecommerce platforms. Leading the daily stand ups and acting as the bridge head between the business and the dev teams producing the necessary documentation and reporting to the stakeholders.
- Main achievements include producing a set of working standards for the dev team
- Production of documentation to assist the support and operations functions
- Working with the Head of Systems and developers to start optimising the infrastructure and software, improving reliability and increasing monitoring
Web Developer, Bendrax Ltd
December 2013 to June 2017
A job role with a primary focus in e-commerce, looking after websites, marketplaces, adwords, seo and social media. Developing in Magento, Joomla, Wordpress, Channel Advisor, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, MySQL, JQuery and many other technologies, frameworks and platforms.
Web Developer, Monigma Ltd
October 2009 to November 2013
In charge of developing, supporting and maintaining brochure, news and e-commerce websites based on Joomla content management system. Developing in HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, MySQL, JQuery & Virtuemart. Part Linux sysadmin, part web developer, part-time contractor this varied role has kept me on my toes.
Contractor, Netvector Consulting Ltd
March 2010 - Febuary 2013
As a contractor my day to day function varied between helpdesk, on-site work and project managing. Project work mostly involved the migration of old systems to new virtualised infrastructure and upgrading software versions after migration.
IT & Facilities Manager, DeepSea Engineering Ltd
June 2006 - October 2009
European IT Manager, Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd
March 1999 - March 2005