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Alistair Fay 15 Fifth Avenue Phone: 0141 334 9325 Anniesland Mobile:0784 3433 139 Glasgow E-mail: [email protected] G12 0AR DOB: 02/09/1981 Personal Profile I am a Security Cleared and Degree Qualified Technical Consultant with 12 years of experience in multiple sectors and professional certification from VMware, Microsoft and Cisco. I have a strong and broad infrastructure background and extensive scripting and programming skills which I use effectively together to provide Infrastructure and Platform Automation Services in Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds. I have the personal skills to effectively interface with clients and all levels of management and have extensive experience leading technical teams in complex infrastructure projects. I am looking to further my career through an exciting position in a challenging and stimulating environment. Key Achievements Virtualisation Datacenter and Cloud Services Leader in I.T Transformation Program Ministry of Defence. Transitioning to Hybrid Public-Private Cloud platform utilizing Multi-Vendor Virtualization with Enterprise Automation and Catalog Services Architecture and Engineering of vSphere 5.1 estate for the largest information infrastructure rollout in Europe supporting 300,000 users in 2000 locations. Part of migration team which relocated the Atlas Consortium’s Development datacenters environments to new Datacenters. 4000 virtual machines and 800 users relocated over several months with limited outages Engineering and Migration Planning for 10Gbps network uplift across live Datacenters. Design and implementation of ESX farms running vSphere 4.x in the Glow National Datacenters. Fully resilient and highly secure infrastructure integrates with the existing physical infrastructure to run large portions of the world’s first national education intranet. Automation Automated Migration of a 7000+ VM vRealize Estate from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6 and between Block,ISCSI and VSAN Storage Automated Installation and Configuration of vRealize Environments from complete Sandbox Deployments to Configuration Management and New Customer setup on Production Platform. Creation of a fully automated deployment and configuration solution for ESXi hosts using vSphere Auto Deploy with Host Profiles and PowerCLI supporting the largest information infrastructure rollout ever seen in Europe. A self service portal accessing a multi tiered provisioning system based on Microsoft Powershell and VMware APIs providing a provisioning and management infrastructure for

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Alistair Fay

15 Fifth Avenue Phone: 0141 334 9325Anniesland Mobile:0784 3433 139Glasgow E-mail: [email protected] 0AR DOB: 02/09/1981

Personal Profile I am a Security Cleared and Degree Qualified Technical Consultant with 12 years of experience in multiple sectors and professional certification from VMware, Microsoft and Cisco. I have a strong and broad infrastructure background and extensive scripting and programming skills which I use effectively together to provide Infrastructure and Platform Automation Services in Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds. I have the personal skills to effectively interface with clients and all levels of management and have extensive experience leading technical teams in complex infrastructure projects. I am looking to further my career through an exciting position in a challenging and stimulating environment.

Key AchievementsVirtualisation Datacenter and Cloud Services Leader in I.T Transformation Program Ministry of Defence. Transitioning to Hybrid Public-Private

Cloud platform utilizing Multi-Vendor Virtualization with Enterprise Automation and Catalog Services Architecture and Engineering of vSphere 5.1 estate for the largest information infrastructure rollout in Europe supporting 300,000

users in 2000 locations. Part of migration team which relocated the Atlas Consortium’s Development datacenters environments to new Datacenters. 4000

virtual machines and 800 users relocated over several months with limited outages Engineering and Migration Planning for 10Gbps network uplift across live Datacenters. Design and implementation of ESX farms running vSphere 4.x in the Glow National Datacenters. Fully resilient and highly secure

infrastructure integrates with the existing physical infrastructure to run large portions of the world’s first national education intranet.

Automation Automated Migration of a 7000+ VM vRealize Estate from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere 6 and between Block,ISCSI and VSAN Storage Automated Installation and Configuration of vRealize Environments from complete Sandbox Deployments to Configuration

Management and New Customer setup on Production Platform. Creation of a fully automated deployment and configuration solution for ESXi hosts using vSphere Auto Deploy with Host Profiles

and PowerCLI supporting the largest information infrastructure rollout ever seen in Europe. A self service portal accessing a multi tiered provisioning system based on Microsoft Powershell and VMware APIs providing a

provisioning and management infrastructure for development environments used by a consortium of the world’s largest IT services providers

Provisioning and Administration of a National Directory of all teachers and learners in the Scottish Education System via VBScript and MS Powershell

Active Directory Implementation and maintenance of a fully hardened Active Directory Forest containing several million user objects and spanning

Live and Disaster Recover environments. Lead Consultant in Domain Controller refresh program and Active Directory Recovery Planning.

Production of the Active Directory requirements specification for the rollout of vSphere 5.1. Active Directory Integrated authentication for vSphere and ESXi, delegated authority to all components and features, group policy defined firewall and IPSec policies

Deployment and Management Technical lead in the planning and implementation of a migration from Microsoft SMS to SCCM as the primary OS deployment and

management solution for the Data Centers which run the Scottish School Digital Network National Intranet. Consultancy Services provided to the Aberdeen College Managed Service for an SCCM Windows 7 Desktop Deployment Project to

2000+ desktops and laptops.

Network and Security

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Planning and implementation of Certificate Refresh Program for Sky’s vRealize Estate Architecture and Engineering Leader in Virtualisation platform 10 GB network refresh utilizing Cisco Nexus and HP Blade System

platforms. Technical lead in the implementation of a secure and robust international SMB client Management Network spanning more than

20 sites. Active Directory Integrated Wireless and VOIP, Resilient Core with redundant WAN links. Datacenter network redesign of hosted webmail environment hosting half a million mailboxes providing a resilient and secure

infrastructure.

Storage Lead Engineer for child site refresh over 40 sites using EMC VNX 7600 arrays providing block and file services for Virtualisation and

user data. Minimal downtime migration to replacement SAN of 5TB of production data. Maintenance staged over several weeks with small

downtime windows. Migration of critical data hosted on Clustered and Standalone SQL Servers, Veritas Clustered Mail Service, SharePoint 2003 Farm. Employed techniques such as Log Shipping and SAN Mirroring/Replication

Resilience Design and implementation of a fully resilient infrastructure resulting in 5 consecutive years exceeding a 99.9% availability target.

Resilient areas include, Network Switches and Routers, Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls, WAN Links, AD, SQL, Mail, Linux and Cisco Load Balancers, Video Conferencing, Single Sign On.

Key SkillsVirtualisation – vSphere 4.x/5.x/6.x, ESX and ESXi, Site Recovery Manager, PowerCLI and vSphere API Automation, vRealize Operations, vSphere Update Manager, P2V Converter, VMware Data Recovery, vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)/vRealize Automation(vRA), vCenter Orchestrator(vCO)/vRealize Orchestration(vRO), vSAN, Single Sign On, Auto Deploy, Host Profiles, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, Cisco Nexus 1000v, VMware Workstation. Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Citrix XenApp 6.0, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Microsoft Terminal Services, Thin Clients

Automation – Extensive experience of automation via Microsoft Powershell, VMware PowerCLI, VMware API Programming, vRealize Automation (vRA), vCloud Automation Centre (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vCenter Orchestrator (vCO), VBScript, JavaScript, JSON, DOS and Batch, T-SQL. Puppet, Jenkins, REST APIs, OData, Regular Expressions, Windows Management Instrumentation, Tcl, Bash, Shell, REXX.

Core Infrastructure – Enterprise Datacenter Hardware, HP Blade System c7000, Dell PowerEdge M1000 Enclosure, InfoBlox, ServiceNow, Windows Server NT-2012 Windows Desktop 2000-Windows 10, Small Business Server, Linux, MacOS, Active Directory, Group Policy, ISA, SQL Server2000-2014, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, MOM/SCOM, SMS/SCCM, Nagios, SharePoint, MIIS, Biztalk, MS Office. Symantec NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, Comvault Simpana, Tapeware, ARCServ. Microsoft and Veritas High Availability Clustering. EMC and HP 3PAR SAN and NAS, Robotic Tape Libraries and Virtual Tape Libraries

Networking - LAN, WAN, Firewall, VPN, QOS, Routing, Switching, Security, IPSec, Resilience, Wireless, Remote Access, TCP/IP, VLANS, ADSL, SDSL, Leased Lines, ISDN, Voice Over IP and Analogue Telephony. Cisco, 3COM, Check Point, Sonic Wall, Watch Guard, Microsoft ISA, F5 Big IP, GTM, LTM.

Security – Microsoft Certificate Services, Symantec Enterprise Manager, McAfee E-Policy Orchestrator, Cisco Endpoint Security Agent, Lumension Endpoint Security (Device and Application Control), IPSec and Advanced Firewall, HIDS/NIDS and Intrusion Prevention, Statefull Packet Inspection, Network and Application Firewalls, Internet Proxies

Personal and Organisational – ITIL Foundation Certified, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Technical Presentation, IT Auditing, Project Planning and management, Requirement Capture, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Assessment and Management, Team Leadership, Recruitment, Mentoring and Training, Defect Management, Process Construction, Patch Management, Monitoring and Alerting, Reporting, Documentation, Task Prioritisation, Asset Procurement, Contract Negotiation/Administration.

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Employment

Sky Broadcasting Technical Specialist (Cloud Automation Engineer) October 2015-PresentWorking as part of an Agile and Multi-Disciplined DevOps Platform Engineering team providing Infrastructure Automation Services for Sky’s Private Cloud Platform. Automated Provisioning and Management via vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestration Toolset.European Datacentre Migrations as part of IT Insourcing of Sky Germany from third party service provider.Platform Upgrades, Re-Architecture and Re Platforming of vRealize Automation from 6.0.x to 6.2.x to 7.x and vCO 5.x Windows Installation to vRO 6.x and 7.x appliancesAutomated template generation and Integration with Sky’s infrastructure services.

HP Enterprise Services Technical Consultant (Lead Engineer) Dec 2015 – October 2015Datacenter and Cloud Services Lead for the Ministry of Defence New Style of I.T. Transformation Program. Governance and technical oversight for the Tech Refresh Program for HP’s Public Sector customers in the UK.Technical Leader for Engineering Deliverables across the Datacenter and Cloud Technology Tower: Virtualisation, Wintel, Network and Security, Information Management, Storage Backup and Recovery, Business Continuity, Web, IP and Datacenter ServicesTechnical Project Management for Datacenter rollouts and migrations spanning engineering and operations functions Customer and Partner engagement on multi million pound contract negotiationsLeading project teams to resolve high impact multi discipline technical issues

HP Enterprise Services Technical Consultant (Virtualisation Lead) Oct 2014 – Dec 2014Leading the team of 3 Architects and 6 Engineers responsible for all elements of the Engineering lifecycleOverall responsibility and accountability for Virtualisation Engineering deliverables to UK Public Sector CustomersRecruitment and performance management for all members of the teamRequirements capture through to customer signoffRepresenting the team to the wider Development community and to project and programme management

HP Enterprise Services Technical Consultant (Virtualisation Architect) Oct 2013 – Oct 2014Architecture and Engineering of Virtualisation Infrastructure solutions for HP’s UK Public Sector CustomersFully Automated ESXi Host Deployment solution leveraging VMware AutoDeploy with Host Profiles and PowerCLIDisaster Recovery via Site Recovery Manager utilising vSphere and EMC Storage replicationImplementation of vCenter Operations Manager and analysis of Development and Live estates resulting in significant efficiency savingsImplementation of P2V tooling and process supporting drive to 80% virtualisation

HP Enterprise Services Technical Consultant (Test Harness Development Lead) Jan 2012 – Oct 2013Management of Test Harness Development Team (4 Engineers and 2 Developers)Responsible for the design and maintenance of the Test Harness Image Set (a functional representation of UK Public Sector Customer productions systems)Development of self-service portal and automation framework for the provisioning and management of self-contained development environments based on the Test Harness Image SetProvider of Automation Tooling for the Datacenter migration of a 4000 VM virtual estate

RM Education Plc Senior Support Consultant May 2006 – Jan 2012Infrastructure Management and Third Line Support of the World’s first National Intranet for Education.Design and Implementation of vSphere 4.0 Infrastructure introducing Virtualisation to the Scottish Schools Digital NetworkPlanning and Implementation of upgrade to vSphere 4.1 estate including scale out of existing farmP2V conversions of live cloud based offering allowing contract extension without significant hardware spendConsultancy and Project Services to Aberdeen College Managed IT ServiceThird Line Support of the company’s Core Products and Services.Engagement and Consultancy Services to Scotland’s Local Authorities

Integral Arm Ltd Technical Support Engineer Jun 2004 – May 2006Design, implementation and proactive management of international SMB client network infrastructure.Responsibility for a team in the implementation and maintenance of internal and client local and wide area network infrastructures.

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Giles Insurance Brokers Ltd Support Technician May 2003 - Jun 20041st and 2nd Line support of a 14 site, 250 user network. Datacenter migration involving Microsoft Active Directory, Terminal Services, IBM Blade Servers, Cisco Routers, Switches and Firewalls.

Royal And Sun Alliance Plc Insurance Advisor Oct 2001 - May 2003Personal and commercial insurance sales and customer service. Department IT liaison officer and web portal contact. Provider of cost and time saving technical solutions.

Education & Training

Professional CertificationVCP6 Datacenter Virtualisation August 2016VCP5.5 Delta Exam November 2014Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (70-640) May 2014VCP5 Datacenter Virtualisation March 2013VCP4 Datacenter Virtualisation May 2012ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate February 2011Cisco Certified Network Associate September 2005Cisco Certified Sales Associate September 2005Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (70-210) January 2004

Significant TrainingLean Six Sigma Yellow Belt November 2014Lean Six Sigma White Belt November 2014vCenter Operations Manager Workshop June 2014HP Client Automation November 2012VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.0] September 2012Microsoft Powershell Workshop May 2011VMware vSphere4: Install, Configure, Manage (ICM) January 2010Combined Introduction to & Implementing ISO 2701 February 2009Microsoft Partner Workshop Active Directory Recovery December 2008Cisco Host Intrusion Protection August 2008Oracle Access Manager Workshop March 2008SharePoint Administration Workshop February 2008Securing the IOS Network September 2005

University Of Paisley – DipHE - Computer Network Administration - January 2004Cisco CCNP equivalency exams - Scalable Cisco Internetworks, Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks, Cisco Remote Access Networks, Cisco Internetwork TroubleshootingMicrosoft MCSA equivalency exams - Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Network Infrastructure, Directory Services.Network Operating Systems Introduction to Linux.

University Of Glasgow – BSc with Merit – Computing Science - September 2001Software Design, Computer Programming, Database Administration, Computer Systems, Human Computer Interaction. Mathematics and Physics to Second Year at Honours Level

Largs Academy June 1998Scottish Higher Level A Computing, Mathematics and Physics. Level C Award in English.Scottish Standard Grade Level1 in Mathematics, English, Computing, Physics, Chemistry, History and French

Additional InformationI have a full clean UK driving license. In my spare time I enjoy hill walking and running, I have completed 3 half marathons and am now training for my first full marathon. I support a local Scout Group by sitting on the committee and help with the running of the beaver

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section. I also work with a regional scout walking group which supports local groups to get their members on to some of the higher and more challenging mountains in Scotland.

ReferencesHP Enterprise Services RM EducationAdam Parkes James MorrisAtlas Delivery Manager Service Delivery ManagerHP Enterprise Services [email protected] [email protected] 07966 126344 07581303534