A simple matter of…

Well a few agencies are finding this so I better state that I started a new job back in October and I’m very happy working there and so presently not looking.

CV below (now outdated) or in Word format (up to date)

Adrian Bridgett – Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Technology consultant with extensive Linux, AIX and SAN design, installation and support experience.
Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills. Fast learner capable of understanding new technologies quickly.

Major Achievements

• Oracle RAC installation of over thirty SuSE Linux machines together with SAN and DS4300 disk arrays
• Third line technical support for over 150 AIX systems
• SAN consolidation of over twenty islands into a dual fabric SAN (now with over 1000 ports)

Core Skills

• GNU/Linux – 10 years experience, including Debian, Red Hat (RHCE – 100% in all sections), LPI level 1
• AIX – 5 years experience, achieving CATE in addition to ASA, ASP certifications at AIX 4.x and 5.x levels
• SANs – 4 years experience of Brocade switches (BCFP)
• Disk arrays – 4 years experience of IBM ESS, DS8000, DS4000 (FAStT), SSA
• pSeries and xSeries – including BladeCenters
• Shell script programming
• Perl
• Networking

Non-core Skills

• Solaris
• Windows
• HP-UX
• Samba
• Apache
• C

Personal Skills

• Fast learner
• Excellent problem diagnosis and troubleshooting skills
• Capable of giving clear explanations of complex topics
• Good team worker and mentor
• Able to work independently

Career Highlights

• Syan/Dyadic (Dec 2000-present) – Linux, AIX, SAN technology consultant
• IBM MQ Series (1997-2000) – development, build, system administration
• University of Cambridge – BA Hons (1st class) in Computer Science (June 1997)
• Emmanuel College prize and two senior exhibitions for academic achievement (1994-1997)
• Grade A in maths, further maths, chemistry and physics at A-level; STEP grade 1 in chemistry and maths, distinction in maths S-level (1994)
• The King’s School Macclesfield sixth form scholarship (1992) and open scholarship (1987)

References

Available on request

Personal Information

Name:	Adrian Bridgett
Home address:	15 Belfry Square, Beggarwood, Basingstoke, RG22 4WZ
Email (home):	adrian@antiiiispam_smop.co.uk
Email (work):	adrian@antiiiispam_dyadic.com
Telephone:	0777-3778251
Date of birth:	5 November 1975
Marital status:	Single
Driving licence:	Full, clean

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Current employment – Syan/Dyadic (2000-present)

Technology consultant – tasked with remaining at the leading edge of a wide range of technologies – concentrating on Linux, storage and AIX.

Consultation – designing, implementing, testing and supporting heterogeneous solutions of varying size and complexity including xSeries, pSeries, SANs, disk arrays and tape libraries. Mentoring and training customers and colleagues covering theory, practical and troubleshooting aspects of all technologies.

Fixing customer problems – installed SAN, FAStT and LTO tape library over the weekend when timescales for a partner company slipped. Configuration and support of JS20 blades running AIX for a customer including Nortel Layer 2-7 switches against tight time constraints. On several occasions worked through the night to fix problems before they became critical.

Dyadic infrastructure – responsible for the design, build and support of the infrastructure in use at Dyadic (now Syan Ltd – Basingstoke) including network, firewall, DHCP, DNS, web server (Apache including LDAP integration), email gateway (the original implementation of the above project) and remote support.

Oracle RAC installation – using SuSE Linux SLES and partnering with a 3rd party. Built, installed (using autoyast), configured and now support over thirty xSeries servers including a TSM backup server and several DS4300 disk arrays at two remote locations.

Architected, setup, programmed and tested an email gateway using Exim, MailScanner, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Combined with a Lotus Notes backend this saved a customer millions of pounds as they were previously losing a high percentage of emails. Gateway has been running unattended and trouble free for almost 400 days. Isolated problems to IDS, firewall and network systems run by 3rd parties on three separate occasions.

Linux support – for major airline, including Red Hat RHEL installation on BladeCenters using kickstart, RPM builds, advanced network configuration and troubleshooting.

AIX support – (including PSSP and CSM) together with ESS and SAN installation, setup and support. Various other items such as small programming tasks, RSA (management card) and IBM Director troubleshooting, installation of software, performance tuning and troubleshooting.

Technical consultant – implemented ESS disk arrays and tested Flashcopy (snapshot) and PPRC (remote mirror) functionality at a national flag carrier who have subsequently replaced eight EMC Symmetrix units with four additional ESS arrays.

SAN island consolidation – consolidated twenty isolated islands into a dual core-edge fabric using Brocade 2109-M12 core switches whilst reusing many existing 2109-S16 edge switches. This simplified administration and substantially raised storage utilisation.

Programmer – wrote disk audit code to identify use of 100TB of storage at airline including ESS, EMC, SSA and LVS technologies on clustered AIX and Solaris systems. Examined ways to optimise their utilisation of storage and explained the methods and issues involved to non-technical managers.

Migration – of batch scheduling system from poorly documented 3rd party system into BMC Control-M. This included taking over maintenance and development of original system for several months before migration started and also creating web status reports more suited to the customer than the default Control-M output.

Automated procedures – rewrote AIX daily health check code used by Syan at airline to modularise it and vastly increase the number and accuracy of the tests whilst reducing unnecessary output. As a result less time is taken to check machines and more issues are caught before they can cause a problem.

Previous employment – IBM (1997-2000)

Development – C programmer for MQSeries v5.1, responsible for adding “namelist” support.

Automated builds – Part of MQSeries build team running builds across multiple platforms.

System administration – Key member of “glue” team installing and supporting over 300 development and test machines – primarily Unix systems (Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), Windows, OS/2 and many other platforms.

Linux community – Very active member in the IBM Linux community newsgroups, ran Linux mirror site.