Dale Macartney



Personal Details

Work Visa : Valid – Aug 2015 E-mail :dale@

Nationality : Australian Mobile : 0785 315 1392

Location : London, UK Other :020 7193 0948

Date of Birth : 17 July 1984 Post Code : W4 4BD

RHCE : 805007810328729 LinkedIn :

Education & Qualifications

2012 VMWare, Install, Manage, Configure (v5 Exam Pending)

2012 TOGAF (Exam Pending)

2010 Red Hat Certified Architect

2010 Red Hat Training – RH333 Security: Network Services (PASS)

2010 Red Hat Training – RH442 Performance tuning and monitoring (PASS)

2010 Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (Red Hat Inc., EMEA)

2010 Red Hat Certified Datacentre Specialist (Red Hat Inc., EMEA)

2009 Red Hat Training – RH436 Clustering and Storage Management (PASS)

2009 Red Hat Training – RH401 Deployment, Virtualization, and Systems Management (PASS)

2007 Red Hat Certified Engineer (Red Hat Inc., Australia)

2007 Red Hat Certified Technician (Red Hat Inc., Australia)

2006 MOC 2279B – Planning, Implementing and Maintaining a Microsoft

Windows 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

2005 MOC 2400B – Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

2003 Microsoft Certified Professional (Dimension Data, Australia)

2002 Higher School Certificate

Profile

A Technical Architect / Solutions Consultant with 10 years industry experience in heterogeneous Linux, Windows and Virtualization environments and specialising in large scale Virtualized Datacentres. Working with infrastructure within multiple industries, including Media, Education, Government, and Internet Hosting. A confident and hard-working team player with a “work hard, play hard” attitude that loves a challenge.

Most recent experience has been for a broadcast media company working to deliver a highly scalable private cloud virtualization platform, providing 100% datacentre resilience.

Seeks contract work being immediately available for interviews and starts throughout the U.K.

Technical Skill Summary:

Operating systems:  Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian Linux, VMware ESX Server 3.5 / 4.5, Solaris 7-10, Windows 2003 / 2008 Server, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

Hardware: Cisco, Foundary and HP Procurve Switches, Sun SPARC, HP Proliant Servers, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fortigate firewalls.

High Availability: Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), IPVS, Zeus

Virtualization: VMware VirtualCenter, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Xen, KVM

Databases: PostgreSQL, Progress OpenEdge, MySQL, Microsoft SQL 2000/2005

Internet: Routing, Firewalls, DNS, DHCP, Postfix, Qmail, IIS, Apache, FTP, Iptables, Squid, Radius, Microsoft Exchange 2003, IAS, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes,

Deployment: Red Hat Satellite, PXE, Cobbler, Kickstart, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite,

Soft Skills: Infrastructure Project Management, ITIL Best Practices, TOGAF

References: available on request

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Feb 2011 – May 2012 Sky News, British Sky Broadcasting, London UK

Sky News is the Breaking News branch of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). With 24/7 News coverage around the world, this makes Sky News one of the most heavily impacted division of BSkyB.

Technical Architect (Virtualization)

Working within a team of 10 developers at Sky News, my role was to architect a new infrastructure for the future of the platform which involved the following:

Managing the expenditure of the Infrastructure project stream within the overarching project.

Leading the direction of Systems Architecture within a team of 14 people (Including a mix of business owners, agile Java developers and product testers)

Design/Architect/Manage the implementation of the new solution through the entire project life cycle.

Migrate the team’s existing infrastructure from VMware vSphere 4.5 to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Deliver a Proof of Concept on the technologies to be used for the production solution. This included a usable Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / Satellite installation to demonstrate and train the team on how the solution will work and simplify procedures.

Liaise with Suppliers throughout the deployment process to ensure that all parties are on side and in a position to, as a team, to deliver a working solution which addresses all business and team needs.

Creating a simplified interface for the development teams to provision new systems within the new private cloud(s). Utilizing a mixture of BASH, Python and API scripting, this was delivered to allow the team to work towards the “KISS” principle for management over systems deployments.

Implement the production cloud solution which is now a fully functioning “Active/Active” datacentre implementation where even a complete datacentre outage does not result in any service outage to customers or business units.

Implement a means to allow the team to automatically monitor all new systems being implemented through Icinga(Nagios) so there would never be any systems that slip between the cracks of Systems checks.

Achievements: Through my work within Sky News, my solution of delivering “Active / Active” datacentres’ with HP and Red Hat solutions, is / has already started to become the new standard platform model for many other teams within Sky. The successful end solution is a very new concept, not only within Sky but within the industry.

Technical snapshot: Budget management, Design / Architecture, Suppler relations, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, BASH, Python, API, Icinga, Nagios.

July 2010 – Jan 2011 Universal Pictures International Entertainment, London UK

Universal, one of the leaders in the Film industry, is a remarkable company in its own right, however having the opportunity to work for Universal, was quite a surprising and refreshing experience.

Technical Architect (Infrastructure)

Working on behalf of the Core Infrastructure Architecture team and working in a team of 4, my responsibilities were:

Provide Architectural guidance on managing Windows Active Directory Infrastructure across 53 countries with a user base in the many thousands.

Recommend best practices with deploying of SOE Builds to allow central control of remote assets.

Recommend best practices on Security aspects ranging from effective user management with permissions, right through to Active Directory management by service desk support teams.

Provide Solution Outline documentation to clearly state the areas of concern, risk and to show where the resulting solution will address those issues.

Leading by example in my recommendations, training specific staff where required to allow all my recommendations to be understood and implemented both today and in the future.

Technical snapshot: Active Directory Best Practices, Security Best Practices, Team training

Dec 2008 – Sept 2010 Red Bee Media Metadata (BBC Broadcast), London UK

Red Bee Media Metadata is the broadcasting division of Red Bee Media, previously known as BBC Broadcast. Red Bee Media Metadata specialises in high quality EPG channel listings and triggering for customers including the BBC, Channel 4, Virgin Media, and British Eurosport.

Senior Systems Engineer

Working as an Infrastructure Engineer for Red Bee Media Metadata is a very fast paced position to be involved in. Working in a team of 4, my responsibilities were:

Initially starting out at Red Bee with a SAN migration, which was initiated with SAN planning and designs, installations and targeted at enhancing Database performance and access across several datacentres.

Monitor the existing infrastructure and ensure as near 100% uptime as possible. Supporting platforms of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as well as Windows 2003 Server running on HP Proliant servers.

Manage all system/infrastructure changes within the organisation to ensure that all work is done quickly, efficiently and confirming to all change control procedures.

Manage a continuously growing Nagios installation monitoring all forms of hardware and software. Items being monitored include Uptime, hardware utilisation and health, etc.

Design, Build, test and deploy new technologies. This has included several implementations of Red Hat Cluster Suite and virtualization installations.

Provide solutions to identified problems within the infrastructure. Ranging from integration between all Red Hat and Windows Active Directory for single sign on purposes for several platforms.

Achievements:

Once finished the HP MSA2000 SAN deployments, I was approached by representatives from HP UK and EMEA to speak at a Press Conference for upcoming technologies.

Technical snapshot: HP MSA2000 SAN, HP Proliant Servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, IPVS, Nagios, Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003

May 2008 – Nov 2008 Cass Business School, City University, London UK

Cass Business School is a part of CITY University of London. Cass specialises in Business education for undergraduate and postgraduate study for students of all ages and backgrounds.

Senior Systems Engineer

Working as a Senior Systems Engineer for Cass Business School was always a lively and very interesting role. Working in a group of 4 seniors responsibilities were:

Monitor and support platforms of VMware ESX 3.0-3.5, Solaris 7-10, and Windows 2003 Server running on hardware of both HP Proliant x86 and Sun SPARC hardware.

Ensure that the Cisco network is fully operational, up to date and configured to reflect the necessary business needs. e.g. Implementing VLAN's, routing and firewall rules.

Maintain a thorough and precise backup regime through the use of Veritas NetBackup, used on both Solaris and Windows Server platforms.

Update and configure Nagios network monitoring for all servers, services and switches to be displayed on a large plasma screen to show current statistics of network resources.

Shell scripting using bash and VBScript where required. Scripts written in VBScript were designed for implementation into Group Policy. Once example was a script that was created to remove Symantec Anti-virus as it was no longer vendor supported.

Achievements:

My project of automating what Symantec considered an unsupported upgrade path was silently deployed and was successful in rolling out to a client machine base of 500 computers.

Technical snapshot: VMware Infrastructure, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Solaris 7-10, Windows 2003 Server, Bash, VBScript, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Veritas NetBackup

Mar 2006 – Feb 2008 Green Point Christian College Ltd, AU

Green Point Christian College is a K-12 school on the Central Coast of New South Wales, consisting of roughly 1200 students and 140 staff.

Systems Administrator

Worked for Green Point Christian College in a variety of different areas, ranging from end-user support through to future planning and implementation of infrastructure.

Responsible for:

Maintaining current infrastructure consisting of Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003, WebMarshal and MailMarshal content filters.

Successful deployment of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure.

Configure all web services using Apache in Linux environments and MS IIS to serve the College’s requirements for web hosting.

Deploy system images via the use of PXE network booting using both Symantec Ghost for client computers, and Kickstart for Red Hat Enterprise systems.

Research and introduce new technology where necessary. Including Virtualization and alternative methods of current infrastructure.

Supporting all staff and students using a variety of software packages (MS Office, internal databases)

Achievements:

Through the introduction of a proof of concept of VMware Virtual Centre 3.5, this lead to a server migration from physical servers on to a SAN attached Virtual Centre Infrastructure.

Technical snapshot: VMware ESX Server, PXE, Kickstart, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, IIS, IAS, ArcServe Backup 11.5, Windows 2003 Server R2, Terminal Services, Windows XP/2003,

Mar 2005 – Mar 2006 CountryNet Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia

CountryNet Pty Ltd is a small network support company on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Providing a variety of services, ranging from web and email hosting, to company end user support.

Systems Administrator

Worked for CountryNet in providing end user support to a range of clients, including education and corporate organisations

Responsible for upgrading and enhancing the system including:

Monitor and manage critical servers running Linux, Windows 2000 Server/2003 Server (Qmail, Apache, Cistron Radius, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Exchange 2003, ProFTPd, MySQL, BIND.)

Create, modify and maintain shell scripts used for several uses within Linux servers. Tasks ranging from backups using rsync, emailing statistics of data usage of clients and the automation for creating new websites and DNS zones.

Support new and existing implementations of Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange 2003.

Deployment of a new terminal server infrastructure in the head office for a leading photographic chain (Fletcher’s Photographic)

Investigate, diagnose network interruptions and propose a solution for the connection provided under an SLA to the company hosting platform.

Achievements:

The resulting findings to the internet disruptions lead to changing to a new service provider giving a vastly improved service to the office and supported clientèle.

Technical snapshot: Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Qmail, Apache, Cistron Radius, Rsync, Shell Scripting, IIS, ProFTPd, MySQL, BIND, Linux, Terminal Services, Windows 95 & 98/2000/2003/XP

2 Interests

Ice Hockey, Travelling.

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