April 2004 - Homunculoid



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|Education | |Summary |

|Bachelor of Engineering | |Experienced Unix/Linux & systems engineer. |

|(Computer Systems) | |Able to apply engineering methodologies and new technologies to meet business needs. |

|University of South Australia, 2001 | | |

|Project: DSP on reconfigurable | | |

|parallel architectures | |Career Overview |

| | |2009 – 2016 Senior Systems Engineer, Fugro LADS |

| | |2008 – 2009 Systems Engineer, LADS Corporation |

|Links | |2007 – 2008 Systems Engineer, Tenix Defence |

|Website: | |2004 – 2006 Data Analyst, Electronic Data Systems |

|GitHub: SupremeGit | |(HP Enterprise Services/DXC Technology) |

|LinkedIn: John Sincock | | |

|Email: jss@.au | | |

| | |Highlights |

| | |Supported mission-critical systems on worldwide deployments. |

|Technical Skills | |Delivered a stream of projects enabling successful completion of the two largest hydrographic |

|Linux: | |LIDAR surveys ever conducted (France 2012/13, and Saudi Arabia 2015/2016). |

|RHEL • CentOS • Fedora •Debian | | |

|Ubuntu • Suse • Gentoo | | |

| | |High-Level Skills & Experience |

|Windows: | |Systems engineering: systems-level analysis & design. |

|7 • 8 • 10 • Server 2012 •2016 | |Service delivery: maintaining & improving services to internal and external clients. |

|Active Directory • Group Policy | |Project delivery: as tech. lead on IT projects; and as a member of multi-disciplinary teams, |

|PowerShell • WSUS | |focusing on integration to deliver effective & efficient systems. |

| | |Managing multiple deliverables and deadlines in support of local & overseas offices. |

|Virtualisation: | |Full SDLC experience, including iterative/Agile approaches, configuration control, and |

|KVM • oVirt • RHEV • VMWare/ESXi | |documentation. |

|Hyper-V • Vagrant/VirtualBox | |ITIL processes in enterprise, engineering, and MSP environments. |

|Docker • Kubernetes | |Hardware, OS, and application support for mission-critical servers and software applications. |

| | |Training users, leading small teams, mentoring junior engineers. |

|DevOps/CI/CD: | |Excellent problem-solving skills applicable to a wide range of problem domains. |

|Ansible • Puppet • Bamboo • Jenkins | | |

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|Monitoring: | |Further Information: |

|Collectd • Grafana • Nagios • Zabbix | |For more of my work-related and personal interests, see my website at: |

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|Programming: | | |

|Fluent: Bash • Perl • C • Ada | |Referees: |

|Familiar: Java • C++ | |Available on request. Or see recommendations on my LinkedIn profile (e.g. from Ben Bird, my |

| | |manager at Fugro): LinkedIn - John Sincock |

|Currently learning: | | |

|Python • AWS CloudFormation | | |

|Splunk • Windows SCCM | | |

Employment:

|October 2016 – Current | |After resigning from Fugro LADS in late 2016, I took a year off to enjoy some travel and follow |

|Career Break | |some personal interests. This included several months preparing for and completing a five-week |

| | |solo trip through the remote WA outback. |

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| | |I am now seeking a new role in Sydney, but being based in Adelaide has made achieving this more |

| | |difficult than expected. Neverthelesss, I am committed to relocating and am ready to do so |

| | |immediately. I’m used to travelling internationally for Fugro, so it won’t be a problem to |

| | |relocate & start work within a week of being offered a role. My stuff will go into storage and |

| | |I’ll go into a good AirBnB until I can find some longer-term accommodation. Easy. |

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| | |To keep my technical skills sharp while looking for my next role, I’ve been learning some new |

| | |technologies & working on a variety of personal projects, some of which can be found on my |

| | |GitHub account. |

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|2012 – September 2016 | |As the senior Linux/Unix systems engineer based in Adelaide, I worked on a range of projects |

|Fugro LADS | |while managing a heavy load of business-as-usual (BAU) activities. |

|Senior Systems Engineer | | |

| | |Main responsibilities: |

|Fugro LADS is the Laser Airborne Depth Sounder | |Projects – tech. lead and integration. |

|division of Fugro,a global surveying company. | |Level 3 escalation point for all Linux/Unix & server issues. |

| | |Automation of data management & system administration. |

|LADS designs, builds, and supports the world’s | |Server performance tuning & stability. |

|most advanced airborne LIDAR system. The system| | |

|is used by an in-house survey team to conduct | |Achievements: |

|hydrographic surveys for government and | |• Successfully delivered several large projects for managed services client: |

|commercial clients worldwide. | |Ground system components of a multi-million dollar system upgrade. Delivered design, |

| | |implementation & user acceptance testing (UAT) for: new HP Proliant servers & storage, RHEL4 to |

|LADS also licenses a system to the Royal | |RHEL 6 migration, DHCP/DNS/LDAP migration to Windows Server 2012R2, and system integration of |

|Australian Navy (RAN), and provides managed | |custom software with new hardware & OS. |

|services supporting the Navy in Cairns. | |Automation project. Delivered Ansible playbooks and bash/PowerShell scripts enabling efficient |

| | |remote administration and configuration management of servers and workstations. This allowed |

| | |Fugro to end on-site support, delivering significant ongoing savings - while continuing to |

| | |provide excellent support to the client. |

| | |• Successfully delivered a stream of internal projects, including: |

| | |Disaster recovery plan including: custom-built high-capacity Linux backup server, and Windows |

| | |2012R2/Hyper-V/Veeam disaster-recovery test server. |

| | |Design and build of 3-node cluster, providing 400 Terabytes of GlusterFS storage: with |

| | |development of tools to efficiently manage tens of millions of files. Building from the ground |

| | |up, I was able to avoid vendor lock-in and achieve significant savings. |

| | |Nightly & on-demand synchronisation of large production datasets between offices in the field, |

| | |Adelaide, and China. |

| | |Ruggedised high-performance servers & workstations for overseas deployment. |

| | |Refresh of Solaris servers, virtualisation of Tru64 Unix servers. |

| | |Ansible/bash/PowerShell to automate deployment & operation of Linux and Windows infrastructure. |

|2009 – 2012 | |After LADS Corp was acquired by Fugro, I took on additional responsibilities in the Adelaide |

|Fugro LADS | |office, while still spending approximately 30% of my time in the field. |

|Senior Systems Engineer | | |

| | |Main responsibilities: |

|In 2009, LADS Corp. was acquired by the global | |Level 3 escalation point for all Linux/Unix & server issues. |

|surveying company Fugro, to become Fugro LADS. | |After-hours & remote support for engineers & surveyors in the field. |

| | |Virtualisation – legacy, development, production servers. |

| | |Disaster recovery – planning & testing. |

| | |Assisting software engineers – integration, debugging, service requests, non-conformance, |

| | |software deployment. |

| | |Specification & selection of new server hardware (Dell & HP). |

| | |Design & build of high-performance workstations. |

| | |Design documentation & configuration management. |

| | |Training, supervising, mentoring junior engineers. |

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| | |Achievements: |

| | |Supported Navy client through a major upgrade of all airborne LIDAR systems and migration of |

| | |ground processing systems from Solaris/Windows XP to RHEL/Windows 7. |

| | |Delivered a two-week training course to Navy personnel (prepared course materials, setup & |

| | |supported classroom IT systems, presented lectures). |

| | |Worked with engineers from Actimar to successfully integrate, test and validate new |

| | |hyperspectral imaging systems while in the field in Martinique. |

| | |Re-implemented Linux (RHEL) & Windows 7 workstation SOEs. |

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|2007 – 2009 | |Administered Linux, Tru64, and Solaris Unix servers, as well as Linux & Windows workstations. |

|LADS Corporation/ | | |

|Tenix Defence | |This role was approximately 30-50% field-based, with international deployments for LADS, and |

|Systems Engineer | |client-facing IT support for the Navy in Cairns. |

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|In 2008, LADS Corporation was formed by | |Office BAU responsibilities were shared between myself and other engineers. |

|separating from Tenix Defence, in preparation | | |

|for the sale of Tenix Defence to BAE Systems. | | |

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|2004 – 2006 | |While with EDS, I worked with large databases of asset information, and with engineers |

|Electronic Data Systems | |distributed across the globe from EDS HQ in Texas, to the EDS EMEA operations in Germany, |

|Data Analyst | |Netherlands, and Ireland. |

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|EDS was a multinational IT services giant with | |Main responsibilities: |

|136,000 employees when it was purchased by HP | |Analysis & reporting of asset information – to maintain accurate billing of managed service |

|in 2009 and became HP Enterprise Services. In | |clients. |

|2017 it merged with Computer Sciences | |Developing upload tools for Peregrine databases, Microsoft Access queries & reports, Excel |

|Corporation, to form DXC Technology. | |macros. |

| | |Debugging ODBC & other connectivity issues to local databases & remote databases hosted in |

| | |Europe. |

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|Electronic Data Systems | |Achievements: |

|(continued) | |Developed an ITIL-compliant change management schema for Rational ClearQuest, on an 8-week |

| | |project at the EDS Software Solution Centre. |

| | |Trained and managed a team of four overseas staff after local roles were offshored to Malaysia. |

| | |Lead the EDS asset management team for General Motors (GM) client. |

Previous employment also with: Network Design & Construction (Telstra), and Protech.

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