Andy Parker

SAN SME @ Aldermore Bank

About

Over 30 years experience designing, implementing, migrating and supporting IT projects within a variety of business sectors and scale, public, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail and financial. Self motivated with good communication, team leadership, project management and interpersonal skills. KEY SKILLS: Enterprise Storage and SAN - Design, installation, migration, upgrading, configuring and tuning Team leadership – Technical lead during project design and delivery, gathering a good understanding of the requirements and delivery stages, managing / scheduling technical teams and vendors during the implementation. Datacentre migrations - large datacentre migrations, taking a lead role to ensure all storage and SAN components meet the requirements, building the environments to tight deadlines

Country

United Kingdom

City

Greater Northampton Area

Industry

Banking

Skill

Brocade Fibre Switches, Troubleshooting, SAN, Storage Area Networks, Enterprise Storage, Storage Virtualization, DS4000, Brocade, TPC, SAN Volume Controller, Storage Management, SVC, DS8000, DS5000, IBM XIV, IBM Storwise V7000, SC Security Cleared, AIX, Data Center, NAS

Experience

SAN SME

Aldermore Bank

2018-4 - 2026-2 · 7 yrs 11 mos

City Of Peterborough

Team Lead - Storage and backup

Computacenter

2017-10 - 2018-3 · 6 mos

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

IT Risk - Continuity Analyst

Produban México

2016-1 - 2017-5 · 1 yr 5 mos

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Storage Consultant

Deluxe Broadcast Services - Deluxe LeapCloud

2014-1 - 2015-8 · 1 yr 8 mos

London, United Kingdom

Storage, Avere NAS and iSCSI/CIFS/NFS - Infrastructure design and configuration

Storage Consultant

IBM Systems and Technology Group

2012-2 - 2014-1 · 2 yrs

IBM Storwise V7000, DS3x/4x/5x, SVC, DS8000, TPC, Brocade, Cisco MDS Storage and SAN • Projects – multiple project design and implementation • Implementing - storage and SAN components as per the scope of work, documenting all aspects of the configuration, skills transfer • Datacentre migrations - large datacentre migrations, taking a lead role to ensure all storage and SAN components meet the customer requirements, building the environments to tight deadlines, working with the platform teams during the build and testing phases. • Configuring Cross-site replications via IP routers, configuring and tuning for customer requirements • Crit-Sit support, reponding to various storage and SAN customer issues - investigating, resolving and documenting • Pre-sales support and consultancy • Project support and delivery - supporting Sales team and Business Partners to deliver key project milestones and ensuring a smooth implementation and migration – V7000, DS3500, SVC, DS8000 and TPC SC Cleared.

Director

Parker Systems Support Ltd

2000 - 2012-2 · 12 yrs

Storage Consultant

IBM

2010-2 - 2011-10 · 1 yr 9 mos

Storage and SAN - Support • Global Clients – Storage and SAN, BAU support, reserving/provisioning storage and SAN ports as per solution design requirements (Zon-ing/Array creation/Masking) • Projects – project design and implementation • TPC – Upgrade existing 3.3.1 installation to 4.1.1.74, configure all CIMOM devices, probe/scan jobs and roll-out system-wide data agents. • TPC – Data collection and manipulation to produce detailed infrastructure capacity and performance trend analysis, daily, weekly and monthly • Reactive support, assisting client platform support teams, identifying and resolving any SAN/storage related issues, arranging CE support and fru replacements