Bristol, England, United Kingdom
A motivated and technical mobile industry professional with over 25 years’ experience. Enjoyed a broad range of technical roles covering software design and development, product development, new application roll-out, infrastructure evolution and operational stability supporting business objectives. Key skills and experience: • Application SRE monitoring, stability and observability (Splunk and Dynatrace) • Data extraction and analysis • Application Integration • Solution Design and Architecture • Software Development • Incident / Problem solving • Technical Governance • Communication and stakeholder management • Technical consulting, coaching, and mentoring Still excited to learn new technologies, coach others and contribute to bringing a project together. Especially interested to hear from recruiters regarding: SRE / DevOps opportunities, Python and Data Science, Technical Architect. Open to various working arrangements remotely, part-time and internationally contract or permanent. Available to start a new position from March 24th 2025.
Skiing, Kayaking, making music, some nice trips and helping some friends with a start up
Continued management Splunk deployment of 500 data source hosts represetning 20 applications, experienced SPL, Dashboards, Macros, Summary Indexing Strategy, Golden Signals Metrics, Automation with REST API, MLTK, Splunk Custom Commands using Python, Data Governance and user community development. Deployment Automation using Gitlab and Nexus. Currently working on Dynatrace rollout across BT.
Covering Integration standards, governance, Splunk and Datadog as well as some code repositories.
Performing the role of Solution Architect on a couple of infrastructure and application technology update projects around MQ, webLogic and Splunk Enterprise. The latter being a large update and rollout of many new applications onto Splunk and defining standards and methodologies around the Splunk platform.
Providing architecture and design consultancy to business partners, project managers and architects across a wide range of technology platforms. With a focus on delivery working throughout the project lifecycle ensuring that commitments are met. Covering technologies: Ab Initio, webMethods and Tibco Integration suites. WebLogic JEE platform, IBM MQ to a mixed internal and external team of developers.
Providing temporary cover as the team leader of a mixed ability team across two sites.
Integration specialist working in the Data Integration team developing new and existing Integration toolsets including: SOA event based messaging solution and file transfer solution