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I am a fast learner and have a strong analytical sense, I analyse most things around me and have done since I was a child. Due to this I have always had a keen interest in systems and processes and the design and development of these. I initially taught myself procedural PHP and HTML whilst at school and college, and like most PHP developers learnt this using a personal LAMP stack. I have advanced my skills greatly since my days of writing procedural code. During my time at TagMan/Ensighten I have furthered my interests in systems and process automation, monitoring and metrics collection. I've gained experience in Chef, Puppet and started to look at Salt for configuration management. I've also gained more hands on experience with Ruby, Python, Perl and Javascript.Lead Sr. Infrastructure Engineer II @ From September 2015 to Present (2 months) London, United KingdomSenior Infrastructure Engineer @ From January 2015 to September 2015 (9 months) London, UKConsultant Infrastructure Engineer @ Maintenance and management of legacy infrastructure. Design and implementation of infrastructure for new products. From August 2014 to January 2015 (6 months) London, UK (Remote)DevOps Engineer @ In my short time at Simply Business I was involved in the automated setup of a new AWS account including test driven AWS infrastructure and automated provisioning atop of cloud formation. From September 2014 to November 2014 (3 months) LondonDevOps Manager @ This was not actually a change of company as TagMan was acquired by Ensighten. http://www.ensighten.com/blog/ensighten-acquires-tagman-game-on The change of job role was under discussion pre-acquisition and has the following goals and responsibilities attached. I was actually already doing a lot of this before the acquisition anyway. Goals - Align development and operational goals. - Facilitate communication between development and operations Responsibilities - Ops presence in sprint process / planning - Foster better communication between ops, dev and product - Involved in key technical decisions - Management of Ops priorities - Delegation of tasks within Ops - Push the use of automation within TagMan dev and Ops teams This role involved furthering the work already done on our automation using puppet and fabric. This role also brought the addition of on call work as part of the operations team on call rota. This involved a wide range of troubleshooting. From March 2014 to August 2014 (6 months) London, UKDevOps Engineer @ During my previous role at TagMan as PHP developer I found that we were having issues testing our product and getting it shipped to customers. The development and release pipeline was slow and painful despite working in a supposedly agile team. In part we found as a team that this was due to legacy testing systems and a lack of interaction between development and operations. With the help of the operations team we worked to build a stable test system and get a new semi automated pipeline underway. This was the part of my slippery slope into automation evangelism. After this I worked on creating an automated puppet test rig for the systems that connect to the MC, and begun to improve the release process for the MC. From November 2013 to March 2014 (5 months) PHP Developer @ As a PHP developer at TagMan I was part of a team involved in the development of the Management Console (MC). The MC development team was an agile team and we followed a 2 week Scrum cycle, with daily standups and a retrospective and review at the end of each cycle. The MC was build using Zend 1 and PEAR installed packages. A lot of time was spent upgrading the build process and tooling around the MC to use more current system such as Doctrine and Composer. From July 2013 to November 2013 (5 months) LondonCo-Founder & CEO @ StartupOut was created as an environment to connect and educate entrepreneurs on how to utilise technology and innovative business methods. The primary aim is to facilitate growth & encourage entrepreneurship. We are specifically aiming to focus on innovation and the use of technology to encourage organisations and entrepreneurs to incorporate equality at the heart of their business by building relationships with members of the LGBT+ community. Through these relationships StartupOut will work to encourage both LGBT+ entrepreneurs and intrapreneurship within business. From 2013 to July 2013 (less than a year) United KingdomDirector of Administration, Finance and Technology @ As a shareholder and company director of a small video production business I was responsible for the company at both an operational and strategic level. My responsibilities were both wide and varied and ranged from financial strategy and accounts entry to IT support and web development. I was responsible for creating and managing systems, processes and procedures within the business both technology and human based. I created the business management system utilising PHP and Drupal to enable the storage of model, production and business information. From June 2009 to May 2012 (3 years) Manchester, United KingdomBolton Sixth Form College From 2003 to 2005 Canon Slade High School From 1998 to 2003 Alex Rowley is skilled in: Management, Social Media, Digital Marketing, SEO, Sales, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Business Planning, Email Marketing, Puppet, PHP, MySQL, DevOps, Project Management, Business Strategy, Business Process, Business Process..., Website Development, Website Promotion, Corporate Websites, Website Creation, Digital Media, Twilio, Ruby, Python, Time Management, Training, Problem Solving, API Development, Service Oriented..., Chef, Salt, Scalable Architecture, Graphite, System Monitoring, Agile Methodologies, Leadership, Linux