I AM NOT A DBA ! I would like to state this clearly from the start to avoid any confusion. Over 20+ years experience in designing, installing and running/administering hetrogenous platform environments based on VMware, Microsoft, Linux/Unix and Cisco technologies. Enjoy start-up projects/scenarios as they are prime opportunities to do things right the first time round, but equally happy to taken on existing setups and attempt to improve and develop them to be better than they currently are. Specialties: VMware vSphere Microsoft Windows Clients Microsoft Windows Server Microsoft Exchange Server Micrososft IIS Server BSD/Ubuntu Servers Apache HTTPD Web Server Cisco Routers and Switches running IOS Cisco ASA security devices Kemp and Cisco Load Balancers Open Source Applications (Icinga, Nagios, MRTG, SVN, Logstash, etc.) Scripting & process automation

Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Senior infrastructure engineer working on HP Proliant servers, HP 3PAR StorServe based storage, vSphere 5.5 virtualisation with a mixed Windows and Linux based OS estate Upgraded two vSphere environments to 5.5, replacing older HP Proliant hardware with fewer, more powerful ESXi host servers. Provision and configured all necessary Brocade FC zoning and HP3PAR storage LUN masking required Patching of new vSphere environments. Firmware/driver updates to various platform components (servers, raid controllers, load balancers) Replaced existing retail monitoring solution with open source monitoring solution that allowed custom checks be be created due to it's extensibility so that a much greater range of events and conditions could be captured Daily administrative tasks around maintenance and monitoring, typically resulting in raising change requests to correct any issues such as increasing/reclaiming storage, correcting time sync issues, correcting configuration mistakes and where necessary creating/adding new monitoring checks Documentation of all new and modified platforms plus restrospective documentation of existing systems where possible that lack any documentation From February 2015 to Present (11 months) London, United KingdomWindows Engineer @ System administrator working for an international client of IPsoft The platform comprised HP blade technology, NetApp NFS based storage and vSphere 5.5 virtualisation The infrastructure contained an international Active Directory setup with multiple regional locations As a suplemental member of the clients existing IT team I was involved with planning system/platform changes (including liasing with the compliance team to asses risks) and where appropriate, implementation of changes, particularly around system firmware updates to ensure systems met vendor requirements to qualify for support contracts Implemented a large amount of monitoring which was used to Produced regular reports of CPU and storage consumption. Active policing of the storage system (orphaned vms, left over snapshot files etc.) allowed for capacity to be assesed and incresaed/upgraded when required Attended and worked on the annual DR test performed at IBM BCDP in Warwick From April 2014 to January 2015 (10 months) London, United KingdomSenior Systems Administrator @ Senior systems administrator in a diverse,multi-client financial reporting systems technology company. Infrastructure is a diverse mix of Wintel/Linux/Cisco/Java & .NET technologies at multiple geographical locations I am primarily responsible for implementing and maintaining all Windows and Liunx based systems and platforms in the production and testing environments, as well as all associated deployments to these systems Have recently made the switch from traditional data centre methodologies to AWS cloud based implementations From March 2011 to March 2014 (3 years 1 month) London, United KingdomSystems Administrator @ Systems administrator for a high transaction online food ordering portal running on a predominantly Vmware/Wintel/Cisco based environment The platform operated in x8 countries and had approx 5 millions hits a month equating to around 1.2 million online transactions, with an annual transaction total of over $400 million I administered approximately 60-70 server instances on multiple VMware ESX setups to provide multiple environments to allow concurrent iterative development of the platform components. Storage was provided by Dell Equallogic storage arrays using MPIO iSCSI to the VMWare hosts. A large part of my role was acting as a bridge between the developers and the production and UAT systems, ensuring the code releases into these environments were deployed in a controlled and tested manner within agreed SLA timescales (something now referred to as DevOps I believe) From August 2010 to March 2011 (8 months) London, United KingdomWindows /Linux/Network Systems Administrator @ Start-up company formed out of the Motley Fool Produces a financial comparison and review site along with editorial financial content System/Network administrator responsible for the installation, integration and ongoing maintenance of all Windows, *nix and Cisco based platforms in the office and data center environments hosted on VMware ESX Systems run on Windows Server 2008, Exchange server 2007, Ubuntu linux and Cisco routers and switches Migrated company from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 Replaced XP desktops with Vista using WDS imaging From April 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 4 months) Windows / Unix / Network Support Engineer @ Managed hosting and data center colocation provider Systems support engineer working with USA and European teams support multiple hosted clients in a data center environment Data centers in 11 global locations throughout America, South America and Europe Clients include Lego, BMW, YouTube, Subway, Thomas Cook, Ilsia Media From July 2008 to April 2009 (10 months) Windows / Linux / Operations Engineer @ Based at the Operations Command Center, a shift based 24/7 support center for the banks systems and infrastructure Very large mixed Windows server base NT4, Win2k and Win2k3 Large deployment of IBM AIX Unix running on RS6000 series platform Very large scale TCP/IP environment incorporating several hundred branches through out the UK From September 2004 to July 2008 (3 years 11 months) IT Manager @ MarquisJet UK (start-up company) Start-up company formed in Dec 2002 dealing in private aircraft fractional ownership for high net worth individuals Sole IT employee, responsible for all aspects of the companies IT requirements From December 2002 to September 2004 (1 year 10 months) Infrastructure Analyst/Administrator @ Start-up dotcom company producing 50+ sports websites in 7 European languages 40+ Windows NT servers, 10 Domains 40+ Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris, some miscellaneous servers running Linux variants Over 350 Windows NT based clients in 7 European countries and 50+ Mac users Cisco routers and switches running TCP/IP, Appletalk and GRE tunneling with OSPF From April 1999 to December 2002 (3 years 9 months) London, United KingdomField Engineer & SystemsTrainer @ ISO approved service provider based in the Isle of Man Microsoft and Novell Approved Solutions Provider Field support engineer for Microsoft and Novell platform products at multiple client sites including NT Server 4.0 Exchange Server 5.5 Windows 95 Novell Netware 3.1x Novell Netware 4.1x From April 1997 to April 1999 (2 years 1 month)

Scott Brewerton is skilled in: Windows Server, TCP/IP, DNS, Cisco Technologies, Firewalls, Data Center, Linux, VMware ESX, Network Administration, Apache, IIS, Unix, Virtualization, Nagios, Switches