Scott Dunbar's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Scott has significant experience in the IT industry in a number of sectors, including Application Release management, Data Centre management and automation, enterprise administration and virtualization. Scott is an avid DevOps practitioner with experience implementing Application Release Lifecycle solutions for the world’s largest companies. Leveraging existing skills in BMC’s automation technologies, he has now specialised in middleware and application development automation with significant results for his customers. Fully conversant in large scale IT infrastructure management and their hurdles as high cost environments, Scott is a keen advocate of the application of technology, automation, innovation and industry best practice to reduce these costs and improve performance in personnel and systems alike. Project Experience Scott’s project experience over the past couple of years has seen him working with major names in the banking sector, implementing Application Release Lifecycle management solutions and developing automation solutions for J2EE middleware services. This work included integrations to a diverse set of Application Release tooling common to the DevOps space. Prior to this, Scott worked for government, service provider and financial sectors at design and implementation levels. Working with BMC Server Automation in a multi-tenancy service provider environment, Scott has designed and delivered highly secured and scalable automation solutions for Windows and Linux Provisioning and Patching, compliance and audit, across geographically diverse locations with great success. Tools & Technologies Applications BMC BSA 7.6/8.x BMC BMA 8.x BMC RLM 4.x BMC BAA 8.x Operating Systems Linux, Unix, MS Windows, VMWare, Cisco IOS, (nominal experience with EMC and NetAPP Data ONTAP) Scripting/Automation NSH / blcli Ruby on Rails Shell Script Powershell Certifications BMC BSA Certified Expert 8.2 ITIL Foundation Certificate VMware VCP Cisco CCNALead DevOps Engineer @ Driving the adoption of DevOps practices, automation and tooling across EMEA, while supporting a significant re-platforming program for their B2C and B2B eCommerce Portals. http://vimeo.com/associateminimovies/mkpart1 http://vimeo.com/associateminimovies/mkpart2 http://vimeo.com/associateminimovies/mkpart3 From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Sr. Automation Consultant @ Engage with clients to understand where appropriate tooling and solutions or processes can enable IT departments to work more effectively and efficiently, hence providing the greatest ROI against acquired services and software. - Design, implement and support customers using BMC Software automation tooling - Design and conduct solution planning, environment analysis and functional requirement workshops with technical leads and stakeholders - Implement robust and scalable enterprise level automation solutions through tooling and integrations - Provide leadership, education and mentoring throughout projects Working with, but not limited to: Release Lifecycle Management - Middleware Automation - Server Automation - Server Automation Reporting From July 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) EMEA Data Centre Manager @ Management of five EMEA data centre sites from a technical and facilities perspective. - Implementation of tooling to reduce footprint, increase service up-time and reduce cost - Design and implementation of new solutions using software and hardware - Management of maintenance, support and hosting contracts From January 2004 to April 2010 (6 years 4 months) Scott Dunbar is skilled in: VMware, BMC Patrol, ITIL, Virtualization, VMware ESX, Automation, BMC Server Automation, BMC RLM, Unix, Windows Server, Project Coordination, Data Center, Cisco Technologies, Linux, Integration