This document provides a summary of Bob Collishe's experience as an architect and service delivery manager specializing in technologies like virtualization, Java, databases and high availability systems. He has over 15 years of experience delivering solutions to meet business needs within large, complex enterprise projects. He is educated to a Masters level in systems architecture, project management and database systems. The summary highlights some of his key skills and experience working with companies such as Admiral Insurance, Lloyds Banking Group, and Mitsubishi Securities.

1. Bob Collishe
Horsham, West Sussex. E: bob.collishe@btinternet.com M: 07508 852750
Personal Summary
An experienced architect and service delivery manager specialising in a wide variety of technologies including
virtualisation, Java and web infrastructure, systems provisioning, database systems and high availability/COB
design. I have a proven track record of delivering solutions to meet business requirements andensure compliance
to architecture standardswithinenterprise environments.
With excellent interpersonal skills, I am confident working with various stakeholders from senior management to
front line engineers and have extensive experience of delivering within large, complex projects, working from
initial architectural designthroughtothe buildandsupportof productionsystems.
I am educatedto Masters level insystemsarchitecture,projectmanagementanddatabase systems.
Key Technical Skills
 Infrastructure architecture,creationof patternsandstandards,productevaluation,vendorengagement
 Infrastructure solutionsengineering andautomation,service deliveryengagement
 Virtualisation:VMware ESXi (RHEL,CentOSand MicrosoftWindows),SolarisLDOM/Zones,AIXLPARs
 Unix:Linux,Solaris,HPUX andAIX
 Serverbuildautomation:Jumpstart,KickstartandOpsware,
 Java / J2EE / Web: JBOSS5.1-6.4, WebLogic,IBMWebsphere (WAS) &IHS,JRUN, Netscape,Apache
 Application monitoring–AppDynamics, WilyIntroscope4& 5 / Vantage Analyzer
 Load balancingtechnologiesincludingF5- 3DNS, BigIP
 SSO - NetegritySiteminder
 Database - Sybase DBA, MySQL, Oracle design
EmploymentHistory / Achievements
Admiral Insurance Platform Architect/ DeliveryManager June 15 – Present
 designed and managed the automation of the delivery of the environments from the VMware build
throughto application deploymentforadozendatabase andapplicationservertypes
 drove through several infrastructure changes to ensure compliance and environment stability, including
namingstandardsand useraccessseparation
 oversawthe deliveryandmaintenanceof several keyenvironments,total inexcessof 850 virtual servers
 provided daily technical mentoring and management of the Linux / J2EE / Oracle platform support and
deliveryteamtobring the complete estateof 850 serverstolive
Career break March 15 – May 15
Assistingmyfiancé tomove fromthe USA to UK. NeedTOGAFand Cloudexperience
BrilliantBasics Infrastructure SolutionsArchitect Nov14 – Feb15
 created the high and low level architectural designs resulting in the successful migration of the business
web-site for the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE from .NET on Windows to a virtualised Linux / Adobe
platformfor2000 concurrentusers
 designed the Linux virtualmachinesand specificationof firewall andloadbalancingrules
 producedthe OS / Apache /application performancetuningand hardening, HA /DR andbackup designs
 optimized the development environment in London ensuring that it closely matched the delivery
environmentinthe UAE
LloydsBankingGroup Infrastructure SolutionsArchitect Feb12 – Sep14

2.  as Technical Lead, I successfully delivered a large number of high profile programs for Lloyds Banking
Group on a variety of technology platforms ensuring that the designs were consistent with the group
standardsand the businessrequirements
 drove through architectural designs and ensured early engagement in the project life cycle from technical
delivery teams by building strong working relationships through the hosting workshops to ensure
compliantdesignoutput
 advised Project Managers on Service Delivery Engagement tasks and iterative costs from initial design
stage throughto final deliveryandhandover
Sample Projects
SAS data analytics platform / Websphere / Linux based project as part of a £300m customer insight program with
development of a Veritas High Availability (HA) cluster, a Clustered File System (CFS) pattern and AD integration
of compute clusternodes.
Commercial Banking Separation – I was technical lead on a £26m program of work focused on the separation of
SME customers from large commercial customers. The portfolio encompassed migration, database separation,
systemintegrationandtelephonychanges.
Online Banking – Mobile Infrastructure – remediation management of the build of the multi tiered environment
withcachingservers,loadbalancers,IBMhttp server(IHS),Websphere ApplicationServers(WAS) onLinux /AIX.
Digital development environment – a Virtual Linux based Jenkins server environment scaled to server 200
concurrentdevelopersonWebsphereforthe Agile developmentenvironment.
RBS London SAN MigrationEngineer Aug11 - Dec 11
Mitsubishi Securities X86 UnixArchitect July10 - June 11
 ConsultantArchitect tothe Murex upgrade projectto the new Solaris10 x86
 re-engineered the existing O/S build standard that I had designed and engineered in 2008 to conform to
the vendorrequirementsandnewhardware platform
 re-packagedthe base operatingsystemimageto conformwiththe SPARCstandards
 produceddetailedbuildandsupportdocumentationand trainedthe Unix support teams
 reconfiguredthe enterprise tool settoworkwiththe new hardware,includingwriting iLOMNagiosscripts
NovenaServicesLtd. SystemsEngineer Jul 09 - Jun10
Vocalink. Middleware (WLS/J2EE) Engineer Feb09 - Jul 09
 managed WebLogic middleware environments for the Swedish banking transfer system using Ant /
GenesisandSolarisSysV packagesandscriptstoSolaris10 SMF platforms
 producedfull support andbuild documentation
 createdand delivered the DRsolutionscriptsandassistedwiththe handovertothe live supportteam
O2 (2e2 / Compel) VirtualisationMigrationArchitect Sep08 - Feb09
 I engaged with application teams within O2 to migrate their legacy Solaris environments onto Solaris 10
virtual (LDOM) environmentsonSunT5220 and T5240 servers.
Mitsubishi Securities(Morse) UnixInfrastructure Architect Jun08 - Sep08
 produced the requirements, high and detailed level design documentation, ran the proof of concept and
pre-production testing and new environment build systems to deliver a streamlined Unix environment
standard,havingengagedwiththe core business,infrastructureandapplicationteams.
Previous Unix and Database Administrator/JavaSystemsEngineerpositions are available onrequest.