Paul Smith has over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and IT professional. He has extensive expertise in database administration, programming, hardware and network support. His career includes roles as a senior database administrator for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Wipro Technologies, where he supported international clients. He has administered databases including DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL on platforms such as AIX, Linux and Windows.
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In multiple Linux & UNIX platforms, specialized in Red Hat Linux. Self-motivated, dedicated and up to any task that I am given.
Seeking position as a Linux Administrator by utilizing “6+ years of experience”
In multiple Linux & UNIX platforms, specialized in Red Hat Linux. Self-motivated, dedicated and up to any task that I am given.
Populating your data center with new, more powerful and energy efficient servers can deliver numerous benefits to your organization. By consolidating multiple older servers onto a new platform, you can save in the areas of data center space and port costs, management costs, and power and cooling costs.
In our tests, we found that the Lenovo ThinkServer RD630 could consolidate the workloads of three HP ProLiant DL385 G5 servers, while increasing overall performance by 82.6 percent and reducing power consumption by 58.8 percent, making the ThinkServer RD630 an excellent choice to reduce the costs associated with running your data center.
Dell PowerEdge M520 server solution: Energy efficiency and database performancePrincipled Technologies
As energy prices continue to rise, building a power-efficient data center that does not sacrifice performance is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down while keeping application performance high. Choosing servers that pair high performance with new power-efficient technologies helps you do so. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge M520 with Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 arrays outperformed the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server with HP StorageWorks D2200sb arrays by 113.5 percent in OPM. Not only did the Dell PowerEdge M520 blade server solution deliver higher overall performance, it also did so more efficiently, delivering 79.9 percent better database performance/watt than the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 solution.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Storage for Microsoft®Windows EnfironmentsMichael Hudak
This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
• Microsoft Exchange Server,
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server,
• Microsoft SQL Serv
Populating your data center with new, more powerful and energy efficient servers can deliver numerous benefits to your organization. By consolidating multiple older servers onto a new platform, you can save in the areas of data center space and port costs, management costs, and power and cooling costs.
In our tests, we found that the Lenovo ThinkServer RD630 could consolidate the workloads of three HP ProLiant DL385 G5 servers, while increasing overall performance by 82.6 percent and reducing power consumption by 58.8 percent, making the ThinkServer RD630 an excellent choice to reduce the costs associated with running your data center.
Dell PowerEdge M520 server solution: Energy efficiency and database performancePrincipled Technologies
As energy prices continue to rise, building a power-efficient data center that does not sacrifice performance is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down while keeping application performance high. Choosing servers that pair high performance with new power-efficient technologies helps you do so. In our tests, the Dell PowerEdge M520 with Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 arrays outperformed the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server with HP StorageWorks D2200sb arrays by 113.5 percent in OPM. Not only did the Dell PowerEdge M520 blade server solution deliver higher overall performance, it also did so more efficiently, delivering 79.9 percent better database performance/watt than the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 solution.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Storage for Microsoft®Windows EnfironmentsMichael Hudak
This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
• Microsoft Exchange Server,
• Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server,
• Microsoft SQL Serv
UTSpeaks Public Lecture: Clearing up the Cloud -19th July 2011 - Rob Living...Livingstone Advisory
How should we navigate the pitfalls of IT’s newest ‘big opportunity’?
For individuals and small business, Cloud computing via the Internet offers unprecedented access to systems, software and technologies, previously restricted to the corporate world, at little or no cost.
But for mid-sized and large organisations, the reality of adopting Cloud computing presents a whole new set of costs, risks and governance implications, quite different to those in traditional in-house IT systems.
This public lecture provides a concise, plain English overview of Cloud computing and what it means for businesses in Australia. It explores the privacy, security, commercial, regulatory, cost, risk and internal governance challenges that organisations, as well as the wider community, should be aware of.
Baltic SCOPE workshop discussion on ENERGY at Baltic SCOPE Central Baltic case (involving Latvia, Estonia and Sweden) stakeholder conference on 31 May - 1 June 2016 in Jurmala, LATVIA
Read more on: www.balticscope.eu
* The information presented is the working exercise on the cross-border maritime spatial planning discussions and can not be treated as the official opinion of the European Commission and the Member States involved in the consortium of the Baltic SCOPE project.
Introduction to Baltic SCOPE thematic topic: Fisheries by Ulrika Gunnartz, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, at Baltic SCOPE Southwest Baltic case stakeholder meeting on 27 January 2016 in Malmo, SWEDEN
www.balticscope.eu
* The information presented is the working exercise of the cross-border maritime spatial planning discussions and can not be treated as the official opinion of the European Commission and the Member States involved in the consortium of the Baltic SCOPE project.
Future Tech: How should enterprise avoid the 'success trap' of the next big t...Livingstone Advisory
The rate of business and societal change fuelled by innovative, emerging and disruptive information technologies is well known, with impacts being felt in almost every facet of life. The forces driving the evolution and adoption of such technologies are complex, diverse and not always well understood. How can organisations predict the consequences of future tech? How should they fortify against the chaos of change while taking advantage of innovation?
This public lecture provides a concise perspective on the implications of emerging technologies and offers practical insights on how many enterprises and individuals survive, and also thrive, in a world of rapid technology-induced change.
• About 10+ Years of experience as Infrastructure Specialist in System Administration and Support Service Environments with Expertise in Microsoft Products.
• 10+ years in windows 2008/2012/2016 server builds & Implementations
• Expertise in Information Systems Management, Networking with expertise in implementation, operations & support functions of business solutions using IT as tool.
• At Managerial level, involved in IT Infrastructure Management, SOX, Strategy Planning, and Deployment- Process Re-engineering.
• At Execution level, involved in –Implementing CRQ’s Technical Support/ Troubleshooting, Systems Administration, and Server builds.
• Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Windows 2016, Windows 2012 & Windows 2008,Windows 2003, Microsoft Cluster Server ,VMware.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and work well with other team members to attain prompt problem resolution and disseminate accurate information.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Able to work in any shift and can support 24*7 production servers/network issues and emergency support in offices/client locations during any kind of disasters.
• Ability to do multi-task and work as part of a team and independently
1. PAUL SMITH
166 Morning Star Road, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 9AA
Telephone: 01327 315256 (Home); 07768 973138 (Mobile)
Email: paul.smith@microtask.co.uk
LinkedIn profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-smith/23/3aa/101
Profile
Highly experienced and accomplished professional with an outstanding track record of success in
software engineering and IT. Has worked in both SME’s and large corporations domestically and
internationally. Areas of expertise include hardware, network, software support, database
administration/specification and programming. Proven ability to work on multiple sites. Strong
communicator who develops close working relationships with customers.
Key Skills
Establishingcustomerrequirements,developingandmaintainingsolutionswithmidrange
systemsanddatabase managementsystems.
Exceptional troubleshootingabilitytoprovide supporttocustomersonand off site,outof
hours,and whilstunderpressure toachieveresults.
Provide hardware,networkandsoftware support.
Database administrationincludingspecification,installationandmaintenance of software,
configurationof databases,maintainingbackupsandprovidingDRcapability.
Experience of programmingovermanyyearswithvariousdifferentlanguagesincludingC,C++,
C#, BASIC,Pascal,COBOL,Perl,Python,KSHandBASH.
Abilitytolearnnewtechnologiesveryquickly.
Career Summary
Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch December2014 – November2015
InternationalBankand FinancialServices
SeniorDB2 LUW Database Administrator and Hadoop Specialist
Part of a multi-national databaseteamprovidingsupportfortheirDB2serverslocatedaround
the globe,onall platformsincludingLinux,UNIXandz/OS.
Maintaininganddevelopingthe use of Hadoopwithinthe company,usingCloudera4.7 and5.3,
withHive usingOracle 11g2. SetupdataimportusingSqoopintoHelix,dealingwiththe Oracle,
SQL ServerandSybase DBA teamslocatedinternationally,togetaccesstovariousdatabases
includingOracle,DB2on z/OS,Sybase andSQL Server.
DevelopingHadoopusingPython,BashandKSHshell scripts,toimportdata fromvarious
differentsourcessuchasfeedfiles,usingimpala,andhive.
DevelopingdataprocessingsolutionsusingtoolssuchasPigand Spark.At BAML the use of Spark
has onlyrecentlybeenintroduced,andthere isanincreasedfocusonthe migrationof existing
jobsto Spark.
TroubleshootingproblemswithHDFSandHive.
Extensive experience of Hive,Impala,SparkandAutosys.
WiproTechnologiesGmbH July 2014 – November2014
InternationalITConsultancy and RemoteHosting Services
2. SeniorDB2 LUW Database Administrator
Involvedinaprojectto migrate anexistingapplicationenvironmentfromDaimlerBenzData
Centre nearStuttgartto a WiproData Centre nearDusseldorf.Thisincludedall development,
integration,maintenanceandproductionenvironments.Myrole wasto designthe DB2
database infrastructure usingthe AIX7.1 andSuSE Linux 11 SP3 platforms.
OriginallyDB2v10.5 AESE wasutilized,butcontractual issuesresultedinushavingtodowngrade
DB2 to v9.7. Whilstthe original designmade full use of DB2automaticstorage,it became
impractical tomake full use of thisdue to the filesystemdesign.
I preparedall of the dailyhousekeepingscripts,some of whichusedSymantecNetBackupto
maintaindatabase backupsandarchivedtransactionlogs.
CamelotGroup January 2014 – June 2014
UKand InternationalNationalLottery ServicesProvider
DB2 LUW Database Administrator
Developedaneventhistorydataarchivingsystemusingdailytable partitions.Vastamountsof
data heldineachpartition,over10M rows/20GB of data perday. Partitionsrolledoutare
exported,compressedandarchivedtoTSMusingnamedpipes.
Salesmonitoringsystemdevelopedusingautomatedtaskscallingstoredproceduresonce a
minute.Stagingtablesare usedtoreportactivity.
Updatedsome of the existingdeploymentscriptsforuse acrossall development,test,pre-
productionandproductionenvironments.Existingscriptsrequiredadditional errorhandling,and
optionsaddingspecifictoeachenvironment,suchasschemabaseduserand group
database/objectprivileges.
DevelopmentprojectstoimplementIBMDB2 v10.5 data warehouse onAIX7.1 platform.
General database administrationacrossall platforms –resolvingissuesinproductioninasshort
a timescale aspossible tomeetSLAs.
TCS (TATA Consultancy Services) September2012 – September2013
Global IT Consultancy atMarksand Spencer
SeniorDB2 DBA
ResolvedmajorDB2partitioning(DPF) andtable range partitioningissuesthatwere causing
outagesthat lastedfordays.
WorkedwithIBMSoftware Groupto resolve supportproblemswithDB2and TSA.
Introductionof housekeepingscriptstopreventfrequentlyoccurringoutages.
Introductionof standardizedproceduresforall DB2Serverinstallations.
Establishedasecuritypolicytopreventusersdamaging databases.
Migrationof existingDB2v9.1 databasesrunningonAIX5.3 to DB2 v9.7 on AIX6.1.
Introductionof DB2 Work Load Manager (WLM) intonon-productionservers.
PitneyBowes ManagementServices April 2012 – September2012
Global manufacturerand supplierof hardware,softwareand services
AIX and DB2 UDB Consultant
ResolvedAIXconfigurationissuesthathadresultedinmajoroutagesona weeklybasis.
Database configurationalteredtoimprove performance –40% improvementinthroughput.
3. ResolvedissueswithHACMPconfiguration –failoverservercouldnotbe broughtonline.
Performance optimizationof existingInfoPrintdatabase.
Introductionof thoroughhousekeepingtoreduce diskspace waste andimprove throughput.
Upgrade of DB2 UDB fromv8 to v10.1, and AIXfrom5.3L to 7.1.
Designandimplementationof multi-site DRsolution.
HP Information/Security December2010 – April 2012
Multi-nationalcomputer,technology and ITservicesprovider
DB2 UDB Database Administrator
Migrationof existingDB2LUW databasesontoDB2 v9.7 and from AIXv7 onto HP-UX.
DevelopedHADRsolutiontouse HPService GuardtogetherwithHPOpenViewmonitoring,
alongside existingVeritasClustering(VCS) installation.
DB2 database administratorincludinginstallationof software,configurationof databases,
maintainingbackupsandprovidingDRfacilities.
ProvidednewintranetdocumentationandHPEngineeringdocuments.
Replacedall of the existingscriptsthatnolongerworkedcorrectly,andintroducedanew test
scriptthat reducedOperational Acceptancefrom2weekstolessthana day.
Seniormemberof asmall teamof existingAvivaDB2and Oracle DBAs.
IBM UK Ltd. November1999 – July 2010
Multi-nationalcomputer,technology and ITservicesprovider
AIX support/DB2 UDB Database Administrator on Linux,UNIX and Windows
Developingsolutionsforcustomeraccounts.
Providingsupportformidrange operatingsystemssuchasAIXand Linux.
DB2 LUW database administratorincludingspecification,installationof software,configuration
of databases,maintainingbackupsandprovidingDRfacilities.
Supportedcustomermigrationprojectsinvolving Oracle, SQLServerandMySQL.
Memberof a small teamof four DB2 DBAs alsoprovidingoutof hourson-call support.
Key Achievements
InvolvedinaprojectinNewYork to developbarcode readersforsupermarketcustomersto
displaypricesof individualproducts.
Installationof DB2HADR (disasterrecovery) intoanexistingHACMP(clustering) system.
Installationof IBMBalancedWarehouse thatuseda DB2 partitioneddatabase andTSA (Tivoli
SystemAutomation)forhighavailability.Providedtrainingtoteammembersforthisverynew
IBM technologyinthe UK.
Interimassignments January 1999 – October 1999
Software Engineer/Consultant
Designedacontrol systemforan electroplatingmachine thatwouldbe suppliedtoJapan.This
involveddesigningthe electrical systemcircuitdiagrams,producingthe partslistsandwiring
lists,writingthe GEFanuc PLC ladderlogiccode andpreparinga SCADA systemthatincluded
supplyingarecipe editorwritteninMicrosoftC.TravelledtoJapanto commissionthe machine.
DevelopedeCommerce solutionsusingIBMNetCommerce foranIBMBusinessPartnerbasedin
Uxbridge,providinginstallationandsupport of anIBM RS/6000 systemandsoftware,and
providedcustomsolutionsfortheirbackoffice systems.
IMVA Ltd. (mergedwithHPI in 2000) October 1995 – December1998
4. Vehicle mileage verification service forcar dealerships
IT Manager
Beganworkingwith IMVA Ltd as a self-employedITconsultant.
Developedadatabase systemusingNovell Btrieve onaNovell Netware 3.11server.
Providedthe clientfrontendsoftwareforrunningonMS-DOSPCsusingMicrosoftC.
DevelopedCTI(telephoneintegration) applicationstoimprove businessthroughput.
Key Achievements
Overhaul of the IT solutionusingIBMRS/6000 hardware,IBMDB2 UDB, CICS and MQSeries
software followingthe signingof adeal withEquifax tomassivelyincreasebusiness.
Developedthe protocolsforcommunicatingbetweenIMVA’sdatabase systemandEquifax/HPI
mainframe.Clientsoftwarere-writtenusingcombinationsof COBOLand Visual C.
CTI integrationcompletedbetweenthe clientsoftware andthe AT&TDefinityswitch.
Developedapagercall-outsystemthatallowedthe provisionof 24x7 support.
Education and Qualifications
IBM CertifiedDB2 v10.1 Linux,UNIX and WindowsDatabase Administrator
BTEC HNC Hardware/Software Engineering
Technical Training:
IBM z/OSMainframe NewStarterBootcamp
MicrosoftC# and.NET Programming
IBM DB2 Versions9.7 and10.1 Bootcamps
IBM Tivoli SystemAutomation
Oracle 8 and 9 Database Administration
IBM HACMPInstallationandAdministration