Edward Maris is an experienced IT engineer seeking new opportunities in solutions architecture or technical sales/consultancy. He has over 20 years of experience in systems and network engineering, storage solutions, project management and customer support. Most recently, he served as a Storage Engineer at Thomson Reuters where he advised on storage solutions, supported EMC SAN infrastructure, and presented new systems to colleagues. He aims to make a significant contribution to a new challenging role through his skills in various operating systems, storage management, infrastructure engineering and decision-making.

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Edward Alexander Maris
address: 112 Nevill Road, London N16 0SX
tel: 07786 853531 (Mobile)
email: edward.maris@gmail.com
social media: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/edward-maris-78441b7
ProfessionalProfile
A highly motivated and industrious IT engineer who possesses extensive experience
in the IT industry, having worked in both the systems & network environment and
storage. A skilled communicator across all levels who uses an amicable,
professional approach to establish and maintain successful working relationships
with personnel. A positive individual with excellent analytical and problem-solving
skills, substantial all-round technical knowledge in many areas, as well as the ability
to focus on a specific area of expertise.
Objective
My experience is in development and support and am looking for new opportunities
to extend my all round knowledge.
Also looking for a new challenging role in solutions architecture or technical sales/
consultancy, where my current skills and experience will have a valuable application
and also make a significant contribution.
Key Skills
 Windows, Linux, Sun operating system administration experience
 Competent knowledge of EMC SAN management
 Proficient at managing NetApp NAS/ISCSI infrastructure
 Customer-focused
 Systems and networks infrastructure engineering (CCNA)
 Project management and delivery
 Works well independently as well within a team
 Adept at decision-making
CareerSummary
2013 – Dec 2015 Storage Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Key achievements:
 Advised on differing storage solutions related to the ingesting of individual
company business units into the main storage department, which was either to be
assimilated into or data migrated to existing standard SAN/NAS storage solutions

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Career Summary cont.
 I became the EMEA support groups leading advisor/ support engineer with EMC
Avamar backup technology which was being implemented over the existing older
technologies, i.e. TSM (tape backup and restore)
 Presented new systems and technologies to colleagues using MS Powerpoint,
live technical examples and briefing sessions to highlight ‘gotchas’ and other
possible issues
Main responsibilities:
 2nd line support and refresh projects for internal and external clients’ storage
requirements, presenting data snapshots, archived data, mirrors, for all business
units
 Storage systems included EMC SAN, NAS and restore technologies (Avamar)
 NetApp filers for NAS shared storage, snapshot/snapvaulting/mirroring
 Upgrades/ replacement of storage and storage fabric infrastructure
2000 – 2013 Systems/Network Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Key achievements:
 Built OS, network infrastructure and storage solution for data performance
measuring application which was designed to be a non-invasive measuring tool
and in certain circumstances portable/ quickly deployable. Documentation had to
be constantly updated to reflect new versions & tools provided by the application
and new hardware becoming available or standard
 Installed Vmware ESXi and vSphere on spare HP servers to mimic development
environments and for testing 3rd party applications
 Saved existing projects’ budget by redesigning their storage solution for realtime
databases with an estimated save of over £5 million
 Designed and implemented an independent NTP solution for development
departments using MS Visio
 Created asset database for management of development computer rooms using
MS SQL
Main responsibilities:
 Supported the Data Collections Development and IDN departments, which are
the development segments of Thomson Reuters concerned with the provision of
financial market and news data
 General system administration and troubleshooting for Windows, Solaris and
Linux based servers, including OS installation, patch/service pack/firmware
upgrades, cluster admin, software maintenance
 Configured server provisioning tools to jumpstart servers remotely and created
configurations for HP blade and enclosure infrastructure
 As the primary EMC SAN (DMX 800/DMX 4) administrator, planned, allocated
and switched fabric management (McData and MDS9506) for each project

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 Migration from Symmetrix 8000 series to the current DMX 800 array, and the
movement of project data between differing RAID disk configurations
Career Summary cont.
 Supported the project architects in the design and implementation of their
projects, installing (including scripting and automation of the process) and
documenting the system model with a view to global project implementation of
Thomson Reuters collection data servers
 Maintained the Quotes Development Network – development version of live
Thomson Reuters Data (Reuters 3000Xtra application and RMDS delivery
network), which is supplied to teams in many worldwide locations
1998 – 2000 ISP Systems Engineer, Globix Ltd
 Played a pivotal role, responsible for the installation of client side hosted servers
(HP ProLiant DL380, Sun Netra T1, Ultra 5), systems administration and
monitoring of ISP networks
 Carried out project work, including designing hosted servers for clients, where we
could take requirements and jumpstart an image of Windows Server, Linux or
Solaris
1997 – 1998 ISP Helpdesk Engineer, Cerbernet
 1st line support to clients with connectivity issues to the ISP on multiple platforms
(Solaris, Windows 3.11 and 98, Linux)
1995 – 1997 IT Helpdesk Assistant, Mobile Systems International Ltd
 Initially fulfilled a progressive role as the main interface between the users in MSI
and the IT Department, and later performed further duties as basic server and
desktop administration
Education and Qualifications
HND/Kaufmann: Business & Finance with German (1996)
BTEC National Certificate: Electronics & Computing (1992)
References are available upon request