Experienced Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Specialist with solid experience of supplying the best small, large and everything in-between companies with top-people throughout the UK. Experienced in designing, implementing and delivering end-to-end recruitment strategies tailored to individual clients and customers. Advocate of stakeholder relationship building, open-collaboration adhering to client needs with effective consulting in line with requirements where needed. ..Get Personal.. Multi-instrumentalist (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-musicians-make-best-employees-stewart-cowley) & experienced recruitment buff with a passion for people, hunter of techies, and chaser of egg-shaped balls (..that's rugby!) CodeAcademy Trainee learning HTML, CSS, Ruby!! Technical Recruitment knowledge: Strong knowledge and experience in recruiting for Technology, DevOps, Build & Release, Continuous Delivery, WebOps, Development and System Engineer/Integration consultants who specialise in the following skills: - Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, SpaceWalk, Vagrant, Octopus, Docker - AWS, Azure, Openstack, VCloud, VMware, vSphere, Joyent, SkyScape - Linux, Unix, Windows, LAMP, Apache, - Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash, Shell, PowerShell, PHP, Java - Jenkins, Hudson, Anthill, Bamboo, CruiseControl, Travis, TeamCity, Ant, Maven I have also placed a variety of candidates with the following skills: Windows, Microsoft, Lnux, Unix, VMware, AWS, Citrix, SCCM, SCOM, Hyper-V, Exchange, AD, CUCM, Lync, San, NAS, LAN, WAN, IP, Checkpoint, ASAs, Fortigate, Google Apps +44 (0) 20 7803 1700 | [email protected] | Skype: AlexJ_AG

Senior Technical Talent Specialist | DevOps, Emerging-Technology & Infrastructure @ Senior Technical Talent Specialist in the 'Niche Staffing' arm of Arrows Group Globals' multi-platform service. Niche Staffing is a hybrid twist on the traditional 360 (Business Development, Resourcing, Engagement and Placement) permanent and sub-contractor staffing service. This is a global, ‘follow the sun’ capability - underpinned by our 100 man global operations team in Delhi incorporating some of the best, brightest and most senior minds in the Technical Recruitment industry in London, India and the Netherlands. Our Niche Staffing specialists recruit across the following core areas: • Business Intelligence and Data • Development • Infrastructure • Project Management and Business Analysis In recognition of this philosophy, Arrows Group Global has achieved several accolades since its inception in 2003: • Recruiter Fast 50 2014 (6th), 2012 (5th) • Sunday Times International Track 200 • Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Company To Work For 2014 (19th), 2013 (83rd), 2012 (82nd) • Best Company To Work For 2011 DevOps, WebOps, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, SpaceWalk, Vagrant, Octopus, AWS, Azure, Openstack, VCloud, VMware, Linux, Unix, Windows, DevOps, LAMP, Apache, Ruby, Python, Perl, Bash, Shell, PowerShell, Jenkins, Hudson, Anthill, Bamboo, CruiseControl, Travis, TeamCity, Ant, Maven, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Build, Automate, DevOps, Docker, SmartOS, Joyent, IoT, Internet of Things, iOS, Android, Mobile, BigData, Hadoop, Spark, Mesos, Apache, Kubernetes, MapR, Pig, Hive and more! From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Senior Technical Talent Consultant @ Specialising (but not limited to..) > DevOps, Build & Release - Ruby, PHP, Agile, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, AWS, Openstack, Opensource, Jenkins, Hudson, CI/CD > DevOps, Unix – Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX & HPUX, Debian, RedHat, Centos, Fedora, uBuntu > Amazon Web Services (ECx/AWS - IaaS), Windows Azure, OpenStack, vCloud/VMware > Linux Server, LAMP, Apache, MySQL. > Development: PHP, Java, C#/C++ > CI: Hudson, Jenkins > CM: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack > Management, Senior, Lead, Supervisor, 'Head Of', Director, CTO > Recruitment planning, RPO, Team-Implementation, Project, cutting edge market Information > Mentoring and training of junior members of staff Achievements - Implemented an excel based ATS systems which was subsequently used across the company for both contract and perm teams. - Trained and lead new members of staff. - Hired members of staff to support business operations as well as assisted in recruiting resourcing staff to scale up headcount. - Directly assisted one of the worlds largest sports betting firms placing several key members of staff. - Key player in helping the business concentrate on their social media presence and subsequently adopted LinkedIn Recruiter for the business which is now a key part of resourcing for the company. eCommerce/Banking & Finance/ Media, Unix, Linux, Windows, administration, administrator, engineer, system, DevOps, Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet, Chef, AWS, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Azure, Java, PHP, Zend, Development From October 2012 to January 2015 (2 years 4 months) Senior Pricing Analyst @ Financial Administrator Responsible for the efficient and timely recording of 1000s of price records for one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical distribution companies. Analysing financial data to ensure quality assurance Heavy use of Excel including Pivot tables, V-look-ups and various other techniques Responsible for assisting in project and promotional work within the marketing, financial and buying sectors. Liaising with senior stakeholders from pharma firms all over UK during promotional periods. From March 2011 to October 2012 (1 year 8 months) Accounts Payable Data Entry Clerk @ My main responsibilities were to make sure that all invoices were inputted into the system correctly and quickly. Whilst averaging 500 invoices a day to maintain high standards and quick, efficient inputting. I was then promoted to Master Price File Administrator. From March 2011 to April 2011 (2 months) Security Officer @ From November 2010 to February 2011 (4 months)

Popular Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Merit @ Academy of Contemporary Music Guildford (ACM) From 2010 to 2011 Alevel, Various (Math, Science, English) @ Therfield 6th Form College From 2007 to 2009 A level, Various Subjects (Math, Science, English etc.) @ Therfield Secondary School From 2002 to 2007 Alex Jones is skilled in: Recruiting, Human Resources, Social Media, Music Production, CRM, Technical Recruiting, Sound Design, Audio Engineering, Social Networking, Networking, Music, Sales, Microsoft Office, Account Management, Teamwork