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I am an experienced technical manager with strong knowledge of Internet and related technologies – IP networks, web-delivered applications, data centres, server and storage hardware and software, security, databases, and operational tools for the management thereof. I am used to handling many projects in parallel and to tackling difficult issues blocking them, whilst keeping business goals in sight and in mind. I am a good leader of technical persons, deriving satisfaction from helping them learn and grow in skill and effectiveness. I am a team player, and I am always interested in learning new skills myself, technical and non-technical, and in sharing knowledge. Having been part of a management team I am aware of all aspects of a business – HR, financial/budgetary, purchasing and procurement, process/quality, sales, product development, and of course technical operations and IT. Specialties: Management and leadership of technical teams; Cost reduction and optimisation; Processes, quality and IT Service Management; Cost/benefit analysis; Project management; ICT infrastructure (Datacentre operations, virtualisation, server, networking and storage infrastructure design, operation and consolidation); Capacity management; Internet technologies; Supplier management; Systems and storage architecture; Product & service development; Structured reporting

Senior DevOps Engineer @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Berlin Area, GermanyDevOps Engineer @ Joined Petobel from parent company/incubator Epic Companies. Managing and automating deployments of the production Java e-commerce site using a wide range of Amazon Web Services products, MySQL, MongoDB, Chef, and Salt. Developing and maintaining complex, multi-layer AWS OpsWorks stacks. Developing and managing build services with Jenkins. Monitoring and management with the usual suspects (Nagios, Ganglia, OpenVPN, Logstash). Design and development of infrastructure and deployment automation for the next iteration of microservices-based architecture based on Scala and Docker. From May 2014 to September 2014 (5 months) Berlin Area, GermanyDevOps Engineer @ Development of a Private Cloud platform based on OpenStack. Provisioning automation and orchestration with Salt. In parallel working on automating deployments of production Java e-commerce sites using a wide range of Amazon Web Services products, MySQL, MongoDB, and Chef. Monitoring and management with the usual suspects (Nagios, Ganglia, OpenVPN, Logstash). From March 2014 to May 2014 (3 months) Berlin Area, GermanyHosting Product Engineer @ Engineering of productised and bespoke solutions for the managed hosting market, primarily for the enterprise segment. Evaluation and selection of the systems and service management tools (OSS) for the hosting business. Development of Easynet's Cloud service offering. This work also included a strong customer-facing component, supporting the Sales organisation in preparing complex RFP responses, participating in workshops with and presenting solutions to customers. From October 2010 to June 2013 (2 years 9 months) Datacentre Manager, Spain @ In this role I managed the service strategy and service lifecycle (design, transition, and operations) of datacentre-related services. Also in this capacity I was part of the company's Process Management team responsible for maintaining Easynet Spain’s ISO 9001:2000 quality management certification, as well as a member of the company’s management team. From September 2004 to June 2013 (8 years 10 months) Hosting and Systems Manager, Spain @ In this role I managed the service strategy and service lifecycle (design, transition, and operations) of datacentre- and systems-related services, including customers’ outsourced IT platforms managed by Easynet. In parallel I oversaw internal IT infrastructure and information systems (CRM, helpdesk). Also in this capacity I was part of the company's Process Management team responsible for maintaining Easynet Spain’s ISO 9001:2000 quality management certification, as well as a member of the company’s management team. From March 2004 to October 2010 (6 years 8 months) Systems Manager @ In this role I led a diverse staff of six responsible for the IP network, services infrastructure, systems development and internal IT infrastructure and support of Easynet España. My job was to ensure a reliable service, develop new services and products, and provide third line support for our operations. From May 2003 to September 2004 (1 year 5 months) Systems Administrator @ In this small but rapidly growing company, competing with the big names in the ISP world in Spain, I was one of the team of (initially) two people responsible for the operation of the IP/ MPLS network and services infrastructure of the ISP – core network, web hosting, SMTP and POP email platforms, DNS, LDAP, and RADIUS, and dialup and ADSL access platforms. From July 2000 to May 2003 (2 years 11 months) Systems Administrator @ This position at a leading independent business-oriented ISP in the United Kingdom involved many aspects of Internet services, mainly but not limited to web servers, proxy servers and general UNIX administration and systems programming tasks. From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Systems Developer @ From 1998 to 1999 (1 year)

Anthony Stanton is skilled in: Data Center, Virtualization, ITIL, IT Service Management, Servers, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Cisco Technologies, Telecommunications, Network Design, Firewalls, Solaris, Unix, DNS, IP