Giles Hinchcliff's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Lead DevOps Engineer @ - Vocal member of Senior Engineering Team with expertise in System Design, Security and Infrastructure - Managing both Devops and IT Support teams within Agile environments. - Interview, hire and retain engineers within both Devops and IT Support teams. - Ultimate responsibility for production environments, both design and keeping. - Manage migration from bare metal servers to coded cloud based infrastructure. - Advisor on deployment and scalability queries for the team. - Translate the application into a dockerised infrastructure, - Designed and built Docker based local dev environment. - Migrate monolithic application to AWS and rebuild inside Containers. - Interview, hire and lead devops and infrastructure teams. - Articulate and push procedural change throughout the development team. - Halved first byte response time. - Created 'no downtime' and 'one click' deployment systems. - Reduced average broken tests from ~50-60 to ~0-1. - Implemented Jenkins CI server with elastic ec2 slaves. - Interviewing techniques used as an example of ;how to hire' amongst the rest of the company. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) London, United KingdomSenior Systems Administrator @ • Sole Systems Administrator in charge of Designing, Implementing highly available secure file transfer/social network for the medical profession. • In charge of Complying with NIST and HIPAA regulations. • Implemented a continuous intergration system using Jenkins, on Docker Container. • Working with bleeding edge technologies such as Docker and Apache Mesos. • Responsible for increasing the speed of the site by 60% within the first month of joining. • Member of a close team with input on all parts of the running from Product design to development etc. • Being responsible for keeping track of vulnerabilities, and deciding whether to upgrade based on risk. • Designed a system based around the concepts of immutable infrastructure, ensuring that key roles and responsibilities are split clearly. • Managed production mysql Databases, with master slave responsibilities. • Managed encryption keys and ensured that they’re vaulted correctly. • Negotiating with suppliers for cheapest possible contracts. From June 2014 to May 2015 (1 year) London, United KingdomSystems Administrator @ A vocal member of the Senior IT Team contributing to the future vision of the Department, designing projects and building a more stable infrastructure. • Designing and Building PHP applications to facilitate communication with MySQL/MSSQL databases containing over 1.8 Million medical professionals. • Developing and building freeswitch telephony system, between upwards of 15 sites worldwide including 4 call centres. • Developing bespoke Exchange 2010 transport agents to enable faster information transfer, better reporting and easier workflow. • Managing migration from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 with DAG. • Building and configuring DFS-R environments consisting of over 15 servers in 8 offices worldwide, enabling faster communication throughout the company. • Designing, Building and Administering existing VMWare infrastructure, adding new servers as and when needed. • Building bespoke Servers out of parts, testing, and configuring to ensure reliability. • Working with AWS to build a Production level environment and 4 Dev fleets. • Responsible for administering and troubleshooting backups using Symantec Backup 2010. From February 2012 to June 2014 (2 years 5 months) London, United KingdomIT/AV Officer @ Administrator of a bespoke database consisting of over 5 million medical professionals worldwide, keeping a constant dialogue with programmers about usability issues • Main Liaison for colleagues and outside companies, co-ordinating complicated A/V requirements and creating relationships with companies throughout the world. • In charge of maintaining all A/V and Network equipment, sourcing equipment for replacement and expansion, whilst keeping inventory documents up to date. • Troubleshooting quickly any problems arising due to technical faults etc. • In control of data protection for archive and throughout ongoing projects. • Constructing and administering training programs, able to communicate technical protocols in a simple manner. • Ability to research and implement new procedures for more effective running of business, whilst organising and prioritising jobs to ensure all deadlines are kept to. From October 2008 to January 2012 (3 years 4 months) London, United KingdomBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Time Based Media, 2:1 @ London Metropolitan University, Whitechapel, London. From 2005 to 2008 Giles Hinchcliff is skilled in: MySQL, Windows Server, Apache, Microsoft Exchange, PHP, Linux System Administration, CentOS, VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VoIP, Nginx, Docker, CI, Git, Web Servers