Experienced Global Support, Operations and Infrastructure Professional.

Consultant @ From September 2005 to Present (10 years 4 months) Infrastructure Architect @ Working on the Smart Metering program. From June 2015 to November 2015 (6 months) Implementation Designer @ From January 2014 to May 2015 (1 year 5 months) Technical Architect (Contract) @ Work on a Government infrastructure project. From December 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 2 months) Technical Architect (contract) @ Designing solutions for some of IBM’s larger customers including Reckitt Benckiser, Bradford and Bingley Group, Jaguar Land Rover, and Diageo. Technical escalation point for problems surrounding connectivity, virtualization and security, and meetings with end clients surrounding new proof of concept trials. From March 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 10 months) Systems Consultant (Contract) @ From January 2010 to February 2011 (1 year 2 months) IBM pSeries architect (Contract) @ From September 2009 to January 2010 (5 months) Infrastructure Consultant (Contract) @ From September 2007 to September 2009 (2 years 1 month) Infrastructure Architect (Contract) @ Working on and validating designs for AIX P5 LPARs, Windows 2003 and RedHat Enterprise servers for the NHS Connecting for Health platform. From January 2007 to September 2007 (9 months) Build Engineer (Contract) @ Virtualising the OS/2 build infrastructure, and rewriting parts of the REXX automated build code in PERL. I also maintained and administered the AIX and Linux automated build systems. From July 2006 to January 2007 (7 months) Unix, LDAP and Mirapoint consultant (Contract) @ When Cable and Wireless terminated the professional services contract with Mirapoint, I was brought in house to consult on the NHS project. In addition to this I gained SC level security clearance, and worked on the Criminal Justice Secure Mail system and Hilton Hotels. From December 2005 to July 2006 (8 months) Consultant (Contract) @ Working as a dedicated consultant onsite at Cable and Wireless providing support for the 3rd largest public sector eMail deployment in the world the NHS Connecting for Health platform. This role involved development of processes and scripts in shell and PERL as well as some onsite support and trouble shooting. From September 2005 to December 2005 (4 months) European Systems Admin + Storage Manager @ From September 2001 to April 2004 (2 years 8 months) European Support Engineer @ From December 2000 to September 2001 (10 months) Northern European Tech Support Manager @ From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Northern European Support Manager @ From January 1999 to December 2000 (2 years) Web Platform Developer @ From 1998 to 1999 (1 year)

BSc, Computer Science and Software Engineering @ The University of Birmingham From 1993 to 1997 2i BSc Hons, Computer Science and Software Engineering @ University of Birmingham From 1993 to 1997 Tom Skelley is skilled in: SAN, Apache, Data Center, Linux, Solaris, AIX, RHEL, Firewalls, CentOS, Windows, Unix, Perl, Scripting, Technical Design, Virtualization