C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E

Alister Burrell
DOB:
 26th of May 1979
Bristol UK
Email:Alister@phrostbyte.dhis.org
Nationality: British

SUMMARY

I am a Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer who specialises in Linux and cloud technology.  I’m multi skilled and just as comfortable working with large complex network topologies.  I have worked for a few large orgs as DevOps has grown in popularity and helped them design, create and implement DevOps practices and tooling.  My tools of choice are all pretty much OpenSource and feature the likes ofTerraform, Chef,

SKILLS

Operating Systems:

CentOS, Redhat Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud SQL, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Linode, WinNT Server/Workstation, WinXP Workstation, Win2kx, Win9x, Win3.xx, DOS, Cisco IOS.

Programming Languages:

Bash Script, Perl, Ruby, Python, SQL, AWK, SED, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Bat.

Packages:

Terraform, Docker, Xen, KVM, Puppet,Chef,Packer, Jenkins, Varnish, Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, Squid, Tomcat, Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, CourierIMAP, Procmail, SquirrelMail, Fetchmail, Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, mysql, Tripwire, Arachni, Aide, OpenVAS, Alerta, Tropo, Nagios, PagerDuty, WhatsUP, Graphite, Grafana, Cacti, Bacula,  Bind, Samba, DHCP, OpenSSH, Vim, RRD, OpenLDAP, IPTables, GPG, Bugzilla, OpenVPN, IPSec, Majordomo, Mailman, MediaWiki, GIT, SVN, Kickstart.MS Exchange, MS DNS, MS DHCP, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Microsoft Project, Norton Anti Virus Server and Client, McAfee/Dr Solomon TVD, IIS, Remedy.

Hardware:

Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Pix Firewalls, Cisco Local Directors, Alteons. Allied Telesyn routers/switches, Netgear switches/routers, Dlink switches/routers, Procurve switches/routers, F5 Loadbalancers. DLT and LTO1-3 Drives, Quantum tape robot, RAID controllers, SCSI cards. Raritan KVMs  Comtrol RocketPorts and HP RKVM. APC Remote power strips, APC UPS.

Technologies:

CD/CI, Clouds, Virtualisation, TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP, 10G/1G/10M/100M Ethernet, VoIP(SIP, H323), GPRS, WAP, SMS, GSM, VLANs, VPN, STP, BGP, OSPF, Frame Relay, ATM, and Bluetooth.

WORK EXPERIENCE

AirBnB:                             2018 to Date

Job Tasks:

• Management of listing and communication for property.
• Overseeing of cleaning and cleaning staff.
• Responsible for maintenance and supplies.
• Handled accounting and taxes.

PhrostByte IT:      2008, 2013, April 2019 to Jan 2022

Linux DevOps Cloud Consultant

Clients:

• Assisted a large design and marketing agency working mostly in the cloud with DevOps related solutions for their on and off-site developers.
• VPS and wordpress management and support for two related non profit orgs.
• Drupal migration project for small hosting company.
• Server builds, automated server build solution and Linux and MySQL support for local PHP development firm.
• Linux script development and software customization for Irish accessibility charity.

Non Profit/Charity Orgs:                        May 2014 to Date

Volunteer

Job Tasks:

• Event and venue management.
• Campaigning.
• Fundraising.
• Public speaking.
• Process creation and day to day logistics.

YellowDog Ltd:April 2018 to September 2018

Systems Engineer

Job Tasks:

• Responsible for automation of infrastructure, using terraform, ansible, docker and kubernetes.
• Input on app releasing and deployment design, monitoring ideology and work flow.
• Creation of dedicated solutions for clients using infrastructure as code.
• Security enhancement, standardisation work, performance tuning of existing and new Linux infrastructure and networks.
• Guided staff on incident management.

Coull Ltd:         April 2013 to April 2018

Infrastructure Manager

Job Tasks:

• Responsible for the network and systems administration including physical data center migration to clouds and decommission.
• Administration and contribution to a custom multi cloud(AWS, Google, Rackpace, DigitalOcean, Linode) management framework written in bash and ruby using puppet and mcollective mainly to create, provision and manage all infrastructure.
• ELK stack implementation.
• Maintenance of Jenkins and bash based build, release and deployment system.
• Additions to existing bash scripted cron driven monitoring and alerting setup.
• Alerta roll out and monit integration.
• Software upgrade migrations including MySQL to cloud base service.
• PoC for migration of custom framework to Terraform, Packer, Docker, GKE.
• Security monitoring implementation(OpenVPN, OpenVAS, arachni, rkhunter).

Nokia Entertainment

Senior Linux Systems Administrator          June 2010 to April 2013

Job Tasks:

• Linux(RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu) Systems Administration.
• Mentoring Juniors.
• Integration With Windows Infrastructure.
• R&D Network Administration
• Release Managementvia CI/CD system I helped build and maintain.
• Delivery Of Service.
• Infrastructure Design.
• Migrations.
• Scripting And Automation.
• Monitoring Including Setup.
• Documentation.
• IT Security.

Nable-IT @ HP Labs Bristol:

Network Support Engineer     October 2008 to June 2010

Coull Ltd:       June 2008 to August 2008

Infrastructure Engineer

Multicom Products Ltd:                                                                                      Dec 2005 to June 2007

Systems / Network Administrator

U4EA Technologies Ltd:                                 May 2003 to Dec 2005

Systems Administrator / Support Engineer

Research In Motion / BlackBerry UK:       February 2002 to September 2002

Network Operations Administrator

Mutant Technology Ltd:  June 2001 to September 2001

Systems Administrator

Surrey University - Computing Services:           August 1999 to September 2000

IT Support Technician with consultancy

IncaGold Management Ltd:   March 1999 to August 1999

IT Consultant

Total Golf Egypt:           August 1997 to September 1997

Computer & Electrical Technician and Advisor

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications:

• GBDirect Real Time C ProgrammingJuly 2004
• Wray Castle GPRS A Technical PerspectiveJune 2002
• Diploma of H.E in Computer ScienceJune 2001
• Power IT Administrating WinNT 4March 2001
• Power IT Supporting WinNT 4 Core Technologies March 2001
• BTEC GNVQ Advanced ITMeritJune 1997
• 7 GCSE`s grade A-C inc Maths, English, Science and Electronics.
• PADI Rescue Diver

Education:

Educational EstablishmentFromTo

• Kingston University19972001
• NESCOT19951997
• Hollyfield School19901995
• Grand Avenue Primary School19841990

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

My Kids:

I’m the proud father to two children Shaila(16), Malachi(12) that I see alternate weekends and after school two days a week(mon, tue) that keep me very happy and share with me some of my hobbies.

Computing:

At home I admin a3 raspberry piservers which run a number of commercial daemons andprovide web, email, nas andmedia/games services which I support.  I alsohave aself built pwnagotchiI have been experimenting with and coded against plus aFlipper Zero which sadly needs a new batterywhich is unavailable currently.I have been a regular contributor to the Open Source community since 1997.

I like to make things and have a go at fixing things that are broken.  I have a craving for knowledge and an understanding of how things work.

Sports:

I’m like to cycle but due to health I only do this for recreation now and then. I also love to snowboard when I find time to get away to the mountains.  I enjoy Scuba Diving and have over 300 logged dives and I am a PADI Rescue Diver and uncertified Divemaster with a few specialties, I have assisted in the water with training or guiding.  I also like to skate with my kids when health permits.

Travel:

I love to Travel and have traveled extensively in Europe, as well as visiting North America, South America, The Caribbean and The Middle East where my mother lives and I spend a lot of my time.  I believe traveling broadens your mind and love to experience the different cultures and meet different people.  In addition I enjoy Camping, and have camped extensively in the UK and a few European countries.

Music:

I like to listen to music and have a very varied taste I find music helps me to concentrate and gives me inspiration.  I enjoy the many Bristol outdoor music event over the summer with my friends and children.  Ialsorecently invested in an MPC to experiment with music creation again.

Art:

I have recently given into my love of glass art and started a small collection of pieces by UK & US artists and hope one day to have a torch setup of my own to play with. I also have a strong interest in modern text based art and murals.  When time allows I also like to craft and create.

REFERENCES

Available on request.