Al West

Al West

Southampton, England, United Kingdom
4K followers 500+ connections

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Dynamic DevOps Consultant and Cloud Visionary with over 30 years of experience driving…

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Experience

  • TSEW Ltd. Graphic

    TSEW Ltd.

    Southampton, England, United Kingdom

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    Southampton, England, United Kingdom

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    Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

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    Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

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    Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

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    Online

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    Wokingham, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    Croydon, England, United Kingdom

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    Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

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    Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom

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    Romsey, England, United Kingdom

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    Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom

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    Whiteley, England, United Kingdom

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    Titchfield, England, United Kingdom

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    Blackfield, England, United Kingdom

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    Hampshire, United Kingdom

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    Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom

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    Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom

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    Chandlers Ford, England, United Kingdom

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    Portsmouth & Africa

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    Cheadle, England, United Kingdom

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    Warton, England, United Kingdom

Education

  • Loughborough University Graphic

    Loughborough University

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    Activities and Societies: Motorcycle Club

    Systems Engineering

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    Activities and Societies: Car Mechanics Club

    4 A-Levels in Mathematics and Physics

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • STEMNET Graphic

    Stemnet Ambassador

    STEMNET

    - Present 12 years 5 months

    Education

    STEMNET creates opportunities to inspire young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This enables young people to develop their creativity, problem-solving and employability skills, widens their choices and supports the UK's future competitiveness.

    STEMNET helps encourage young people to be well informed about STEM, able to engage fully in debate, and make decisions about STEM related issues.

Courses

  • CCNA

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  • VCP

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Projects

  • Dime Machine

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    Dime Machine is a time machine clone that can run as a VM. The project provides a Kickstart file that can be used in conjunction with a Centos/RH ISO for hands free setup. Currently supports up to 16TB storage.

    Project terminated.

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  • WHSClamAV

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    WHSClamAV is a free open source Add-In for Windows Home Server using the ClamAV Anti-Virus package. Over 100,000 downloads within a very small market. Second most downloaded Add-in.

    Project now closed. No further development - Windows Home Server v1 is EOL.

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  • Datacenter Simulator

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    Currently constructing a virtual data center to aid engineers with the design, implementation and installation of highly complex tiered applications that can be carried out locally. Currently simulating vSphere with FT/HA and centralised storage all operating on one physical machine.

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  • CARS

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    A framework to provide reference systems, initial builds and seeding infrastructure to support the full product line and offer set from Cisco in terms of video delivery and manipulation. Working with other organisations within Cisco to provide a fully automated end-end self serve and or turn key solution for internal and/or vendor integration. Initial trials have commanded that systems are built 100 times faster with zero deviation from guidelines. Utilising heavy lifting from Puppet…

    A framework to provide reference systems, initial builds and seeding infrastructure to support the full product line and offer set from Cisco in terms of video delivery and manipulation. Working with other organisations within Cisco to provide a fully automated end-end self serve and or turn key solution for internal and/or vendor integration. Initial trials have commanded that systems are built 100 times faster with zero deviation from guidelines. Utilising heavy lifting from Puppet, skeleton in VMware and UI from Foreman with glue layers written in Bash and API in PHP, C# and PowerShell.

    CARS is about building a circle of trust between all components and platforms within Cisco and using the whole eco-structure to test components under real world demanding environments whilst still being usable for users who don't need experience of anything outside their usual realm.

    Project closed - mutual termination.

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Honors & Awards

  • CEO Team Award

    NDS

  • CEO Award

    NDS

Test Scores

  • RHCT

    Score: 100%

Organizations

  • The Institution of Engineering and Technology

    Member

    - Present

    Founded 140 years ago, the IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries, with active networks of members in 37 countries. To support its worldwide membership it has offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

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