“I have worked with Al over the past year and have been greatly impressed with the ability to pick up new technology and run with something. Al has always given positive feedback and advice to me as an architect on better ways to develop a pipeline, whether that be in ADO or github actions. He single handedly created the new template for github actions build, test, deploy on my project and fully engaged with the plan, as well as being a popular member of the team with good positive challenge. Would not hesitate to recommend Al to any company whether it be developing new green field pipelines using ARM or terraform or helping move dev-ops forward with an existing system”
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Dynamic DevOps Consultant and Cloud Visionary with over 30 years of experience driving…
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Lorne Stalker and I will be attending KubeCon next week! As always, it'll be a great opportunity for us to expand our knowledge on a topic we spend…
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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.
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CCNA
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VCP
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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.
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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.
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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.Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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CEO Team Award
NDS
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CEO Award
NDS
Test Scores
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RHCT
Score: 100%
Organizations
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Member
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