Michael Estall

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About Michael Estall

Have a high level of practical knowledge of UNIX (IBM, SUN, RedHat, HP & SGi).Have a high level of backup experience including real recovery exercises (Netbackup - TSM, IBM, SUN)Good functional knowledge of EMC CX380/CX500/VNX5100/VNX5400 administration and configuration (incl installation VNX5100) & DataDomainSAN installation, configuration and administration (zoning)Tivoli MonitoringScripting and monitoring to very high level.Disaster RecoveryBMW - designed, built and tested IBM HACMP systems, managed production ARVAL - provided cold start off site DR, working from ground up, provided FULL documentation.VODAFONE hosting - EMC provisioning and fail-over to remote sites, using zoning techniques.Extremely competent at resolving issues to a very high level and adapting to changes to suit situations.Management of change within ITIL parameters.Process and documentation at a very high level so less skilled personnel can still manage workload.One of my traits is to be able to describe very complex procedures in a way layman can understand and enable others to carry out those tasks without assistance.I keep meeting colleague's I've worked with over the years all have retired, I'm not quite there yet. Still believe there's more I can offer to keep the grey cells running.