Paul Evans

Background

About Paul Evans

IT Architect who specializing in automation, devops, automation and transformation initiatives. He has extensive transformation, consulting and IT Operational Management experience. Paul has very strong customer facing skills and hands on experience architecting, implementing and managing large geographically dispersed projects. Experienced at building relationships with operational technical teams and executive management he has led architectural teams, review boards and product evaluations. He has developed designs for enterprise wide strategic solutions. • Devops, agile and Cloud technologies (Softlayer, IBM Bluemix, AWS EC2, IBM Cloud Orchestrator) • Proficient with Configuration management tooling – Chef – familiar with puppet • Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Oversight, Technical Team Lead, Networking Architecture, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture • IBM hardware (Power Systems), System x, z/OS, z/VM, VMWare • Experience with networking and networking products / protocols • Proficient with UNIX (AIX/ RHEL), Windows, familiar with Citrix, z/OS, z/VM, IBM SAN DS/8K. Experience with Ruby, C, PERL, Python, PL/1, Fortran, assembly language. • Well versed in GSMethod, IBM Method Web (TOGAF methodologies). • Experienced with IBM operational support tools. CMDB / SCCD / TADDM / Cognos / DB2 / Bigfix, TAD4D (Bigfix Inventory). • Experience with IPSoft, RTC, BPM, Blueworkslive, Chef Automate, Agile management practices, continuous delivery and continuous integration. • Well versed with agile methodologies.