An experienced IT practitioner with 5 years experience supporting IT infrastructure within schools, with significant expertise in managing a variety of Linux based physical and virtual servers, including automation of tasks via Bash scripts and Ansible playbooks.
Performed a migration of production virtualisation servers from Hyper-V to Proxmox VE over the course of a week (with minimal downtime) to improve reliability with High Availability failover and reduce licensing costs
During the COVID-19 pandemic, remotely supported 300+ staff and students for a 4 month period as the sole IT staff member, including a complete migration of mailboxes from on-premises Microsoft Exchange email to Microsoft 365
Troubleshooted and recovered servers whilst maintaining day to day operations for the whole school with minimum or no downtime, including recovering the bootloader on a critical file server preventing days of downtime
