Recent Experience
Application Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Dunelm Soft Furnishings Ltd | Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Migrated Java applications to AWS EC2-based Docker containers. Implemented comprehensive
monitoring using Zabbix, Grafana, and Datadog for 1,640+ devices. Created PowerShell automation
managing 1,600+ Windows instances.
Systems Engineer
Selfridges Retail Ltd | Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Automated proactive issue detection across Java/Tomcat POS infrastructure. Implemented PRTG
monitoring with automated alerting and visual dashboards.
Technical Consultant
BT Expedite, IBM, Computacenter | 2003 - 2010
Led technical implementations for major UK retailers including Clarks Shoes (400+ sites),
Phase Eight, and Mosaic Fashions. Infrastructure architecture and deployment automation.
Home Lab & Projects
Active home lab environment: Proxmox virtualization with ZFS storage, Docker containerization,
virtualized OPNsense firewall with VLANs, GitHub Actions CI/CD experiments. Python scripting
projects including NLP work with spaCy.
Proxmox Cluster
ZFS Storage (10TB+)
OPNsense Firewall
VLAN Configuration
Python NLP (spaCy)
GitHub Actions CI/CD