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Ross Stone – Systems Administrator - employ@rossstone.net – +44 (0)7843 099 787
Career Objective
As a highly experienced, fast paced and technical minded individual, I am seeking new roles where my broad and thorough knowledge of various systems and infrastructure can be put to good use, while at the same time furthering my experience with new challenges.
Professional Accomplishments
Planned and implemented the deployment of an entire IT infrastructure resulting in security, management and performance improvements while remaining 60% under the original budget.
Implemented various innovations to accounting processes. Resulting in improvements such as greatly reducing the paper produced by the department, modernising end of year processes or using electronic systems to help create 50% to 90% reductions in the companies aged debt.
Employment History
Systems Administrator, January 2010 to Present
Art Loss Register Limited, Bath
Including work for The Equipment Register
- Managing every aspect of the day to day administration of the systems.
- The installation, configuration and deployment of:-
- VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 Servers
- Microsoft Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2
- Microsoft SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008
- Microsoft IIS 2003 and 2008 R2 Servers
- Citrix Presentation Server 4.0
- Active Directory, DNS and Group Policy’s
- Watchguard Firewall’s and VPN’s
- Migrating users from Microsoft Exchange and Alt-N MDaemon to Google Apps cloud based email solution resulting in higher reliability and substantial savings.
- Implementing server virtualisation to deploy 25 Servers on 3 physical hosts resulting in considerable savings and vast improvements to server performance.
- Researching, budgeting, and implementing an infrastructure overhaul. Reviewing security and performance weaknesses as well as exploiting cost reducing opportunities.
IT Assistant, June 2007 to December 2010
Loss Management Group Limited, Bath
Including work for Art Loss Register and The Equipment Register
- Project coordinator for The Equipment Register website development. Notably designing the process for an automated search algorithm used to replicate how a human searches records, working around human errors.
- Managing Microsoft SQL servers for Art Loss Register and The Equipment Register including tasks such as:-
- Creating and restoring backups
- Correcting errors and cleansing data
- Implementing optimisations
- Coding scripts for cleansing and importing data
- Assisting consultants with the implementation of migration from Sage Line 50 to Sage AccPac, resolving many problems the consultants encountered with our source data.
- Planning and deploying full disk encryption for company laptops.
Accounts Assistant, November 2003 to June 2007
Loss Management Group Limited, Bath
- Managing an electronic invoicing system resulting in lowering one customers aged debt by 91% from £140,891.93 to £12,423.95 in just over three months.
- Designing, programming and implementing an electronic chasing system to replace a paper system resulting in a 49% drop in aged debt from £219,833.75 to £111,386.46.
- From December 2004, started a supervisory role, managing and training other credit controllers or sales ledger clerks.
- Learning to a high degree of understanding the use of Sage Line 50 and Sage AccPac usage for sales ledger tasks, general ledger activities and year end processes.
Training History
iBase Intelligence Database, i2 Limited in Nottingham, April 2008
Completing iBase User, and iBase Designer courses. Covering how to create, deploy, and manage intellegence databases using i2 software for both private and public sectors.
Education History
AAT Technician Stage, City of Bath College, June 2008
Covering Management of Performance and Enhancement of Value, Planning and Control of Resources, Managing Systems and People in the Accounting Enviroment, Operating Cash Management and Credit Control Systems, Auditing Procedures, and Drafting Financial Statements.
AVCE ICT, City of Bath College, August 2003
Covering Presenting Information, ICT Serving Organisations, Spreadsheets, Systems Installation and Maintenance, Systems Analysis, Databases.
AAT Intermediate Stage, City of Bath College, August 2002
Covering Maintaining Financial Record and Preparing Accounts, Recording and Evaluating Costs and Revenues, Preparing Reports and Returns.
AAT Foundation Stage, City of Bath College, August 2001
Covering Record Income and Receipts, Making and Recording Payments, Preparing Ledger Balance and Initial Trial Balance, Supplying Information for Management Control.
GCSE, C, City of Bath College, August 2001
English Language
GCSE’s, 5 B-C’s, Wellsway School, August 2000
Maths, Science (Double), English Literature, and Technology.
Relevant Skills
Exceptional understanding of many concepts of information communication technology such as desktop administration, server administration, infrastructure management, security management, networking and virtualisation. As well as basic experience with programming, debugging and general linux administration.
I also have good experience using Sage Line 50 and Sage AccPac from both the users point of view, administrators point of view, and direct database manipulation from the backend.
With a passion for technology, I often spend my free time researching, evaluating and keeping up to date with the latest technology and innovations. Often staying current with the latest gaming cultures and communicating with other like minded individuals online.
