Ben Jones

Experience

1. Senior Post-production Engineer

   Company 3

   May 2019 — Present · London, GB

   Supporting and enabling world class Colourists, VFX Artists, Conform Artists, Dailies Operators and Audio Engineers to produce work class content for Film and TV. I\'ve recently played an integral role in migrating Company3 London to a secure and high performance hybrid remote/office based operation due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. In my time at Company3, I have- Recently completed the design and implementation of new Arista based production and out of band networks spanning a Datacenter and Remote Office using DWDM technology over Dark Fiber- Installed a configured HA Fortigate Production Firewalls for network segregation and internet ingress/egress- Designed and deployed Remote Nearset Cart network infrastructure allowing for secure operation and remote access- Provisioned a VMWare vSphere 7 stack along with iSCSI shared datastore storage- Created an Active Directory based Domain for centralised management- Built a MDT/WDS server for quick Windows OS Deployment- Assisted in the migration to an SMPTE 2110 based Video over IP video routing system from solely SDII\'m part of an engineering team designing, deploying and supporting the following technologies- GPFS/SpectrumScale Storage Clusters- NFS, SMB, and ISCSI NAS Storage over Ethernet and Fiberchannel - Stornext, FreeNAS, MADM and MegaRAID- Mixed Windows, Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) and Mac OSX Workstations and Servers- Quantum, Qualstar and HP LTO Robots - Brocade (IP and Fiber Channel), Cisco and Fortigate Network infrastructure - VMware vSphere - Aspera, Catapult and Tixtream configuration for accelerated file transfers- Supporting industruy standard software, such as: BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve, Colorfront OSD, Autodesk Flame, Avid and ProTools- Salt stack, Foreman and Rundeck for Linux management- Reference Monitor calibration - Sony PVM/BVM- HP RGS/ZCentral Boost Deployment for local and remote access- Leostream Connection Broker for session management

Skills

• Microsoft Servers
• Microsoft Office
• Wsus
• Sound Engineering
• Storage Solutions
• Active Directory
• Xp
• Windows Server
• Sccm
• Windows
• System Deployment
• Profile Manager
• Wds
• Servers
• Linux
• Dhcp
• Dns
• Workgroup Manager
• Mobile Device Management
• Desktop Application Support
• Group Policy
• Technical Support
• Mac
• Xserve
• Ios
• Windows 7
• Deploystudio
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Os X
• Domain Migrations
• Lan Switching
• Ghost Imaging
• Music Technology