Mike Lazell
Technical Leader and Solutions Architect @Cisco
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WORK HISTORY
Technical Leader and Solutions Architect @Cisco
Promoted to Technical Leader and Solutions Architect following successful project outcomes, enhancing my technical and PM skills, providing excellent customer service and delivering working customer solutions.Focusing on the latest and bringing in proven technologies to create heterogeneous environments with automation to provide working solutions. With new technologies such as cloud, containers and automation, solutions are fast moving and need to suit many environments. Understanding the deployments and how these new technologies can integrate with the older technologies is key. The experience with both types of technologies allows a unique insight into provisioning the overall solution.Experience highlights in addition to, and building on those detailed in the specialist infrastructure roleOpenStackVMWareOpenshiftDockerContainersXenServerKVMCisco UCS Manager/Infrastructure/blades/serversVirtualizationCloudIaaS/PaaS/SaaS/RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu LinuxOracleHigh AvailabilityAnsible AutomationTechnical Pre-SalesCloud architecture/securityHosted solutionsInteroperable solutionsLatest Projects includePre-sales (infrastructure SME) and deployment of Ad Substitution systems to worldwide service providers including Viacom, NBC, C5 and 2 other renowned service providersTechnical consultant (infrastructure) for SkyQ new feature and project deploymentsTechnical consultant (infrastructure/deployment) for Sky Italia HE refresh and new featuresOn-premise Openstack Cloud deployment, management and operations using self-coded ansible automationBuild Openshift environments for R&D developersCreate production Openshift clusters for testing how customer deployments would workUnifying Sky Europe build environments for in-house development projectsCreating sales bill of materials for complex, multi-dimensional, multisite deployments from project requirements and feed-in from other parts of the business to make a single complete picture for the customer
EDUCATION
Queen Mary University of London
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organometallic Chemistry
Queen Mary University of London
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Hons, Chemistry
SKILLS
ABOUT MIKE LAZELL
Technical Leader and Solutions Architect specialising in cloud, container and virtualisation technologies. Utilising this technology experience, architect customer solutions and maintain a role as consultant for infrastructure (SME). Working in the Sky Europe Advanced Cloud Services team @ Cisco. RHCSA in RedHat OpenStack, Scrum Master and Product Owner Accredited Certification, Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt and hold a Cisco Security Green Belt certification.Over 16 years experience in IT, virtualisation and cloud with a previous background in cutting edge research for leading UK universities.Current workPre-sales and deployment of Ad Substitution systems to SP’s including Viacom, NBC, C5 and 2 othersTechnical consultant for SkyQ new project deploymentsTechnical consultant for Sky Italia HE refresh and new featuresCreate production Openshift clusters for testing customer deploymentsUnifying Sky Europe build environmentsCreating sales bill of materials for complex, multi-dimensional, multisite deployments from project requirements and feed-in from other teams to make a single complete picture for the customerLatest highlights Infrastructure lead - UK R & DPM and lead engineer for the back office transition of LocateTVInfrastructure consultant for Sky in-house teamsArchitect/Build/Manage/Maintain physical/virtual/cloud environments - UK and worldwideOn-premise Openstack Cloud deployment, management and operations using self-coded ansible automationUtilise DevOps, agile and scrum methodologiesDemonstrates ability to delivery complex projects accurately and efficientlyUse technologies to accelerate change and increase speed of innovationImplemented fully automated deployments of OpenStackImplemented VMware, Xen, KVM virtualization technologiesAutomation utilising ansible and heatTechnical pre-sales consultant for Cisco UCS solutionsCurrent Self ImprovementPythonDockerOpenshift OriginSix Sigma Green BeltScrum TrainerOpenstack Newton
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