Andrew Knott

Current

• Technical Architect at Atos Origin

Past

• Middleware Development Manager at Abbey National
• Ecommerce Infrastructure Team Leader at Abbey National
• Unix Architect at KPMG

• Central Systems Manager at KPMG
• Operator at britoil
• operator at bp

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Andrew Knott’s Summary

Over 20 years experience in the IT industry in both operations based and development based organisations. Excellent communication skills for stake holders at all levels of an organisation, as well as high levels of problem solving skills and honed ability to demonstrate thinking outside the box.

Andrew Knott’s Specialties:

Computing infrastructure, server architectures, Unix based operating systems, application server based solutions (both .net and J2EE), VMWare virtualisation technologies

Andrew Knott’s Experience

• Technical Architect

  Atos Origin

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

  A member of the Chief Technology Office for the Systems Integration service line of Atos Origin, helping to shape the strategic direction taken by the various projects that are undertaken by SI.
  
  As well as this strategic aspect, the role sees me working on various client engagements - currently working as Lead Development Technical Architect on messaging/integration aspects of an NHS contract, managing a group of TAs who support the development aspects of this programme.
  
  Previous engagement saw me working closely with colleagues across Europe in order to define the strategic tools to be used for system development/testing/requirements management etc.

• Middleware Development Manager

  Abbey National

  (Banking industry)

  January 2004 — March 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  The middleware team within Abbey were responsible for the development of BEA Tuxedo services that were shared amongst the various banking services supported by Abbey.
  
  We were also responsible for the development and delivery of infrastucture related services that were delivered through the IBM MQ Series platform - heavily leveraged during 2004/5 as part of the project to re architect the means of getting branch network data on financial transactions back into the central location.

• Ecommerce Infrastructure Team Leader

  Abbey National

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ANL.L; Banking industry)

  June 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 8 months)

  Implementation management role, responsible for the implementation of Websphere Application Server product set on IBM pSeries hardware to replace the then existing ecommerce offering running on Netscape and Sun hardware.
  Managed group of 10 resources.

• Unix Architect

  KPMG

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; KPMG; Accounting industry)

  January 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 4 months)

  The strategic Unix platform vendor for KPMG UK had been Sequent Computer Systems - following the acquisition of Sequent by IBM, it became apparent that IBM wanted to terminate this product line and move existing customers over to the strategic IBM Unix product (pSeries).
  
  This role involved working closely with representatives of the IBM account team in order to gain a detailed understanding as to the capabilities of this server range, and how it compared to the Sequent platforms that KPMG had installed.
  
  I was responsible for formulating a multi stage migration strategy that woulld enable KPMG move across to this new strategic product set, whilst at the same time ensuring the stability of the existing applications on the Sequent platform.
  
  This included skills development of the various technical resources to enable them to migrate their Unix skills from Dynix/ptx and Sun Solaris (KPMG's second tier Unix offering).

• Central Systems Manager

  KPMG

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; KPMG; Accounting industry)

  November 1993 — December 2000 (7 years 2 months)

  Started my time in KPMG as a Senior Computer Operator, before then transitioning through the ranks of Ops Analyst, Ops Manager. Central Systems Manager role was responsible for the running of not only the operations group but the Technical Support group - who provided Unix/Oracle/SQL server support to the UK organisation.

• Operator

  britoil

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years )

• operator

  bp

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1988 — 1992 (4 years )

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