Adam Fordyce DevOps Engineer

White House - Main Street - West Linton - EH46 7EA · +44 (0) 7917 40 20 90 · Email Us

I have 16 years of technical experience working with a variety of distributed systems within telecommunications,  oil and gas, and now within HPC.Experience in Automation working within a Linux environment. I enjoy working on complex tasks using Perl and Python programming to assist when required. To date, my career has been technically focused, both within systems and infrastructure and with data analysis. I am comfortable working and communicating with colleagues and customers alike.

Experience

Technical Specialist

ION Geophysical

  • Subject matter expert covering the operational aspects of the companies software and technical services

  • Key contributor with systems design changes, working with customers, operations teams, and development teams

  • Developed automation tools to simplify complex tasks

  • Develop and deliver internal and external training on technical subjects

  • Attend customer premises as a product expert during technical strategy planning

  • Primary contact for managing complex data analysis and repair tasks

  • Offshore/Remote working to perform operational planning, data analysis, and data reporting 

  • Mentor to colleagues when working on new technical challenges

Aug/2016 - May/2021

Team Leader

ION Geophysical

  • Managing the day to day workload for a large operations team with sixteen team members

  • Managing the OTRS help desk ticketing system

  • Mentoring team members to prepare them for offshore and remote working conditions

  • Implementing an engineer development plan to help the team members progress

  • Subject matter expert, providing technical expertise and consultation both internally and externally

  • Development of internal tools to aid operational support

  • Working closely with the development teams

  • Key communicator within the organisation

  • Offshore/remote working for systems installations and commissioning

  • Offshore/remote working for survey planning and data analysis

  • Preparing and delivering customer training

Mar/2013 - Aug/2016

Product Specialist

ION Geophysical

  • Technical Expert for the companies distributed systems used for offshore seismic surveying

  • Mentoring of junior engineers

  • Project management

  • Pre-sales support

  • Working closely with other department

  • Offshore/Remote work for systems installation and commissioning

  • Data analysis and processing

  • Operational support to over 50 survey vessels worldwide

Apr/2011 - Mar/2013

Support Engineer / Senior Support Engineer

ION Geophysical

  • Commissioning and supporting Gator, Spectra, and Orca integrated navigation systems both offshore and onshore.

  • Working in challenging environments with limited backup support.

  • Infield Training and support during complex seismic surveys such as WAZ, 3D undershoots, and 4D undershoots.

  • Working with RF networks, including installation and configuration for ship-to-ship communications data communication integration

  • interfacing ships instrumentation into the various navigation acquisition systems, Cable terminating including RS232, RS422, Cat5, LMR400, LMR600 and coax cables.

  • Liaising with software developers for bug fixes and new product features.

Mar/2009 - Mar/2011

World Wide Support Engineer

Telsis Limited

  • Large distributed systems installation and commissioning

  • Support of core network telecommunications platforms

  • Perform on-site repairs to telecoms equipment

  • Perform major network upgrades to core network components

  • Work with customers to present and demonstrate systems capabilities

  • Remote and lone working 

Mar/2006 - Feb/2009

Education

Bell College of Science and Technology

BEng Applied Electronic Design

  • Advance Micro Controllers
  • C++
  • DSP
  • Analogue Circuit Design
  • Digital Circuit Design

Aug/2005 - Jun/2006

Bell College Of Science and Technology

HND Electronics

  • Power Electronics
  • Fiber Optics
  • Micro Controllers
  • Digital Electronics

Apr/2004 - Jul/2005

Bell College of Science and Technology

HNC Electrical and Electronics

  • Electronic Fundamentals
  • Networking
  • Electronic Testing Instruments
  • Mathematcis for Engineering
  • Analogue Electronics

Apr/2003 - Mar/2004

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
    • Ansible
    • Virtualisation
    • Python
    • Perl (Object Orientated)
    • Shell scripting
    • Linux
      • Generally comfortable on most platforms from BSD, to RHEL
      • Mainly RHEL based version 6 and 7
    • Web Technology
      • PHP (Object Orientated)
      • JavaScript (jQuery)
      • CSS
      • Plesk Management
    • AWS with Ansible
    • AWS
      • S3 Object Storage
      • EC2 instances
      • Lightsail
      • Some Cloud Formation
    • Docker
    • Jenkins
    • Git/Bitbucket
Workflow
  • Preparing and Delivering Training
  • Customer Services
  • Project Management
  • Requirements Gathering and Analysis
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux - System Administration
  • Data Analysis
  • Ansible

Interests

I have a genuine interest in technology and enjoy learning and solving technical problems. I am a new dad and enjoy spending time with my wife and daughter at home with our two dogs.

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