Andrew has 27 years experience in the IT industry with a broad technical knowledge of IT technology, operating systems, computer hardware and networking. For the past 15 years Andrew has worked as an International IT consultant, completing some 22 projects across Europe and Asia for enterprise scale, global clients. His travels have taken him to 27 different countries including most of mainland Europe, UK, Scandinavia, Africa, the Middle East, as far north as Lapland (Arctic Circle) and as far east as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Almost all of his projects have been for IBM. For the past 10 years he has specialized in IBM WebSphere products.
Andrew's skills lie in the design and implementation of global enterprise scale IT infrastructures using WebSphere technology (WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server, Process Server, ESB Server and WSRR Server). He has developed specialist skills in advanced performance tuning of the WebSphere "black box" and allied infrastructure using custom tooling. He is competent in Unix (AIX / Linux) and Windows operating systems. His hardware knowledge enables him to carry out server sizing, capacity planning and configuration for Unix and Windows based systems.