I'm Bradley Comerford, an experienced Company Director with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in PHP, Linux System Administration, Web Design, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps. Strong business development professional with a BTEC Level 3 focused in IT Software Engineering from City of Bristol College.
Education
BSc Astrophysics & Space
The Open University, 2019 - Present
IT Software Engineering
City of Bristol College, 2013 - 2015
AS-Level Studies
Chew Valley School, 2012 - 2013
GCSE Studies
Chew Valley School, 2007 - 2012
Certifications
Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals
Nutanix University, 2023
Microsoft 365 Security Administrator
Microsoft, 2022
Microsoft Azure Administrator
Microsoft, 2021
ITIL Foundation Certification
ITIL, 2019
Level-3 IT Software Engineering
BTEC, 2015
Skills
I have a wide skill-set in IT and try to know a little about a lot, I'm always using my spare time to learn new things and keep ahead of the curve, but here's some of my skills summarised below.
Primary point of contact for all things DevOps, delegating resources, gathering project needs and expectations and working with the DevOps team to facilitate delivery of DevOps projects, pipelines and infrastructure architecture.
Providing DevOps management and administration for Infrastructure as Code Services, as well as Windows and Linux Server Infrastructure and other microservices.
Utilising and administering Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Hypervisors, delivering IaC services via Azure DevOps (on-premise), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Nessus for Vulnerability Scanning and PCI management, Jenkins, Citrix and other market leading Enterprise IaC technologies. Day to day management of all systems, with scoping, implementing and utilisation of new technologies and work methods.
During my time with Good Energy I was exposed to various technologies, including Hybrid Exchange and Azure AD Management, Powershell Scripting, Azure DevOps, DNS Management, Nagios, WSUS, AutoPilot, SCCM as well as continued management of assets and software technologies. My main responsibility has been administering, overseeing and managing our 100+ Virtual Machine VMWare Environment, implementing a full hardware refresh for their datacenter and providing 2 Enterprise Backup Solutions with full Disaster Recovery.
Providing technical and hardware support to internal employees, including password resets for Windows, user and group permissions via Active Directory, DNS management, inventory management of hardware and software, resolving issues with Audio/Visual equipment such as Projectors & Remote Speakers, Cisco CUCM desk phone management & ServiceNow Ticket Management. I was the key IT resource within Lidl's Regional Distribution Center in Avonmouth/Weston-super-Mare.
Avonline provided Satellite Broadband via ViaSAT and Avanti. An average day would consist of assisting many customers with resolving connectivity issues and other issues that they may be facing on their broadband, using diagnostic tools such as Force Ranging, Ping, Terminal Controls and data usage graphs, as well as DNS, Reverse DNS, MX and Mail Server checking as well as IP addressing management and blacklisting. During my time, myself and a colleague also developed "MyAvonline", a customer facing portal with Admin management for Tickets that allowed customers to view their Service Data Usage, and perform self-diagnostics. Demo here: MyAvonline
Working on behalf of Microsoft to provide support to Office 365 for Business customers in the early days of the platforms release. Providing support over the phone and with remote desktop tools, I was quickly promoted and became Internal Escalations Manager from my previous experience with Servers. This helped accelerate my learning for Azure, In-Tune and managing Windows Servers.
