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My name is Ben Neise, and I’m an Infrastructure Support Consultant, based in Glasgow, for Dell’s Application Packaging Centre in Pune. I help manage a 20-host VMware vSphere farm situated in Limerick with over 1,300 guests and over 200 templates.
I’ve previously worked as an application packager with MSI and SoftGrid (now rebranded as App-V).
I’ve got a degree in Psychology which is more useful than it sounds: writing lab reports is an excellent schooling for technical writing; doing any kind of testing involves the setting up of control groups and ensuring that variables are controlled; and my unit in statistical methodology has come in useful so many times that I think it should be compulsory on all BSc degree courses. I’m also MCP, VCP and CCA qualified.
My job involves replicating customer environments in order to test that the packages created in Pune will work when they’re supplied to the customer. This means setting up Windows AD domains, replicating GPOs, importing customer builds, and being familiar with a wide range of deployment methods and software packages, as well as packaging methodology. It gives me the opportunity to try out a lot of different technologies, and while I’m nowhere near a subject matter expert in most of them, it does give me an unusually broad area of knowledge.
I’m particularly fond of writing scripts using vSphere PowerCLI to automate the less interesting parts of my job.
In my spare time, I like playing computer games, watching films and taking photos of my cat and toddler.
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And if you’re at Dell, Yammer. Feel free to e-mail me at ben@neise.co.uk.
The views and opinions published on this site are my own and not approved or endorsed by my employer, Dell, Inc.
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