James Spurin

James Spurin

Chorleywood, England, United Kingdom
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About

With over 25 years in IT and a solid 15 years of industry-specific experience, I pride…

Experience

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    London

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London / Holland / New Jersey

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    Canary Wharf

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    London / Edinburgh / Chester / Other

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    Heathrow, United Kingdom

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    Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

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    Finchley, London

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    Newport, United Kingdom

Education

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    University of Liverpool

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    Studied part time for three years whilst in full time employment. Prior to this, my highest academic qualifications were GCSE's after opting for the work route rather than academic. Liverpool University accepted my work history and industry based qualifications as an equivalent entry for the programme.

    Successfully completed Masters and was awarded Hons/Distinction, the highest grade achievable

    Study consisted of the following courses over 3 years -

    • Computer…

    Studied part time for three years whilst in full time employment. Prior to this, my highest academic qualifications were GCSE's after opting for the work route rather than academic. Liverpool University accepted my work history and industry based qualifications as an equivalent entry for the programme.

    Successfully completed Masters and was awarded Hons/Distinction, the highest grade achievable

    Study consisted of the following courses over 3 years -

    • Computer Structures
    • Object Oriented Programming And Design Using C++
    • Web XML Application Development
    • Information Technology Project Management
    • Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Maintenance
    • Software Engineering
    • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
    • Computer Forensics

    Dissertation Project - How Cloud Technologies and Design Patterns Can Be Used To Improve the Management and Resilience of Storage Environments - 15,000 words with a sophisticated web front end and AWS for it's backend infrastructure. Awarded a First.

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

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    Organizer

    KCD Texas

    - Present 1 year 8 months

    Science and Technology

    Remote Organizer for Kubernetes Community Day Texas

Publications

  • Dive Into Ansible - ISBN: 9781801076937

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    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

    This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand…

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

    This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand and professionally master Ansible. It aims to help you master Ansible while tackling and learning multiple topics. It starts with Ansible's architecture and how to provide effective scalable automation. Further, we look into Ansible modules and playbooks with YAML syntax and execute it. Next you will get to know about advanced Ansible playbooks, and even structure them. You will learn to use Ansible with cloud services and containers and provision it with AWS and Docker. Finally, you will master troubleshooting, validating, and testing with Ansible.

    See publication

  • Mastering Ansible - ISBN: 9781788629515

    Packt

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

    This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand…

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

    This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand and professionally master Ansible. It aims to help you master Ansible while tackling and learning multiple topics. It starts with Ansible's architecture and how to provide effective scalable automation. Then we move on to installing and configuring it with various platforms. Further, we look into Ansible modules and playbooks with YAML syntax and execute it. Next you will get to know about advanced Ansible playbooks, and even structure them. You will learn to use Ansible with cloud services and containers and provision it with AWS and Docker. Finally, you will master troubleshooting, validating, and testing with Ansible.

    See publication

Projects

  • Python - xmldataset

    XML Parser written in Python.

    • Website: http://xmldataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
    • Source Code: https://github.com/spurin/xmldataset

    xmldataset is a Python port of the XML::Dataset module originally written in Perl.

    Provides a simple means of parsing XML to return a selection of information based on a markup profile describing the XML structure and how the structure relates to a logical grouping of information (a dataset).

    The project has been designed with…

    XML Parser written in Python.

    • Website: http://xmldataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
    • Source Code: https://github.com/spurin/xmldataset

    xmldataset is a Python port of the XML::Dataset module originally written in Perl.

    Provides a simple means of parsing XML to return a selection of information based on a markup profile describing the XML structure and how the structure relates to a logical grouping of information (a dataset).

    The project has been designed with Python best practices in mind -

    • ReadTheDocs documentation integration with Sphinx
    • Python PyPi distribution
    • Testing and coverage supported by TravisCI

    • Featured in Issue 157 of Python Weekly under 'Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries'

    Released under the BSD License

    See project

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