
KennethPoole
Production Support Executive
Keeping live systems up and users unblocked
Production support executive with eight years keeping business-critical applications running for a software and services company in Leeds. The person who keeps live systems healthy — monitoring, investigating incidents, fixing issues, and supporting users so the business keeps working. Cut recurring incidents by tightening monitoring and driving fixes back into the product. Handles incident and problem management, monitors systems and jobs, troubleshoots applications, databases and integrations, manages releases into production, and works to ITIL standards. Strong on both the technical troubleshooting and the calm, clear communication production support needs under pressure. Reliable on call and methodical on root cause. Looking for a production-support, application-support or site-reliability role with an organisation that depends on its systems staying up.
Leeds Software & Services - Leeds, UK
Production Support Executive April 2016 to Present 10 years & 4 months
Cut the recurring incidents by tightening the monitoring and driving fixes back into the product.
Handle all the incident and the problem management and troubleshoot the apps, databases and integrations.
Monitor all the systems and batch jobs and resolve the issues to keep the business working.
Manage all the releases into production and support all the users with the clear communication throughout.
Drive all the root-cause analysis and work carefully to all the ITIL standards while on call.
Yorkshire IT Solutions - Leeds, UK
Application Support Analyst August 2014 to March 2016 1 year & 8 months
Troubleshot the issues across the applications and the databases for the users.
Learned the ITIL, the SQL and production support practices on the job.
Gained the certification and then progressed into a production-support-executive role.
Yorkshire IT Solutions - Leeds, UK
IT Service Desk Analyst June 2012 to July 2014 2 years & 2 months
Learned the incidents, the systems and the ITIL basics on the job.
Built up the support grounding that good production support is built on.
Then earned the move into a full application-support analyst role from there.
University of Leeds
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (September 2011 to June 2014)
AXELOS / Microsoft
ITIL & SQL Support Certification (January 2016 to May 2016)
Cut recurring incidents
Calm when systems break
ITIL & SQL Support
AXELOS / Microsoft (May 2016 to Present)
SQL, Monitoring & Observability
Datadog (April 2019 to Present)
ITIL Practitioner & SRE
AXELOS (January 2018 to June 2018)
Cloud & Linux for Support
Linux Foundation (March 2021 to Present)
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Application Support
- System Monitoring
- SQL Troubleshooting
- Integrations
- Release Management
- Root-Cause Analysis
- ITIL
- User Support