My name is Chris Murton and I live near London, UK. I work both as a Technical Architect designing, deploying and supporting effective solutions on Amazon Web Services and as a freelance radio presenter and tech-op.

IT

My background is in managed hosting and public cloud on Linux and Windows environments from designing production ready, highly resillient solutions all the way through to supporting them. I’ve also worked on designing and implementing advanced performance monitoring and event management systems.

AWS

• Serverless including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions and DynamoDB
• Orchestration with CloudFormation and Terraform
• EC2 auto scaling and ECS on EC2 and Fargate
• IAM
• Amazon S3
• RDS and Amazon Aurora

Containerisation

• Docker
• Earthly

Distributions

• Amazon Linux
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• RedHat
• CentOS

Databases

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Monitoring

• Datadog
• Amazon CloudWatch
• IBM Tivoli (OMNIbus, ITM 6.x, Netcool Impact)
• Zabbix
• Nagios

Programming

• Python
• Node.js
• Perl
• Bash scripting
• PHP

Radio

I’ve been working in radio since 1999, originally setting up and running an Internet-based radio station which went on to continue running for 6 years.

I have extensive experience using Genesys, Myriad v2.6 (Live Assist and Voicetracking), RCS Master Control, Linker and Selector (Live Assist and Voicetracking) and Zetta including scheduling, advert/traffic imports and editing/managing of clocks. I also have experience using Burli, Barrcode BCX and OtsDJ.

On-air

• B Radio, 2021 - present

  Presenter of Saturday mornings (9am - 1pm) in Hampshire and Surrey.

• 107 JACK fm Berkshire, 2014 - 2017

  Presenter of Saturday mornings (8am - 12pm) and “JACKing up the 80s” on Sunday mornings (9am - 12pm).

• Reading 107, 2011 - 2014

  Presenter of the Evening Show (Monday - Friday, 7pm - 12am) and Saturday Mornings (8am - 1pm) plus holiday cover of weekday mid-mornings.

• Time 106.6, 2007 - 2012

  Hosted Early Breakfast (weekdays 4am - 6am) and Saturday Breakfast (6am - 10am), including cover for most weekday dayparts including Breakfast and Drivetime. Broadcasts across Berkshire and South Bucks.

• Oxygen, 2009 - 2011

  Host of weekday mornings 9am - 12pm playing Fresh Hits for the UK. Online radio station accessible worldwide.

• Kestrel FM, 2010

  Evening show cover for holidays.

• Ocean FM, Spain, 2008 - 2009

  Presented the Full English Breakfast (weekdays 7am - 10am) on Ocean FM covering Mojacar, Garrucha, Vera and Turre in the southern region of Spain.

• Radio Verulam, 2004 - 2006

  Looked after the Early Riser show during two FM RSLs in 2004 and 2006, heard in St. Albans and surrounding areas.

Behind the scenes

• Heart, 2009 - 2010

  Tech-op of network shows including Club Classics and “The Saturday Show with Emma Bunton”, as well as playing out the Phase 2 migration of the One Network stations.

• 95.8 Capital FM, 2007 - 2010

  Tech-opping for a wide variety of shows including “Capital’s Dance Anthems”, “The Capital Breakfast Show” and playout of various pre-recorded presenter shows.

• One Network, 2007 - 2009

  Tech-op/producer role for “Party Anthems” and “Club Classics” shows with Gaz Wesley, as well as tech-opping for “Sunday Nights with Jason Donovan” and Kevin Hughes.

• talkSPORT, 2006

  Learning the ropes and cutting my teeth tech-opping for the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.

Voiceover work

• 107 JACK fm Berkshire

  The voice of ‘JACKtivities’ promoting local events in and around Berkshire.

• Reading 107

  Voiced a series of promos for forthcoming live music events and gigs.

• Pure FM

  Voiced a full package of sweepers and cuts for the student radio station for the University of Portsmouth.

• Purple Radio (previously Purple FM)

  Recorded a series of liners to complement the existing on-air package at the University of Durham’s student radio station.