United Kingdom
I’m a seasoned IT architect with a wealth of experience in successfully in delivering enterprise grade solutions that positively impact the customer, partner, or employee experience. I’m at my most energized when working on teams solving complex problems, understanding the technologies that can be combined to address these challenges and integrating these into the environment in which they operate. When the team is successful, I am successful. I pride myself in being able to develop strong relationships within teams to collaborate, challenge and explore options to arrive at the solution and be successful. My expertise is in: - Understanding and translating business requirements to develop a technical solution. - Maintain a broad perspective when integrating new or transformed solutions into the existing ecosystem of services. - Drive an architectural approach to ensure solutions are secure, robust, performant, and cost effective while instilling a mindset of iterative improvement. - Leading technical teams to solve business challenges through both technology and process
Promoting architectural principles and guidelines to clients across the customer service experience organisation. Technology and business process should work in harmony not in conflict. Through data and analysis of both can solutions be found that exceed our clients expectations. Working to achieve these aims through initiatives including: - Application portfolio reduction and duplication elimination - Data protection through attribute based access control - Sustainability data standardised access
Lead technical engagements with internal Infrastructure services clients to develop consistent architectures following standardised practices utilising hybrid cloud technologies. - Drive Infrastructure as Code first mindset - Create high volume connectivity solution for data warehousing platform consolidation. - Cost optimisations across cloud accounts in excess of $2 million - Provide technical leadership to transition traditional infrastructure services to a self service infrastructure provider.
Set direction for Compute and Storage Services, ensuring that Cisco takes advantage of technology transitions, while maintaining existing resilient services. - Global endpoint backup for 110k devices across Mac and Windows - Deliver storage technology transition from HDD to SSD - Optimise virtual machine density within the data centre - Prioritise investment areas across storage services between maintenance and transformation
Delivered multiple Mobile Device Management and Blackberry solutions across a broad selection of client sectors including, Commercial, Enterprise and Finance.