London, England, United Kingdom
A successful, passionate & driven Network Engineering manager with a love for technology and solid experience leading a global engineering team. Involved in the day to day Design, Build & Deployment of enterprise LAN/WAN's using emerging technologies such as SD-WAN and SD-Access. Core technical skills developed through real-world experience in the Travel, Finance and Gaming sectors, industrial work placement & University. Strong experience with Cisco & Juniper Routing, Switching & Firewalls, Arista Switching, Citrix Netscaler, SD-WAN, SD-Access, Palo Alto and more. Passionate about enterprise network automation with hands on experience developing and implementing Python, Ansible and NSO based automation.
Experienced senior leader managing a team of over 30 engineers across global connectivity, enterprise, data centre, e-commerce, and automation teams. I oversee a network spanning 15+ locations worldwide with over 2Tbps of global connectivity, delivering low-latency solutions to large retail and gaming clients. Passionate about driving innovation, automation and efficiency to support mission-critical services at scale.
Leading a global team of 11 engineers that manage the thousands of Cisco, Arista, Checkpoint, Palo Alto and Aruba devices that make up the global Expedia Group enterprise network which enables over 30,000 Expedia Group employees across 200 locations to work effectively. Directly responsible for leading emerging technologies within the wider enterprise network team such as AWS and Azure Cloud connectivity, Corporate Datacenter strategy and the development and deployment of SD-WAN alongside Cisco's Software Defined Access fabric and DNA Center deployments. Passionate about enterprise network automation with hands-on experience writing and deploying Python, Ansible and NSO based automation.
Network Engineer focusing mostly on enterprise technologies (LAN, WAN & Wireless). Working predominantly with Cisco, Aruba and Checkpoint to deliver new global office spaces for Expedia Group.
Providing Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Citrix Netscaler & Checkpoint Network and Security consultancy.
Designed, built, implemented and managed one of the worlds largest Bitcoin / Altcoin exchanges with daily trading volumes exceeding several $million. The exchange was built from the ground up in PHP and utilised technologies such as Websockets, NGIX, Percona XtraDB, OpenVZ, Memcached, CouchBase, Splunk, Juniper SRX Firewalls, CDN’s and enterprise DDoS protection. MintPal was sold to Torihiki LTD in August 2014.
Working as part of a dynamic team managing a Cisco & Juniper based MPLS network with a global footprint. Responsible for both corporate and production infrastructure including working with and managing connectivity to major global exchanges such as LIFFE, CME, ICE, EUREX and DGCX. The role includes extensive Cisco and Juniper routing using OSPF, BGP & EIGRP on the Juniper MX & Cisco 6500 and 7600 platforms and extensive L2 and L3 MPLS. The role is highly demanding and includes on call and out of hours support responsibilities.