☁️Tony Dickman

Microsoft Cloud Architect - De-mystifying the cloud and helping clients maximise their investment.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

About

I am a senior digital transformation consultant specialising in specialising in Azure cloud. With over 10 years experience, designing, building and supporting multiple technologies and services on various systems. I help my clients deliver the technical "how" that aligns to their business vision and strategy, enabling the business to focus on "why".

Experience

  • Senior Lead Infrastructure & Cloud Architect at Kyndryl
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Architectural Leadership: Solution lead for the build and design of Azure cloud migrations, spanning Paas, IaaS and the modernisation of legacy platforms. Cloud FinOps: Reducing clients cloud costs by migrating existing subscriptions to a consolidated MSP providing up to 10% discounts on current operations. Security Governance: Leading cloud security assessments to ensure client environments meet enterprise-grade compliance standards. Talent Development: Sponsoring apprentice programs and developing comprehensive training for new architectural team members. Cloud Presales: Creating client roadmaps on migration to cloud using well architected principals. Transformation Consultancy: Providing consulting expertise on how technology can be used to solve business objectives.

  • CGI (Full-time · 3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Principal Consultant Cloud Advisory
      Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr

      A managing architect, focused on strategic consultancy specialising in Microsoft cloud, while leading a mixed team of senior consultants across various technical disciplines. Enterprise IP Development: Defined the product roadmap and strategy for the "CGI Digital Twin360," leading a cross-functional team of 7 architects/developers to deliver a scalable solution for multiple industries. Strategic Advisory: Acted as a cloud strategy Lead, defining best practices that significantly reduced data loss risks and accelerated cloud adoption rates. Business Alignment: Led pre-sales workshops and technical sessions for CxO leadership, translating complex business needs into technical specifications and value propositions. Technical Architecture: Designed high-availability systems across multiple datacentres and architected a unified data framework using APIs to replace legacy client platforms. Digital Transformation: Contributed to the creation and delivery of a modular IT lead digital transformation framework. Architectural Leadership: Serving as the Solution Lead for large-scale cloud migrations and Managed Service Provider (MSP) management. Security Governance: Leading cloud security assessments to ensure client environments meet enterprise-grade compliance standards. Talent Development: Sponsoring apprentice programs and developing comprehensive training for new architectural team members.

    • Senior Consultant
      Jan 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Technical Support Engineer at Self-Employed
    Dec 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Technical Support for multiple platforms. My role includes: Citrix support. Ms VMMC, SCCM, MS Azure, Windows 10, Server 2016/2019, Patching/AV maintenance, Remote access, Active directory, application support, firewalls, VPNs

  • Infrastructure Specialist at Netteam tX Ltd
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 · 5 mos

    Mobile Infrastructure Engineer providing IT Installations and support, covering hospitality and small businesses in a wide area. My responsibilities included: O365/ Intune MDM. Microsoft Server/workstation build and configuration. Network/WiFi/telephone/setup and configuration. Backups/ Storage. application management - sage, micros, standard office products, exchange, exchequer & bespoke applications.

  • Support Specialist at Self
    Apr 2015 - Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    I currently work in a small team who manage every aspect of an IT system across various locations. In my current role I am responsible for: Patching and Installations/ PC & server rebuilds/ Managed print support/ Hyper V/ P2V/ diskless image support Windows 10/ MS2016/ MS2012r2/ MS2008R2/ MSoffice 2010&2013/ ITIL Foundation/ mk4 lock configuration/ auditing/ stock control/ contractor management/ project management/ service delivery/System Backups/ system security/ change control