Nov 2017 – Feb 2018 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Infrastructure Architect working with ICBC Standard Bank to help improve HA, resilience and streamline the DR architecture.
• Responsibilities included:
• Storage refresh architecture and high level design.
• Defining Architecture Principles for a major IT transformation programme.

Jan 2017 – Nov 2017 · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Cloud Architect working on a large programme to provide SaaS capability for a complex suite of decision analytics products.
• Responsible for the Infrastructure architecture of an AWS based platform, ensuring business, technical, non-functional and regulatory requirements are met.
• Technologies include: AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres

Jul 2016 – Jan 2017 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Infrastructure Solutions Architecture for the Financial Markets division of this top tier bank.
• Primarily focussed on infrastructure design for the Bank's flagship Low Latency FX trading application.
• Responsibilities included:
• Requirements analysis, vendor and stakeholder management, infrastructure design, co-ordinating disparate global teams.
• Also worked on the following projects:
• · Infrastructure design for an AWS cloud based platform to refine automated provisioning of Murex environments.
• · Various projects involving secure exchange of confidential data with third parties, including Bank of England and clearing partners

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr

• Principal Infrastructure Architect and Environments Lead for a large programme of Home Office initiatives.
• Responsible for:
• Hosting services selection
• Technical strategy for IT infrastructure (server networks and storage)
• High level Infrastructure Architecture & Planning
• Preparing Infrastructure costs for finance team
• Technical Project Management for various integration elements of the system
• Vendor management

Feb 2015 – Jun 2015 · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the architecture of a variety of data, analytics and trade processing platforms at the UK's top Financial Information Services Provider
• Review of requirements and leading discussions with stakeholders and infrastructure teams
• Technical guidance and leadership on technical approach and product selection
• Management of internal engineering teams and third party suppliers throughout project life cycle
• Infrastructure Strategy - helped develop Markit's Cloud infrastructure Strategy
• Lead Architect for SWIFT CLS infrastructure

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr · London Area, United Kingdom

• Technical architecture and Infrastructure design for a number of projects: Clearing house, SQL data warehouse, Puppet, web based auction system, ESX 5.5 expansion, backup re-architecture, scheduling, File & Print, CRM, trading platform expansion, market data platform, security tooling
• Requirements gathering, translating application and business requirements into technical solutions
• Guidance during delivery phase of project to ensure successful delivery
• Stakeholder management, often brokering agreement between conflicting opinions
• Adapting to the changing needs of the business and contributing to IT Infrastructure strategy
• Part of an Enterprise Architecture Group responsible for IT strategy and architectural governance

Sep 2013 – Feb 2014 · 5 mos

• Architecting end-to-end technology solutions to meet complex business requirements
• Requirements gathering, scoping complex proof of concept activities and defining success criteria
• Contributing to technology strategies, roadmaps and standards
• Supporting project management and engineering teams to ensure successful delivery of infrastructure projects

Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 · 5 mos

• Linux Architect working on a large project to provide a secure, simple and fast online payments platform to the European credit card industry.
• Responsible for translating the application architecture design into a physical architecture and detailed design for the Linux, AIX and VMWare components of the system.

Jul 2012 – Apr 2013 · 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Linux Infrastructure Architect , currently working on a number of server rationalisation and integration projects.
• Responsibilities:
• Business and technical requirements analysis
• Translating logical application designs into an appropriate infrastructure design
• Finding opportunities to rationalise and consolidate server architecture
• Architecting and documenting high and low level technical designs
• Creating test plans and standards documentation for new technologies
• Tracking and owning project risks and issues relating to systems architecture
• Stakeholder management, liaising with vendors, project managers and implementation teams

Nov 2011 – Jul 2012 · 8 mos · Canary Wharf, London

• Lead Unix / Linux Engineer on a project to remediate EOL network switches and migrate servers onto business aligned VLANs.
• Responsibilities:
• Technical implementation of server config changes
• Platforms include: RedHat, Solaris, AIX, VCS Cluster and VMWare Virtual platforms
• End-to-end impact analysis and reverse engineering of all architecture impacted by the project
• Troubleshooting end-to-end network connectivity issues
• Identifying and managing changes to firewalls, load balancing infrastructure and downstream systems

Nov 2009 – Nov 2011 · 2 yrs

• Infrastructure architect designing heterogeneous platforms for cross-regional applications.
• Projects ranged from single server requests to complex multi-tier designs. Broad range of infrastructure platforms including RedHat, SLES, Solaris, VMware ESX and Wintel, primarily HP BL460, DL380, DL580, SPARC T and M-Series hardware.
• Responsibilities:
• Producing high and low level infrastructure technical designs based on analysis of the application, including performance, scalability and HA / DR requirements as well as corporate strategy, budgetary and regulatory constraints
• Identifying opportunities for Virtualisation and platform consolidation
• Capacity planning and performance analysis of physical and Virtual platforms
• Presenting and justifying the final design to technical and financial review boards for approval

Sep 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Unix Systems Architect;
• Responsibilities:
• Designing multi-tier infrastructure solutions for Wintel, Linux and UNIX platforms
• Defining Operating System standards for Solaris 10
• Deploying and troubleshooting and documenting applications and OS builds
• Solving resource/performance problems

May 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Server support of 2000+ Solaris and Linux servers: patching, troubleshooting, application installs, upgrades, backup and restore
• Capacity planning, performance analysis
• Designing and deploying new infrastructure
• Disaster Recovery Testing
• Identifying risks and security enhancements

Jan 2002 – May 2007 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Installing, administering and supporting Mission Critical Unix systems located across multiple datacentres.
• Responsibilities:
• Systems Administration and Support
• Upgrading software, creating packages, migrating applications
• Designing, installing and configuring hardware
• Documenting new procedures
• Change Management
• Security hardening and audit
• Datacentre Migration - Technical lead migrating 100+ Unix servers from UK to France
• Architected solution and gained business and technical approvals
• Defined project plans
• Documented designs and presented to project team and business stakeholders
• Installation and configuration

Oct 1999 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Systems Engineer - Pre-sales technical advisor to customers in the service provider sector
• Responsibilities:
• Designed customer solutions
• Technical support for tradeshows and technology presentations
• Achievements:
• Technical support for product evaluation of web based solution to provide mail, messaging, calendar and single sign-on using iPlanet Portal Server. Installed and integrated on Sun hardware and assisted testing/evaluation of product.
• Re-engineered websites including the internal resource for the SPARC processor and external partner accreditation website.
• Post-sales support role within Sun’s Customer Support Centre
• Responsibilities:
• Technical ownership of issues for clients which ranged from failure of hardware, to software or patch incompatibilities through to resolution.
• Secondment to Credit Suisse as part of an on-site Sun support team acting as point of contact for technical failures and development server builds.