Professional Summary
Highly accomplished IT Architect with over 25 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-level infrastructure solutions for global organisations in the finance and FMCG sectors. Recognised for delivering transformative IT projects and providing technical leadership across compute, storage, backup environments, virtualisation, and cloud technologies.
Career Highlights
- Working with strategic partners to minimise and standardise global data centre footprints and engagement on multiple large-scale transformation projects involving server/workload migration, achieving a cost saving of £ X million annually.
- Designed infrastructure for hundreds of IT portfolio projects, both internal IT, transformation and business-related projects for large multinational organisations.
- Standardised deployment patterns for multinational organisations and implemented architectural repositories.
- Led the technical separation of IT portfolio projects during corporate restructuring projects, ensuring seamless operations.
- Requirements gathering, LLD and HLD creation, representation of designs at TRB and ARB approval boards
Technologies Used
- Virtualisation: VMware, Cisco UCS, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen Server, Proxmox.
- Operating Systems: Windows, RHEL, VM Appliances.
- Storage & Backup: Dell EMC (VxRail, Avamar, PowerStore), NetApp, Hitachi, Isilon NAS, IBM DS Storage & SVC, Commvault Cloud Backup, IBM TSM, CA Products
- Database & Middleware: Oracle DB, Oracle RAC DB, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Automic, WebLogic, JBOSS, Apache
- Networking & Security: F5 Load Balancers, SSO, LDAP, SAML, Certificates, S2S VPN
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- VDI: RDP, Citrix, VMWare Horizon
- Collaboration Tools: ServiceNow, SharePoint, MFT
- Containerisation: Docker
Education
- BTEC HNC in Mechanical Design Engineering – Brunel College, High Wycombe
Professional Development
- TOGAF V9.1 Foundation Course
- ITIL V3 Foundation Course
- Microsoft Azure Essentials (AZ900)
- Microsoft Azure Security Fundementals (SC900)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (AZ104) - In Progress
- ArchiMate Overview
- CISSP Security Course
- F5 Load Balancer Administration
- NetApp Storage Administration
- Cisco UCS Overview and Adminsitation