Adrian F. Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

I'm thrilled to be invited to the board of trustees for this new and exciting charity that offers design and making experiences to primary and secondary school kids in London in our new maker space. I also volunteer at the maker space and see first hand how the Year 5 and Year 6 pupils have fun picking up new skills and ideas in the multi-week projects we offer in school time. Their teachers love it too! For the latest updates, check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shift_ed_uk?igsh=d2d2OW9iN2pkOGth

London Area, United Kingdom

Volunteer at this educational charity that offers real-world learning projects for children and young people through design and making.

London, England, United Kingdom

Providing teaching support for the Astronomy courses at the UCL Observatory in North London

London, England, United Kingdom

Post-acquisition role supporting the ex-Virtual clarity transformation tools team

London, United Kingdom

Providing expertise on a consultancy basis for financial services Blue Chip clients.

London, United Kingdom

Providing expertise on a consultancy basis for financial services Blue Chip clients.

London, United Kingdom

Technology consultancy specialising in IT Infrastructure, IT Governance, IT Architecture and aligning business needs to technology capabilities. Extensive experience and expertise in the banking and financial services industries.

London, United Kingdom

Reporting to the EMEA Chief Architect, formed the regional EA team aligned to the Global EA organization and established key IT governance processes within the region. Taking account of the regional business needs, processes were designed which ensured alignment with global IT strategy and IT standards. Built a regional architecture community which executed these processes. Took an active, leading role in taking the EA global function to the next level of maturity. From a business architecture viewpoint, established regional views of sector technology roadmaps to guide regional project leaders. Drove successful cross-business application rationalisation and asset optimisation programs leveraging virtualisation technologies.

London, United Kingdom

The key influence and leadership role that drove cultural change within the global technology community. Reported to the Head of Citi Technology Infrastructure Engineering, the Citi Chief Technology Officer and the Head of CATE Strategy & Planning within the Citi Architecture & Technology Engineering division based in New York. Designed and delivered business-aligned technology services successfully and repeatedly across the enterprise.

London, United Kingdom

Located within the Datacenter organization, developed the department through several mergers and re-structures from 5 to 24 employees, with an annual staff budget of $4.8million and directly influencing an $800million technology annual budget. Evolved the team to deliver engineering as a service for Distributed Systems, Distributed Storage and Backups, Database, DNS & Directory Services, Monitoring, supporting a regional datacenter population of >5,000 servers, a desktop population of >20,000 and a user base of >25,000 people. Responsibilities included interface to senior management, building relationships with global counterparts, vendor relationships regional & global, setting and enforcing global and regional standards, approving all major technology designs and purchases within remit, information security risk management, departmental financials and formulating technology roadmaps.

London, United Kingdom

Assigned to the multi-million dollar capital expense program to consolidate and migrate several live datacenters across London into new facilities at Canary Wharf. Directly responsible for the design and implementation of the 1000-seat London Trade Floor Unix application delivery infrastructure, with a capital budget of $5million and a lease-break defined delivery deadline, delivered within budget and on time. Trade Floor services were maintained throughout the transition period. During this period defined the first Solaris Standard Operating Environment and successfully championed its adoption globally and established a regular, formal dialogue with global counterparts.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for supporting the Derivatives trading desk and their application development teams in the Fixed Income Bond Portfolio Analysis department, providing end-user support and problem resolution, software release services, run-time environment support, systems administration, 24x7 on-call support, business recovery planning and testing, and all service delivery management.

London, United Kingdom

Provided a complete 24x7 support service for the entire Salomon Brothers London IT infrastructure, including development, design and implementation of all infrastructure services and performing the capacity management, problem management, change management, incident management, release management, and configuration management of these services.• Had primary responsibility for first- and second-level on-floor support of the Salomon Brothers’ 400-seat Trade Floor• Additional responsibility supporting the off-floor Equity Quantitative Trading Group• 24x7 on-call support for all Unix-based infrastructure in the Victoria Plaza location, including email, messaging, market data, monitoring and alerting, backups, Unix desktops, servers and data storage. • Successfully introduced an innovative X-hosting environment to the London Production Trade Floor, a consolidated application delivery solution subsequently adopted globally, delivering significant saves in hardware and software maintenance costs, significant FTE cost avoidance and increased reliability of the Trade Floor environment.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the day-to-day operation of a varied suite of IT systems supporting the research and post-graduate community of over 120 users. Planned and implemented the migration of the user population from VMS to Unix during this period. Developed a number of programming utilities and collaboration applications used by the wider astronomical community. Led the local user group forum – a key governance mechanism for the Starlink Project that funded the role and the IT systems.

Phd, Astronomy

Bsc (Hons), Physics & Astronomy

Activities and Societies: Astronomy Society, Drama Society