Alan Burnett

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IT Director- Head of Engineering @ MeLan IT Consultancy
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About Alan Burnett

Director of Cloud Engineering, Leading teams of Business aligned Engineers, Cloud and Platform Engineers, Core Services Engineers, Cloud Centre of Excellence, Offshore Engineering and Technology Operations. Introduction of cloud best practices covering governance, financials, security and operations. Initiated Infrastructure as Code development for public cloud PaaS and IaaS and associated automated self-service infrastructure deployment. Introduced cloud management portal and code registry. Structured teams for agile working and alignment to DevOps platform model ways of working. Extensive experience of strategy, design, engineering, governance, innovation, support, operations and budgets. Ability to lead across various team structures to plan, organise and prioritise work to make decisions and solve problems aligned to business strategy. Broad knowledge of all infrastructure products and services from DC, hybrid and public cloud hosting environments through to networks, virtual desktop and enterprise service management.Profile Summary:• 30+ Years experience in IT Industry• Currently Director of Infrastructure Engineering and Technology Operations, reporting to Group CTO.• Established 22 year career in leading global financial organisation• Strong Technical Leadership in Strategy, Architecture, Design and Engineering• Accountability for extensive $100M+ strategic transformation initiatives and significant change programs• Proven record of developing teams across multiple locations including agile practices (SAFE)• Previous key roles include Head of Design and Engineering, Head of Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture, Design and Engineering COE Lead, Head of Global Networks• Recognised strength in leadership and coaching• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals across all levels, including Senior Executives (CIO/CEO)

Alan Burnett's Current Company Details
MeLan IT Consultancy

Melan It Consultancy

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IT Director- Head of Engineering
Alan Burnett Work Experience Details
  • Wpp Group (Uk) Ltd
    Head Of Cloud Engineering
    Wpp Group (Uk) Ltd Aug 2022 - Present
  • Melan It Consultancy
    Founder And Ceo
    Melan It Consultancy Jul 2022 - Present
    Bucharest, Ro
    Bucharest Based IT Consultancy, Resources and Recruitment Company
  • A.P. Moller - Maersk
    Director Of Engineering
    A.P. Moller - Maersk Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
    Copenhagen, Dk
    Director in world’s largest shipping, logistics and supply chain organisation. Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering leading 11 Engineering managers and their scrum teams (150+) across UK, Denmark and India. Accountable for architecture, solution design, build and run of $50M+ public cloud services and data centre hosting. Budget accountability over $100M p.a. Recent successes include:Building the Cloud Centre of Excellence - onboarding, compliance, security, delivery, management, FinOps, automation and Infrastructure as code.Multi year cost saving initiatives delivering $10-20M+ p.a savings and cost avoidance in public cloud.Support DevOps working for platform teams and also provide central cloud managed shared services (PaaS, IaaS, Kubernetes and Digital process automation).Run engineering delivery team of platform assigned cloud engineers for all major change programs.Recent evaluation of data centre exit/ move to cloud for legacy applications
  • Rbs
    It
    Rbs Jan 1996 - Jun 2018
    Gogarburn, Gb
  • Rbs
    Coe Lead - Infrastructure Solutions Centre Of Excellence
    Rbs Jun 2017 - May 2018
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Stand up and lead the agile/ devops infrastructure solutions centre of excellence
  • Rbs
    Head Of Infrastructure Strategy And Architecture
    Rbs Apr 2013 - Jun 2017
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Creation of the global infrastructure vision and strategic technology investment portfolio to develop and track business outcomes. Successful development of the business case for workplace transformation- developing the proposition to migrate end user services to cloud and third party commodity supply.
  • Rbs
    Head Of Global End User Strategy
    Rbs Jul 2012 - Apr 2013
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Creation of the infrastructure strategies across the full range of infrastructure domains covering collaboration, networks, compute, data, storage, security, service, end user.. Amongst others.
  • Rbs
    Head Of Global Network Strategy, Architecture & Engineering
    Rbs Sep 2009 - Jul 2012
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Responsible for development of the Group Global Network Strategy & Architecture ensuring alignment to the Group Business Strategy. Also manage a global team of Architects and lead technical specialists responsible for data, voice, contact centre, trader voice and network security design
  • Rbs
    Lead Global Network Architect
    Rbs May 2007 - Sep 2009
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Group Architecture Team.Network design architect for RBS integration of ABN AMRO. Responsible for development and acceptance across a consortium of three banks for technical design, including plans and costs for data, voice and video network separation and integration. Creation of a global network integration governance model. Responsible for the development of the target state global network architecture and a lead participant of RBS strategic business review working with McKinsey consultants.
  • Rbs
    Senior Consultant
    Rbs 2002 - 2007
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Senior Consultant, Strategy and Architecture (2006 – 2007)Managing a team of senior consultants, provided technology leadership across Group Technology, influencing executive IT and business areas to adopt and exploit technology appropriately, setting the strategic direction for the group in Telecoms and security practices. Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Planning and Development (2002 - 2006)Promoted the awareness of the capabilities of the Telecoms infrastructure under my responsibility. Through presentation and briefing notes, provided guidance and assessments to senior management and executives on the impact of business, architecture and technology evolution. In addition, provided support to Integration planning and design activities, ensuring full governance of bank standards and policies.For several years I maintained regular formal meetings with strategic external suppliers (BT, Cisco, Vodafone) and used these to influence suppliers and external bodies towards decisions that favour RBSG.Successes include the introduction of a process for technology adoption and the introduction of an infrastructure roadmaps process across all technology platform areas within which I created and owned the Telecoms Roadmap.External recognition - winner of FT Strategy of the year award.
  • Rbs
    Consultant, Group Telecoms
    Rbs 1999 - 2002
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Royal Bank groups only data networks consultant. Primary responsibility to advise the Group Telecoms manager. In addition, provide consultancy to the Strategy and Architecture Group and the Telecoms and Media sector of the corporate bank investment divisionKey projects and initiatives led included:-Branch network redesign covering 2500 locations. This involved assessing technologies, preparing business case for £95million investment program and selecting the supplier and technology. As part of this process, introduced MPLS technology and saved £12 million project costs from the original business case submission and a £20million saving over the 5year running costs on what was one of the largest networks of its kind worldwide.- Lead technical resource for Natwest Integration, helping take £60 million off the telecoms annual revenue cost. Developed the network integration strategy, meeting all integration targets in terms of budget and timelines.- Key technical and financial role in the telecoms sourcing strategy program that led to the out tasking of WAN management services to BTGS – an £85million per year contract. This included an exec tour of several large US based banks.-Developed the network infrastructure strategy-Provided International network ITT consultancy for Financial Markets-Lead technical resource for Year 2000 compliance
  • Rbs
    Data Networks Manager
    Rbs 1998 - 1999
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Managed team of network designers and 3rd level support analysts.Lead technical resource on all projects delivering across the retail branch, cards services, Wealth Management and Insurance.Investigated technologies and services to replace the banks core IP network. Lead technical resource in RFI and ITT and prepared the business case. Tested solutions and designed around supplier shortcomings, to save the bank several millions of pounds in addition to deploying a more resilient service.Ran the service reviews for Cisco, Thus, BT, IBM.Managed and participated in the on call support rota.Study tour covering Cisco and Nortel executive briefings with senior management in USA.
  • Rbs
    Senior Network Analyst
    Rbs 1996 - 1998
    Gogarburn, Gb
    Lead design and 3rd level support of multiple networks across the UK, including IP, IPX, SNA, X25, IDNX. Managed the retail branch network introducing new devices and services for Remote ATM’s, Planned and implemented full network software upgrades.Put in place processes to manage and run a 630 site branch network.Designed an IP X25 replacement network
  • Scottish And Newcastle Plc
    Telecommunications Specialist
    Scottish And Newcastle Plc 1995 - 1996
    Managed the national data WAN originally comprising IBM network devices. Assessed Cisco products, recommending full replacement. Designed, sourced and implemented a Cisco based replacement network. Responsible for all aspects of design and operation including, 3rd level support and implementation, capacity and performance management, selection and implementation of an SNMP based network management system.
  • Ferranti/Gec Marconi Avionics
    Systems Engineer & Network Analyst
    Ferranti/Gec Marconi Avionics 1989 - 1995
    Network Analyst:Designed and implemented a multiprotocol routed WAN replacement of a legacy bridged network, spanning multiple sites. Supported this data and a voice and multiplexer network. Role expanded to include support and design of the GEC Marconi national WAN.Systems Engineer: (2 Yrs)•Mathematical modelling of inertial navigation systems for the defence industry.

Alan Burnett Skills

Strategy Integration Security Governance Telecommunications Management It Strategy Stakeholder Management Cloud Computing Team Management Project Delivery Infrastructure Leadership Project Management Business Strategy Program Management Change Management Cisco Technologies Technology Evaluation Networking Supplier Evaluation Performance Management It Transformation

Alan Burnett Education Details

  • Edinburgh Napier University
    Edinburgh Napier University
    Telecommunications And Electronics Engineering

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