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Vast, Us

As Senior Director of Product Management at VAST Data, I help define product strategy and drive the product vision and strategy for VAST data, aligning with company goals, market trends, and new innovations. Collaborating with engineering, sales, marketing, operations and senior leadership teams to translate product vision into actionable plans and deliver high-quality products on time.I define and communicate product roadmaps, release updates, and strategies to customers, sales teams and stakeholders at all levels.Utilize data analytics to inform product decisions, assess performance, and iterate on features based on user feedback and market insights.Conduct in-depth market analysis to identify customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape, ensuring our offerings remain at the forefront of innovation..

San Jose, California, Us

In my role as a Cloud Solutions Architect at NetApp, I had responsibility for the top Global and Strategic customers of the Azure Netapp Files Platform. As part of this role I educated and trained customers, Microsoft partners, and Netapp sales teams on Azure NetApp Files and Netapp cloud solutions. Developing advanced architectures leveraging Azure NetApp Files by consulting with customers to assess and analyze their problem areas, understand constraints and business requirements, and removed blockers to allow them to begin consuming Azure NetApp Files capacites.Key achievements included driving adoption of 100%+ Capacity of my customer within the first 6 months and contributing to the success of the Azure Business Group.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

As Director Engineering Infrastructure Architecture at Arm I was responsible for the leadership of the Engineering Architecture team as well as Technical leadership of all of the Engineering infrastructure team in all aspects of architecture, design & delivery for the Arm EDA HPC clusters covering networks, platforms, storage, virtualization and application streams of work to provide fully functional, high performing HPC cluster solutions.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

As Global HPC Engineering Architect at Arm Ltd I was responsible for all aspects of architecture, design & delivery for the engineering EDA HPC clusters (80,000 + slots/cores) covering networks, platforms, storage, virtualization and application streams of work to provide fully functional, high performing HPC cluster solutions. As part of the role I had created a set of architectural principles that drive everything done by the technical services teams and that should be used to help drive standards and high quality repeatable world-class solutions.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Joined Arm on a permanent basis to lead their global storage team while retaining the responsibility of the global storage architecture. Technologies covered by the team included Dell/EMC Isilon, NetApp, Tintri, IBM Cloud Object Store/Cleversafe S3 storage, Panzura NFS Gateways. The role covered all aspects of architecture, design, rollout and support of all storage platforms including high performance NAS clusters to support large scale HPC environments and general storage solutions for server and end user requirements.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Working for Arm Ltd as Global Storage Architect to design and standardise all HPC and office based storage platforms.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Working for Arm Ltd as a Storage Consultant to resolve storage performance problems within their EDA HPC clusters caused by the parallel and un predictable nature of their EDA design workflows.I was also responsible for standardisation of the many different storage deployments and technologies across the globe.

Toronto, On, Ca

Working for Thomson Reuters Markets as a Senior Storage Consultant. Primarily this was a project-based role focused on the delivery of their new strategic NetApp Storage platform across 6 global sites (3 primary & 3 secondary) in 3 geographic regions. The platform provided NFS Storage to VMware infrastructure services and CIFS storage to end user Windows desktops and the email archiving. The platform also includes SMVI, SnapMirror, and SnapVault and Ops manager deployments. Full Support and Service Transition Documentation

Working as a Senior Storage Consultant to Kisdata to provide advanced storage solutions. Responsible for the design & installation of complex NetApp Filers solutions. I also act as the top-level escalation for advance in depth performance analysis to customers experiencing problems, bottlenecks or to customer’s planning/considering upgrades. As a NetApp Partner my association with Kisdata provides me with additional training and tools not available to individual contractors or customers.

London, Gb

Responsibility for managing a team of internal and external vendor resources (HP, NetApp & EMC) across multiple sites to work as one team in the delivery the architecture, design, implementation and support for over 250 storage devices totaling more than 20 PB capacity & 30+ SAN switches for all BT Operates internal and external storage needs.

London, Gb

Team Lead for Storage/Virtualization, as part of the Center of Excellence for Virtualization providing all Virtualization solutions for BT Operate designing, implementing and supporting infrastructure for high visibility projects. Granted UK Security Clearance to work on government sponsored projects. Key responsibilities included: -• Team provided 3rd line support to 170+ clustered NetApp Filers, Brocade & Cisco SAN Switches, 10's HP24k/48K SAN Storage, 6000+ Servers, mix of physical/virtual ESX, Windows, Linux, Solaris • Developed automated processes for deploying Storage and VMware solutions. This reduced build time by over 75%.• Project lead for large NHS/government contract, responsible for delivering a fully virtualized solution with dedicated and highly secured data storage for use in an emergency country or global pandemic.• Created standard build, support and sign off testing processes for all storage/virtualization deployments.• Provide strategy, direction and coaching in the Server Centre of Excellence VMware technology unit.• Work with all Service Operations managers to coordinate resources for new builds, support, maintenance & problem resolution

London, England, Gb

Working in the global platforms team as the Global Storage Specialist. The platforms team was a global group spread equally between the UK & US totaling around 30 people with the responsibility for all company IT Systems for both internal staff and external partners. Helped build the global extranet, one of the largest projects undertaken by the Group @£80M+, specializing primarily in systemKey responsibilities included: -• Design and implementation of NetApp File Servers • Design and implementation of Cisco MDS SAN• Disaster recovery plans• CISCO load balancers, Citrix thin client environment and much more.• 3000+ User global thin client platform • Compaq EVA 5000 storage for all infrastructure servers• Implemented CD-Global systems utilizing Citrix MetaFrame to offices in Japan, Korea & Portugal, which involved travelling to these offices & working with local staff members• IBM TSM multi-site Backup and recovery installation

Technical officer part of a team responsible for the building & supporting IT requirements of 3000 staff and the 24/7 support of 9 Core UK Datacenters providing IT & Telecoms services globally.Key responsibilities included: -• Administered Novell NetWare servers ver3/4.11• Supported NT File services, Exchange, Office, and various business applications• Support global NDS tree with 1000+ users and NT domain with 2000+ users • Provided day-to-day desktop support in a team to 3000+ users on site• Upgraded Microsoft Mail > MS Exchange v4.0• Network troubleshooting, cabling, IPX, TCPIP, FDDI, x25

Hnd, Computer Software Engineering

Hnc, Computer Software Engineering

Onc, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Fd, Engineering Electrical & Mechanical

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