Leadership of Enterprise Technical Architecture, focusing on how we can help transform IHS Markit's People, Processes and Technology to best position ourselves for the future. We partner with technology teams across the business and 3rd party vendors to ensure we're on the right track, looking at disruptive opportunities that can give IHS Markit a competitive advantage, and represent the Office of the CTO within the CIO organization.We are accountable for guiding IT product design, architecture, technology strategy and selection, principles and governance. We ensure that IT Products align with Principles. We ensure people, process and technology are aligned within IT. We govern and influence technology selection across the company.

Transforming people, process and technology to enable us to take full advantage of the cloud. Building new teams to deliver Infrastructure Skills and People Transformation, Architecture & Governance, Public & Private Cloud, Automation & Orchestration, Project Delivery & Trust/Visibilty

In this role I provided co-ordination, facilitation and thought leadership within the engineeringdivision, ensuring that we are delivering best value solutions across all infrastructureengineering verticals within Markit’s Global Technology Services department. As part of theengineering division’s leadership team I held a key role in developing strategy and roadmaps forour solutions.Notable achievements in this role include:Defining GTS’s potential cloud architecture, IaaS & SDDC approachInfrastructure Architecture for Markit’s KY3P SaaS product in Dell CloudDevelop design for PaaS solution (RH OpenShift) to complement IaaS offeringOverhauling Markit’s Datacenter strategy and roadmap to drive improved density andreduced risk.

After MarkitSERV’s complete acquisition by Markit Group, the Global Technology Services (GTS) department underwent a restructure and I have taken on the role of global virtualization architect for Markit Group. This is a reasonable sized virtual estate, with in excess of 300 ESXi hosts, and approximately 7000 virtual machines running 24/7 revenue generating operations.I am responsible for setting the standards and roadmaps for Markit’s virtualization platform, working closely with other technology verticals (Unix, Windows, DBA, Storage & Networks) in GTS to ensure that the solutions we are delivering conform to global standards and are best in class.Additionally sitting as part of the GTS infrastructure design and architecture group, providing architectural oversight and signoff of technology requirements for new business initiatives, with a focus primarily on Linux and Virtualization aspects.Notable achievements in this role include:Design and plan roll-out of vSphere 5.5 & 6.0 including a global rebuild of vCenters and SSOEngineering of the vSphere 5.5 and Cisco UCS buildsvCenter Operations Suite deploymentPlatform Architecture for global Cisco UCS solution, including Linux, Windows & ESX servers

Senior engineer with responsibilities in the following areas- Global VMware Engineering Lead (standards and specifications)- Deputising for Global Head of Unix & Virtualization Engineering- Unix platform engineering and operations- Wider Infrastructure engineering- Infrastructure Performance Analysis & Capacity planning

Technical manager in a 24x7 global financial services company reporting to the Global Head of Infrastructure in NYC, with responsibility for Liquidnet’s IT operations in the EMEA region.I held regional ownership of the following responsibilities:- Management & mentoring of regional team (Network Engineering, Linux SA, DBAs and Wintel support)- Global VMware Engineering Lead (standards and specifications)- Unix (RHEL4/5/6) and Storage (EMC VNX/VMAX/VPLEX, Cisco MDS) platform engineering and operations- Market Data Infrastructure operations (Reuters RDF, Solace Messaging)- Regional Production Trading Infrastructure (Servers, Storage, Connectivity)- Corporate Systems (Windows Desktops, Active Directory, Telephony, Office Services)

Infrastructure Operations & Engineering role in a 24x7 global company, with responsibility for: - Global VMware Engineering Lead - EMEA Market Data (Reuters RDF/RDF+, DACS 6.1, ITRS Geneos, Solace Messaging) - Linux Production Infrastructure (RHEL, HP Proliant Servers/Blades, GFS, clustering) - SAN Infrastructure (EMC Clariion/Celerra, Cisco MDS) - Windows & Active Directory Corporate Infrastructure (Server 2008r2)

Lead the Network Services team within the Infrastructure Group of Computing Services, with management responsibility for a technical team comprised of experienced network & systems engineers.I held a key role in the wider Infrastructure Group’s resource management and planning. I led the development and support of the services delivered by the whole Infrastructure Group, including collaborating with staff at all levels across the University to deliver on the Computing Services’ objectives.I provided leadership in the delivery, operation and maintenance of the services provided by the Network Services Group, which was focused on delivering the following platforms:- Campus & WAN Network (Cisco, Extreme, HP)- SAN Storage (EMC Clariion, HP EVA, Brocade FCS)- Virtualization (VMware ESX)- Red Hat Enterprise Linux.- VoIP Telecoms

• Delivery of all services from the core to the edge of the infrastructure and client base.• 150+ servers• Supporting network services for 4,000+ PCs and 30,000 users.• International user base, 24x7 operation.• Monitoring of the network and its services.• Support for linux monitoring & other network services essential to the operation of the Kentish MAN.• Squid, Exim MTA and other network services.