Leading the Systems and Infrastructure development for a journey into a world of devops for a well established FinTech software company.

Embedded in two major Google DeepMind Projects during my tenure working within the DevOps teams - firstly for DeepMind Health designing building and managing the datacentre infrastructure and secondly within the Google DeepMind Robotics team. Designing and building out a whole Lab infrastructure supporting multiple robotics experiments. VMware, NVidia GRID, Flash arrays, Cisco Nexus, docker, ansible all contained in Windows and Linux environments

In-house Technical Infrastructure Solutions Architect responsible for end to end Infrastructure solution design, build and deployment ranging from Mid size businesses to large NHS trusts.Writing and deploying bids and projects of any size and delivering to a varying customer base within multiple sectors. Within this role I also look at improving the in house technology offering for instance recently taking on building a BYOD Patient Entertainment platform allowing for NHS trusts to move… Show more In-house Technical Infrastructure Solutions Architect responsible for end to end Infrastructure solution design, build and deployment ranging from Mid size businesses to large NHS trusts.Writing and deploying bids and projects of any size and delivering to a varying customer base within multiple sectors. Within this role I also look at improving the in house technology offering for instance recently taking on building a BYOD Patient Entertainment platform allowing for NHS trusts to move away from traditional TVs on swinging arms and use own devices.Recent high level projects have included: NHS trust wide network improvement program across two large hospitals including wireless deployment allowing secure staff/patient/guest wifi services with IPTV streaming, Enterasys to Nexus network upgrade involving 4 Nexus 7700 with a full Layer 3 routed design. VMware design improvement and upgrade for a large dotcom. Show less

In-house Solutions Architect responsible for all new and current business design and implementation including 3rd/4th line support. Major Projects included: Cisco wireless solution for new university campus in Champion Hill with around 400 Ap's for student halls. Design and support of multi-site greenfield school environment in Manchester with Exchange 2013 and around 1500 students and staff. Network design for a UK wide construction company including implentation of HP P4000 San, Cisco… Show more In-house Solutions Architect responsible for all new and current business design and implementation including 3rd/4th line support. Major Projects included: Cisco wireless solution for new university campus in Champion Hill with around 400 Ap's for student halls. Design and support of multi-site greenfield school environment in Manchester with Exchange 2013 and around 1500 students and staff. Network design for a UK wide construction company including implentation of HP P4000 San, Cisco wireless solution for entire company around 15 sites, HQ office core network design and build to support around 12 ESX hosts. VMWare ESXi 5.5 design and build for server migration P2V. XenApp support for construction application and accounting services. Show less

Responsible for a full migration from in house DC based servers to a DC center based in Enfield.Principle architect for the design and build of a Multi-chassis Virtual Connect (flex 10) environment, Nexus 5K with VPC design to Flex fabric, VMware VSphere 5.1 Design and upgrade, Fibre channel fabric design and build (brocade) connected to both Pillar Axiom 600 / HP P2000 storage and various infrastructure services.

Responsible for day to day running of Wintel environment and pushing forward a major VMware upgrade to ESXi hosts. Implementation of a new HP Virtual connect domain combining a multi-chassis blade environment with 10GB networking.

VDI, Cloud, Storage, Networking, Server implementation, Support and Consultancy.

Management and Responsibility for all Server and Network infrastructure throughout the Cass environment of varying flavours. Including: Management and maintenance of EMC SAN with brocadade fabric. Lotus Domino Administration and Upgrades, Exchange server upgrade and maintenance, SCOM Ops Manager build and implementation, Implemented new c7000 blade chassis with Flex10 running a full Xenserver VDI environment with XEN Desktop/XEN App

Responsible for:Exchange and AD services, Net-app FAS3250 filers running VMWARE ESX 4 on IBM X series servers. Cisco WAN/LAN upgrade and implementation. New office SAN and server build in Manila, Philippines.

Senior Infrastructure Specialist involved all aspects of infrastructure services. Responsible for:Cisco LAN/WAN (2800 / 6500), Checkpoint FW1 4.1 through to R65. Windows 2000 AD Services to Windows 2008. Lotus Domino Server Admin 6.5.3HP EVA 8100 SAN and HP C Class chassis with Virtual Connect and other infrastructure sevices