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Billingshurst, Gb

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Expert Thinking supports the design, building, and management of powerful, dynamic, and cost optimised Azure and AWS cloud solutions.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Development of AWS Professional and Specialist level certifications as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Chairman, organiser and primary contact for the convention and its committee. Outdoor based, not for profit, camping festival with a theme of Japanese Culture and Animation.

One of the Founders and current Owner of DDR:UK, fan run, hobby based website that evolved into attending events like the MCM ComicCon, bringing the fans consoles and arcade machines to the gaming area.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

The mission of the Cloud Consultant is to advise and guide clients at every step of their cloud migration journey from strategy through to operation. Drawing on my knowledge of DevOps, IT Operations and Cloud technologies – the role is to help clients create and implement a strategic roadmap for their cloud adoption from vision to operation. Depending on the maturity of the client's cloud adoption the role is involved in some or all stages of cloud adoption and guides them through all of the stages.During my time at DevOpsGroup, I have:• Created and implemented a number of frameworks that consultants have used to deliver accelerated engineering to clients from start-ups to Enterprise sized companies.• Created clear cloud strategy including a governance model, compliance and risk management, procurement processes and key technical decisions.• Evolved the Cloud Consultant role into the Cloud Solutions Architect role, building the role description and career pathways.• Supported clients migrating to a public or hybrid cloud solution at a technical level.• Worked with the client to establish a model for operations suited to the cloud.• Managed the migration of a large number of datacentre-based applications to AWS for SkyScanner which became a public case study for both DevOpsGroup and AWS.• Able to lend my skill sets to include Client Management, Engineering and Pre-Sales to ensure a successful transition through the client’s journey.• Became a AWS Well-Architected Lead, and implemented the Well-Architected Framework into client work and into the business products, ensuring that DevOpsGroup built in the Well-Architected practices into every step of a client engagement.• Panellist on “DevOps Discussed” webinar, discussing the Cloud and Migrations to the Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9-dhrdXqeQ• Streamilned the internal DevOpsGroup meeting processes using Zoom, by designing and deploying the meeting rooms and event spaces within all offices.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Within this role, I was chosen as the "Racker of the Year" (Employee of the Year) for Rackspace UK!As an AWS Lead Engineer, I help customers manage change, minimise risk, optimise operations and support business growth through pro-active and personable interactions. I work to build long-term customer relations, understanding their business goals and operational capability in order to best align and manage Rackspace resources and services.I am partnered with an account manager and I act as a senior escalation point, orchestrating technical teams and resources to provide seamless support for your customer’s online strategy. I am responsible for achieving security, scalability and performance through deep knowledge of automation, scaling, application lifecycle management, Continuous Deployment and Integration.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Working with new and existing customers within the Rackspace client base, the Cloud Mentor Team are a group of product specialists that understand and can assist with solutions that require the Cloud. The team has responsibilities of identifying though a technical discovery process what the requirements are of this particular customer, designing the solution and presenting this to the customer for agreement, building the solution as per the customer's requirements, and ongoing technical assistance before being passed over to the technical support teams and account management. Additionally, the team are required to internally assist other Rackspace employees with queries and problems that they may come across, with the view to teach them how to solve this for themselves in the future.My additional duties include:- Working with 3rd party cloud's (e.g. AWS and Azure)- Presenting the best solution for the customer while being Cloud Agnostic- Understanding and building solutions on these 3rd party clouds- Understanding future technologies, and applying them for use within Rackspace- Assist with internal training with Rackspace University

London, Gb

As the Infrastructure and Security Manager for Blue Sky Hosting, I work with multiple vendors and systems to ensure the successful running of Blue Sky's Managed Hosting Systems. Promoted to the roles in August 2009, I have since introduced the company to VMware, PagerDuty, HipChat, Atlassian BitBucket (Stash), Zendesk and Configuration Change Management. The role is a multi-tasked position which also includes my requirement to be a supplier liaison, developer and systems administrator.Recently Blue Sky Hosting became an LIR with RIPE and I have been managing the membership.

Technical Officer for the convention, set up, running and assisting with the full technical requirements of the 1300 member convention. Events Officer for the convention, to assist with planning all events for the convention.

Surrey, Gb

Systems administrator, network supervisor and application deployment specialist. Dealing with local government policies and strategies on multiple levels, and with the full range of positions within the council.

London, England, Gb

Hardware Test Bench Manager, organisation, running and continued availableness of the hardware test area to ensure that the store had the ability to serve their customers quickly and efficiently.

Computer Science

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