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Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Senior engineer on a cutting edge global Maritime data platform project. The data platform provides near real time system and sensor data capture, data transformation, data analytics, AI and machine learning capabilities on board and on shore for a very large demographic of data consumers. I am the infrastructure lead designing, deploying and managing the virtualised and Linux based Hadoop (Hortonworks data platform), Apache NIFI & Kafka, Apache Spark, HBase, Hive, GraphQL, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, bitbucket, Jira, confluence and wider big data ecosystem. The solution is hosted on a hybrid on premise / off premise cloud stack. I support the data science, dev ops, UI and applications development and wider internal and external community. The key services and capabilities are delivered in agile iterative sprints.

Southampton

The European Commission has tasked an aviation industry partnership (SESAR deployment alliance), made up of four airline groups, operators of 25 airports and 11 air traffic control providers, to plan and coordinate a wholesale modernisation of European airspace, making it fit for the 21st Century. This partnership will coordinate and synchronise €3bn worth of upgrades to the continent’s air traffic management infrastructure. The European Commission’s Single European Sky initiative will improve efficiency, lower delays and raise environmental performance.My role is to create an architectural view of a number of end to end services within the organisation. The views and designs are service focused with continuous interaction and communication with the cross-functional teams and engineering departments. The team’s focus is on complete service lifecycle and continuous improvement. My key areas of focus are:On premise private cloud “IaaS” and “PaaS” built on a Service Oriented Architecture. Software defined using the latest SDDC and Virtualisation technologies.Application Centric Infrastructure, software defined (SDN), virtualised, customer and provider edge networking.Data services:o Data analytics & exploration, near real time & predictive analytics, data search (faceted and geospatial), machine learning/IoT, data ingest & MapReduce (Hadoop). o Data & analytics strategy, the monetization of data & data as a corporate asset. o Data repository (data lake) for advanced analytics, BI/DW enhancement and data exploitation. o Big data and unstructured data visualisation o Enterprise Block and file shared storage (SAN & NAS)o Data replication, archiving & backupo Object based storage o Record and replay services of radar, voice and video dataITIL – ITSMService automation and orchestration.Regulated, critical and safety assured services that are sized & scalable for optimal efficiency, cost and stability. Service monitoring & reporting.

London, United Kingdom

As the lead for the MPS data centre environment I am responsible for completely changing how the met police deliver and consume data centre real estate. My primary role is to ensure that the new services are ultra efficient & cost effective, extremely secure, are aligned with the new SIAM & Tower provider model, are flexible and modular in design, meet the current and future trends in both on premise private and off premise public cloud services and are MPS and industry compliant. My other key role is to orchestrate a smooth transition from our incumbent supplier managed distributed estate under very ambitious timescales. The distributed ICT estate will be migrated onto a consolidated, highly virtualised, centralised and automated new set of platforms load balanced across highly resilient cutting edge facilities. The MPS is a complex and very challenging environment to work and operate in but it is a great challenge. Having the opportunity to make a real difference for citizens of London and helping to improve the way the police can effectively operate is very rewarding indeed.The Metropolitan Police Service is going through a significant programme of change whilst having to meet significant financial savings. This includes rationalisation of the property estate to support a citizen focused approach at a reduced cost. ICT is a key enabler of this change. The MPS needs to offer online channels so that citizens have more choice and flexibility in their interactions with the police service.A core goal of the MPS is to reduce crime in London. This is coupled with the challenges of a reducing property estate and the delivery of the MetChange corporate programme, which will transform the way that the Met is organised and operates.

London, England

I am truly excited about joining such an innovative and market leading independent cloud consulting organisation. I thought I truly understood Cloud technology but quickly realised we are just at the tip of the iceberg. If you are considering a tactical or strategic acquisition of cloud services then Behind Every Cloud can help in this ever confusing and burgeoning market. BEC provide clarity, choice and control on the technology, the implications, the commercials and the choices available with the best view of the Cloud Vendor market by far in the UK today.

Working closely with our customers to form and deliver their virtualisation & cloud strategies and transform IT into a service orientated infrastructure.

Founder and joint owner with Alex McLoughlin, VA are one of the fastest growing and much sort after Virtualization specialist's in the UK. Senior consultant and Services director. Responsible for delivering large scale projects with the team throughout the UK, Europe and the middle east. Architected the Virtual Age managed service and virtual cloud offerings, hosted in our tier 3 DC.

Over 8 Years in many varied contract positions mainly across the finance and banking sector. Started working with Virtualization technologies from the very early days, circa 2001. Architected and deployed over 300 Virtual Datacentre solutions. Specializing in Server, VDI, Storage and large scale cross data centre Business continuity projects. There is no substitute for real world experience and overcoming all of the large challenges faced. A Virtualization evangelist. Contracted been there done that got the cheesy t-shirts.

Worldwide - Typically None Of Your First Choice Holiday Destinations

Various operational tours - Gulf war one: driver gunner, Bosnia: driver, gunner, radio operator, Northern Ireland: close protection and bodyguard. Various non operational tours - Canada Range safety \ demonstration explosives, Kenya - jungle warfare and live firing, Fort Bragg North Carolina exchange trip with 82nd & 101st US airborne.