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Finsbury Square, London

Infrastructure Solutions ArchitectCurrently working as an infrastructure architect on a major transformation project to deliver a new electronic exchange and ancillary services to LME.

163 City Road, Shoreditch, London Ec1V 1Nr

IT consultancy startup specializing in cloud services focusing on : - Cloud Adoption - Digital Transformation

London, United Kingdom

Migrating On-prem Trading Services to AWS- Assessing trading applications, raising architectural HLD's - Overseeing all aspects of delivery from initial designs + POC's through to successful production releaseProducing High Level Architectural Designs- Creating architectural HLD's for new/changes to existing infrastructure, trading platform refreshes, AWS migrations etc.Produced High Level Strategies for Infrastructure Related Services- Included hosting principles, global storage, compute, backup + precision timekeeping servicesCompany Wide Applciation Assessment- Assessed entire Tullett Prebon + ICAP application estates in detail, identifed + mapped all applications to underlying physical and virtual server estate- Confirmed individual application architectures + functionality and recommended future hosting state in new DC's or AWS/SaaS or hybrid P/V+C- Priority to identify candidates for AWS, reduce physical footprint and identify decom services resulting in significant reduction in DC footprint + costsDC Migration and Infrastructure Refresh.- Researched and evaluated leading converged and hyper-converged infra offerings for tech refresh covering network, compute + storage- Raised RFP's, ran vendor deep dive sessions, specified/sized target architectures and assisted with DC relocation planning and execution streams - Target solution selected based on "FlashStack" platform (Cisco 9K(ACI) + Cisco UCS + PURE X Flash Arrays) Delivered a MiFID II Precision Timekeeping + Traceability Solution.- Researched technologies + vendors, ran POC's + successfuly delivered a clock synch & traceability solution for ICAP and Tullett Prebon based on GPS for phone broking + low latency/high frequency trading services - Traceability delivered as a "single pane of glass" via Splunk for internal monitoring + reporting to the financial regulator (compliant to MiFID II RTS-25)

Hammersmith

Principle design authority responsible for architectural governanceSolutions Architect/single point of engagement between Business and Infrastructure teamsChair of weekly architecture governance reviews covering software changes within Betfair Application tiers and infrastructure changes within BetFair DC's + AWS estates.Principle architect on the following projects inc mapping AS-IS/TO-BE architectures, raising + runinng vendor RFI/RFP's+ overseeing from design to delivery:- DC migration from London to Dublin (lift and shift) inc. network redesign, creation of future state HLD's, Vmware/Hyper-V + NetApp migrations, managing vendors, logistics + and overseeing the move in both locations.- Contact Centre refresh project migrating from Avaya PBX/Genesys platform to cloud hosted solution using VoltDelta OASIS/Oracle RightNow CRM with extensive customisation to backend web + campaign management services.- Corporate telephony refresh project moving from on-prem PBX to cloud hosted Lync/Enterprise Voice solution accross all corporate sites - UK, Portugal, Romania, Italy, Gibraltar + Malta. - Data Warehouse re-platform - 120TB Oracle DB moving to 2x tier NetApp installation (12x controllers + SnapVault + SMO) via 2x Oracle RAC clusters (6x nodes) deployed across 2x Data Centres using DataGuard.- Delivery of AWS based Adobe Campaign Management solution + AWS hosted big data/analytical platform via Redshift & EMR to support in-play promotions + campaigns.- Delivered a number of 3rd party cloud SaaS solutions to replace existing on-prem legacy applications.

Henley

Oracle Data Protection specialist providing guidance on Oracle data protection strategies.Developed and delivered a technical solution to migrate Oracle backup sets between backup products via RMAN integrating with IBM Tivoli Storage Protection Manager, Symantic NetBackup & EMC Networker Butterfly Software provide a framework to migrate historical structured & unstructured backups sets between backup products

Bp Oil International - Oil And Gas Trading, Canary Wharf, London

Bp Oil International - Oil And Gas Trading, Moorgate And Canary Wharf

Bp Oil International - Oil And Gas Trading, Moorgate & Canary Wharf, London

Bp Oil International - Oil And Gas Trading, Moorgate & Canary Wharf

Bp Oil International - Oil And Gas Trading, Moorgate & Canary Wharf

Liverpool Street, London

Member of team that delivered a Monte-Carlo simulation platform to calculate exposure risk on active and future dated derivative trading

Heathrow Airport, London

Leatherhead, Surrey

Leatherhead, Surrey

Lombard North Central, National Westminster Bank, Redhill, Surrey