Solutions Architect working on TFL’s IM Strategic Investment Programme which is responsible for reducing TFL’s IM spend by consolidating internal and externally hosted platforms onto TFL’s strategic infrastructure platform into purpose built data centers. Working at a portfolio level my responsibilities include engagement with key stakeholders, providing solution proposals including costs and resourcing, management of virtual teams consisting of internal and 3rd party resources to design, plan, and build infrastructure platforms in TFL’s data centers. • Lead architect working with TFL’s Future Ticketing directorate to design TFL’s next generation billing and payments platform (Oyster) which will collect £3.5B in revenues. Responsible for the design and build of a new dual sited platform consisting of Cisco Nexus, EMC VMAX, HP Proliant, Windows Server Core, SCCM 2012 and MS SQL 2012 with always on. • Lead architect to design and build infrastructure capabilities in TFL’s new purpose built Tier 3 data center. This consists of Cisco Nexus Network, EMC SAN and DMX4 Storage, EMC Networker for Backup, Virtualisation using VMware VSphere and MS SQL and Oracle Database platforms hosted on HP Polyserve and Oracle RAC respectively. • Lead architect to in-source TFL’s Journey Planner Platform, responsible for the design of a new target platform and leading a team through the build and migration phase. This will lead to an annual saving of £650k• Lead architect responsible for various server consolidation and migration projects leading to a total annual saving £1.5M.

I lead a team of 6 with a varied set of technical skills covering bespoke applications, BizTalk, e-Business solutions, Data warehouses, CRM and large SQL databases and the corporate client server environment. .I was involved in the day to day technical management of 1000+ servers hosting a billing platform which produces 400k+ bills per month and bills in access of £820m per year through to Virgin Media’s Internet platforms, which host online registration and CRM services for ntlworld.com, Tesco.net, Virgin.net, Which.net and AOL. My responsibility also included managing Virgin Media’s corporate client server environment used by 10K+ internal associates. My extensive experience from the ground up gave me an excellent perspective on the technical support process and enabled me to build sound working relationships with my team and others around the business.Other responsibilities include:• Designed and implemented VMware Virtual Infrastructure platforms to host consolidate 500 physical servers across multiple data centers saving over £1 million in opex over 5 years.• Met aggressive timescales for procedural compliance (Sarbanes Oxley and PCI DSS) as it related to IT systems, which was achieved through co-ordination and co-operation with auditors, corporate IT, legal an finance departments• Leading a technical team supporting a major project consolidating 9 billing and 28 CRM systems to an in-house platform based on Microsoft technologies.• Designed an implemented a storage replication solution on HP EVA’s using Continuous Access to ensure business continuity on critical applications

Reporting to the European IT Director I was responsible for leading a team of 11 which provided support on Lan/Wan, Desktop and BackOffice services to over 1000 users across Europe on 150+ NT servers. I added NT and Exchange 5.5 expertise at an enterprise level to my team and project managed technical projects and assignments. Other responsibilities included:• Responsible for designing and implementing a European wide NT Network and Exchange messaging infrastructure.• Rolling out customer care and billing platforms based on NT into Europe offices.• Analyse business requirements & formulate enterprise wide solutions• Technical design, implementation & integration of concurrent projects

Working as part of a team of 6 supporting the businesses intelligent voice platforms based on Windows NT servers across Europe. My role within the team was to manage the intelligent voice platforms across Europe and provide 1st and 2nd line support to resellers. Other responsibilities included:• Supporting desktop infrastructure with a 500 user network. • Administering internal NT servers and GroupWise mail system on Novel 3.1.• Monitoring and managing backup systems on internal and customer facing systems.• Monitoring and Administering billing systems on SQL 6.5.• Producing weekly utilization reports for management.