Stephen Hampton Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

Founder of Starfish Virtual Labs, a small but growing professional services business focused on Networking. Starfish provides consultancy, high level design, low level design, implementation and support across all network architectures including campus, WAN and data centre.

Chapelhall, GB

Supporting DataVita customers on their multi-cloud journey.

London, GB

Working with a major UK retailer on a LAN and WAN transformation.

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, GB

Extremely excited and privileged to be working within the CTO office at CAE Technology Services. I will be working across our customers and vendors, as well as CAE Engineering, Architects and Sales to develop and implement the CAE Networking and SDN proposition.

Privileged to be leading the Hutchinson Networks technical strategy and service development through what is potential the most exciting time the Networking industry has ever seen - the paradigm shift to SDN, NFV and Automation.Following four successful years at HN, collectively with my colleagues we have achieved the following. - Grown the HN business over.

Responsible for the full project life-cycle (architecture, design and implementation) of a new MAN and data centre network implementation, based on Cisco Nexus 7000. This involves liaising between third parties, senior management, technical staff and vendors. In addition, it involves a number of networking technologies such as OTV, vPC, Fabric Path, FCoE.

Freelance Network Architect working with a number of consultancies and resellers to provide services to end customers in a variety of industries (banking, finance, service provider and VDI). Required to take responsibility for pre-sales, customer services, project management and administration. Providing the full range of network consultancy services from.

Paris, FR

• Working within the BNP Paribas Global Telecoms Architecture team. This involved setting standards for the design and deployment of the worldwide WAN. In addition, the architecture team was responsible for undertaking.
• Developed configuration standards for securing Cisco IPT with Check Point firewalls.
• Testing new routing and switching platforms (HP A Series and Alcatel Lucent OmniAccess).
• Global design for the routing of market data network traffic.
• Modelled the network impact of a global Microsoft Exchange deployment.

London, England, GB

Working on site at VTB Capital investment bank with responsibility for the design, implementation and support of the VTB Capital global data network. Led the design and implementation of a new B2B\Market Data network in Moscow.

London, GB

• Operating within BT Health as a Tier One Solutions Architect on the London NHS IT Programme. Responsible for the architecture and design of the virtualised data centre network platform used for hosting NHS Trust.
• Delivered a new Internet application hosting environment for Health applications.
• Lead the implementation of a network design toolset.
• Designed the integration of Crossbeam UTM into the existing application hosting environment.

Network Architect for a new multi-million pound e-Commerce infrastructure for Norwich Union. This involved developing the concepts of the architecture, product selection, high & low level design, supporting the implementation and overseeing the transition into operations. Key to successful delivery of this programme was strong technical understanding of.

Network designer for the extension of the Norwich Union e-Commerce network infrastructure to a green fields data centre. The brief was to build a new infrastructure and connect it at layer two to an existing data centre. This would facilitate the lift and shift of existing servers.· Designed and extended an existing e-Commerce infrastructure to a new data.

Montreal, QC, CA

Design authority on a large infrastructure account, the role involved assessing and approving all major technical changes. The role also required the development of new business opportunities to improve the infrastructure.· Resolved issues preventing the hosting of numerous web-servers in a new data centre · Planned the upgrade of the local area network at.

Montreal, QC, CA

Worked as team leader for a team of six network engineers and three database administrators. The team was responsible for the maintenance and development of the client network infrastructure. An emphasis was placed on building a close relationship with the client and seeking new business opportunities. This lead to infrastructure initiatives where the role.

Master Of Science, Computing Mathematics

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