Working with customers to guide them through designing and implementing extremely resilient applications on AWS

Accelerate the adoption of cloud across the Barclays Group by providing cloud consumers with access to education, knowledge sharing, technical and engineering services• Define the operating model for all Group Cloud CoE offerings• Provide access to training and knowledge sharing platforms which represent all of the private and public cloud offerings across the Barclays Group• Produce and present material which advocates the use of public cloud in Barclays such as Cloud Adoption Working Group and Cloud University Live• Provide access to cloud communications and knowledge sharing forums which advocate the use of cloud in Barclays• Develop migration process accelerators to support application and programme teams with defining their journey to cloud• Develop broadly applicable re-usable best practice solutions, integrations and automation to simplify and accelerate cloud adoption• Provide subject matter expertise to • Provide access to CoE SMEs to work collaboratively on:• Development of broadly applicable re-usable cloud optimised solutions with product owners• Design and engineering of solution design and automation for flagship group initiatives• Design and engineering of Barclays cloud platform products with Cloud Engineering teams• Provide ad-hoc access to CoE SME advice and guidance to support :o Application teams with building solutions which are optimised for public cloudo MVP initiatives requiring highest levels of performance, scale, and reliability o Controls community with building more effective controls for cloud use caseso Product owners with their creation of solutions/services which are optimised for cloudo Cloud Design Authorities to better govern cloud products, use cases and patterns

Accelerate the adoption of public cloud across the Barclays Group by providing access to technical and engineering servicesLead Cloud Solution Architech – Public Cloud CoE• Define the operating model for all Public Cloud CoE Architecture and engineering offerings• Produce and present material which advocates the use of public cloud in Barclays • Develop technical migration process accelerators for programme related application teams• Publish best practice standards for cloud related topics such as infrastructure as code and test automation• Produce best practice examples for broadly applicable cloud solutions• Produce best practice example solutions to integrate with on-premise utilities/platforms• Provide access to CoE SMEs to support product owners with their creation of cloud optimised solutions• Support the controls community to better apply controls to public cloud• Support the Group Cloud Design Authority to better govern public cloud products, use cases and patterns• Support Group Cloud Programme work stream leads to effectively apply their deliverables to public cloud (e.g. RTB, CSO, Resilience)• Provide programme related teams with prioritised access to CoE for advice, guidance and troubleshooting on cloud architecture, migration or solutions• Co-engineer re-usable cloud and integration solutions with Priority Projects application teams

Enabling transformational change by providing solutions for complex, most critical and most costly E2E infrastructure designsGTIS Infrastructure Design Team• Ensuring that E2E infrastructure design of complex, most critical and usually most costly E2E designs meet the business requirements within the project's budget.• Taking ownership for the full design life-cycle from Concept to Implementation, ensuring that owned designs are implemented as designed.• Managing Change Control of owned designs.• Ensuring E2E infrastructure designs are consistent, simple, effective and comply with relevant strategy and policy• Design Authority and stakeholder management for designs.• Design Management within virtual design teams.• Review and revision of cost and risk analysis.• Taking a leading role in E2E design evaluating and accessing major design options• Working with ISD architects, Project Service Architects and Group Technology Office to provide continuity and understand and influence changes in architectures policies and strategy

Adding value to the Co-operative Group and Bank business objectives by driving transformational IT strategy and architecture Infrastructure Strategist - Strategy Team• Managing the delivery of strategic products such as utility computing, group-wide collaboration and Enterprise Identity and Access Management strategies• Developing strategic products including strategies, roadmaps and directives such as Internal Cloud, Intel platform, and Enterprise Desktop (including virtualisation, mobility and consumer devices)• Developing new strategic and architectural governance frameworks such as the Technical Infrastructure Architecture framework, Logical Infrastructure Architecture and Domain Capability Models• Providing consultancy activities on emerging technologies and architectural practice to transformational change initiatives such as The Co-operative Group Unity Program (consolidation of co-op Group commodity business and IT services) and Vintage (Merger of Britannia Building Society and The Co-operative Bank)• Improving the perception of IT through engagement with stakeholder and SME groups• Producing tailored communication packages for key customers and stakeholder audiences up to executive level

Providing strategic planning and architectural services for transformational change initiativesTechnical Architect – IT Strategy and Architecture Team•Creating strategy deliverables as part of long-term business planning including •Establishing strong strategic and architectural governance including stakeholder and subject matter expert groups •Providing technical design authority and architectural design services to transformational technology initiatives such as interim cross-site working and collaboration solutions for the Britannia and Co-operative Bank merger•Providing architectural consultancy services to IT leaders and major change programmes such as the Britannia and Co-operative Bank merger programme•Maintaining subject matter experience in numerous specialist technology fields•Advocating business exploitation of information technology

Delivering IT Services to 5000+ users in 250+ locations 24/7Manager - Central Infrastructure Team•Deputising for the IS Service Support Manager in his absence•Design authority and lead consultant for all major Intel/Windows initiatives•Design lead for replacement of Windows Active Directory, server and desktop platforms with responsibility for development and quality assurance of all design artefacts and technical representation at programme steering•Managing a team (up to 20) delivering business critical centralised Windows services•Creation and management of enterprise software deployment service (delivered £2.5M annual saving)•Individual of the Year (2006)•Team of the Year (2002 and 2001)

Various Technical roles including IT infrastructure Support for CBR Program, Team Leader in Branch Support Team and design lead for Windows infrastructure components of numerous major change initiatives

3rd line support of a global VMS and Novell Netware based corporate and dealer desktop estate.•Design, implementation and support of Novell based client and server infrastructure for Area Sales Offices based in Switzerland, Hong Kong and USA•Design and support of Global Rolls Royce dealer network desktop solutions•Design, installation and support of bespoke desktop solution for customer specials vehicles including mobile office and security solutions•Design and support of windows based physical access control solutions for all corporate locations including sensitive research and development locations