Heading up the new Crayon solutions team, focusing on solutions and service presales excellence, strategy, go-to market and product management and development.

Leading Crayon UK's Cloud Practice Architecture for Technical Pre-Sales and Delivery in all Azure and AWS.

Cloud Solutions Architect - Modern Datacenter Azure and AWS

As a Principle Solutions Architect at EE, I am responsible for the overarching architecture of cloud services and related cloud technology stacks. Working with my team of highly skilled architects and analysts we focus on enablement, adoption, migration and operation of cloud and automation-based technologies for both EE products and services as well as our key strategic partners. (HPE/Microsoft)Key Team functions• Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure Automation (SaltStack)• HPE – Infrastructure automation with OneVIew and OneSphere (hybrid cloud)• Microsoft Office 365 - Implementation, migration and enablement.• Azure - Implementation, migration and enablement• Dynamics 365 – Implementation and adoption, customisation, business process automation, development for Dynamics customer engagement.• IaaS cloud architecture for cloud service providers (public cloud)• Pre/Post sale engineering for cloud services and migration projects.• Datacentre architecture for compute, storage, network, connectivity, security. (HPE) (private cloud)• Cloud platforms VMware vCloud and OpenStack• Service architecture for anything as a service.Key Activities• Creating High Level Design documentation• Creating Low Level Design or detailed design documentation.• Creation of Solution Briefs, Statements of work or method statements.• Production of key architectural artefacts for reuse.• Assisting pre-sale business function• Customer engagement for pre/post activities• Technical Project collaboration with internal and customer teams.• Consulting across broad range of technologies and activities.• Assisting customer adopt and migrate to cloud.• Digital transformation consultancy

Working as part of the enterprise architecture team, I was responsible for the overall design of OUP’s digital global infrastructure and key architectural resource for global projects and programmes that where focused on global infrastructure Services. Designing and implementing 4 global datacentres and delviering architecture internationl branch infrastructure.

Starting as a desktop support analyst working as part of the service desk providing end user support and resolving technical problems. I was quickly invovled in system engineering responsible for the UK datacenter and service delivery of business applications and physical infrastructures.