Keith Bennett Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

WPP is the world leader in marketing communications services employing 190,000 people across 3,000 locations in 112 countries. The organisation is divided into 7 distinct operating groups encompassing nearly 300 separate companies, each supporting multiple diverse technology platforms on an estate of over 28,000 infrastructure, application and management serversI have been engaged within the WPP Strategy & Architecture team and assigned to the Transformation programme for the £1.2B outsource of Service Desk, Service Management, End User Computing, Infrastructure and Network services to IBM I also supported the WPP Application Development team to provide architecture support to deliver a multi-million pound SaaS based global ERP platform

London, United Kingdom

Platform Solution Architect with responsibility for all elements of platform design including physical and virtual hosting, environments, availability, resilience, SLA and performancePrimary contact for BAT Global Oracle licensing, compliance and ongoing management reporting up to director levelEngaged on a Global Data Centre transition project to consolidate over 150+ BAT applications and services into 4 global Tier 1 Data Centres managed by T-SystemsFurther details at http://www.keithbennett.me/

Bristol, United Kingdom

Solution Architect working on the EE Westminster programme to merge Orange UK and T-Mobile UK applications and services into a new EE dedicated hosting environment managed by T-SystemsPrimary responsibility for the relocation of Oracle based services and ensuring licence compliance pre and post transitionFurther details at http://www.keithbennett.me/

London, United Kingdom

Platforms Solution Architect with the responsibility for delivering Infrastructure Solution designs on a number of global projects at BATThe role involved close working relationships with BAT hosting outsource partner T-Systems in Frankfurt, Project delivery teams and internal IT to deliver enhanced or new service capabilitiesFurther details at http://www.keithbennett.me/

Bristol, United Kingdom

Infrastructure Solution Architect with the responsibility for owning the end-to-end architecture for the Single Sign On (SSO) service as part of the global Nokia OVI.com (Ovi Music, Ovi Store, Ovi Messaging, Ovi Maps etc) platform of web servicesWorking with R&D, Software Architects, Project Managers and Operations teams in a global virtual team and with a key focus on designing, building and deploying cost effective, high availability, robust, resilient and supportable solutions to support the SSO service as part of the wider Ovi.com platform in an ITIL focused Service Delivery organisationFurther details at http://www.keithbennett.me/

London, United Kingdom

Workstream Lead responsible for the definition of a technical workstream to plan, remediate and enhance the Trust Technical Spaces including 2 Data Centres and 115 Comms Rooms located over the multi site Trust campus as part of a multi discipline £2M Infrastructure ProgrammeInterface between Infrastructure Programme and Technical Delivery teams with responsibility for ensuring all infrastructure designs adhered to Trust standards and supported the full requirements of the programme and the Trust

London, United Kingdom

Infrastructure Architect for the Applications Rehosting (Data Centre relocation) workstream, as part of the separation of the Telecoms Division (Talk Talk Group) from Carphone Retail. Responsible for defining the high level infrastructure strategies for the physical and logical separation of the shared services used by TTG within Carphone Retail to a new dedicated Data Centre.

London, United Kingdom

Infrastructure Architect for the TSA Separation programme to integrate AOL's UK Broadband network into Carphone Warehouse. Project focus was to relocate or implement new services and applications into a dedicated AOL Broadband Data Centre. My primary focus was the infrastructure design and implementation of internal and 3rd party managed testing environments to support the project up to implementation.

Marlow, United Kingdom

Employed at Beacon to perform the end-to-end Infrastructure design for the implementation of two new multi tier Windows based applications. Led project planning and management of the implementation of the design, and installation and build of all servers, storage and network, resulting in BHL server estate moving from 20 servers to over 100 servers (including 40+ Virtual Servers)

Trowbridge, United Kingdom

Overall design responsibility and focal point for all physical infrastructure components within the VM estate. An environment that included over 150 Unix and Windows servers, Brocade/HDS/NetApp SAN and NAS storage, Oracle and SQL Server databases, VMWare and Citrix technologies. Managed the Infrastructure Design team (2 Infrastructure Architects), including task planning, mentoring, reviews and personal development. Role involved ensuring the necessary budget is in place each year for any technical projects as part of the annual IT budgeting process, as well as creation of Infrastructure related projects and driving them forward with key business stakeholders.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Joined CGEY as a member of the Bristol Oracle DBA team, having a brief to increase the revenue and effectiveness of the whole UK Oracle DBA business.