Office of the CTO.

I defined the technology strategy and vision behind Flare, building a multi-award winning team and pushing the boundaries of technology in order to scale our unique, and proprietary personal safety solutions to millions of users worldwide. Inventor of two international patents.Inventor of the Flare Aware network protecting cyclists and other vulnerable road users across the globe. Multiple patents pending, and winner of Innovate UK SMART Grant 2022 for transformative potential to save lives at a global scale.

Technical lead for cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and cloud communities across EMEA. Responsible for the creation and delivery of the global cloud advocacy initiatives.

Global technical lead for Microsoft Azure solutions and responsible for building sales GTM and customer base from zero to multiple hundreds of customers generating an ARR from zero to $30 million including the world’s largest brands.

Specialised with designing Hyper-scale Cloud solutions (AWS/Azure/BlueMix/GCP) for enterprise customers.

Lead Technical Solutions Architect (TSA) for NetApp UK&I for all Microsoft solutions including Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Hyper-V, Systems Center and Microsoft Private & Public Cloud.Responsible for specialist Microsoft system engineers group at NetApp UK&I and also the creator and owner of the NetApp UK Microsoft User Group.In-depth experience of selling, designing and implementing technology solutions built on NetApp storage. Expert in all NetApp related technologies (SAN/NAS/Application Integration/E-Series/Flash Arrays).

As an Systems Engineer my responsibilities include:- Identify customer needs and requirements.- Define all of the elements of a customer's technical computing environment.- Answer customer questions.- Provide technical support to current customer and 'try-and-buy' test projects- Defining customer acceptance criteria for 'try-and-buy' evaluation projects- Work with Sales to respond to RFP's- Attending customer calls with the Sales Representative- Provide technical consultation and disseminate product information to the sales teamRequirements:- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed in order work successfully with prospects, customers, and cross functional teams to meet performance goals- Account management and project management experience.- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment- Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices- Creative approach to problem solvingResponsibility: - As a seasoned professional with a wide range of experiences, this individual uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.- Is responsible for a specific geographical install base and large, complex, high visibility, strategic, or tactically important accountsInteraction: - This individual effectively works with, and influences senior internal personnel within the function, employees in other functions that support the sales effort, and has direct customer contact - Limited management supervision and direction is provided since this individual operates and drives results independently.- The ideal candidate is a subject matter expert and strongly influences sales team decisions and initiatives. May also act as a team leader and major decision maker for team projects

Assumed lead responsibilities for the implementation and development of the Storage Infrastructure at Think Money, a rapidly growing Times Top 100 Financial services company with excess of 1000 employees.Identifying solutions and pro-actively communicating with senior management to secure backing for expansion projects.I was responsible for the growth of the NetApp storage network for two data centres including a full site migration, disaster recovery and a full technology refresh.Key strategies included the implementation of storage efficiencies which in turn reduced provisioning from in excess of fourteen hours to three minutes.**Awarded Employee of the Month for March 2011**

Top FTSE 100 Company; Direct responsibility for automation, security compliance, systems administration and problem resolution. Key skills include:Microsoft Server 2008/2003/2000, BMC, NetApp, ISO27001, SQL 2008/2005/2000, SharePoint (MOSS) 2007, Amdocs (Clarify), Office 2010/2007/2003/2000, Oracle OEM, Active Directory, Net Backup, VMware, Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, ITIL, Oracle CRM, SMS 2003, IBML, Unix (Solaris), Batch Script, SoftTrac, McAfee EPO, Shavlik, PowerShell, VBScript

During employment within Wirral MBC, the team was responsible for provision of IT services to the technical services departments consisting of over 750 users based at a variety of geographical locations.Microsoft SQL 2005/2000, Microsoft Server 2003/2000/NT, Active Directory, SharePoint MOSS 2007, Symantec Backup Exec, McAfee EPO, VMware, RIS, Adobe Flash, Oracle CRM, Windows XP/2000, DNS, IIS 6, Office 2003/2000