Infrastructure Architect, IBM UK. December 2012 – PresentVirtualisation SME and Wintel resource for BG Group / IBM. Infrastructure Design and Disaster Recovery Specialist.Responsibilities:• Solution Design Lead• Server Virtualisation Lead• Wintel Technical Lead• Disaster Recovery Technical Lead• Infrastructure design and implementation to Regional Data Centres• Infrastructure design and implementation to International Assets in EMEA, APAC and Americas• Knowledge Transfer and Escalation lead for Wintel and Virtualisation to Offshore IBM Teams• Infrastructure Design Review Board member.Technical Consultant, direct to BG Group. October 2008 – December 2012Responsibilities:• Involvement in the full project life cycle• Design and implementation of server and storage projects• Data centre design, deployment and migration• Input to design of the infrastructure blueprint for IT transition at International Assets• Consultancy on infrastructure projects for internal business groups• Transition of projects to external outsourced service providers• Technical Design Authority for third parties deploying into BG Group• Tier 3 escalation support for BG Group’s server and storage estate, plus liaison with BG Group customer services representatives.Technologies covered (but not limited to):• VMware vSphere platform and associated products, including Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Operations Manager• Microsoft Technologies• HP Server equipment, Blade systems, Virtual connect and associated third party interconnects, Proliant servers and MSA storage systems• Cisco Fabric Switches• NetApp Filer and EMC Symmetrix storage integration

This permanent role of Principal Consultant included responsibilities for pre-sales, technical architecture, project delivery and line manager duties. The clients engaged with during this period range across numerous industry sectors, including banking/ financial services, communications, energy & utilities, government & public services, healthcare and retail. A list of the long term engagements can be seen below:BUPA - OCS & Sharepoint designBarclays Wealth - Exchange leadUBS Group - AD architectGarda - Exchange leadNHS - Technical PM for network projectsCable and Wireless Communications - Exchange designSainsbury's - Business continuity lead

Lead engineer within "Retail Banking Platform" distributed environment, responsible for controlled releases to an environment of 40K+ users/ computers, 3K+ servers and 1800 sites. Initial integration of the NatWest and RBS retail bank IT systems.

Assistant Project Manager for a software compliance project aimed at achieving full compliance for the NatWest IT Group.