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London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

• Led strategic initiatives to implement Zero Trust methodology based on Microsoft products and services, resulting improved compliance and reduced risks for the business.• Designed multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure) and blueprints to reduce single vendor lock-in related business risks, ensuring industry best and standards are met.• Collaborated and engaged with cross-functional teams to automate Zero Trust Landing Zone deployment in Azure for new clients, meeting PCI-DSS requirements and reducing deployment time by 30%.• Enhanced AWS infra design to improve personal data (PII) protection, aligning with NCSC secure cloud principles and GDPR standard, ensuring compliance and customer trust.• Led ransomware protection project to mitigate risks of critical data loss by utilizing Microsoft Defender EDR/XDR capabilities, endpoint protection and hybrid backups approach.• Served as the subject-matter expert (SME) for Microsoft security suite, specializing in Azure Entra ID protection, leading to a 26% decrease in false-positive incidents creation.• Analyzed threat landscape and industry trends, recommended Cloud Security Strategy enhancements, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and GDPR is met. Developed and road map for the next 3 years.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Provided technical expertise for a new multi-vendor / multi-supplier core banking system replacing program, reviewed non-functional requirements specifications and conducted assessment against bank and industry standards, policies, and business strategy.• Developed cloud adoption strategy ensuring bank standards and compliance are met.• Led the development of a comprehensive EA capabilities model to support CAF bank IT strategy for the next 5Y period.• Provided technical and non-technical guidelines based on cloud operational expenses (OPEX) proactive assessment.• Led strategic alignment of technology to business goals resulting in a collaboratively developed architecture and roadmap, resulted a projected 29% increase in operational efficiency of the IT architecture function.• Led proof of concept (PoC) projects to validate business value and technical feasibility, and ensuring compliance with cybersecurity and data protection standards for banking systems.• Worked with multiple stakeholders and 3rd parties presenting new ideas to meet strategic and tactical goals for the "Modern workspace / remote work" program.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led the migration planning of the Corporate Lotus Domino (EOL) platform to Microsoft Power Apps, resulting in a 30% increase in system efficiency and a seamless transition to modern technology.• Developed migration roadmap for internal legacy information systems providing associated products End-Of-Life risks mitigation.• Designed technical solution to integrate data from third-party HR management system with Deloitte M365 services ensuring Deloitte data security standards are met.• Led the development of security design artifacts for UK IT projects, ensuring effective security measures, resulting in increased system resilience and compliance with legislation and standards.• Acted as a decision maker for security technology selection by capturing business and technical requirements for RFIs, RFPs, procurement options.• Developed project documentation (High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), road maps, business cases, etc.) and documentation templates supporting corporate standards for project artifacts.• Worked closely with diverse stakeholders and 3rd party entities to support reference architecture and architecture framework development, resulting in the successful implementation of enterprise security technologies and processes, enhancing Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) triadsecurity practices.• Led knowledge sharing sessions on emerging AI technologies for informed decision-making to senior stakeholders (directors). Provided guidance on technology selection options for AI platforms, aligning with strategic goals.

London, England, United Kingdom

Cloudreach is a leading cloud consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.I joined the company as a Cloud Solutions Architect to lead cloud adoption projects for several local government clients. In this role, I work both as a team member and on my own providing end-to-end technical project delivery and supervision starting from cloud adoption road map planning and requirements capturing stage. My cloud adoption approach is based on industry best practices and CSPs cloud adoption frameworks. I focus on security, governance, and designing a solution that is fit for purpose. I prefer to work with Azure public cloud, but quite vendor agnostic. My recent clients were London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (migration to Azure), Unilever (initial pre-migration assessment and CSPs costs comparison), Schindler (EU data centre migration to Azure), Merlin Entertainment.

London, United Kingdom

Sungard Availability Services (SungardAS) is a provider of production IT and recovery services with annual revenues of approximately $1.4 billion and offices in 9 countries.I joined Sungard AS (on behalf on ENDO (UK) ltd.) to participate in challenging transformation project in public sector government organisation (Enfield Council) as an IT Consultant providing architecture design / project delivery management and consultancy services during organisation journey to cloud. I led several critical streams like migration of company IT services to the Cloud, development of AI based application (digital reception), unified communications, implementing BI solution and data processing platforms used for information provision to general public. Main focus is done on operational costs optimisation and information security (GDPR, PCI, ISO27000).Was responsible for:• 3rd parties architecture designs review and evaluations• SME for Microsoft Azure/ O365 cloud services• SME for projects related with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) technologies• SME for Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Managing 3rd parties project delivery• Full project cycle delivery and supervision (requirements/HLD/DLD/PoC/implementation/handover/support)• Projects TCO / OPEX / CAPEX estimation and costs ownership• Solutions architectures defence on architecture review boards• CxO level and senior stakeholders negotiations and engagement• HLD / LLD / PoC / etc project documentation preparation• Cloud migration strategy creation based on company vision and business needs• Tenders document preparation and reviews• ITIL / ITSM processes updates and optimisation

United Kingdom

Established in 2016 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland Neartu is a new but rapidly growing IT company providing consultancy services to finance and banking sectors. Joined Neartu as Enterprise Architect / Consultant to lead several challenging projects for new clients while providing IT architecture consultancy services during implementation and migration to cloud based services. Worked for a range of clients located in London, Dublin and Madrid.Was responsible for:• High/Low Level Designs based on the customer requirements and Best Practices• Projects Solutions Delivery• Projects Processes Automation• Coordinating activities between teams• Escalation Endpoint for mission critical problems solving• Azure cloud strategy / costs optimisation • Projects security management

New York, Usa / Minsk, Belarus

I was invited to work for EPAM Systems to aggregate and build infrastructure services as a managed service practice inside the company. My first project was a Data Centre migration project for Thomson-Reuters corporation, as a solution architect and technical consultant. After the successful completion of the project I moved on to several similar infrastructure services related projects allowing me to improve my professional skills as well as to get additional competencies in such domains as IT service management, project governance, process engineering, project management and team building. What concerns technical domain I focused on public/private clouds architecture, migrations, infrastructure and security compliance.This vital experience has allowed me think about IT project from both a business and technical perspectives allowing both me and our teams to frequently exceed our customers expectations.

Belarus, Minsk / Helsinki, Finland

Tieto was founded in 1968 and we’re headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest Nordic IT services company, but also has a strong global presence and delivery capabilities. Tieto employs more than 13,000 experts, operate in more than 20 countries and have a turnover of approximately EUR 1.5 billion. It's shares are listed on Nasdaq in Helsinki and Stockholm.I joined a team of professionals to support Tieto's business expansion to Russian region. I worked as team member which needed to build IT infrastructure for providing and supporting XaaS and cloud services.

Belarus, Minsk

Started as technical engineer for HP highly available Data Storage solutions. Prepared and implemented disaster tolerant data storage solution for real time billing system. Implemented corporate class backup system. Worked tightly with third party vendors to build Data Center engineering infrastructure. After two years became a team lead for group of engineers, whose responsibility was to support corporate IT services including application layer. Passed numerous trainings and certifications. Participated as a solution architect in building backup data center starting from the site assessment stage till putting it into production. Got unit manager role with 7 subordinates. Participated in business management meetings and presentations. Planed and got approved yearly budget. Had hands-on experience in ITIL/ITSM methodology implementation.