Responsible for scaling cloud adoption at Citi. Global lead for all things cloud - product management, engineering, architecture and driving scaled adoption.

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Responsible for cloud at credit Suisse. Building engineering teams and culture. Defining and executing group strategy for cloud. Leading adoption of Azure. Accountable to regulators. Driving cloud native and automation, developer experience and overall governance / controls for cloud.

Driving digital transformation, establishing DevOps and Agile practice and leading all internal software development. Adoption of AI and new customer products in google cloud and azure.

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Defining and executing digital transformation, from establishing global strategy to adopt cloud native architectures to creation high performance engineering teams delivering new digital products and services. This included:- Defining roadmap, business case for change- Establishing SDLC piplelines and target operating models- Ownership of cloud native architecture and technology- Creation of DevOps culture, new teams and Agile delivery (Scrum, Safe etc) - Senior stakeholder engagement, program management- GDPR, Security, Finance and governance design for digital services- Leading the cultural transformation, evangelising the benefits across a globally federated organisation- Forming of Centre of Excellence and assisting IOT, Enterprise, Consumer Cloud and Hosting teams adoption of cloud, devops and agile- NFV, SDN Transformation based on openstack Tech engineering teams used.Azure, Amazon Web Services, Openstack, GooglePostgres, MariaDB, MongoCloudHealth, Science LogicHeat, Cloud FormationAnsible, PuppetKubernetesDocker Hub, Concourse, Rancher, Terraform

Definition of global BP cloud strategy, business case and transformation program, including:- CIO and leadership stakeholder management to establish mandate to change- Definition Cloud Native architectures and digital applications, capability and target operating model- Evaluation of technology portfolio and strategy to refactor applications to microservice architectures, API / fully codified stacks- Creation of the cloud service line, devops engineering teams and operating capablity for cloud native services- Defintion and delivery of governance frameworks to mitigate; GDPR / Legal, financial, security and compliance requirementsTech used:Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, Azure.Chef, PuppetServiceNowCloud FormationAkamai Docker

At Centrica I led a team of 50 architects that executed a complex migration of 3000 application workloads to a number of cloud providers.

At Tata, I ran and successfully implemented a program to migrate the global email for 7’000 staff in 26 countries to the cloud email service, office 365. In addition to this I also completed a program to consolidate five organisations Active Directory, SharePoint and SAP platforms into a new shared service architecture. This included:

I provided architecture guidance for the procurement of a market provided solution aimed at delivering the transformation of IT across 206 countries supporting 15,000 staff. I was retained by the FCO to provide architectural governance throughout contractual lifecycle (6yrs) and ensure the successful transformation of the IT organisation, services and operating model was delivered.developing an enterprise architecture function and team, defining reference architecture and standardsproject management (budgets > £5M) to deliver change management in preparation for IT transformationgovernance of supplier services and designschange management and communications for foreign office staff to ensure leveraging of new service benefitssenior management engagement, including presenting to UK ambassadors, ministerial engagement (David Milliband, Lord Mallock-Brown) and the permanent secretary of state (Sir Peter Ricketts)supplier management of HP, drive to deliver against milestones, risk management and performance reports

I provided architecture design and guidance for the delivery of new infrastructure and application architecture, this included running a team of architects to design, implement and migrate global email, Active Directory supporting trading applications, desktop services, digital platform and archival. This included, creation of architecture design and standards for Active Directory, Exchange, Disaster Recovery, desktop, application packaging and operation.design and build of new datacentre architecture, procurement of hardware and supplier engagement / management

Barclays Capital embarked on an infrastructure redesign, my role was to undertake the design build and test of the Windows 2000 Active Directory, Email environment, end user device and end to end migration process. Senior stakeholder management, gathering of business requirements and the delivery of target infrastructure architecture to meet business outcomesDesign and implementation of reference architecture, Active Directory, Email solutions including blackberry integration and data retention policy

I joined Azlan as a MCT trainer specializing in delivering MCSE courses to delegates. This included delivering briefings and seminars at Microsoft’s Reading head offices on Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 (whilst they were still in the beta phase of production).

This was my first permanent role following my departure from University. I joined Tech as a Microsoft trainer, leading a team of 10 to deliver official MCSE courses.