Consultancy service providing freelance interim IT leadership and management during business transformations.Competence in Infrastructure stabilization, team transformation, platform design, platform development and application migration. Solution architecture, development and delivery covering Enterprise IT, Networks and Telco technology.Pre-IPO, IPO through public offering and large scale enterprise experience.

CONSULTANCYIT Transformation within the Financial Services / Leisure industry. Solution Architecture, Design and Implementation Management. Situation analysis and formal recommendations to Managing Director. Team transformation, Management and Coaching towards formal Lean Agile development methodology.Specified, Procured and Managed implementation of a Virtualized Multi Site Infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery. Specification and procurement of a replacement Direct Debit Management System (DDMS). Planning and Management of legacy system integration, data migration, cleansing and consolidation. Specification, vendor selection and negotiation for a Mobile Payments solution (PDQ / Gateway / Mobile app + PED) Strategically focused client towards a data abstraction / exposure strategy using a secure API. Outsource Procurement and Project Management of an integrated mobile application (Android / iOS) using exposed server side APIs.

Focussed on delivering IT service improvements, operational capability for new applications and platforms.Responsible for Technical ArchitectureOperational escalation pointManagement of IT Operational technologies, Network & Telephony, Servers and Data Centres; IT SecurityTechnical Authority for Group Problem Management IT Change management functionsManagement of the Group Infrastructure Operations Team (Senior Infrastructure Engineers, Security Specialists) with a focus on enhancing IT Service availability and Security

Fixed 3 month consultancy engagement; Technical analysis, Requirements capture, Architecture, Design and Implementation of Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to run scientific workloads / pipelines for genomic analysis within a Bioinformatics Environment. Networking of environments to ensure seamless connectivity between business location (Sanger), existing third-party IT services and Amazon Web Services.

Interim management of complex EMEA Infrastructure operations including 11 UK sites, UK Datacenter and Swiss site. Responsible for maintenance and development of infrastructure serving business critical applications to the UK, Europe, US and Asia.

Consulting Interim Operations Manager & Infrastructure Lead – Responsible for 5000+ Desktops, Server & Storage estate (200+ Servers, 600+ VMs), 5000 Staff Microsoft Accounts, 17,000 Student Microsoft accounts, Infrastructure and Cyber Security. Responsible for a team of engineers & specialist contractors.Projects / significant deliverables:Virtual Infrastructure Performance and Reliability Remediation / replacement of low performance SAN subsystem. Petabyte Research Storage System. Transformed a project for delivering NFS services to deliver high performance end user storage services suitable for the Linux Research community. Specified, procured, delivered and commissioned a solution based on Commodity Hardware and ZFS. Capable of > 1 million IOPS to SSD or 140,000 IOPS to spinning disk sets.Cybersecurity – detection and remediation of significant security vulnerabilities. Detection and remediation of non-compliance with Data Protection Regulations. Forensic analysis, auditing and disclosure.Value case development for engaging dedicated contract Cyber Security resources and automated vulnerability assessment tools.Application Streaming and Virtualisation. Delivered an environment to deliver applications to Students and Staff using a solution from Software2. Hosting Infrastructure, Application Packaging, testing and deployment. Enables Students to run University Licensed Applications on their own Windows device. Reduces the need to package and permanently deploy a multitude of bespoke applications onto Lab PCs using SCCM. Simplifies desktop builds and improves security.

Senior Manager responsible for Infrastructure Architecture and 24/7/365 Operational Management of a SaaS Platform serving Billions of Transactions a year.Creation, Leadership and Management of a team of Highly Skilled Linux / Open Source Systems Administration, Network Administration and Delivery resources.Architectural leadership and delivery management of a virtualised data centre (VDC) solution based around Vmware, NetApp, Juniper and Dell products. Designed to be Enterprise, Elastic and Performant whilst supporting the goal of Continuous Delivery.Transformation of development infrastructure to align with the Continuous Delivery goal. Hired resources to integrate delivery with development through automation with Puppet, Chef, Vagrant and appropriate configuration management tools.Massively Parallel Processed (MPP) Big Data Data implementation for internal and client facing analytics of Billions of facts based on Pivotal Greenplum Database

Client facing Strategic Consulting, including business plan development & long term technology strategy / investment planning. Lead generation, analysis and farming.Business development and CxO communications for 3G / 4G wireless networks, Compute Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) along with network connected devices and technologies (future handsets / terminals / machines).Lead Generation and Solution Architect for client facing Cloud Computing solutions. Business case development, investment case analysis and internal program management. Breakthrough IaaS sale.Lead generation, business case development, investment case analysis and internal program management for Wireless Carrier Data Offload / Internet Breakout solution. Now part of core technology platform.

Management of UK based Fixed Wireless Access line of business. Strategic Partnership development between leading WiMAX technology providers and Fujitsu (Japan). Specification development, Requirements Capture, Contract negotiation and execution. Supplier management.Business development, lead generation and technical proposals for Fixed Wireless Access and Microwave (Point to Point ) Communications systems throughout UK and Europe.