Highly experienced Technology Consultant having Site Reliability Engineer, Unix System Engineer, Unix System Administrator, Oracle Database Administrator, Windows Administrator and Networking roles plus a proven track record for over two decades to lead, deliver, secure, maintainable operating software architecture and client software above and beyond customer expectations. A plethora of highly successful client rollouts on behalf of very large UK and international financial institutions. An advocate of DevOps culture, believing in cross departmental collaboration to deliver organisational excellence across a broad spectrum of projects and teams.

Highly experienced leader, mentor and technology advocate. The delivery of successful outcomes on major technology projects, providing industry leading consultancy for major financial institutions. I have supported the creation, maintenance and support of industry leading financial services software solutions working in a Dev-Ops centric capacity.My role has adapted over time, which provided me an excellent opportunity to develop a wide range of skills. As the strategic direction of the organisation has changed, I have gained experience in database administration, system administration, network security, server hardening, infrastructure provisioning, performance test analysis, coordination and execution, knowledge management, business continuity planning and more.I am core to daily operations in the company, having performed duties as a scrum master. My responsibilities have included sprint planning for company initiatives, ensuring successful and in-budget delivery, and providing key insights during retrospectives. I promote a blame free, psychologically safe environment for colleagues to objectively reflect and analyse root causes and routes to improvement. I have been central to the organisation’s Cloud adoption strategy, providing Cloud Agnostic solutions for their Digital Transformation. I am highly experienced with AWS, and with Infrastructure as Code, implementing highly secure, robust and steadfast foundations for our solutions. Given the ever changing technology landscape, I have enabled the company to adopt new and exciting technologies through leading and coordinating R&D and migration efforts.

Managed the IT requirements of 15 geographically diverse car dealerships and managed both the IT and Marketing teams. My role was both technically oriented and management oriented in nature, including responsibilities of staff performance and reward management, project management, software and hardware installation/upgrades, database support and management accounting.

A varied role incorporating systems support, forensic accounting, network and user security, software versioning and patching and IT support across the organisation. I found this provided an ideal foundation for my career in IT, and helped to fuel my enduring passion and enthusiasm for technology.