Steve Betts Email & Phone Number

Bisham, England, United Kingdom

Marlow, England, United Kingdom

After ten years as Director and Principal of my successful Consulting Limited company, I retired to have both knees replaced, competing in Rotary’s Marlow Santa Fun Run just 10 weeks later. Trustee of Accessible Boating charity (CIO) where, I am responsible for Web and Social Media. I'm also Director of a limited property company. I promoted the use of.

Maidenhead

My Limited Company was formed to enable me to provide interim consulting services around Business and IT strategy

Marlow

Retired to have both knees replaced. Recovered and competed in Rotary’s Marlow Santa Fun Run (SFR) just 10 weeks later. Wound up my ten year old consulting Limited company.

Fareham, London

Interim Azure Architect for Vohkus working from their Head Office in Fareham. Hands on design and implementation of Microsoft environments including Azure and Office 365 customer projects, and oversight of internal processes and practices surrounding the implementation of Microsoft Partner - Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Azure Portal

Marlow, Buckinghamshire

"Retired" to a house move and whole house renovation; including design, project management, electrical, plumbing and general DIY.

Spittalfields, London

Interim Cloud Architect for Allen & Overy at their Spitallfields London head office. Design and implementation of Azure Resource Manager environment for a new document management platform PoC. Infrastructure as code & Automation with PowerShell & Tagging, Hybrid infrastructure included a site to site VPN using Checkpoint Firewall, & Cisco ASA as gateways.

London, United Kingdom

Interim Cloud Architect for Amlin Insurance. Responsible for all aspects of Cloud Architecture. designed and Implemented the Azure cloud environment in which to securely transform several terabytes of data for a major data warehouse project. Technologies included: Microsoft Azure Classic and Resource Manager, Elastic computing, Point to Site and Site to.

Maidenhead & Victoria

• Interim Operations Consultant for Rank Group, initial engagements on a Tech-Ops headcount to challenge the status quo and nurture a DevOps environment, implementing development and testing tools such as Subversion.
• designing and documenting Enterprise Infrastructure, adding Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Change management processes
• introducing Azure cloud based infrastructure
• design of the Azure environment, including development, test, and production Subscriptions, ExpressRoute and Barracuda Firewalls
• designing hybrid projects integrating Microsoft Azure with local and national systems
• reviewing automation, orchestration and deployment tools including Octopus Deploy, and Powershell

Central London

Conducted a Review of IT and IT Strategy with a specific emphasis on cloud, e-mail and associated systems. This was followed by a full service analysis and recommendation for Office 365. Most recently working with Office 365 partners to deliver a design against requirements.

Newbury

Interim Fixed Transformation Manager for Vodafone Group at their HQ in Newbury, responsible for Fixed Line Service Transformation, co-coordinating the migrations, processes and operational interfaces between the GSOC and each OPCO in Vodafone’s Fixed Centre of Excellence. A proof of concept program spanning 200 sites and 12 countries, using a variety of.

London, United Kingdom

Interim Implementation Manager for Ernst & Young in Waterloo, London, responsible for a multi-phase project to design, install and roll out Unified Communications, using Microsoft Lync 2010, Outlook 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The new infrastructure is to replace Lotus Notes and SameTime in a hybrid model with 20% Exchange2010 on-prem and 80% in the cloud.

White City, West London

Interim Server Strategy Manager at Siemens Information Systems (SIS) in Wood Lane, London. SIS is responsible for much of the BBC IT estate. I was responsible for business change driving Microsoft Server and Collaboration projects: to update Active Directory; refresh the Domain Controller estate to Windows Server 2008r2 on new hardware; keep Exchange 2003.

Khartoum, Sudan

Windle Trust International is a charity sponsored by UK Government Humanitarian Aid department working with Sudanese Police to promote Access to Justice and Impartiality. Based in Khartoum, Sudan, at Police HQ, my mission was to conduct an IS/IT Review and develop Vision and Strategy for their IT.

London, Borough Of Islington

Interim Architect and Project Manager for Contact Islington - London Borough of Islington to refresh Avaya based Call centre providing improved performance, additional functionality and integration with back office and PBX. Initial three month contract extended to enable me to deliver the program to time and budget.

Henley

Completed a series of IT Architect studies focused on portals and Social Networking. Notable technologies considered include SiteForum (open source, cloud), and Microsoft Office SharePoint (MOSS-2007) with Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft BPOS.

Reading, United Kingdom, Worldwide

Also known as Strategy Consultant, this full time Microsoft role usually involves a long term placement in an enterprise customer who funds the engagement. I deliver specifically selected services but more importantly access to Microsoft product futures and resources tailored by a deep understanding of the customers’ business. In addition I provide.

Redmond, Seattle USA

This role is a key part of Microsoft's product groups in Redmond USA and involves ownership of some or all of a feature set in a developing product. In this role I helped ship two products, Windows Mobile and MSN Mobile.

Reading, United Kingdom, Worldwide

This role originally known as Partner Program Manager was largely defined by me, being only the second Microsoft Strategy Consultant outside USA, and having been invited to apply. During this time I worked exclusively with BT companies. Microsoft honoured me with a President's award for my contribution to the original XDA project.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Internet Business DevelopmentMicrosoft SpecialistPre-Sales

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Smart Card Product ManagerOpen SystemsMicrosoft Specialist

Berkhamstead, United Kingdom, Millpitas California USA

Pre-sales in a Startup environmentX-windows and expert systems development on Sun Workstations

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Pre-Sales'C' and Informix Developer

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

'C' developmentporting between UNIX flavours