Senior Solutions Consultant

• Apr 2021 - Present

Toca.io develop a cloud based no-code enterprise automation platform. The platform enables the connection of systems and automation of tasks, simply, quickly and affordably. Toca is a whole digital workforce in the cloud! My role involves me designing client solutions for myself or others to implement and supporting solution implementers. My initial clients have been mainly in the healthcare sector, but the platform is in use in a multitude of industries. Toca is industry agnostic. Toca.io develop a cloud based no-code enterprise automation platform. The platform enables the connection of systems and automation of tasks, simply, quickly and affordably. Toca is a whole digital workforce in the cloud! My role involves me designing client solutions for myself or others to implement and supporting solution implementers. My initial clients have been mainly in the healthcare sector, but the platform is in use in a multitude of industries. Toca is industry agnostic.

Freelance Consultant

• Apr 2018 - Mar 2021

Fulfilled various short and medium length positions on a consultancy basis. Fulfilled various short and medium length positions on a consultancy basis.

Smart Ticketing Test Environment SME

• Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

After construction of a bespoke Test Facility, implementation of a staging environment to represent each Train Operating Company (TOC) platform and ticket office environment commenced. Working with Testing, Procurement and Legal teams as well as ticketing equipment vendors, I created a test environment representing central scheme members (c2c, Abellio Greater Anglia and London & South Eastern Railway), through the integration of ticket gates, validators and Ticket Vending Machines connected to cloud hosted Back Offices. Inter-operable scheme members (TfL, GTR and Southern Railway) were represented with similar equipment connected to their own test Back Office. I performed all Facility Management, Network Management and Operational Management ensuring clients worked in a safe and efficient facility with a highly available test environment. Various tools to aid integration and fault analysis were implemented.

Test Facility Design Manager

• Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

Working alongside Testing, Procurement and Legal teams, I lead the creation of a Test Facility to be used for the Department for Transport's South East Flexible Ticketing (SEFT) ITSO Smartcard Programme. The facility was built in unoccupied basement space in central London from scratch. I defined and lead the facility dimensioning, space planning, power, cooling and network design, the physical facility build and implementation of all infrastructure. Working alongside Testing, Procurement and Legal teams, I lead the creation of a Test Facility to be used for the Department for Transport's South East Flexible Ticketing (SEFT) ITSO Smartcard Programme. The facility was built in unoccupied basement space in central London from scratch. I defined and lead the facility dimensioning, space planning, power, cooling and network design, the physical facility build and implementation of all infrastructure.

Data Centre Manager

• Jan 2013 - Sep 2014

Managing Vodafone UK's entire Test Environment from a physical point of view, leading a small team to make all moves, adds and changes as well as implementation of infrastructure projects. Managing Vodafone UK's entire Test Environment from a physical point of view, leading a small team to make all moves, adds and changes as well as implementation of infrastructure projects.

Networks Authority

• Oct 2010 - Oct 2012

Lead major infrastructure projects for Vodafone's Test Centre to reduce costs, increase hosting capacity and replace end-of-life plant. Projects included power transformer upgrade, "free air" cooling system upgrade, airflow improvements, power/environment monitoring system, data room capacity expansion. Introduction of industry standard Datacentre Management strategies and policies to improve quality and long term viability.

Test Environments Manager

• Aug 2007 - Oct 2010

Primarily managing the outsourced Network Test Environment service, but also growing the scope of test environments within Vodafone and simplifying the management of these environments.

Test Manager

• Apr 1997 - Jul 2007

Development Engineer

• 1986 - 1997