Alex Brightmore

Consulting Head of Cloud at Expert Thinking
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Greater Oxford Area, UK
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French Limited working proficiency
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Credentials

  • Phoenix Project simulations - trainer
    GamingWorks
    Dec, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
    HashiCorp
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Computer Science BSc(Hons) - 2:1 classification
    University of Derby
  • Diploma in Professional Practice
    University of Derby

Experience

  • Expert Thinking
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consulting Head of Cloud
      • Jan 2023 - Present

      Responsibilities include:- Supporting client Squads in consulting skills, engineering excellence and achieving technical and organisational change- Driving internal technical direction across Azure, AWS, Data and AI functions- Developing market leading solutions, accelerators and collateral- Defining and upholding technical standards across technologies- Mentoring across technical functions- Business leadership- Thought leadership, market analysis and forward planning for technical solutions and internal change2023 finalist for Computing, Cloud Professional of the year Show less

    • Principal Consultant
      • Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

      Leading all aspects of customer engagements, including:- Pre sales and technical discovery- Enterprise and solution architecture- Technical delivery- Dual delivery, up-skilling and training- ReportingCoupled with internal product development, planning, technical roadmaps and mentoring

  • Contino
    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Principal Consultant
      • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

      Principal Consultant at Contino, helping Clients with Cloud Adoption & their path to Digital Transformation. Strong Azure/IaC/CICD experience.Projects:Delivery lead for an Azure data platform, for a major uk asset management company:- ETL, serverless and data warehousing solutions. - heavy focus on up skilling and organisational change to mature cloud cabability for the client- supporting the Developer experience and SDLC Delivering a highly governed & scalable Azure hub & spoke platform, for varied customer workloads across a major uk insurance company:- Responsible for leading technical delivery, up skilling client engineers and designing self service customer workflows for onboarding- supporting transformation of security capability- leading terraform codebase & CI/CD path to production design and implementation Show less

    • Senior Consultant
      • Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

      Projects:Developing an Azure Data platform for a major UK client:- Using Azure Data Factory, warehousing & mapping to increase developer & team visibility of key metrics & the SDLC- Scalable Terraform codebase to onboard wider teams & boost autonomy via dashboards & data visibility in a single placeTechnical lead for Azure platform delivery for a major UK client:- Delivery of Azure Policy governed hub/spoke Platform for customer O365 workloads- Developing on Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework to deliver scalable, secure landing zone build outLeading Azure Landing zone delivery for a major UK building society:- Developing a scalable platform using Terraform infrastructure as code & CI/CD pipelines. Encompassing DevOps, SecOps and a wealth of Azure native and non-native tools- Supporting client teams through SME led engineering Dojo sessionsFinalist for Computing Rising Stars - cloud professional of the year (2020) & rising star of the year (2021) Show less

    • DevOps Consultant
      • Jun 2019 - Mar 2020

      Delivered DevOps and cloud transformations for clients across the public and private sector. Delivery of automation, Kubernetes & Containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code at scale and Azure platforms.

  • Ford Motor Company
    • United States
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • DevOps Engineer
      • Jul 2017 - Jun 2019

      DevOps tech lead for EU development, in a leading global smart mobility team. Developing enterprise CI/CD using Concourse, CircleCI, Kubernetes and Jenkins. Automation and innovation to deliver software to public AppStores seamlessly. DevOps tech lead for EU development, in a leading global smart mobility team. Developing enterprise CI/CD using Concourse, CircleCI, Kubernetes and Jenkins. Automation and innovation to deliver software to public AppStores seamlessly.

  • Chartwell (Derby) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Development Consultant
      • Sep 2018 - Feb 2019

      Delivering a process automation project, to streamline business processes through applying a devops mindset. Design and development of a bespoke application to handle workshop bookings, customer interaction and automate manual processes - using Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and shell scripting to deliver a scalable platform which interacts with existing workshop systems and CRM Delivering a process automation project, to streamline business processes through applying a devops mindset. Design and development of a bespoke application to handle workshop bookings, customer interaction and automate manual processes - using Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and shell scripting to deliver a scalable platform which interacts with existing workshop systems and CRM

  • University of Derby
    • United Kingdom
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Computer Science student
      • Sep 2013 - Jun 2017

      Graduted with a 2:1 classification. Proudly published in Derby University Journal. My dissertation, which is about how individualism and personal factors impact software developers and teams, can be found here: https://computing.derby.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/da/article/view/228 Graduted with a 2:1 classification. Proudly published in Derby University Journal. My dissertation, which is about how individualism and personal factors impact software developers and teams, can be found here: https://computing.derby.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/da/article/view/228

  • Ford Motor Company
    • Ford Technical Centre, Dunton, Essex
    • Business Placement
      • Sep 2015 - Sep 2016

      Facilitated a small team of developers, implmeneted and co-ordinated a new software deployment process, daily stakeholder management, worked on migration to Gradle build system and Java code development Facilitated a small team of developers, implmeneted and co-ordinated a new software deployment process, daily stakeholder management, worked on migration to Gradle build system and Java code development

  • Clementine Insurance
    • Derby, United Kingdom
    • Application Developer
      • Jun 2014 - Aug 2015

      Developed a customer application for Clementine insurance services, on Android and iOS platforms. Android application which has several unique features and a clean user focused UI, with a succinct and feature rich code base under the surface. Developed a customer application for Clementine insurance services, on Android and iOS platforms. Android application which has several unique features and a clean user focused UI, with a succinct and feature rich code base under the surface.

  • Chartwell (Derby) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Website Developer
      • Feb 2015 - Jun 2015

      Developer for a lightweight customer website. Developer for a lightweight customer website.

  • SHAK Consulting Limited
    • UK
    • Intern
      • May 2014 - Sep 2014

      Assisting with documentation including training manuals, functional specifications and designs for a future online portal. Attending key meetings with clients and handling sensitive information professionally. Technical support, UI designs, problem solving and device set up client side. Assisting with documentation including training manuals, functional specifications and designs for a future online portal. Attending key meetings with clients and handling sensitive information professionally. Technical support, UI designs, problem solving and device set up client side.

  • Greendog
    • United Kingdom
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Work Experience
      • Aug 2013 - Sep 2013

      Developing web design skills, producing a functional site design using CSS. Developing web design skills, producing a functional site design using CSS.

  • Shield-it (Derby) LTD
    • UK
    • Company Director
      • May 2011 - Jul 2013

      Fitting paint protection film to prestige vehicles across the UK and Ireland. Including all aspects of day to day running, accounts, sales and marketing. Fitting paint protection film to prestige vehicles across the UK and Ireland. Including all aspects of day to day running, accounts, sales and marketing.

Education

  • University of Derby
    Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017
  • QEGS Ashbourne
    High School
    2003 - 2009

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