Experience

Synadia

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Product Management

  • Dec 2023 - 1 month

  Midlands, United Kingdom Helping Synadia achieve its vision and goals through product exploration, product validation and strategy management across Synadia's highly skilled teams.

• Solutions Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

  United Kingdom I'm a solutions & systems engineer for Synadia with responsibilities to show case the capabilities of NATS, build customer proof-of-concepts, design architectures, generate content and develop opportunities for this amazing technology. NATS is one of the greatest technologies I've ever worked with and I'm proud to represent NATS in my day to day life.



Built.fm

• United Kingdom

• Built.fm Podcast

  • Jul 2022 - 1 year 6 months

  United Kingdom The Built.fm podcast explores digital products and the builders behind them. We chat what they've built, how they've built it and why. More importantly, we talk origin stories and reveal lessons to pass on. It's a free podcast with marketing slots if you're interested!



Juniper Networks

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager Director

  • Feb 2020 - Jan 2023

  United Kingdom I work on short/medium/long term technology strategies within the data centre business unit. That might mean strategising on new features, or coupling existing products together. My primary job is to story tell and convince others to follow.

• Specialist Systems Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Feb 2020

  London, United Kingdom Automation specialist in EMEA for Juniper Networks!



Extreme Networks

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Product Manager (Automation)

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

  United Kingdom



Brocade

• United States
• Computer Networking Products
• 700 & Above Employee

• EMEA Product Manager (previously PSE / NetDev director/lead)

  • May 2015 - Oct 2017

  United Kingdom, Midlands Brocade is a thought leader in the networking space and is a sponsor of OpenStack, OpenDaylight and has experts in the well known standards bodies. Working for a company like this provides me with opportunities to feedback, help deliver and shape the go to market strategy and generally evangelise the right way of delivering business problem solving technology. Specifically I interact with multiple business units and assist with customer engagements, providing guidance and experience… Show more Brocade is a thought leader in the networking space and is a sponsor of OpenStack, OpenDaylight and has experts in the well known standards bodies. Working for a company like this provides me with opportunities to feedback, help deliver and shape the go to market strategy and generally evangelise the right way of delivering business problem solving technology. Specifically I interact with multiple business units and assist with customer engagements, providing guidance and experience around automation, software networking, software defined networking and DevOps opportunities. In addition, I feed information between customers, system integrators and the Brocade engineering and product management teams. Also inputting in to roadmap, strategy and communicating that back in to the field. As a passionate technology evangeliser with a focus on humans, there is nothing I enjoy more than helping customers both internal and external to apply technology to problematic areas of a business in addition to presenting my own market views to the business to strengthen our strategy. I regularly update the field with updates across EMEA on areas of automation and go to market news, which gives both customers and partners a change to feedback and question directly the approach and technology. Finally, I have attended numerous sets of training including Challenger and Advanced Challenger sales training, go to industry technical training events, attend the OpenStack summits and NOG talks where I go as a guest and speaker. Show less



Computacenter

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Oct 2012 - May 2015

  National This role is an exciting and massively varied which spans the whole of the UK in the realm of networking and security skills. Working for a company the size of Computacenter allows my passion to be exercised on a daily basis, whilst dealing with many different people and business units. As a consultant, my focus is on both the commercial and technical aspect, utilising best practice consultancy frameworks, the latest RFC based and proprietary technology alongside traditional networking… Show more This role is an exciting and massively varied which spans the whole of the UK in the realm of networking and security skills. Working for a company the size of Computacenter allows my passion to be exercised on a daily basis, whilst dealing with many different people and business units. As a consultant, my focus is on both the commercial and technical aspect, utilising best practice consultancy frameworks, the latest RFC based and proprietary technology alongside traditional networking skill sets and how to translate the technical to the non-technical. Technology itself varies immensely but consists of routing & switching and security disciplines. Vendors include Juniper & Cisco. Show less



Waveworks Ltd

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior network engineer

  • Feb 2012 - Oct 2012

  Midlands UK Waveworks are a managed services provider with a privately owned network spanning the UK which delivers bespoke services nationally. My responsibilities include joint responsibility of network day to day operation, growth, stability, scalability and performance. This role sits above third line, providing support down the chain as required as well as providing consultational & engineering skills day to day. Specific skills required include: IP/IPv6, IGP, BGP, MP-BGP, MPLS, security… Show more Waveworks are a managed services provider with a privately owned network spanning the UK which delivers bespoke services nationally. My responsibilities include joint responsibility of network day to day operation, growth, stability, scalability and performance. This role sits above third line, providing support down the chain as required as well as providing consultational & engineering skills day to day. Specific skills required include: IP/IPv6, IGP, BGP, MP-BGP, MPLS, security (device hardening, IPSec, SSL, best practices and PCI-DSS), Ethernet, carrier services (L3 MPLS IPVPN's/Pseudowires/MEF) and the ability to troubleshoot methodically. The role in iteself is not purely technical with commercial aspects being undertaken, such as being able to translate technical requirements into business logic to ensure operational continuity. Show less



Dynamic Technologies Europe Ltd

• Technical Director

  • Feb 2011 - Jul 2011

  This position up to date is the most varied and interesting I've had the pleasure of working in. Every day brings new challenges and the requirements to keep my knowledge up to date, makes sure I'm at the forefront of the wide line up of communications technology on the market today. At DTE I provide the following skill sets to the company: - Technical company direction - Definition of technical roles/solutions/opportunities - Technical third line support &… Show more This position up to date is the most varied and interesting I've had the pleasure of working in. Every day brings new challenges and the requirements to keep my knowledge up to date, makes sure I'm at the forefront of the wide line up of communications technology on the market today. At DTE I provide the following skill sets to the company: - Technical company direction - Definition of technical roles/solutions/opportunities - Technical third line support & troubleshooting - Network architecture solution design and overview - DTE representation for technical workshops & meetings - In depth technical pre-sales and support - Management of technical resources - Provision of training for technical resources - Partner accreditation & partnership status - In house training and customer technical presentations Technologically I involved with the following vendors: Juniper / Cisco / Ruckus / F5 / Radware / EMC / HP / Dell Technologies including but not limited to: VRF/Logical-routers/virtual-routers/IP (v4/v6)/Netflow/BGP/ISIS/EIGRP/RIP/OSPF/ODR/CDP/LLDP/VoIP/Load balancing (local & global)/DR solutions/Firewalls (stateful and stateless)/VPN solutions (SSL/IPSec/PPTP/L2TP/MPLS/VPLS/GMPLS/ATM/LDP/QoS/GRE/IDP (IPS/IDS)/SIEM solutions/Dos & DDoS protection solutions/VMware/Cisco UCS/Cisco Nexus/WiFi + WiFi backhaul/WiFi meshing + large deployments I also deal with end customer project planning, project preparations and identification of solutions in customer environments. Show less



Codemasters

• Staffing and Recruiting

• Network Architect

  • Jul 2008 - Feb 2011

  This position involved me being directly responsible for the stability and availability of the network on which the games are hosted. My tasks included everything from rudimentary ad-hoc changes, to project design & implementation. I also dealt with Codemasters suppliers & providers, maintained the PCI-DSS status, and on top of this provide third line support to the network operations centre. It was a highly involved role, and one which I enjoyed continually despite its requirements and… Show more This position involved me being directly responsible for the stability and availability of the network on which the games are hosted. My tasks included everything from rudimentary ad-hoc changes, to project design & implementation. I also dealt with Codemasters suppliers & providers, maintained the PCI-DSS status, and on top of this provide third line support to the network operations centre. It was a highly involved role, and one which I enjoyed continually despite its requirements and demands. Whilst not ITiL certified myself, the day to day running of the system adhered to the specification. Show less



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• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Consulting Network Architect

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2011

  As of the beginning of 2008, I have been providing consultancy to companies of any size who need do not have the relevant personnel under employment. Providing anything from complete re-designs utilising the latest and greatest cutting edge network technology to troubleshooting and project consultation. I have gained a wide range of experience during this time and have dealt with a many UK house hold brands.



Node4 Ltd

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Technical Support Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Jul 2008

  This position involved me working as first line support carrying out new provisions, troubleshooting and install tasks. The experience gained here has been proved invaluable. The company continues to grow and now has two UK locations.



Hart Instruments Ltd

• Electronics engineer

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2007

  Working as an electronics engineer, carrying out design, repair and consultancy of electronic systems. Primarily I worked with embedded systems, designing projects and acting as an architect for solutions from start to finish.