Head of Cloud Professional Services

• Jun 2023 - Present

Group Capability Lead - Platform & Cloud

• Sep 2020 - Jun 2023

In this role I have the following responsibilities:• Input into BJSS Cloud Strategy and development of go to market Cloud propositions• Supporting development of relationships with Cloud Platform Providers• Ensuring our Platform Capability (200+ engineers) provide market leading delivery services• Alignment and development of the Platform Capability to the BJSS business plan• Learning & Development for engineers• Development of best practice and knowledge sharing• Talent acquisition• Supporting bid activityI also continue to work as a Cloud Consultant delivering projects:August 2020 - Working as an AWS Cloud Architect for a critical healthcare programme which is providing highly scalable, cost optimised and secure platform for workloads to be consolidated within. Show less

Manchester Platform Capability Lead & Cloud Consultant

• Mar 2017 - Sep 2020

July 2020Worked as a sole resource with a client to remediate high risk findings from an AWS Well-Architected Review. This was a 20 day engagement in which I worked with the client to design, document and implement improvements across their AWS implementation.December 2018 - June 2020Worked as a part of a small team of three cloud consultants for a major UK Retail & Investment Bank who defined, designed and delivered a complete cloud hosting platform based on AWS, allowing the client to rapidly prototype innovative solutions with internal users and third party companies using real customer and product data in a series of controlled, secure and scaleable sandbox environmentsFebruary 2019 - Manchester Platform Capability LeadIn this role I have the following responsibilities for Platform for BJSS in Manchester in addition to continuing to work as a Cloud Consultant:• Supporting bids• Recruitment• Knowledge sharing• Delivery quality• Engineer developmentMarch 2017 - September 2019Worked as a Cloud Consultant on Business Transformation programme for Government Agency. This project would go on to win a ScotlandIS Digital Technology Award for Innovation in the Public Sector. Show less

Solution Architect

• Oct 2004 - Dec 2016

Role experience in: - Working with clients to define requirements and vendors to define solutions - Providing Solution Assurance \ Design Governance \ Authority - Requirements analysis (including performance, scalability, availability, viability) leading to: • Evaluation and selection of hardware and software • Documentation of logical and physical technical design solution to both schedule and budget • Stakeholder management throughout process - Financial analysis and evaluating viability of solutions - Bespoke and COTS application implementation and migration - Green IT (reducing environmental footprint and operational costs through server consolidation / virtualisation and migration) - Account transformation and site closure / relocation - Creating proposals to secure funding for projects - Identification of technology to support client strategy - Input into client IT budget planning - Development of Managed Services - Domain Architect for Hosting • Development of hosting solution and service roadmaps • Understanding offerings and opportunities for account growth • Sign-off and approval responsibility of all hosting solutions Key Achievements: - Replatforming and migration of critical application to lower TCO and reduce obsolescence (hardware and software) - Cost savings of ~£400k per annum in server support costs through Solaris consolidation programme - Silver Presidents Award for Transformation work designing new backup and file services for £500m Account. - Deployment of large Private Cloud as part of Transformation Show less

Bid Management

• 2003 - 2004