Experience

ECS

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  ECS was founded in 2008 and is a fast-growing UK-based technology company, delivering high quality IT services to FTSE 100 clients. The company has grown consistently and profitably year-on-year with the recent accolade of a top twenty place in the Sunday Times Techtrack 100. This fantastic growth has been achieved through sustainable principles and is based on a solid balance sheet with no debt. Our vision is to create remarkable value and success for our customers and owners by harnessing the knowledge, ideas and innovation throughout our community of dedicated and highly skilled professionals. We will enhance our reputation for being the people that enterprises trust and turn to for help with their most pressing IT related issues, never compromising on our promise to always deliver outstanding customer service. Our people represent our most valued investment and strength. Every day this is evidenced by the significant steps we take to develop ourselves and collaborate in order to improve customer performance. ECS specializes in providing services in the following practices: Consultancy, Programme Delivery, End User Computing, Data Centre, Network, Security ECS is headquartered in Glasgow, with offices in Edinburgh, Leeds and London in the UK, Johannesburg in South Africa and Pune in India. The company has over 600 permanent staff and associates combined. People are key to our success and we have a growing workforce of highly experienced and professional employees, supporting our clients to ensure projects are delivered to the highest quality standards, on time and to budget. Our success and growth has enabled us to create many opportunities to develop our staff with a significant number of internal promotions. Our clients revel in the pride we take in our speed of response, breadth of technical expertise and depth of capability. What sets us apart is our unwavering dedication to be highly flexible with an over-riding ‘can do’ attitude. www.ecs.co.uk Show less



Gibbs Hybrid

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Splunk Certified Consultant

  • Apr 2017 - May 2018

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HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solutions Architect - Big Data

  • Oct 2013 - Mar 2017

  I was recently employed as an Infrastructure/Solutions Architect in HSBC at Canary Wharf. From July 2015 my primary focus has been designing the Big Data cluster for the Retail division with Hadoop, SAS, Platfora and Pentaho. From June 2016 I have been working on Microservice architectures using container based technology connected by API's. I was recently employed as an Infrastructure/Solutions Architect in HSBC at Canary Wharf. From July 2015 my primary focus has been designing the Big Data cluster for the Retail division with Hadoop, SAS, Platfora and Pentaho. From June 2016 I have been working on Microservice architectures using container based technology connected by API's.



Citi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Architect

  • 2011 - Sep 2013

  I have several years' experience producing cost effective infrastructure solutions for a demanding business function in Citi. This role requires me to gather a products non-functional requirements and using architectural models contained within the architecture framework create infrastructure designs based on either analysis of the current infrastructure or by consultation with external vendors. My designs have incorporated ORACLE databases, WebSphere, WebLogic, MQ and Connect Direct, they are mostly SAN (EMC and HDS both with SRDF) connected. I have designed for AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows on either dedicated or shared (Virtualised) hardware as well as VMware. Asset optimisation is a key driver for all designs and once completed and agreed with the business requestor they are approved by a Global Design Authority to meet both the technical and functional standards, high availability (if required) and Disaster Recovery, before being implemented. As the infrastructure design architect I attend the project managers' meetings at both the pre-design and build phase. Depending on the nature of the project at pre-design I might liaise with different technical and solution SMEs ( Subject Matter Experts) to determine the best solution utilising certified catalogued versions of their technologies. At the build stage I co-ordinate with various technology and OS administrators, many based in off-shore locations, to ensure the design is understood and advise on any questions that may arise.I have produced solutions for our products in North America following the processes above and worked with parties in this location to produce designs using their architectural frameworks.As part of my current role I have regular meetings with my business partners to ensure implemented designs are performing and I am made aware of any forthcoming requirements. Show less

• UNIX Team Manager

  • 2006 - 2011

  I managed the EMEA CTS UNIX project team, here I was responsible for 7 team members, 4 in Poland and 3 in India. The role was to ensure all business projects were properly scoped, resourced by a SA and followed Citigroup guidelines and procedures. Working with our business application teams and Project Management I agreed timelines and delivery of the infrastructure hardware. All projects follow the Prince 2 methodology (initiate and define, design, implementation and transition) with stakeholder management and benefits realisation underpinning the project lifecycle. Show less

• Senior UNIX SA

  • 2004 - 2006

  I started work in Citi as a project SA and was brought in as a subject matter expert to commission the new Solaris f15k frames. I then worked on projects for FI, FX, and GDOS and latterly became a member of the GTS aligned project team. During this time I was responsible for installing and configuring their first IBM AIX hardware and frame technology.