Prior contract engagements
Senior Architect and Engineer
Experience spans the NHS during COVID-19, the Metropolitan Police, central and local government, as well as banking and financial services, pension funds, publishing, universities, airports, MSPs and commercial startups, across the UK and in senior engineering and architecture positions on programmes worth tens of millions of pounds.
- Redesigned a critical enterprise database architecture, saving a programme £4 million in licensing, identified and implemented independently without external direction
- Architected a data centre migration at one-third the cost of the proposed cloud alternative, delivering a £3 million saving that was funded after personally presenting the business case to executive leadership
- Scaled nationally critical infrastructure 13× during the COVID-19 pandemic response, operating without PM or project lead support, including the logistics of £5M of hardware across greenfield datacentres
- Upon conclusion of one engagement, the volume of work previously delivered by a single contractor required a 10-strong ATOS engineering team to maintain, a direct measure of the scope and depth of what was built
- Rapid licensing audit yielding a £50,000 immediate saving, with a platform virtualisation migration saving a further £100,000+ on licensing
- Provided architecture leadership across AWS, Oracle Cloud, IAM, disaster recovery and partner access for a central government cloud migration involving MOD, policing and government stakeholders
- Served as Infrastructure Technical Authority and team lead on nationally critical policing programmes, managing teams of up to 8 engineers and leading accreditation and security compliance
- Migrated live pandemic big data workloads to a Crown Hosting environment with zero PM support, and contributed to the Nightingale Hospital build alongside military personnel