Exam 533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Certificate in Commercial Awareness

Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture

Archimate 2 Certified

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TOGAF 9 Certified

Cloud Digital Leader

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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I lead the Presales/Sales Engineering team in EMEA & APAC for Skytap, a cloud service for IBM Power and legacy x86 on Azure and IBM Cloud

Technical Director, EMEA & APAC

Led the Solutions Architecture engagement at the Department for Work and Pensions

Qualified as AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional & AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional. Also hold AWS Certified Security - Speciality; AWS Certified Networking - Speciality; AWS Certified Big Data - Speciality.

Solutions Architect (Public Sector)

◆	Met and exceeded revenue targets, secured the largest government deal in Dropbox history.
◆	Demonstrated ability in delivering domain expertise and complex deal leadership, streamline sales strategy to build lead generation engine; services & solutions propositions; SI/OS channel engagement; and framework adoption.
◆	Built a proposal centre of excellence in EMEA, enhanced quality and reception of bids to offer real customer delight, which has had a material impact on EMEA revenue attainment.
◆	Led the development of solutions either as part of a larger Digital Transformation or to create value on their own, established overall vision that underlies the projected solution, coordinated professional services to ensure proper implementation, and created detailed technical design specifications.

Solutions Architect

◆	Managed opportunities with a TCV of up to £14M with team leadership of up to 10 as well as enthused architects and consultants to deliver highly regarded, high quality, and well-received bids with clearly defined Value Propositions.
◆	Administered the profitability and cash flow of bids and a wide array of niche capabilities, from Electronic Warfare to Digital Transformation.
◆	Professionally translated requirements created by functional analysts into the architecture for a particular solution, converted requirements into the architecture, and guided the entire development team during the systems development life cycle.

Principal Solutions Architect

As a Solution Architect for SunGard aligned to complex deals I am responsible for providing architectural guidance to large customers in Government and the Private Sector primarily on Managed Services.  Architecting solutions based on SunGard's portfolio and also best of class technology.

I work with large global System Integrators and End Customers to define service, scope, requirements and act as trusted advisor to a number of customers.  My work to date has mainly focused on the technical leadership of large complex deals with revenues in excess of £40M.

Cloud Solutions Architect

European presales role with technical ownership for engagements up to £24M TCV ranging from E-Commerce platforms to global SAP migrations.  Requiring a consultative selling approach, gathering desired business capabilities and translating those into technical requirements.  This is achieved through an in depth understanding of customers’ businesses, their commercial realities and mapping these to opportunities for Savvis and where necessary qualifying out.

Responsible for creating compelling business cases as part of the RFP/ITT process, involving liaising with commercial offer development teams, pricing analysts, technical management, service management and sales management to build successful bids.

Management of internal delivery v-teams to support successful transition from pre-sales opportunities into live customer solutions.  These cross functional teams include service management, service delivery, post sales engineering and operations.

Product mix includes colocation, MPLS/WA

Solutions Design Engineer

Responsible for the delivery of £45M of business as presales technologist in the Public Sector for Central Government, Police, Fire and Public Administration.  Working with partners, VARs/SIs, to develop propositions both commercial and technical across the Microsoft technology stack.

Accountable for security products and core infrastructure technologies as the subject matter expert within the division, supporting and developing technical and sales team members to better deliver key product messages.

Held the scorecard for System Center 2012 within the BU, driving customer and partner uptake through workshops, call-out days and field selling. 

Provided forecasting support, and validation, for leadership team; enabling sellers to identify opportunities that had gone unnoticed.

Technical Sales Specialist (Intl Vendor)

Technical architect responsible for Virtualisation layer in a large migration programme (circa £150M)

Responsible for security applications audit at a large multinational investment bank

Managing a team of 5 during a strategic TTO, responsible for both client and international supplier management

Developed testing and TTO processes taking a system from design through FAT, SAT and into operational acceptance

System Architect

Building the global cloud capability, cloud teams (product, engineering, customer success and architecture), and cloud operations for WPP and our Operating Companies.

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