With over 19 years technical consulting and software engineering experience, I specialise in automation as part of the continuous delivery life cycle. I have been implementing and talking about DevOps for the past 7 years.

I am an expert in automation, (including Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Chef, Ansible and Puppet), Middleware Technologies, software architecture, Java (plus many other languages), continuous integration, continuous deployment, continuous testing and many of the toolsets used to implement these practices.

DevOps   Chef   Ansible   Puppet   Docker   Vagrant   Packer   Terraform   Vault   Consul   AWS   Azure   Java   Ruby   Python   Bash   Powershell   Jenkins   Spring   REST   JPA   Technical Architecture   Enterprise Architecture  

Title	Start Date	End Date	Company	Role
Principle DevOps Consultant	2016	Ongoing	Contino (UK)	Contino help Enterprise Organisations transform their software delivery engines. I am an account principle who delivered on strategic technology initiatives within key accounts. Contino's key focus is with Cloud, Containers, Configuration Management, Automation and CI/CD.
Senior Solutions Architect	2014	2015	Chef (EMEA)	Chef is a popular configuration management tool in the DevOps space. I worked with customers across Europe and Africa to help customers become successful with Chef. I also talked at conferences, meet ups and seminars about Infrastructure as Code and DevOps.
VP Product Development	2014	2010	MidVision	I was one of the founder members of the MidVision team. As well as designing and developing the RapidDeploy application, I put into practice the build, development and testing process and tools that implement the continuous integration and delivery of the product. I recruited, managed and mentored the development and technical services teams.
Senior Management Consultant	2010	2004	IBM Global Business Services (UK)	I had many roles whilst working at IBM including; Enterprise Architect, Lead Solution Architect, Application Architect and Development Manager. I worked with a variety of customers in Banking, Insurance, Media and Telecommunications sectors.

Certification	Subject	Date Completed	University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)	Information Systema and Computer Science	1997	University of Leeds

I am currently a Principal DevOps Consultant for Contino. I work closely with customers to help define, scope and provide a technical authority throughout the life cycle of DevOps based projects. As part of my role, I collaborate closely with, and navigates, different teams of a project to ensure customers receive high levels of support to achieve success. Part of his role is to help customers be successful in selecting and implementing DevOps tooling. My customers have included, HSBC, Barclays, Tesco and Allianz. I also spend part of my time coaching the Contino team and also fielding events such as conferences and seminars.

Before Contino, I worker as a Senior Solutions Architect for Chef traversing between sales and product, supporting customers in the EMEA region. Part of my role was to help customers be successful in selecting Chef, whilst the other part of my time was to evangelise the benefits of configuration management and Chef at community events.

Previous to working at Chef, I was the VP of Product Development at MidVision and helped build the business to become one of UKs leading enterprise deployment automation specialists in the middleware and database software stack. I was instrumental in designing and building the RapidDeploy product as a plugin based architecture framework for deployment automation within continuous delivery.

Prior to MidVision, I was a senior consultant in IBM's Global Business Services financial services practice. I worked at customers such as Deutsche Bank and Lloyds Banking Group in roles such as Enterprise Architect, Application Architect and Security Architect roles. At IBM I gained in-depth business & systems integration knowledge in complex financial, telecommunications sectors particularly in enterprise wide programmes transforming legacy based systems in to service based architectures using SOA and EAI.

I have extensive experience in Architecture, IT Strategy and Project Management. I am an experienced architect with the expertise to work with clients to ensure that their enterprise systems best support their business requirements. Along with design and architecture, I have developed many systems for clients and also worked with operations to unsure the systems are released successfully.

I am a confident and sociable and I am comfortable leading and managing globally distributed teams. I am used to working in both technical and business facing roles and have experience with mentoring and training team members and customer. I have a sound educational background and a unique combination of strong technical, business and communication skills. I have presented at conferences in Europe and the US on the subject of how to implement continuous delivery in the enterprise.