IT Architect — IT Solution Experts

Experience

Twenty-five years of it — where the work has been done, and what it achieved.

Clients are described by sector rather than name. Engagements have been under contract and confidentiality, and I would rather be trusted with yours than trade on theirs.

2024 – present

Permanent

Technical Integration Lead

Global IT services provider

Technical lead on enterprise integration and security projects across major client environments, applying AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.

  • File integrity monitoring deployed across client estates to strengthen compliance posture
  • Managed file transfer designed and implemented for secure, automated data movement
  • Windows and Linux infrastructure hardened with Ansible, Group Policy and vendor security baselines
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability remediation, with risk reduction reported to senior stakeholders
  • Escalation point for complex problems blocking project delivery

2023 – present

Own consultancy

Infrastructure Architect — AI & Automation SME

Independent practice

Infrastructure architecture, automation and applied AI delivered directly to clients through IT Solution Architecture Limited, backed by a private hybrid cloud lab.

  • Private hybrid cloud lab designed and operated for proof-of-concept work and continuous research
  • Production AI agent orchestration pipelines built on Claude, OpenAI and Grok APIs, with tool use, memory and structured output
  • LLM-assisted Terraform and Ansible generation, and AI triage of vulnerability scan output
  • Self-hosted LLM environments on private infrastructure with network segmentation and scripted policy
  • Reference implementations published publicly on GitHub

2021 – 2024

Contract

IT Infrastructure Security Architect

Security consultancy, delivering for a global airline group

Architected a zero-trust cloud access solution and led migration of an on-premises estate into AWS.

  • Zero-trust access implemented with Entra ID and AWS IAM, MFA enforced across all workloads
  • 50+ on-premises servers migrated to AWS
  • SIEM and vulnerability scanning deployed for real-time visibility of the cloud estate
  • Security configuration automated with Terraform and Ansible, cutting manual provisioning time by roughly 60%
  • AI-assisted infrastructure-as-code generation and review introduced into the delivery pipeline

2021 – 2022

Contract

IT Infrastructure Architect

UK life and pensions provider

Led the secure migration of on-premises managed file transfer into a multi-region cloud design.

  • 10TB of sensitive financial data migrated, encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Multi-region architecture with encrypted private networking
  • Endpoint protection and firewall policy rolled out across the migrated estate
  • Vulnerability remediation carried out throughout, completed with zero data loss

2020 – 2021

Contract

IT Infrastructure Security Architect

Global IT services provider, delivering for a global airline group

Delivered a global identity and access transformation for 65,000 users across a hybrid cloud estate.

  • 65,000-user privileged access and identity governance programme delivered
  • Thousands of servers hardened across multiple regions with policy, patching, firewalls and monitoring
  • Enterprise SIEM implemented for centralised logging and real-time threat detection
  • Security policy enforcement automated across the estate with Terraform and PowerShell

2015 – 2019

Contract

IT Infrastructure Architect

Global IT services provider, delivering for a global energy major

Designed and deployed secure hybrid cloud infrastructure globally, and ran the exit of four legacy data centres.

  • Four legacy data centres decommissioned with zero data loss
  • 2,000 servers migrated to hybrid cloud during a vSphere platform upgrade, under strict access controls
  • Vulnerability scanning, SIEM and endpoint protection deployed across 25 global gas facilities
  • Network segmentation and hardening implemented across the estate
  • Engineering teams mentored on secure migration practice

2001 – 2014

Contract

Infrastructure Architect & Build SME

Global consultancies, delivering for a multinational energy group

Thirteen years as a global infrastructure architect and build SME for an energy group operating in more than 50 countries — data centre build, platform design and large-scale migration.

  • Data centres built and commissioned for remote offices worldwide, plus new enterprise data centres in the UK
  • Thousands of virtual machines and business applications migrated, including energy trading systems
  • Core infrastructure services deployed end to end — Active Directory, Citrix XenApp, VMware vSphere, NetApp storage, NetBackup, endpoint protection, Linux and managed file transfer
  • Server, storage and virtualisation platforms designed for estates spanning 50+ countries
  • Mobile device management and vulnerability scanning rolled out across a global mobile and server estate

Full history

A complete employment history, endorsements and the full skills list are on LinkedIn.