Solution/Security/Infrastructure Architect looking for a new position

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Marital Status: - Married
Nationality: - English
Mobile: 07771 673889
Email Address: cummings_steve@hotmail.com
Security Cleared to BPSS & SC
PROFILE
A highly experienced, commercially orientated Infrastructure Architect / Solution Architect / Technical Project Manager with
wide ranging Solution expertise and extensive operational line management skills.
Prince 2 and ITIL aware, CVPandAgile aware, with anextensive track recordofdelivering diverse andconcurrent projects within
challenging investment banking and trading environments, multimedia and e -commerce.
Personablebut goal focussedandpragmatic, an excellent communicator well used to liaising betweenSolution andnon-Solution
staff. Experienced inmanaging on-shore andoff shore teams, 3rd Partyvendors and suppliers inbothoutsourced andinhouse
environments.
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE.
● Systems IntegrationandServer Infrastructure.
● Design ofenterprise Azure cloudofferings including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
● GlobalBAU andOperational Support experience inRetail and Investment Banking, Trading, Oil andGas andMedia
Industries.
● Enterprise Architecture Framework experience withinTOGAF, CVP, IAF, ZACHMAN.
● Global/ Multi Centre and DR Data Centre experience, including green and brownfielddeployments and relocations and
virtualisationprogrammes, 1000+ servers, Webdeployments andinfrastructure.
● Dealing withEngineers, Sys Admins, Developers, internal and external customers, vendors andall levelsof the business.
Excellent Stakeholder Management Skills.
● Deployment anddeliveryfocused Solution Prince 2 Project Management
● Full lifecycle applicationandinfrastructure projects, all stagesfrom initiationandbusiness case creationto close out and
delivery.
● Programme Management, Strategic and TacticalPlanning, Resource Forecasting andManagement, Process Creationand
Project Rescue.
● Budgetarycontrol upto £12.4M, Service Delivery, Global Operational Support and Management, line management of
teams upto 40 people, ITIL Methodology, International Vendor Management, Outsourcingexperience.
● Experience ofRapid Application Deployments andhowto integrate these within formal change controlled environments.
● Formal Design / ImplementationExperience inthe followingTechnologyareas including but not limited to Solaris, Redhat,
Suse, Windows, Apache, IIS, IHS, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Oracle, MSSql, Sybase, Checkpoint, ISS, EMC, F5, Cyber
Ark, Cisco, CloudComputing, GridComputing, VMware. (all withinminor to major projects for multiple clients)
● Delivered global IDS/IPS Solutions for multiple major corporations on a wide range of products including ISSSite
protector/Source fire/Imperva/SmartDefense.
● DesigningWindows/Unix/Linux HA Business critical systems highthroughput computing systems for 12 Years.
● Implementation ofLarge Scale Linux based gridcomputingsolutions for Large Banking CPU intensive applications.
● Designinglarge scalereverse proxysolutionusingf5 products
● Applicationmigrationexpertise for large scale applications such as remedyand Cyber Ark
● Cyber Ark Designandimplementationandmigrationexpertise.

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MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
● Design andImplementationof Greenfieldnetwork infrastructure to allow the transition ofBarcap's DMZ to a best
practisesdesign.
● Lead engineer onmultiple cloudprojects to Azure andAWS including designing a highavailability Azure IaaS/PaaS and
SaaS environment.
● Designingand implementinga geo-redundant Azure environment utilising Azure LoadBalancing, and ExpressRoute.
● Design andimplementationof Private Cloud and Public Cloud solutions to meet customer requirements
● RefactoringAzure Environment to ensure adequate storage for AzureSQL
● Productionof Governance Standards and Roadmaps for a Number of Tier1 Investment banks.
● Design/Implementationof application layer firewallsto allowfor Sox/PCI DSScompliance at a number of Tier 1
Investment Banks
● Infrastructure stabilisation to allowunstable infrastructure to be identifiedanda remediationplanto be put together at
Barcap
● Lead Architect for a re-hosting/datacentre migration programme at Deutsche bankandBNPParibas and Barcap
● Implementation ofSIEM(intellitactics) to allowreal time auditingand threat analysisat Barcap/BNPParibas/Deutsche
● Lead SecurityArchitect/Implementationengineer at Barcap/BNPParibas/JPMorgan/Deutsche
● Lead Architect on Self-healinginfrastructure, utilisingtools suchas CA/WilyIntrascope/ Sitescope andKeynote systems
● RemedyMigration from physical to virtual for 70000 employees world-wide
CAREER SUMMARY. LAST 15 YEARS
Jan19 – Apr 19 CGI @ Northumbria Water & Taylor Wimpey Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Oct17 – Dec18 DXC @ Rolls Royce Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Mar17 – July17 TNT Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Feb12 – Mar 17 HPE (Hewlett PackardEnterprise) BP Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Oct 11 – Feb12 IBMUK Solution/Infrastructure Architect
May11 – Aug 11 CFS – Co-operative Financial Services Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Jan 11 – May11 Barclays Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Aug 10 –Dec 10 Lloyds TSB Solution/Infrastructure Architect
SouthwarkLondon
Nov09 –Jun 10 BPOil International Solution/Infrastructure Architect
CanaryWharf London
Sept 09 – Nov09 Jaguar Land Rover Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Gaydon, Warwickshire
Jan 09 – Aug 09 Deutsche Bank Solution/Infrastructure Architect
SouthwarkLondon
Apr 08 – Dec 08 BNPParibas Solution/Infrastructure Architect
CityOf London
Jan 08 – Apr 08 JP Morgan Chase Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Euston London
Oct 06 – Dec 07 BNPParibas Solution/Infrastructure Architect
Marylebone London

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March 04 – Sept 06 Barclays Capital Security/Infrastructure Architect /
Lead Deployment Engineer
CanaryWharf
June 03 – March 04 Deutsche Bank SolutionArchitect/Senior Support Engineer
Cityof London
Aug 02 – Apr 03 Credit Suisse First Boston GlobalWebServicesAssistant Manager for EMEA
Zurich Switzerland
Jan 01 - Aug 02 UBS Warburg Ecommerce Consultant
City of London
EMPLOYMENT
Jan19 – Present CGI @ Northumbria Water / Taylor Wimpey
Solution/Infrastructure Architect
● Requirements gathering, creatingandunderstanding both Functional and Non – Functionalrequirements.
● Design andimplementationof Private CCCand Azure cloudsolutions to meet customer requirements.
● RefactoringAzure Environment to ensure adequate storage for AzureSQL
● Creation ofMultiple documents ranging fromHLD to LLD, includingDiagrams andSOW’s andResponses to RFQ.
● Proof of concept on EMM/ MDMproducts to manage Mobile devicesat Taylor Wimpey, MS Intune, Samsung Knox final
selected products
● Architected and analysedEMM/MDMdesigns for implementationto implement MS Intune and Samsung Knox products to
enable management ofMobile devicessecurity
● Design andimplementationof multiple internal/externalecommerce environments to allow over £100k savings to be
realisedon hardware and software.
● Designedandimplementeda companymigrationfrom VMWare 5.0 to Hyper V
● Designedandimplementeda VMWare Metro Cluster to provide highlyavailable and resilient file shares for an internal
batch processingsystem, before implementation the batch processingsystem wassufferingmultiple outages causing
significant financial losses.
● Absolute Software MDMProof of concept, creation andanalysis oftesting criteria andresults to define the implementation
of Absolute MDM.
● Analysisof requirements to generate inadvance firewall rule requirements andsecurityrequirements allowing advanced
firewallrules to be implementedandappropriate groups to be engaged inadvance.
Oct17 – Dec18 DXC@ Rolls Royce
Solution/Infrastructure Architect
● Lead Azure/AWS proofof concept for none sensitive applications.
● VDI investigation / analysis – analysisand recommendations for stabilisationof a 150 VDI’s used byOffshore resources. The
problemwas a 3d rendering issue causing £200,000 a dayloss inproductivity
● FileCatalyst upgrade andimplementationfrom 3.5 to 3.72
● Design anddeployment ofFilecatalyst ontoLinux Suse and Redhat Distros
● Analysisof requirements to generate inadvance firewall rule requirements andsecurityrequirements allowing advanced
firewallrules to be implementedandappropriate groups to be engaged inadvance
● Creation ofMultiple documents ranging fromHLD to LLD, includingDiagrams andSOW’s andResponses to RFQ.
● Design andimplementationof a highlyredundant SFTPimplementationto allowextranet clients to transfer files.
● Implementation Engineer on HPC40k project allowing the project to implement a 40k cores HPCproject. Working to assist
with Software andnetwork related issues including but not limitedto Appsense onVDI. Load Balancingissues andconfigs on
F5. Firewall issueson Checkpoint and Cisco. Nice DCV Testing andrendering issues.

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Mar17 – Jul17 Prosource @ TNT
Solution Architect
● Lead Azure/AWS proofof concept for IaaS approach.
● VDI Stabilisation – analysisandrecommendations for stabilisation ofa 750 VDI existing solution.
● Future RoadMapCreationfor VDI / Development Environments
● Tactical Analysis of Existing VDI Estate to creatingcost savings inexcess of £49 million, around licensing and storage.
● Design ofcloudbased Future Development Environments
● Creation ofForwarddemandplan for use of the Development Environments, to allowrapidincrease andcrash and burnof
existingandexcess environments.
Feb12 – Mar17 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, @BP
Solution Architect
● Lead engineer onmultiple cloudprojects to Azure andAWS including designing a highavailability Azure IaaS/PaaS and SaaS
environment
● Designingand implementinga geo-redundant Azure environment utilising Azure LoadBalancing, and ExpressRoute.
● Responsible for Solution DesignStandards around Infrastructure andApplicationIntegrationonto the Infrastructure
● ApplicationAnalysisto ensure suitable infrastructure designis completed
● Infrastructure Analysis to ensure ondemandimplementations canbe completedto enable HPto offer BPInfrastructure as a
service. Equivalent too HPat a cloud computing provider.
● Roadmap Analysis / Creationto enable BPto have a 3-year future view of the estate.
● Infrastructure / Securityarchitect for the migrationof BP’s remedysystem to complete newarchitecture, including
virtualisation/f5 apm, asm, gtm, ltm/ SQL 2012
● Implementation and Tutoring aroundCustom Frameworks BPuse to the broader HPStaff
● Senior SecurityArchitect working onFireye netwitness anddambala deployments
● Senior SecurityArchitect working onArcsight expansion, including EOSL andcustom requirements for the BPestate.
● Senior SecurityArchitect working onNFR/HLD/LLD of Cyber Ark for BP, build anddeployment andmigrationto Cyber Ark
were all covered inthe project
● Senior Architect on the BSMEnd to Endsolutionmonitoringsolution
● Security/Infrastructure Architect / Engineer for F5 implementationandmigrations, Migrations cover both internet and
intranet using APM/ASM/LTM/GTM. This includes log analysis of APM/ASMto determine applicationuse case suitability,
LTM Profile designto include customIRULES.
● Perform regular infrastructure assessments covering both Vulnerabilities and Network Impact assessments.
● Member of the SolutionGovernance Board that review andapprove designs to make sure all standards are adheredtoo.
EDUCATION
1990 – 1993, Solihull College of Technology
● BTECNational Diploma inComputer Studies
● 1985- 1990 Arden SecondarySchool, Knowle
● 7 GCSE’s

5. CURRICULUM VITAE
Professional Qualifications
● ISS EthicalHacking
● ISS Intrusion DetectionandResponse
● MCSE + I
● CISSP – Awaiting Results
● CCNA & CCSE – TrainingUndertaken
● Azure TrainingUnder taken, awaiting new exam structure from Microsoft.