I'm actively seeking new career opportunities in Cape Town. Please click here should you wish to get in touch with me to discuss.Hi. I'm David Clothier
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David James Clothier
19th August 1977
+27.763.477.185
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Cape Town, South Africa
www.davidclothier.com
Career Profile
"The general stuff about my career"Employment History
"Where I've done my stuff"Role titles that I am typically well suited towards (but not limited to) are:
Infrastructure Solution Manager
Infrastructure Solution Architect (Principal and/or Senior)
Infrastructure Solution Designer (Principal and/or Senior)
Infrastructure Lead (Principal and/or Senior)
Solution Lead (Principal and/or Senior)
Head of Infrastructure
Infrastructure Specialist (Principal and/or Senior)
Pre-Sales Technical Specialist (Principal and/or Senior)
Infrastructure Consultant (Principal and/or Senior)
I am a dedicated, confident and highly motivated team player. As a leader I lead from the front and present a clear and concise vision on delivering goals and objectives. In my experience good communication skills, coherent IT solutions and a sound understanding of how the vendor/customer relationship can collaborate together are key to successful IT business partnerships. I'm very passionate about technology and the way in which we can maximise productivity using it, and am able to discuss and design solutions for a wide range of technical ICT projects within the Small/Medium and Enterprise businesses.
Demonstrated performances in:
- Senior, Bid and Team Management
- Consulting Best Practices
- Risk management and mitigation
- Strategic Management
- ITIL awareness
- Strong analytical and trouble-shooting skills
- Project Delivery to BAU environments
- Business Drivers to Technology mapping
- Platform/Product Delivery Life Cycles
- Project Planning and Management
- Internet and Hosting Technologies
- Datacentre design, build and management
- Project Planning and Management
- Multinational experience
- Pre- and Post-Sales sales cycles
- Customer acquisition case studies contributions
- Product evangelism initiatives contributions
Key Technical skills:
- Consultancy Methodologies: Chestra, TOGAF
- ITO best practices
- Technical Bid and Team Management
- Business Analytics
- Hosting and Virtual Environments
- vBlock Architectures (VCE)
- Cisco Switching and Routing technologies
- Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall
- VMware Infrastructure 3.5i ESX and vSphere 4/4.1
- VMware View 4, ThinApp and vCentre technologies
- 24/7/365, high-transactional environments
- Windows 2000/3/8, Windows XP/Vista/7
- RHES Linux/Solaris (Basic)
- Exchange 5.5/2000/2003/2007, Active Directory
- ITIL (v3) and SOX compliance/frameworks
- Apache
- Microsoft Network Infrastructure Design
- Application / Load Balancing: F5 BigIP, Alteon, Cisco
- TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, DFS
- RRAS, HTTP/S, IPSec, L2TP
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005/7/8
- HP/EMC/Hitachi SAN Environments
- Clustered and Distributed environments
- VPN design and configuration technologies
- SQL and Oracle Reporting Services
- Call Centre Technologies
- Scotland Basic Disclosure Security Cleared
- IIS 7/6/5
Secondary skills which may be noteworthy:
- Web Design (HTML4/5 and CSS2/3)
- E-commerce websites
- Mac OS X
- MySQL5
- Coda v1 and v2
- Web Development (PHP, Wordpress, jQuery)
- Adobe Photoshop CSx and Lightroom 3
- Adobe Illustrator CSx
- Adobe Dreamweaver CSx
- Social Networking/Marketing and SEO
- Siemens Mgt. Foundation Platform
- ISEB Cert. in IS Consultancy Practice
- Outsourcing Framework Fundamentals
- ISEB Business Analysis Essentials
- Chestra Fundamentals
- Solution Design and Delivery
- Non-Conformant Cost Management
- VMware vSphere v4.1 Design
- Microsoft Windows 7 Deployment
- VMware Infrastructure 3.5i ESX
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
- Cisco Certified Network Associate: CCNA
- Citrix Certified Administrator: CCA
- Juniper Firewall Administration
- Microsoft TS/Citrix Metaframe Admin
Atos (formerly Siemens IT Solutions and Services)
Job title: Principal Solution Architect
With a presence in more than 42 countries and a workforce of 78,500 business technologists, Atos offers its clients in-depth market expertise, an extended global reach and an impressive services portfolio.
My role at Atos involves performing Solution Design, Solution Lead and Solution Architect/Manager roles, successfully delivering cost effective solutions into Bids (new business) and Projects/Programmes (current Accounts), from inception stages through to handing off to Business As Usual operational teams. I am required to provide technical and commercial leadership across all portfolio items (datacentre, server, desktop, storage, networking and security) utilising IT as an enabler to drive Business benefits to both internal and external clients; guide solutions at various levels, and interface with several internal/external peers and teams to ensure timely delivery of thorough Bid and pricing documentation.
As part of this overall requirement, I am also customer facing; placing significant importance on the engagement of that customer into solutions from an early stage (making them feel part of that Solution). Understanding Unique Selling Points and being able to draft Business Cases that show compelling solution elements, I am required to articulate this to both Technical and Board level decision makers.
I work in a highly collaborative environment, and understand fully the dynamics that exist between internal and external partners, as well as working in Virtual environments or teams. I have experience in managing vertical as well as horizontal teams, successfully contributing to the resourcing element of Bids and projects; including post activity review and feedback sessions. Often this leads to mentoring less experienced consultants; providing useful insights.
Full bid life-cycle involvement from interpreting customer business requirements, set technology direction models, technical storyboards, business and technical risk management, through to technology agnostic conceptual design into technology platform selection and functional specification through logical and physical design levels. This includes full documentation, with financial modelling to show both project (Transition, Transformation) and Operational (managed service) costs over contract periods. Bid activities include the documentation and effort estimation to a standard suitable for inclusion in bid responses.
TCV for the Bids/Projects I have worked on range from £10m - £850m. I was promoted from Architect Lead Consultant to Principal Solution Architect in January 2011. Siemens IT Solutions and Services became an Atos business on 1 July 2011.
Please download my CV (.pdf format) for further details of Bids and Projects worked on in this role.
CellectivityJan 2006 - Aug 2007
Job title: Technical Operations Manager (fixed term contract)
Since 2001, Cellectivity has been leading the way in mobile e-commerce development and distribution, thanks to a winning combination of unique and proprietary technology, product expertise and marketing networks.Responsibilities
- Implement a number of service level agreements to improve and stabilise the 24/7/365 production platform
- Project managed full re-design of web and back end architecture, using ITIL as a framework
- Managing a team of 17 (DBAs, Developers, Network engineers and Wintel/UNIX Admin)
- Assuming the role of Technical Lead on multiple projects
- Analysis of Business Model and steer the technology used towards Business Growth
Achievements
- Eradicated all single points of failure on productions systems
- Implemented ITIL focussed change and release teams to ensure timely and secure release process
- Implemented a reliable problem and incident management process.
- Designed and installed a reporting system (in-house) for problem and incident reporting as well as BI reporting
Espotting Media / MIVA UK LtdApr 2002 - Dec 2005
Job title: European Infrastructure Manager
MIVA is a leading online advertising network, processing approx. 2 billion transactions a month. The Company operates in North America and Europe. During my time with MIVA the company grew from a start up to a mature NASDAQ registered enterprise. I was promoted from the role of Infrastructure Architect to European Infrastructure Manager, taking the infrastructure from serving 500’000 transactions per month to 2 billion +.Responsibilities
- Managed and led a team of 10 (DBAs, System/network engineers and technical support)
- Hosted and supported Affiliates/Partners websites on systems, both .asp and .pup based websites
- Successfully project managed and delivered all changes to European infrastructure
- Attended biweekly CAB (change advisory board) meetings, in line with SOX compliance
- Played a key role in re-design and merging of global infrastructure architecture
- Budget control
- Recruitment, training, assessment and development of all team members
- SAN and Clustered environment installation and control
Achievements
- Successfully delivered production infrastructure into 10 new European locations
- Successfully delivered Architectural design, budgeting and vendor selection
- Successful implementation of a new global infrastructure
- Successful consolidation of global IT services
- Successful installation of a multi-country, multi-SAN infrastructure, with a clustered architecture
Cevas Data SystemsNov 2000 - Mar 2002
Job title: Network Manager
eBookers.comJan 2000 - Nov 2002
Job title: Desktop and Server Systems Engineer
Barclays Offshore ServicesApr 1999 - Jan 2000
Job title: Systems Engineer (contract role)
Professional references are available upon request, but here are some recommendations and testimonials I have been fortunate enough to receive over my career. More can be found on my LinkedIn profile.
Dave Holton, Head of Infrastructure Architects @ Atos
"David worked for me for close to 3 years. In that time he was always one of my high performers. Level headed, and with strong leadership qualities that I saw grow over the time I managed him.
His key role for me was leading on Bid work, translating client requirements into robust and deliverable solutions at a price that would win SIS/Atos the business. This is a real area of strength, and I always felt that once I had assigned David to an activity that he would get it done. I would have no hesitation in recommended David for whatever challenge he takes on in the future."
Stef Puc, Solutions Manager @ Atos
"I have worked with David on a number of high profile, large outsource deals over the past 3 years. David is very professional, diligent and has excellent customer facing skills up to 'C' level. David has a fantastic understanding of how to pitch a solution at differing levels within an organization and understands how to get the most from his peers in a bid situation.
I would recommend David without hesitation as he has always delivered what is asked as a minimum but more importantly is willing to do what is required both pro-actively and tactically to win the business."
Tamsyn West, Team Administrator @ Atos
"David was a very highly respected team player in his role at Atos. From his work on various high profile accounts, projects and bids over the four years I have known him I would say that David would be an asset to any company looking to recruit a Principal Solution Architect.
I know that the Management Team were very sad to hear that David was relocating back to South Africa as he was a very reliable and trustworthy member of the group.
I wish David all the best in his next role and hope our paths will cross again one day."
Sean McGough, Lead Service Architect @ Atos
"It was my pleasure to work with David on two high profile new business opportunities. David was full of energy and enthusiasm and was an integral part of the team. He was a great team player and delivered on time, to cost and quality without fail on his individual deliverables. He also had time to support and coach other team members who weren't as experienced as himself. He has a professional approach to everything he does and is a strategic planner ensuring that sufficient time is divided to achieve goals.
David has a strong focus on delivering an innovative solution that will meet all of the Customer's criteria. One of David's strengths is to continually challenge all parties to ensure that the best solution is delivered and He shows flexibility and commitment to make this happen.
David has great communication skills and has a very affable personality which pays dividends in workshops, presentations, internal negotiations and approval boards. I would recommend David strongly to anyone and sincerely hope that I have the opportunity to work with him again in the future"
Julian Ball, Technical Operations Director @ MIVA
"While working for me and managing a technically challenging operation and a number of disparately skilled engineering professionals David demonstrated a rare combination of technical perspicacity and an acute commercial awareness that together served as an enabler for controlled yet dynamic growth."
Jonathan Bunis, CEO @ Cellectivity
"David is a bright and capable technically oriented manager. He has a broad skill set and hands-on expertise in the technical domain, but also has strong people and communication skills he uses effectively in both group and individual interactions. He is a natural leader and knows how to build a team. He has a can-do attitude and delivers on promises, with a tendency to over-perform! He worked in teams I managed at Cellectivity and Espotting, as well as on entrepreneurial projects, and I would hire him again."
Jody Hunt, Director @ KRL
"David is a driven professional with a wealth of experience beyond his years. an exceptional "get the job done attitude" and a pleasure to work with."
Yuval Mekler, VP Product @ Cellectivity
"I found David to be an insightful individual to work with - always prepared to add worth to a project, and step in to get things done. His firm understanding, and ability, in a large range of technologies led me have confidence in the work he threw himself into."
Lynette Kerry, Strategic Account Manager @ Akamai Technologies
"I worked with David whilst he was at Miva. He was the ideal customer, professional, diplomatic and with a good breadth of technical knowledge. He is a forward thinker and took the time to really understand Akamai's technology."
Alain Sanjaume, Managing Director France @ Espotting (MIVA)
"David is an incredible guy with amazing skills and knowledge. He is very fast in short term problem solving. He knows how to build very robust and solid infrastructure, in very complex environment, to deliver what is required. All this at minimum cost. I recommend him greatly."