Pete Bowen

Experience

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  Amalgamated Plastics Ltd

  Apr 1991 - May 1994

  IT Manager

  Full design and operational control of the company's internal and external data networks and services.

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  European Marine Contractors

  May 1994 - May 1995

  Snr Network Engineering Team Leader

  Network design engineer for international company – deployed and maintained numerous global project office networks and communications around the globe.

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  IMA UK Ltd

  May 1995 - Nov 1995

  Network Consultant Engineer / Tech. Project Manager

  TDA and Tech proj mgr for a company wide NT4 deployment.

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  Hertz uk

  Jan 1996 - Jun 1996

  Technical Project Manager / TDA

  TDA and Tech proj mgr for a company wide NT4 deployment.

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  Andata

  Jun 1996 - Dec 1996

  Technical project Manager / Systems TDA

  TDA and Tech proj mgr for a company wide Microsoft NT4 backend and desktop deployment. Msoffice and Exchange. Multi-site

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  Network Design and Management ltd

  Jan 1997 - Mar 1999

  Technical Director

  Providing design and deployment of small to medium size networks inc Microsoft infrastructures, Novell Netware and various flavours of Unix.

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  Kazoo 3D

  Mar 1999 - Jan 2001

  Network Consultant Project Engineer

  Designed and deployed a multi site network, UK and US. Microsoft infrastructure inc server, Exchange, MS Office etc for several hundred users multi site.

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  Nortel Networks

  Jan 2001 - May 2002

  Snr NMS Admin and Chief DCN Engineer Nortel GPS EMEA

  DWDM network deployments, NOC development and control network designer. Design , build and operation of 293 Node DWDM network.

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  Turner & Townsend

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Snr Cost Manager

  As a senior member of the ICT cost management team within the group I worked on various technology infrastructure projects in a ‘best practice’ advisory role to public and commercial sector clients in relation to ICT Technology, data centres, facility data cabling infrastructures undertaking design evaluation, cost option appraisals, gap analysis and risk assessmentsMember of the ICT internal management team for ICT strategies and business development for the Turner and Townsend group practice. Show less

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  Synergy Works S.L.

  Mar 2002 - Jun 2003

  Technical Director

  OSS and BSS systems consultant for Telco’s in Spain, RET and Ericsson

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  BT Exact

  Feb 2005 - Feb 2009

  Data Centre Environment Architect

  Lead data centre environment designer for ‘BT Retail Service Design’ I undertook the design of numerous key data centre facilities that housed mission critical service platforms.

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  Cordless Consultants Ltd

  May 2009 - May 2010

  Technical Director

  My role within the company was to bring technical knowledge and experience re data centres and infrastructures into the company portfolio. Acting as TDA for various client facing projects.

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  IBM

  Aug 2010 - Feb 2011

  Infrastructure Architect - Data Centres

  Engaged as a senior architect for IBM on client accounts. Responsible for design of infrastructure architecture across many and varied elements of client infrastructure, including server estates, storage architecture, backup, DR, network switching and routing infrastructure, high level conceptual thinking, technology transition and migration.

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  Arcitex Group

  Nov 2010 - Jun 2020

  Data Centre Migration Specialist / TDA
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  Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water

  Jul 2014 - Dec 2016

  Programme Architect
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  Teamhost UK Ltd

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2022

  Consultant - available on contract terms
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  Independent Consultant

  Jul 2022 - now

  Independent Consultant
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  Carbon-Z

  Aug 2023 - now

  Chief Technology Officer