Will Long

Experience

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  Schlumberger geco-prakla

  Feb 1989 - Sept 1993

  System Administrator

  Geophysical Unix server and workstation support

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  The Chase Manhattan Bank

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2000

  Senior Unix Admin

  Trade Floor Unix server and workstation support

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  Fidelity Investments

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Unix SA

  Unix Server Support and Project delivery

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  Citi

  Feb 2001 - Mar 2009

  Team Leader FISA RATES

  Team Leader of the Fixed Income Rates and FX Unix SA team• Successfully project managed a 60% reduction in the hardware faults experienced on EMEA Fixed Income business RHEL/Solaris hardware.• Led a project to improve TCP/IP stacks for latency sensitive applications in all environments.• Standardized RHEL servers BIOS settings and network card firmware levels within the Linux production environment.• Analyzed network switch topology to ensure minimal RTT for e-Trading applications. • Instigated and managed the streamlining of ITIL change management approach.• Managed a team of HP Linux RHEL/ Sun Solaris Unix SA’s supporting a 500+ server infrastructure. • Owned the relationship management role between the FX and Fixed Income rates business streams and the technology infrastructure management structure.• Instigated the production MI reporting for the FI/FX environments – including capacity planning, ITIL incidents and problem management.• Ensured full participation in the monthly NFP proactive capacity monitoring of production environments.Prior to that senior Fixed Income SA for the rates/credit/fx trade floor and commodities business Show less

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  AWI Consultancy

  Apr 2009 - Jan 2010

  Director

  AWI Consultancy provides enterprise organisations with an integrated service, aimed at delivering a lower cost, more efficient and greener IT environment.Through a structured, five-part analysis of the client’s IT service, AWI aims to build a cost-effective, stable IT infrastructure from the bottom up. Our five product areas are inter-linked and ensure that all aspects of managing enterprise IT environments are considered.A new, integrated approach to the key areas of IT service management, working to provide cost savings through: * Effective support teams * Efficient processes * Appropriate controls * Right-sized infrastructure * Operational stability Show less

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  PwC

  Jan 2010 - Mar 2013

  Senior Consultant

  Global Bank (In administration)• Finalised the solution architecture design for migration of critical front office applications.• Successfully fulfilled role as both project manager and architect in the migration of 22 core infrastructure applications and services. • Managed a team of nine Windows and Unix SA’s• Implemented the support hand over of the team’s functions to a 3rd party supplier.Global Telecommunications Company• Performed as technical lead in the architecture good practice review. • Identified key areas of risk within the architecture design and implementation strategy.• Highlighted gaps in the management and coverage of design requirements.• Analyzed performance and capacity planning data to ensure new architecture was fit for purpose and future proofed.• Documented good practice guidance on current infrastructure design and strategy standards.Global Fashion Retailer• Completed a current state infrastructure strategy and risk review.• Highlighted critical gaps within the IT landscape and support organization.• Constructed solution architecture for clients ERP system including functional design, data flows, application landscape and infrastructure architectures.• Presented three initial solution architecture options to the client, cloud based SaaS, hosted and an in-house architecture. SME financial services company (In administration)• Implemented a cost and risk reduction project in the companies IT environment.• Achieved virtualization of business critical applications.• Designed a simplification of the network architecture and infrastructure.• Engineered and managed preservation of data integrity for an ongoing SFO investigation.• Supervised the management of the Windows SA and DBA’s teams. Show less

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  Lehman Brothers (in Administration)

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  PwC

  • Finalised the solution architecture design for migration of critical front office applications.• Successfully fulfilled role as both project manager and architect in the migration of 22 core infrastructure applications and services. • Managed a team of nine Windows and Unix SA’s• Implemented the support hand over of the team’s functions to a 3rd party supplier.

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  Cloud talent

  Feb 2013 - Jul 2013

  Contracting Cloud Talent

  Consultant at Cloud Talent within a tier 1 mobile telecoms company. Managed a global project to assess the impact of the federation of the standard IT infrastructure component catalog to sixteen local and partner markets.• Defined of the data discovery approach.• Led twelve data discovery meetings with global local and partner markets.• Formulated of gap analysis model database.• Owned follow-up communications to all local and partner markets.• Provided single point of contact and subject matter expert for all in-scope markets.• Base lined current global component catalog into analysis database.• Responsible for preparation of all project progress/issues/risk reports and daily dashboards.• Delivered project briefings and ongoing stakeholder management. Show less

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  Nov 2013 - Oct 2019

  Translating business requirements into logical and physical infrastructure components and ensuring that IT standards and principals were followed and all artefacts are fully documented in RSA/RTC enterprise architecture repository

  • Infrastructure Solution Architect

    Nov 2013 - Oct 2019

  • technial Architect / Infratsructure Engineer

    Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
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  Bank of America

  Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

  EMEA Lead Solution Engineer

  Provide end-to-end infrastructure engineering guidance and oversight of technology projects. Responsible for coordinating the requirements,design and build of hardware including servers, network and storage for Bank of America projects. Manages technical responsibilities of many projects or a few complex projects. Partners with Program and Project Managers and SMEs to create business requirements, high and low-level design blueprints based on existing footprint and capacity and estimates for technology solutions Show less