I love coffee, I love technology, and I love coffee, but more than anything I love leaving things better than I found them. Simply put, I'm passionate about delivering great outcomes. Whether it is through helping a customer develop their IT strategy, building and developing teams of technical experts, delivering technical solutions or simply overcoming day to day challenges with some good old-fashioned legwork, making things 'better' is what gets me out of bed every morning. I enjoy sharing my lessons learned through thought leadership and participation in diverse technological and business minded online communities. By supporting and developing talent in these communities I believe that it pushes me to grow as well because the only way to truly exceed my goals is to be surrounded by great people who are continually exceeding theirs. I am always interested in engaging in a good conversation about coffee, technology or coffee, so if you too like to make things 'better', drop me a connection request and let's talk about how we can make that happen.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer III @ At Rackspace I am responsible for the development and ownership of the strategic technical relationship between Rackspace and their largest and most high-profile Enterprise clients. I also act as the final point of escalation for my clients solutions. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Head of Infrastructure @ Head of Infrastructure responsible for managing all areas of Information Technology and Information Security. Led a multidisciplinary team including Systems Administration, Systems Architecture, Release Engineering, Information Security and IT Support. From January 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 10 months) Director of IT @ IT Director responsible for all IT and Telecomms Infrastructure across 9 offices on 4 continents. Managing a multidisciplinary team of 21 staff with skills ranging from Windows Server/Client to Database Administration. Working extensively with Project Teams on new and existing projects to improve performance and provide first-class availability and scalability for everything from E-Commerce solutions through to Desktop and Mobile Anti-Virus software. Previously spent over 3 years at Third-Line/Architect level within the Infrastructure team providing technical expertise and leadership, improving our customer-facing service delivery platform and acting as an escalation point for any and all technical issues. From April 2012 to January 2013 (10 months) Bradford, United KingdomSenior Infrastructure Architect @ I was responsible for the design, build, maintenance and uptime of Comodo's global IT infrastructure including their CA and all it's related services. I worked closely with key stakeholders across the globe to ensure high-availability and high-performance of all Comodo products and services. From December 2008 to April 2012 (3 years 5 months) IT Consultant @ I worked with a number of SMEs across the UK as part of a team delivering high-quality outsourced IT solutions, with a focus on the Manufacturing and Finance sectors. I also worked on our product set in the Travel space, mainly improving our platform and performing database optimization to help with our continually-growing dataset. From June 2005 to September 2008 (3 years 4 months) Bradford, United KingdomSenior Computer Systems Administrator @ From September 2002 to June 2005 (2 years 10 months) Bradford, United KingdomLocalization QA Engineer (Internship) @ Responsible for manual and automated testing of several Sun products with a focus on the Solaris Operating System. Also responsible for managing and maintaining the lab hardware including servers and networking. From September 1998 to August 1999 (1 year) Ireland

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Upper Second Class with Honours @ Sheffield Hallam University From 1997 to 2002 Dave Barton is skilled in: Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, Information Security, IT Management, Mobile Devices, IT Infrastructure Management, Management, Security, Information Technology, Network Administration, Network Security, DNS, Firewalls, Technical Leadership, Amazon Web Services (AWS)