An innovative, strategically oriented hands-on leader with broad knowledge, experience and perspective. Credited with multi-million dollar savings and value creation through timely and effective utilization of technology, strategic research and development, industry partnerships and vendor management.
A delivery focused executive recognized for building high performance teams and rapidly developing solutions that deliver real business value and differentiation. Able to guide domestic and international technology consuming organizations by formulating requirements, building consensus and executing strategic initiatives. Possesses a record of service and product delivery that met or exceeded business objectives.
Core Experience: Public and Private Cloud (SaaS, IaaS, & PaaS), large scale global infrastructure, storage including object and block, network, data center, disaster recovery, outsourcing and application strategy.
Senior Director, Delivery Networks CTO Office @ Working with our service provider and Telco customers to identify new monetization opportunities and deliver new revenue streams for our customers using NetScaler and other Citrix technologies.
Driving service enablement and automation through the use of a Citrix stack and Citrix enablement for cloud and service solutions. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Orlando, Florida AreaSenior Director, Cloud Platforms Group @ Creating leading cloud products and capabilities to help customers cut through the hype and solve real world problems faster and more efficiently.
Delivering an adoption services function that helps our customers harness cloud technologies to grow their businesses faster.
Interim XenServer Product Manager - Global responsibility for restructuring the XenServer PM team and roadmap.
Board member of the Cloud Ethernet Forum. (2013-2014) http://www.cloudethernet.org/
Driving strategic development of the business through customer engagement, product development, partnerships and acquisition. From June 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 8 months) Orlando, Florida AreaDirector & Distinguished Engineer - Cloud Engineering Center of Excellence @ Responsible for driving and developing the Dell Fast PaaS solution
Driving and developing hybrid cloud enablement technologies
Responsible for the cloud Engineering Center of Excellence within Dell services.
Responsible for defining and driving the end-to-end architecture and engineering of Dell public cloud platforms and services. Core focus is to develop and deliver global cloud platforms and cloud based solutions with key responsibilities around the platform architecture, software architecture, OSS and BSS components.
Through the Center of Excellence I was also responsible for providing engagement support for strategic customers to help them define and deploy cloud solutions leveraging SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Private and Public CaaS offerings to solve real-world customer problems.
Developed a complete end to end CloudStack environment including multiple availability zones, load balancing as a service and firewall as a service.
Developed hybrid application prototypes and automated Hadoop cluster and workload deployment for Dell World 2012. From December 2010 to June 2013 (2 years 7 months) Director - Product Development, Cloud and Managed Hosting @ Responsible for development of the Tata Communications public cloud. Key focus was on the core service delivery fabric, billing interfaces and service development. Initiated the TCL/Dell relationship in the cloud space. From April 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 9 months) Sr Manager @ Responsible for the Strategy, Architecture and Implementation groups within global IT. Responsibilities included the definition of strategy, architecture, engineering and implementation functions for network, messaging, telephony, client and server platforms on a global basis. From September 2001 to March 2009 (7 years 7 months) Project/Development Manager (Contract) @ Development Manager for Global Desktop project. Coordinating development and release of a corporate desktop to 107,000 machines globally.
Latterly working in the CRM group within global IT to vet and review new projects. From June 2000 to August 2001 (1 year 3 months) Senior Security consultant (Contract) @ Contract to deliver three security projects. From January 2000 to June 2000 (6 months) Senior Consultant (Contract) @ Contract to deliver a Remote Access strategy. From June 1999 to November 1999 (6 months) Manager (Contract) @ Contract to provide interim management of the Server team. From March 1999 to May 1999 (3 months) Manager, PSO and NT Global Infrastructure (Contract) @ Establish the Windows NT Infrastructure upgrade project to replace an aging Netware environment with a new Global multidomain Windows NT environment for the branch and network.
In addition, establish a Project Support Office to coordinate the efforts of the Desktop and Notes teams.
Contract Position From January 1998 to January 1999 (1 year 1 month) Program Manager @ Branch infrastructure replacement project. Merged into Strategy-Phase 1. Assumed role of Execution Architect for a new Siebel implementation.
Contract Position From August 1996 to January 1998 (1 year 6 months)
BSc, Computing and Micro-electronics @ Oxford Brookes University From 1990 to 1992 Her Majesty's Armed Forces Tom Davies is skilled in: Cloud Computing, SaaS, Data Center, IT Strategy, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Product Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Virtualization, Managed Services, Vendor Management, Professional Services, Pre-sales