A highly experienced Solutions Consultant with a diverse background in Finance, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. They possess expertise in Pre/Post-sales Support, Product/Program Management, Project Management, Services Sales, Consultancy, and Training. They are proficient in working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and adept at resolving complex issues throughout the sales and delivery cycles. They are committed to remaining current with the latest technologies and are a dedicated and motivated team player.
Richard Worwood
Senior Infrastructure Architect
London, England
he/him
UK
Full, Clean
Profile
Experience
Endava UK
[Full-time]
August, 2022 - Present
Role: Senior Infrastructure Architect
Hybrid/London
Working initially on buy and sale side engagements as part of Endava’s internal and external investment management operations.
Assigned to a long term consultancy role where I am leading the vision and delivery of Kubernetes and Container platforms across all major Cloud Providers. Led development and execution of strategy for Kubernetes and Container platform teams, aligning with strategic business objectives, while improving productivity and developer experience both without and within. Led, mentored and grew a high-performing global team, ensuring they had the resources and support needed to excel.
Devoteam
[Full-time]
April 2021 - July 2022
Role: Principal Consultant
Hybrid/London
Working as an Architect for a Tier 1 Market Data Provider on a major initiative to transform their market data platform to hybrid Bare-metal and Cloud Kubernetes environments.
Valtech
[Full-time]
June 2008 - May 2010
Role: Senior DevOps Consultant
London, Manchester, Bristol, Brussels, Dusseldorf
- TECH & METHODS: Azure, GCP, AWS (EKS, RDS & EFS), Kong, TLS, Bamboo, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, VSTS, Artifactory, Istio, ELK, ECK, Prometheus/Grafana, WAFs, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Puppet, Powershell & Powershell DSC, IIS, Nginx, Apache, Windows Server, Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL, React, SpringBoot, .Net Web, .Net Core
Customer Projects
Project: Onboard Connected Services
Project to deliver services for delivery within the manufacturers vehicles to extend and enhance legacy solutions which have historically been inflexible. This gives the customers smart functionality in there vehicles but creates new revenue streams for the Manufacturer. Implemented a Kubernetes microservices architecture utilising React based front end and Springboot intergration services.
Project: Blue Badge system
Project to deliver a suite of Services to provide a system to manage the UK’s Blue Badge application, eligibility and issuance requirements.
Project: Consultancy Engagement to audit, rationalise and implement DevOps and Agile working into existing teams
Project: New Style Job Seekers Allowance
Project to replace an aged and outmoded system. Implemented a, microservices architecture based, claimant system, with the intent of both easing the process of initial claim submission and onboarding into the UK benefits system.
Project: Proof of Concept Secure Data Exchange
Project to implement a Proof of Concept secure data exchange to be used to ingest data into an organisational data hub.
Project: Delonghi Retail
Brown field project to update and extend functionality within brochureware, CMS and ecommerce sites hosted on Google Cloud. Developed an Azure migration strategy as part of a move to increase resilience and scalability of the hosting platforms in use as part of this global solution.
TDB Fusion
[Full-time]
August, 2002 - July 2015
Role: Principal Technical Consultant
Hybrid/London/Reading, International travel
Networking and Systems specialist with 24 years technical, financial and managerial experience in both Enterprise and Telecoms sectors. Broad experience from Pre/Post Sales Support, Product/Program Management, Project Management, Services Sales, Consultancy and Training
Skills: Self-healing · Technical Requirements · Cloud Strategy · Public Cloud · Emerging Technologies · Soft Skills · Business Requirements · Agile Methodologies · Problem Solving
Thrupoint
[Contract]
May 2002 - July 2002
Role: Technical Consultant
Warsaw & Poznan, Poland
Engaged as part of a trans-national team to construct a countrywide IP VPN backbone network, based on Cisco’s MPLS technology. The network was designed to enable Energis Poland to offer state-of-the art network services to enterprises, as well as wholesale IP transit for other service providers, such as ISPs and ASPs. The IP network, based on Cisco Multiprotocol Label Switching offers high-speed data transmission with Quality of Service (QoS). These services enabled the delivery of enhanced services for critical applications such as corporate management systems and made it possible to introduce new applications such as distance learning, IP telephony, video on demand into the Polish market.
Skills: Self-healing · Technical Requirements · Emerging Technologies · Soft Skills · Problem Solving
Orchestream
[Full-time]
August 2002 - July 2015
Role: Support Engineer
London, International travel
As a Support Engineer at Orchestream I was responsible for the Pre & Post Sales Support of the whole range of Orchestream functionality, working closely with the Technical Consultants to assist in the Design and Deployment of customer projects. The customer projects involved IP based MPLS VPN & QoS networks using a variety of vendor routers. I have worked with major tier one Service Providers
Skills: Self-healing · Technical Requirements · Emerging Technologies · Soft Skills · Problem Solving
Cap Gemini/ICL
[Full-time]
1998 - 2001
Role: Operational Technical Design Architect
London, UK travel
As a Support Engineer at Orchestream I was responsible for the Pre & Post Sales Support of the whole range of Orchestream functionality, working closely with the Technical Consultants to assist in the Design and Deployment of customer projects. The customer projects involved IP based MPLS VPN & QoS networks using a variety of vendor routers. I have worked with major tier one Service Providers
Skills: Self-healing · Technical Requirements · Emerging Technologies · Soft Skills · Problem Solving
Info'Products
[Full-time]
1995 - 1998
Role: Senior Architect
UK Wide
Support Engineer based on a variety of customer sites across the UK working in roles ranging from Hardware Engineer to Senior Architect by way of Team Leader.
Skills: Technical Requirements · Soft Skills · Problem Solving
Technical Skills
Cloud Native
Architecture
Kubernetes
GitOps/DevOps/DevSecOps
CNI's/Networking
IaC
AWS
EKS
ECS
Lambda
EC2
RDS
Azure
AKS
ACA
Azure SQL
Devops
Google
GKE
Anthos
Cloud Run
Cloud Composer
Organizations
Voluntary activities undertaken to support the community and charitable causes.
1st Baldwyns Scout Group
2024 - Present
Role: Group Lead Volunteer & Trustee
Acting as the Group Lead Volunteer and a Charity Trustee for the 1st Baldwyns Scouts.
1st Baldwyns Park Scout and Guides Group (Charity number: 303501)
2024 - Present
Role: Trustee
Acting as a Charity Trustee and board member for the 1st Baldwyns Park Scout and Guides Group, this is an external charity which owns and operates all of the facilities for the combined group along with supporting a range of community and educational endeavours to enable the community to use and enjoy the facilities.
References
References are available upon request.