Alex Picchianti on Clubhouse

Bio

Head of IT Infrastructure with an extensive in the field developed technology background as a Infrastructure Manager, Senior Transformation Consultant, Enterprise Architect and Service Delivery Manager.

Experienced working at large global companies within the telecom's industry, e-gaming leaders, public transport providers, major sports events organisers and for large multi-billion revenue organisations, holding a variety of contractor and permanent positions.
Authored and managed the design and delivery of core IT Infrastructure, Storage solutions, Software deployment and Backup solutions directly for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Managed entire life-cycle projects from conception and architecture through to implementation and defining the production usage scope.
Previously Infrastructure Manager at Transport For London, managing a team of senior Unix, SQL and Oracle resources supporting the TFL IT Core Systems, working in an Agile way and also Back Office Delivery Manager looking after the Back Office Operations of Rail, DLR, River and Overground London networks, managing main vendors contracts and operations related to the revenue collection systems (oyster & contactless networks).
Has strong proven capacity for building relationships and influencing senior stakeholders, able to pro-actively develop and implement new methodologies to promote and achieve high levels of automation along with best practice process standardisation while being a true believer in the DevOps way of working culture. Experienced with working within regulated environments environments and able to work efficiently under high pressure, build, coach and drive large teams in critical working environments.
Strong understanding of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS cloud-based architecture technology solutions.
Most importantly, widely recognised as great people manager and out of the box thinker.