Daniele Barilla
IT Infrastructure Architect at Wood Mackenzie
AWS Cer
ed Solu on Architect
Specialised in design and delivery of cost-e ec ve and innova ve cloud infrastructure and data centre solu ons with over 15
years of experience and track record of bringing vision, strategy, processes and innova on on high impact projects producing
outstanding business results.
Experience
IT Infrastructure Architect at Wood Mackenzie
AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT
I design innova ve, highly available, resilient cloud and on-prem solu ons to support the business
vision by shaping the direc on and capabili es provided by our core IT Infrastructure.
I support the business to de ne Wood Mackenzie cloud migra on strategy for mul ple data
centres and applica ons.
I review and iden fy innova ve cloud solu ons to meet business requirements and prepare cost
models to present to the business.
I support the business by enabling and facilita ng our cloud journey and implementa on across
teams.
Specialised in:
- On-prem to AWS applica on migra ons including Rehos ng, Repla orming, and Refactoring
- AWS cost budge ng, analysis, and op misa on
- On-prem infrastructure (servers, storage, network, virtualisa on) design, implementa on and
opera on
Head Of IT Service Opera ons at Wood Mackenzie
JANUARY 2019 – JULY
2020
Head of Infrastructure, Network and End User Compu ng opera ons
Bringing processes, structure and vision within the IT Service Opera ons while delivering great IT
service to the business.
I support the business by improving our infrastructure services, consolida ng and reducing costs,
providing the right tools for collabora on and the future of communica on.
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
tf
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ff
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ti
ti
I sponsor new and innova ve ini a ves that will transform the way we work and enable the
business to achieve more with less.
APRIL 2017 - DECEMBER
2018
IT Infrastructure Opera ons
Data Centre Opera ons
Key Achievements:
• Migrated legacy, complex and expensive servers infrastructure to simpli ed and highperforming solu ons
• Delivered new simpli ed and op mised backup and disaster recovery infrastructure. Backup
me reduced up to 70%
• Migrated low-performing storage to new genera on SAN solu on while reducing opera onal
costs. Storage performance increased up to 300%, applica on performance increased up to
150%
• Standardised infrastructure delivery processes and procedures
• Delivered reduced me-to-deploy thanks to improved processes and technology
Senior Technology Specialist - Project Delivery at
Wood Mackenzie
•
•
•
•
•
SEPTEMBER 2015 MARCH 2017 (1 YEAR 7
MONTHS)
Delivered in me and on budget solu ons by transla ng business requirements into t for
purpose infrastructure.
Improved system performance while using an holis c approach and considered technical and
business requirement to deliver op mal solu on.
Delivered high-performance and cost-e ec ve VMWare, network, storage and Citrix solu ons.
Introduced standard processes to produce fast and reliable technical designs
Analysed new market o erings and ensured our solu ons were build for the new IT
genera on while maintaining high IT standards
Senior Technology Specialist at Wood Mackenzie
FEBRUARY 2013 SEPTEMBER 2015 (2 YEARS
8 MONTHS)
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
fi
ti
ti
fi
ti
fi
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ff
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ti
ti
ti
ff
tti
fi
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ft
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ti
fi
Virtualisa on
VMware Design and se ng up end-to-end VMware 5.x infrastructures including network design
and con gura on, Dell VM Hosts setup, Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN setup, vSphere and vCenter
con gura on, Veeam Replica on.
Virtualisa on - CITRIX
Citrix 6.5 infrastructure design and maintenance, including new members, deploy by VM
templates, new VM template member setup, applica on publishing, applica on policy
con gura on, AppSense con gura on, and user environment personalisa on.
Infrastructure - Monitoring
Solarwinds setup, alert scrip ng and modelling, service desk no ca ons and integra on.
Infrastructure - ADDS Ac ve Directory design and maintenance, Group Policy con gura on,
custom so ware deploys and Bash/Batch scrip ng, sync policies, users/groups setup.
fi
ti
IT Infrastructure Opera ons Manager at Wood
Mackenzie
IT Network, Infrastructure and Datacenter Lead at
Accenture
OCTOBER 2008 JANUARY 2013 (4 YEARS 4
MONTHS)
Achieved clients sa sfac on by suppor ng business managers by accurately preparing quota ons
for IT facility and following a complete IT service.
Ensure all business requirements are supported by e cient and reliable IT services; completed
with the implementa on of ITIL framework.
Responsibili es:
• Manage IT transforma on through to successful comple on; ensuring all risks, issues,
successes and assump ons are noted and e ec vely communicated to business managers.
• Maintain a holis c view on upstream and downstream impacts to other areas of the
organisa on.
• Manage changes and ensure they are planned for, communicated and approved in advance of
their occurrence.
• Provide technical advice to the decision-making processes and ensure the right checks and
balances have been performed before any project milestones are executed.
• Manage a data centre with 20 physical and over 80 VMWare vSphere 5 virtual servers
(Windows 03/08, Linux, Unix) and CITRIX servers; which provide services and solu ons for 10
clients and over 600 people around the globe, a Metasystem Trimod UPS and a full remote
monitoring system based with temperature, re, water leak detec on and alerts by email/
SMS.
• Maintain and support the core services of our o ce which include: VPN users, rewall ACL /
rou ng changes, IT support and incident management, documenta on repository and custom
so ware.
OCTOBER 2005 SEPTEMBER 2008 (3
YEARS)
IT ARCHITECT at Accenture
I de ned IT architecture and connec vity based on project manager requirements; implemented
WAN and designed IT infrastructure solu on in the local o ce. Addi onally, I con gured network
devices and servers, developed network monitoring solu ons and built skills in virtualisa on
technology.
NETWORK & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR at Accenture
OCTOBER 2003 SEPTEMBER 2005 (2
YEARS)
I provided technical support for all IT rollouts, con gured devices, x all IT related issues and
completed so ware installa on and con gura on. Windows and Linux system administra on,
shell scrip ng, user con gura on, process automa on.
Skills
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
fi
ti
ti
ti
fi
ffi
ti
ti
ffi
fi
ti
ffi
ti
ti
fi
ff
ti
fi
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ti
ti
ti
fi
fi
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ft
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
ti
fi
ft
AWS Solu ons Architect cer ed
Infrastructure as Code via CloudForma on
Kubernetes infrastructure
ITIL v3 Founda on cer ed
Datacenter Opera ons
IT Infrastructure Opera ons and Management
Integra on
IT Vendor Management
IT Infrastructure Licensing Management
