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Highly Accomplished IT Leader and Infrastructure Transformation Expert. 

Charismatic and influential leader with over two decades of diverse leadership experience, driving innovation and delivering results.

Bringing extensive expertise in enhancing internal IT operations and engineering across diverse industries. Known for visionary, strategic leadership with a strong track record in technology implementation, budget management, cost savings, and strategic planning.

Committed to aligning strategies for business objectives, nurturing self-sufficient, dynamic teams for seamless operations, and fostering growth and success across domains. 

Open to leadership roles in various fields

In Career Transition 

ExpressVPN

Stepping into the realm of ExpressVPN, a global leader in digital privacy, I took the helm as the Head of Information Technology during some transformative times. My tenure was marked by orchestrating intricate system environments, driving forward-thinking IT strategies, and ensuring our technology infrastructure supported the robust needs of millions of users worldwide.

After the acquisition by Kape Technologies, I was promoted to the head of IT for the group of companies. This journey started with a huge project of merging the IT systems across the board.

Under my leadership, the IT department flourished as we embarked on ambitious projects, from streamlining legacy systems to pioneering next-gen IT solutions. My approach consistently bridged the gap between business and IT, ensuring our technological advances directly supported ExpressVPN's overarching mission and business goals.

Head Of Information Technology

Nutanix

At Nutanix, a powerhouse in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, I took on the pivotal role of IT Operations Director for the APAC region. Overseeing a landscape as diverse and dynamic as APAC presented both challenges and exhilarating opportunities, a tapestry I thoroughly relished weaving.

My primary responsibilities encompassed driving the strategic IT vision across APAC, ensuring seamless system integrations, and providing unwavering support to our business units in the region. With a focus on blending technical expertise with a business-centric approach, I successfully led numerous initiatives that streamlined operations, reduced costs, and enhanced productivity.

IT Operations Director - APAC

VPK Packaging Group

At VPK Packaging Group's Coreboard Division, a leader in sustainable packaging solutions, my tenure as the Director of IS and Technology was both intense and rewarding. With the industry in the throes of digital transformation, my role was instrumental in aligning the division's technological framework with its ambitious growth goals.

In those seven months, I delved deep into refining the division's information systems, optimising operations, and spearheading technology-driven strategies that added tangible value to our processes. By combining my extensive IT insights with VPK's sustainability vision, we embarked on initiatives that fostered innovation and improved efficiency.

Director of IS and Technology at VPK Coreboard Division

NPAC Holdings Ltd

At NPAC Holdings, I steered the IT and Infrastructure direction, aligning tech solutions with business needs. My role was pivotal in streamlining operations, harnessing innovation, and ensuring a robust technological foundation for the company's ambitious growth trajectory.

Director of IT and Infrastructure

Powerflute

In my consultancy role at Powerflute, I was engaged on a short term to define and deliver a full stack of IT services when powerflute bought corenso from StoraEnso. This short term role then turned in to the full time role at NPAC.

IT Consultant

Volex PLC

I have been productively involved in the transformation of the global IT infrastructure of the UK listed Volex Group PLC with offices in Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe and the Americas and took responsibility for the operational IT management of the company’s facilities for more than 2 000 users in three regions globally, and for more than 30 local and remote staff.
This was one of the largest IT projects in the company’s history, costing $4 million to transform its IT platforms over a period of two years to a modern, centralised system.

Key achievements included, inter alia:
Extension of two regional data centres using IBM hardware and VMWare virtualisation software.
Migrating Email to MS Exchange and migrating global desktop and server to a single manufacturer and image.
Perimeter security, remote access and penetration testing, as well as MS Lync for global VoIP calling and voice/video conferencing.
Globalising and legalising all software licensing.
Managing vendor relationships with suppliers such as AT&T, Singtel and Microsoft.

As Infrastructure Manager of Volex, I also ensured efficient use of global resources by centralising the IT department, reducing staff by 40% and implementing service level agreements (SLA’s) and a service desk system to track the department’s performance and enable continued service improvement. I furthermore helped to safeguard the ability of the business to meet its goals by implementing process improvements and more functional systems.
I was involved in numerous green field site builds, including the provision of building work, cabling, desktops, a local data centre, a Cisco Call Manager and WAN/WWW connectivity for a 200-user factory in Batam, Indonesia – a $300 k project completed on time and within budget.

Global IT Infrastructure Manager

API Group PLC

In this role I was accountable for the global IT infrastructure of this UK-listed manufacturing company with operations in Europe and the Americas and took responsibility of an IT budget of $0.75 million US dollars, as well as regional IT support teams of eight staff in four regional locations.
During my tenure, I migrated the legacy distributed IT infrastructure into centralised, standardised systems for group-wide operations to simplify support and maintenance.
I furthermore consolidated the global IT budget at less than two percent of the group’s turnover by a reduction of 60%. At the same time, I consolidated numerous data centres into two global data centres to reduce the group infrastructure in the region.
My key achievements included:
 Implementing a global VoIP unified communications system for 1000 users and guiding, mentoring and supporting the team of eight staff at four different sites
 Introducing outsourced IT solutions for operations such as Mimecast Email security and daily management of the Oracle EBS outsourcing delivery, as well as continuous improvement programmes for IT infrastructure
 Utilising shop floor data capture hardware and networking to bolster infrastructure implementation supporting Oracle ERP systems and segmented IT services for operations sold during disposal of non-core activities
 Ensuring legislative compliance and audit standards in all systems

Group IT Infrastructure Manager

In this role I provided daily technical support for all the Group’s European operations. I was accountable for Project Management of all IT Infrastructure projects including:
 Global Cisco VoIP rollout
 Annual Desktop refreshes
 Building out two global data centres
 Migrating WAN infrastructure
 Supporting Oracle ERP rollout
 Implementing Hyper-V Globally, and
 Many others

Senior IT Systems Administrator

AstraZeneca

Working for this world leader in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, I served on a team providing IT security and Email access to 70,000 customers world-wide. I was also responsible for the migration of NT4.0 architecture to Windows 2000, management of response and SLA’s to user support requests and the provision of technical support to other internal functions.

Email & IT Security Specialist

Shell

Working for ExPro - a function within the Shell Oil Group’s IT division that supported the exploration and deep sea oil rig staff - I was part of the Helpdesk team that provided first line IT support to more than 13,000 staff worldwide. This support also included management of the implementation and integration to legacy systems of Windows 2000 and providing liaison with 2nd line support teams to ensure that SLA’s, response and fix times were met.

IT Helpdesk Analyst

Hi! I'm Patrick, an IT Strategist and Leader with over 20 years of expertise across diverse industries in the UK, Europe, US and extensive parts of APAC.

My journey in IT is awash with a rich tapestry of experiences. Beginning in Cheshire's restaurant kitchens, I've since swapped aprons for algorithms and infrastructure, leading technical transformations at several  MNCs. My 2009 move to Singapore wasn’t just a new pin on the map; it represented a myriad of transformative challenges and growth opportunities.

Beyond technology, my ethos revolves around a marriage of technicality with genuine business impact. Every strategy I implement is meticulously crafted to not only elevate user satisfaction but also support the delivery of organisational aspirations and goals. My succinct communication style, devoid of unnecessary embellishments, ensures that messages are impactful and direct, and builds trust at all levels.

One passion sits fervently at the heart of my professional pursuits: sustainability. Living by the beach, I often find solace in its tranquillity. Yet, it perturbs me to witness the remnants of human indifference littering our shores. With my children as my motivation, I’ve been an active advocate for environmental responsibility, often taking the initiative to clear plastics from our local beachfront. Ensuring a sustainable future isn’t just a wish, it’s a commitment; one I wish to intertwine with my career objectives. Whether it's volunteering in sustainability ventures or teaching my children about the environment, I aspire for a world where technology and eco-consciousness converge harmoniously.

I've also embraced a continuous learning philosophy, from dabbling in new programming languages to graphic design, proving that every day presents a unique opportunity. I also take great satisfaction in learning from my team and peers as experts in their respective fields.

I am a visionary, strategic, and results-driven leader looking for a new opportunity to express my passion and build new leaders. Let's connect and collaborate to make our world a bit better.

Patrick Kittle

- As part of the CoreVPN team, I co-own the internal tool built with Ruby on Rails that manages our VPN servers.
- Contributing feature changes to our VPN deployment pipeline.
- Modernized the application deployment pipeline, automating deployments through SSH over Amazon SSM, removing the need for a bastion host.
- Took part in our consolidation goal, implementing changes in our server administration tool and data contracts for the downstream services.

Staff Software Engineer

S&P Global

- L1 support for cloud infrastructure hosting our data delivery pipelines

Lead Cloud Engineer

- Managed 6 engineers in the Platforms Team in APAC.
- Built the monitoring stack using a sidecar agent to forward metrics to our Prometheus DB and used GrafanaCloud for the visualization.

Software Engineering Manager

- Built an in-house solution for doing the Device Auth flow, created new endpoints for our TV Apps to swap over from Auth0 to our solution.
- Technical lead for a team of 3 engineers building internal applications and automation.
- Managed direct reports' career growth and promotion plan.
- Led the initiative of a developer platform to build internal applications and automation at scale.
- Designed and set up the infrastructure to host single-page applications for the main ExpressVPN website.

- As part of the Business Continuity Plan, I've built an automated backup service that regularly backs up the critical platforms and tools that we use in the company (JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub)
- Introduced Github Reusable Workflows to 40 over Serverless projects, reducing duplicate workflows and around 184 man-hours savings in a year
- Set up the Teams Directory with Airtable, which the company then used to manage organizational structure and team assignments.

Senior Software Engineer

Cake DeFi

- Led a team of 2 mobile app engineers to build the beta version of the mobile app
- Restructured the main web application project structure, following the Domain Driven Design and putting models, services and views in the same folder under the same domain. Each component has clear boundaries and this reduced blast radius when making changes to one of the components.
- Used Redux for global state management instead of the Windows object, reducing unintended side effects to the financial data.

Senior Frontend Engineer

Skyscanner

- Led the migration of a data processing system consisting of only cron jobs and moving them to AWS Batch jobs which improved AWS cost and manpower efficiency
- Refactored legacy Python ETL jobs, breaking down long methods into smaller, single purpose methods to make the code easier to test
- Worked with UX designer and run experiments on our Flight Deals website, iterating changes based on data-driven decisions
- Lead the development for the frontend of our automated partner integration testing system
- Documented technical design, use cases and
examples of core npm library to share Skyscanner-wide
request context in all microsites
- Built RESTful web services for partner analytics
with Java Dropwizard, data storage with
PostgresSQL and using Hibernate for data queries
- Took on the role “AWS Ambassador”, similar to an AWS Solution Architect giving advice on AWS
products to engineers in Singapore

Software Engineer II

Appiclogy Pte Ltd

- Architected entire frontend to backend system for a mobile queue management application for F&B retails
- Developed backend with MVC framework, SailsJS
- Developed frontend with Ionic Framework
- Changed data storage for real-time data from
MongoDB to Redis to handle more read and write requests per second

Full Stack Developer

FionaTreadwell

- Designed the interface for an eCommerce website
- Worked on PrestaShop as the content management system
- Setup domain and web hosting
- Created custom pages and extended framework's functions to suit client's needs

Freelance Web Developer

Chinese Communication Association

- Designed the overall look and feel of the website
- Integrated website design into Wordpress
- Implemented PageLines framework
- Developed further with social media functions
- Added membership features such as subscription, payment and member-only pages

Intuition Consulting

Multimedia Developer Intern

I have worked across different technical stacks, such as Frontend, Backend, and DevOps, and have worn multiple hats as an individual contributor and a people manager. In my free time, I build new automation to make my life and others easier.

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