Peter Hornby

Current

Senior Technical Architect at Agilis Solutions

Past

Software Architect/Principal Engineer at Unisys
Principal Software Engineer at Unisys
Integration Test Lead at Unisys

Senior Support Specialist at Unisys

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Education

University of Oxford

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Peter Hornby’s Summary

Senior software architect with a broad technical skill set, deep industry knowledge and extensive practical experience in meeting mission-critical development challenges. Experienced leader in all phases of software development, from project initiation through research, design and implementation to deployment and customer support. Recognized as having a reputation for timely delivery of quality products in highly challenging situations. Bright, people-oriented, hard-working and strongly customer-focussed. Accomplished and experienced technical writer and presenter. Interested in taking on challenging roles in defining and driving software projects, turning customer requirements into successful and functional software products.

Peter Hornby’s Specialties:

Deep understanding of virtualization and its impact on enterprise IT strategy, especially its intersection with the arena of high availability.
Broad experience in enterprise IT management–aligning IT resources with business goals.
Strong advocate of integrated management technologies – providing a consistent view of the operational performance of a heterogeneous IT environment
Extensive implementation experience in key areas of the enterprise ecosystem – TCP/IP security, resource management

Peter Hornby’s Experience

Senior Technical Architect

Agilis Solutions

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Provides architctural services, focused on both business and technology objectives, to private and public sector clients across a variety of domains and industries.
Software Architect/Principal Engineer

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — February 2008 (4 years )

Responsible for the architecture of new high-profile software programs, with substantial corporate visibility and multi-million dollar sales targets.

Defined, as part of a high-profile architecture team, the first deliverables in a strategically important program intended to permit the clean alignment of IT resources with business goals in a uniquely dynamic and visible way. The program has become one of the key technology pillars of the corporation.

Developed value-add software and services around a disaster recovery platform offering geographically remote data replication and application recovery services in a SAN environment. Researched optimal way to use platform with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and VMware ESX. Published set of best-practices papers, resulting in an expanded role for the platform in customer environments and contributing substantially to this strategic program meeting aggressive sales targets.
Principal Software Engineer

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 2004 (12 years )

Designed and implemented complex software products in both proprietary and Windows-based environments.
• Defined, designed and implemented, as part of a small team, a set of software tools intended to support a new, high-profile Windows-based hardware platform,
• Conceived, initiated and drove the plan to develop an entirely new File Transfer Protocol (FTP) implementation on the Unisys ClearPath MCP system
• Acknowledged as company-wide subject-matter expert for security, TCP/IP networking, resource management and other technologies.
Integration Test Lead

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )

Responsible for the integration testing of the software developed, across eight separate engineering facilities, to meet the needs of a large public sector procurement. I supported the software developed by the three West Coast facilities at the two-week demonstration to the customer, which was instrumental in our being awarded the contract.
Senior Support Specialist

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1990 (4 years )

Responsible for third-level support of the entire Unisys A-Series systems and environmental software suite across Europe-Africa Division, and for a period, the entire world outside the Americas. The work involved problem analysis, plant liaison and, in critical situations, fly-and-fix support.

Peter Hornby’s Education

University of Oxford

MA , Mathematics , 1972 — 1975

Activities and Societies:

President, Oxford University Astronomical Society

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