Product Manager and Consultant at Romonet Ltd
London, United Kingdom
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- Product Manager and Consultant at Romonet Ltd
- Consulting Product Manager, Hosting and Data Centre Services for Europe at Tata Communications Ltd
- Vice Chairman, Data Centre Specialist Group at British Computer Society
- Past
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- IT Consultancy at Spicer Latham
- Hosting Specialist at Steria Ltd
- Datacentre Manager at Verizon Business
- Desktop and server support engineer at CNA Reinsurance
- Education
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- Open University
- The University of Hull
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Paul Latham’s Summary
Over 10 years experience in ICT from manning a Helpdesk to running a Tier III+ datacentre to managing the launch of complex technical products with a global telco.
Paul Latham’s Specialties:
Energy efficiency in the datacentre, including the impact of the forthcoming Carbon Reduction Committment regulations and signing up for the EU Code of Conduct on datacentres.
Paul Latham’s Experience
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Product Manager and Consultant
Romonet Ltd
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Romonet was setup to bring cost and energy clarity (maturity) to the ICT sector through research, software tools, policy work and consulting. Our aim is to help businesses establish the hard links between supply and demand for ICT services both internally and within the emergent external commodity ICT markets.
As energy becomes the dominant cost element, understanding how efficiently you use it, what it costs you (in kWh and tons CO2 - both will cost you £/€/$) on a per service basis or per unit level will be the critical factor in ensuring your business remains competitive. -
Consulting Product Manager, Hosting and Data Centre Services for Europe
Tata Communications Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Launched several products including AIX, VCS clustering and VMware support. Presently developing multi-tenant virtualisation platform built on ESX 3.5 and developing roadmap for Tata Communication's cloud computing offering.
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Vice Chairman, Data Centre Specialist Group
British Computer Society
(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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IT Consultancy
Spicer Latham
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Excellent interim IT\datacentre manager.
Great deal of experience in outsourcing and Government Security requirements, along with expertise on the challenges facing the hosting\datacentre industry.
Presently working with the BCS on developing standards and metrics for datacentre power and cooling efficiency. -
Hosting Specialist
Steria Ltd
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)
Led search for new hosting vendors, particularly those that can support hosting Government Protectively Marked material.
Developed hosting documentation, best practices and procedures.
Site visits, followed up with site surveys, business report and presentation to Steria Board about future Hosting Strategy.
Presently involved in bid to take over major (multi-million pound) hosting project. -
Datacentre Manager
Verizon Business
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; vzb; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — August 2006 (6 years 4 months)
Program managed expansion of facilities, b. Established Business Continuity Plan and Emergency Response Team in preparation for BS7799 audit. Managed re-certification of datacentre to ISO27002.
• Developed the initial team from 6 to a total of 25 technical staff, during the take on of the first European Customers.
• Manage key supplier relationships covering Sun, Compaq, CISCO and multiple facilities and services providers
• Successfully managed the re-alignment of resources to the business plan during market downturn -
Desktop and server support engineer
CNA Reinsurance
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
May 1997 — May 2000 (3 years 1 month)
• Joined CNA as a Helpdesk Assistant
• Quickly gained promotion to IT Support division, supporting 150 users across four City and Docklands locations (including a Lloyds syndicate).
• Led a key delivery in IT Support by rolling out Citrix connectivity across our European offices, involving travel to these countries, support and training of staff.
• Was instrumental in standardizing remote workers to a standard hardware and security platform, along with training this staff and writing support documentation.
Paul Latham’s Education
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Open University
MBA , Business , 2002 — 2005
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The University of Hull
BA (Hons) , History , 1981 — 1984
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Paul Latham’s Groups:
Vice Chairman of the Data Centre Specialist Group within the British Computer Society.
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EU Data Centre Code of Conduct
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