Built for Live Operations
Two decades of change, access and recovery in production environments shape every plan, from a data centre move to a sovereign control model.
Mission-critical infrastructure delivered where downtime and mistakes were not an option.
Two decades of change, access and recovery in production environments shape every plan, from a data centre move to a sovereign control model.
Relocations and remediations meant coordinating internal teams, vendors and carriers to a single plan, on compressed timelines.
Two municipal data centres relocated in under 18 months for 14,000 users serving 930,000 residents, with zero downtime.
Two decades of hands-on delivery in mission-critical environments
Financial services and telecom data centre relocations, consolidation and remediation
Zero downtime on a dual data centre relocation supporting emergency services
Compressed timelines with no tolerance for mistakes, delivered on schedule
I have had the distinct privilege of utilizing and engaging the services of Clayton most recently at the City of Edmonton. Clayton was brought in to Provide Project Management services related to the relocation of 2 data centres in less than 18 months. This involved everything from sourcing the new data centres to the detailed technical planning required to seamlessly relocate data centres for an enterprise organization with more than 14,000 users, supporting 930,000 citizens. The services included within this portfolio included mission-critical business applications and applications that were required as part of coordinated emergency services delivery. Simply put, mistakes were not allowable in this project and the timelines given the scope of work were tremendously compressed. Clayton's ability to coordinate across multiple disparate groups of internal and vendor resources while remaining results-focused is unparalleled. Clayton repeatedly demonstrated excellent project management skills, as well as communication skills. The level of planning and coordination he displayed throughout, as well as his ability to remain factual, focused and results based were integral to the successful accomplishment of the projects. Beyond exceptional project management skills, Clayton repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to help in any and all ways possible to ensure project success. I have every confidence in Clayton and would have no hesitation whatsoever in engaging his services again in the future.
Security Major Canadian Municipality
2024-2025
Designed and executed macro-segmentation across key application and infrastructure domains to reduce lateral network risk, aligned with Zero Trust architecture principles.
Operations Rogers Communications
2025
Performed technical and strategic assessment of Rogers' virtual infrastructure estates across national data centres, developing a modernization roadmap to VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX-T, and vSAN.
Migration City of Edmonton
2025
Led technical aspects of migrating the City's SAP S/4HANA environment from U.S. hosting into Canadian infrastructure for data sovereignty compliance.
Security Major Canadian Municipality
2024-2025
Developed and implemented an organization-wide vulnerability reduction and patch governance strategy, including an approved security patching policy with formalized lifecycle processes.
Data Centres City of Edmonton
2023-2024
Led the migration of critical City application environments into a newly provisioned data centre suite while preserving domain identity, hostnames, and network schemas.
Data Centres Rogers Communications
2024
Directed remediation of environmental integrity and air handling systems in active Rogers data centre environments, implementing clean-room airflow standards and contamination control.
Fibre & Communications City of Edmonton
2023
Took ownership of a fibre connectivity project stalled for 18+ months and delivered it into production within approximately 4 months.
Data Centres Edmonton Police Services
2021-2022
Provided expert consultation on the design of a state-of-the-art data centre, ensuring optimal performance and security.
Security Major Canadian Municipality
2019-2020
Project manager assisting the implementation of a managed detection and response product suite for the organization's security operations.
Fibre & Communications City of Edmonton
2019-2020
Provided technical consultation and technical review of various transit projects including OT and IT systems.
Data Centres City of Edmonton
2018-2019
Relocated both primary and secondary data centres over 18 months with zero downtime, delivering both projects on-time and under budget.
Data Centres ATB
2016-2017
Designed and implemented new high-density row design, consolidating all rows into a single row over six months without service interruption.
Data Centres ATB
2016-2017
Assisted ATB with upgrading their production data centre to match the same architectural standards as their relocated data centre.
Data Centres ATB
2014-2015
Re-platformed all infrastructure onto the latest technologies for ATB Financial's must-move data centre relocation, supporting network, security, complex workloads, and facilities work streams.
Operations KBR
2005-2007
IT and Communications Country Manager for Kuwait and Iraq, maintaining 98.24% network availability under extreme operational conditions for U.S. military forces.
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