My role in life is as a solution architect working for one of the worlds major telecommunications companies so I spend all day designing very large hosted platforms that support our clients businesses.

I don’t have the luxury to specialise as it is about using the right technology for the job.

I am in a great position as I actually have the opportunity to be at the leading edge of the industry and am able to use all the cool (and often expensive) new toys that the vendors keep launching. Having said all of that I will not use technology for technologies sake.

Current challenges are all around clouds. Far too much hype and no substance. Everybody wants one but nobody is quite sure what one is. Add to this some significant security challenges in the public sector space around shared infrastructure both at a political level and a technical one and it is easy to see why central government is struggling to jump on the cloud band wagon.

Personally I believe that what government wants is services but all their suppliers are telling them they want clouds. Ho hum.

On a personal note, I have a young family who make all the long hours and travel worth while and I really do enjoy the job that I do.