TREVOR WARREN

Altona North, VIC • +61423607688 • trev@practicalperformanceanalyst.com

 www1.practicalperformanceanalyst.com  github.com/tangowhisky37

Passionate About Delivering Outcomes

Summary

Am passionate about challenging the status-quo and finding reasons to innovate. Over the past 15 years I
have been delivering complex systems, have worked with very large clients across the world and constantly
looking for opportunities to bring about change. My love for working with people and harnessing the power
of the collective human intellect helps me deliver the expected outcomes. I constantly strive to combine
my passion for delivering outcomes with my ability to build long lasting professional relationships.
My entrepreneurial & delivery competencies are in the following areas:
Passionately leading people to deliver outcomes
Identifying & Creating new opportunities with a vision for growth
Development of Business Strategy, Execution Strategy & Associated Costs Models
Creating and implementing suitable growth strategy for a practice or a business
Building capability and talent to support growth for a practice or business
Leading and managing teams (20+ people) to deliver focused outcomes
Creating opportunities and building a practice or business from ground up
Building Innovative products & solutions to address untapped customer need
Supporting sales & leading PreSales efforts
Working with sales teams to scale existing opportunities
Free time on the weekend is spent hacking with robotics, machine learning API's, Facial recognition,
Raspberry Pi, Arduinos, ESP8266, etc. You can see the projects i am working on at -
https://github.com/tangowhisky37/LetsHack
Over the last decade I've built and lead a collaborative industry group that builds and maintains the
Systems Performance Engineering Body Of Knowledge at -
Practical Performance Analyst --> http://www.practicalperformanceanalyst.com

Work History

2010-02 - 2017-02 Principal Technical Architect & Capability Lead

Accenture
Am part of the Advanced Technical Architecture (ATA) capability within Accenture. As a Technical
Architect I lead technology teams to deliver focused outcomes. Am also responsible for managing the
Performance Engineering capability within ATA. Within the firm i am responsible for -
Leading technology delivery teams with responsibility for outcomes
Delivering projects as a Technical Architect
Delivering projects as Performance Engineering lead
Build Performance Engineering assets & consulting services leveraging those assets
Build and maintain capability on Performance Engineering
Assisting with Sales & Pre-Sales activities
Work with Sales teams to create opportunities and grow existing opportunities
 Tools & Frameworks designed -
Tools to automate modelling, forecasting using Analytical, Statistical & Simulation Modelling
techniques
Tools to automate Infrastructure & Application Capacity Planning using Analytical, Statistical &
Simulation Modelling techniques
Workload modeling for Performance Testing & Capacity Management using Analytical models
Listed below are projects delivered -
Commonwealth of Aus - Tech Arch & Performance Engineering
Rio Tinto - Tech Arch & Performance Engineering (Cloud Migration)
NBN - Performance Engineering Assessment
Dept. Of Justice, NSW - Program Non Functional Testing Lead
Commonwealth Of Australia - Technical Architecture & PerformanceEngineering
ACPA - Business Strategy, Business Plan, Program Cost Modelling
Asciano/Patrick - Interim IT Strategy, RFP Strategy, Program Costs Modelling
Tabcorp - Technical Architecture, Performance Testing & Systems Management Lead
Telstra Retail - Application Performance Modelling & Capacity Management Lead
Coles - Technical Architecture & Performance Engineering
Telstra Cloud - Performance Testing Lead
Telstra Media - Performance Testing Lead
BNI. Indonesia - Capacity Management & Performance Modelling
SwissRe, HongKong - Capacity Management & Performance Modelling

2004-03 - 2010-02 Competency Lead, Global Consulting Practice

Tata Consultancy Services
As part of the Global Consulting Practice I was responsible for leading technology delivery teams with a
focus on delivering outcomes. As part of the High Performance Computing labs I would work closely
with customers leading benchmarks of large complex systems.
My responsibilities within the consulting practice consisted of :
Leading projects and delivering outcomes
Establishing the Performance Engineering capability across large accounts
Support capability related consulting assignments across ANZ
Provide Pre-Sales support and work closely with the business development team
Support the sales teams on large bids & RFP's
Grow the competency across ANZ and work with the sales team on building a pipeline of work
Create downstream revenue opportunities within existing accounts
Listed below are projects delivered -
UTC (United Technologies Corporation, USA) - Performance Monitoring Strategy
SwissRe, HongKong - Network Perf Assessment for Datacenter consolidation
Setup/launch of PE Competency for TCS across Australia
Woolworths, Australia - Performance Testing Center Of Excellence
Commonwealth Bank Of Australia - Peoplesoft HR Performance Test Strategy
Superpartners, Australia - Performance Test Strategy for NextGen
Superpartners, Australia - Lead platform benchmark opportunity for electSP
AGL, Australia - SAP BW Capacity Planning
NSDL - Configuration of Tivoli Enterprise Systems Management suite
Helped TCS PE R&D evolve its OpenSource strategy
Support TCS accounts on various OpenSource stacks

2003-05 - 2004-03 Pre Sales Consultant

Red Hat
As part of my role at Red Hat I was responsible for supporting Sales teams, leading Proof Of Concepts
and working with customers on design, build, deployment of infrastructure solutions based on an Open
Source stack. My responsibilities included -
Supporting sales teams on bids, rfp's and positioning of solutions
Infrastructure Solution Architecture
Solution design, build and delivery
Post-sales Technical support

2002-08 - 2003-04 Research Associate

 Medialab Asia
Media Lab Asia was a joint venture between the government of India and Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology (USA). As part of role I was responsible for building, supporting the technology
infrastructure (mostly based on Open Source stacks) including working with various lead researchers
helping them with various technology initiatives.
At MediaLab Asia my responsibilities included -
Responsible for setting up and maintaining Network OperationsCentre
Deployment and maintenance of Open Source stacks (Email, DNS, Web, File print, etc.)
Responsible for maintaining application infrastructure across various other satellite labs
Research Assistant to principal researchers on various government funded research projects
Embedded Development to support government funded research projects
Working with vendors on provisioning and support of leased Infrastructure and services
Setup and maintenance up of Lab infrastructure based on OpenSource and commercial stacks
Support maintenance of developed Intellectual Property

2001-09 - 2002-08 Embedded Development Lead & Systems Administrator

Zenith Computers
As part of my role at Zenith I was responsible for developing embedded (thin clients, remote boot
systems, etc.) systems based on various Open Source and Closed Source stacks. In addition I also built
and supported the IT infrastructure within the lab based on Open Source stacks.
Low cost affordable computing initiatives for the Indian Consumer
Development of Embedded Linux based devices
Development of Embedded WinCE.net based devices
Development of Embedded WinXP based devices
Development of Appliance Server prototypes
Development of Thin Clients based on Linux/WinCE.net
Development of Set Top Boxes based on Linux/WinCE.net

2000-04 - 2001-08 Lead Technical Consultant

FreeOS
As a lead technical consultant I helped build infrastructure based on an open source stack while also
providing customers post sales support. In addition I delivered training on various technology related
topics at customers sites. As a lead technical consultant my responsibilities at FreeOS included -
Deploying Open Source Solutions (Firewalls, IDS, Routers, Servers, Mail solutions etc)
Supporting Open Source / FLOSS solution deployments
Train customers on Linux/FLOSS stacks
Responsible for Pre-Sales / Post-Sales support
Technical writing

2000-02 - 2000-03 Web Design & Platform Lead

Detatech Web Technologies
At Detactech I lead the team on the design, build and delivery of a customer web platform. This
included technical Architecture & Design, Systems Administration including delivery responsibility. My
responsibilities included -
Technical Architecture & Design
Systems Administration
Solution Delivery Lead

Education

1996 - 2000 Bachelor Of Engineering

Mumbai University
4 year degree with a specialization on High Voltage DC transmission.

Post Graduate Study

SaFE Agile Trained & Certified v4.0 (58446114-0105)

 Foundations of Business Strategy, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Advanced Business Strategy, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Business Growth Strategy, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
New Models of Business in Society, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Design Thinking for Innovation, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Strategic Planning & Execution, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910, University of Virginia
The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910, University of Virginia
Critical Perspectives In Management, IE Business School
Amazon Web Services - Business Professional
Amazon Web Services - Technical Professional

Organizations

Raspberry Pi Melbourne Hackers Group (2016 - Ongoing) - Organizer & Raspberry Pi Hacker
Computer Measurement Group - Australia (2013 - 2014) - President
Computer Measurement Group - Australia (2013 - 2014) - Events Lead

Interests

A summary of my interests include -

Hacking open source i.e. Linux, Python, etc.
Hacking with the Raspberry Pi
Building projects around Internet Of Things (https://github.com/tangowhisky37)
Maintaining the Performance Engineering Body Of Knowledge at http://www1.practicalperformanceanalyst.com
Researching and reading about local and global history
Physics of Aviation
Volunteering

References

Available on request