Philip May is a Senior Global Solutions Architect at Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company specializing in interconnection and facilitation of digital transformation. With 27 years of IT, Telecommunications, Data center and cloud platform technologies experience. During his
tenure within Equinix, Metronode, Nextgen Networks, as well as with TPG, Soul Telecommunications & People Telecom - Phil has held a number of technical and sales team roles, developing functional and technical solutions for clients. He has been responsible for a range of presales engagements across multiple technical disciplines for a number of state & federal government agencies as well as corporate and enterprise clients. Phil has been essential for the accurate capturing of pre and post-sales client engagements, competitive analysis, cost estimations and developing detailed technical statements of works. He has created winnable solutions in long haul telecommunications, modern and efficient data center deployments, hybrid multi-cloud, distributed AI for learning as well as inference requirements, and the transformational & workload migrations for clients onto scalable digital platforms across industry verticals such as; insurance, healthcare, state and federal government agencies, banking, broadcast media and resources clients – mining, oil & gas.
Background
· Long haul telecommunications networking
· Data Centre design, construct & operations
· IT & Networking evangelist
Expertise
· Highly resilient IT architecture and infrastructure design
· Government & Enterprise critical infrastructure solutions
· Multi-disciplinary hybrid-cloud strategies & collaboration