Martin Ferrier, CEng, FIET, BSc. (Hons)
Independent IT Infrastructure Consultant
Based in UK.
Martin is an executive consultant on IT infrastructure and IT cost of ownership with over 35 years experience. His interests are the development tools and methods for evaluating the business value of IT, as well as IT consolidation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - and has worked on the life-cycle of business applications and their effect on the complexity and cost of IT systems.
Martin is available for consultation with clients to help in determining the best IT infrastructure to support business needs.
He has worked with many large financial institutions and other organizations in Europe, the US, South Africa and China advising them on cost of ownership and IT infrastructure issues.
Self Employed 2006-2010
Since retiring from IBM Martin has run his own internet based Genealogical and book business from home. He still keeps a key eye on the trends in IT and the relevant cost of computing issues.
IBM: 1970 - 2006
Martin worked for IBM as a Distinguished Engineer (an executive level position), and was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He was a technical leader in the large systems organization in Europe, and provided consultancy to Large Systems Marketing, Development and the International Technical Support organization. He was a member of IBM’s Advanced e-business Design Council which has been at the forefront of designing IBM’s On Demand technology.
Martin has more than 35 years experience in large systems covering the marketing, justification and implementation of complex computer systems, and has led a systems programming team, as well as having experience of operating system level programming.
IBM was one of the first to establish an IT specialist profession. Within that Martin was elected one of the first worldwide accredited Senior Consultants in 1997 and served as a board member for nine years. Part of his responsibilities in this position involved mentoring other IBM employees and reviewing cases for promotion. Martin was made an IBM Distinguished Engineer in March 2000. This is an honour limited to about 350 people world-wide, most of whom, unlike Martin, are in research and development laboratories. In 2001, Martin was elected a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, a supreme peer group of about 300 which influences IBM’s future technical direction. He was made a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1997, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1998, and a Chartered Engineer in 1998. He was also committee member of the local branch of the British Computer Society for 3 years.
As well as providing one-on-one consultancy with clients Martin is an accomplished speaker and lecturer. He has contributed to many IBM technical books and presentation guides, especially on the MVS operating systems, and its successor, OS/390, as well as working with the press, consultants and software vendors.
Previously Martin was the large systems security expert for IBM UK, and was the IBM representative to the UK RACF Guide Group from 1984 to 1995. He has contributed to several technical books on RACF (an IBM Security product), and well as being a guest lecturer on MSc Computer Security courses at Royal Holloway College, London University.
Personal Details.
British, Clean Driving Licence. Married with two children. Educated at Queen Mary College, London University in 1970 and holds a 2.1 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Outside interests include genealogy and photography. Martin has also developed his own genealogy software.
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