Neil Bunn

I'm Neil Bunn, a technical solutions architect specializing in complex IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Solutions, such as Cloud, Big Data, High Performance Computing and other large scale technologies.

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Neil Bunn is a technology architect for complex IT solutions. Broad base of knowledge across hardware and microprocessor architectures for emerging computing opportunities. Deep competitive pre-sales experience in Top100 accounts and academic research institutions. Focused on providing a highly compelling partnership with clients.

Solutions Architect at Scalar Decisions

June 2012 - Present | Toronto, Ontario

Complex solutions architect focused on cloud, big data, high performance computing and other large scale infrastructure and computational problems. Deep experience with low latency, high scale compute, storage and networking environments in a wide variety of application domains.

Grant Review Team at Ontario Trillium Foundation

August 2006 - August 2012

Government appointed member of the Ontario Trillium Grant Review team for Halton/Peel. Working with a team of 20 other volunteers to distribute and manage more than $10M in yearly funding to worthy causes.

Industry Architect - Retail at IBM Canada Ltd.

July 2011 - July 2012

Industry Architect providing innovation and guidance to clients in the Retail Industry around IBM's products and solutions encompassing hardware, software, services and joint innovation and collaboration. Familiar with designing extremely complex IT solutions encompassing many technologies and products.

National Technology Architect - Complex Computing (HPC / Deep Computing / Cloud / Clusters) at IBM Canada Ltd.

January 2007 - July 2011

Technology Architect for Deep Computing and High Performance Computing solutions. Focused mainly on research computing and hardware exploitation. Hardware architect for solutions for financial, bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, and computational chemistry applications. This is a national level role with extensive client face time, as well as deep business development for the most complex hardware solutions for IBM in Canada. This role involves building deep client relationships and an understanding of the most critical computational challenges in my clients infrastructures. With this understanding a comprehensive solution design approach is used to develop solutions with deep alignment to the clients goals, while operating withing capital and operational constraints. Major Skills: - Deep understanding of computational systems an architectures including Intel/AMD x86 systems, IBM POWER systems, and alternative architectures such as GPGPU (nVidia/ATI) and other accelerator technologies (Clearspeed, FPGA) - Design experience with complicated network architectures including Infiniband, 10G Ethernet, 1G Ethernet, HPS, and SP Switch technologies as well as various topologies (mesh, torus, FBB fat-tree, etc.) - Comprehensive understanding of datacentre layout and efficiency considerations including water cooling, free-air cooling and mixed-cooling environments as well as reliability considerations. (Developed a datacentre with PUE of 1.16 for a client) - Deep understanding of the computer hardware business, including component costing models, reliability models as well as go-to-market strategy around client acquisition, issue management, and large system deployment. - Understanding and ability to focus teams on achieving goals, measured not only in technical excellence and client satisfaction but also in growth of the business and profitability. - Firm grasp of consultative selling and business development methodologies.

POWER Architecture Technology Specialist at IBM Canada Ltd.

August 2001 - December 2006

Competitive technology specialist for POWER architecture solutions. Customer facing pre-sales technical specialist for complex and competitive hardware engagements. Focused on hardware differentiation between POWER and PA-RISC, Itanium, UltraSPARC, x86_64 and AMD_64 architectures. AIX, Redhat and ITIL Certified.

Marketing Consultant at Willard Marketing

May 2000 - August 2001

Marketing consulting including web design, traffic analysis, territory assignment an allocation, corporate branding and recognition programmes. Geospatial data analysis for patterns in buying habits and walk-by traffic.

Co-op Student at Toronto Dominion Bank

May 1999 - August 1999

Summer co-op student doing Y2k testing at TD Bank in TD IT at the Aetna Tower in Toronto.

QS/9000 Implementation Intern at Formulated Coatings

April 1997 - September 1997

Worked at the Magna Formulated Coatings plant on the QS/9000 Quality Control Certification project as a summer intern. Lead projects around documentation and digitization of workflows and audit trails.

Citizen Consultative Committee - City of Brampton at Greater Toronto Airports Authority

May 2011

Queen's University

1996 – 2001

BSc Eng

Mentor College

1986 – 1996

Concentration: High School

Photography, tools and messing around in my home workshop, and spending time with my wife and son... preferably in said home workshop. ;)