Tim Hawthorn
IT Infrastructure Manager Hybrid Cloud & Enterprise Architecture at Crane Authentication (NXT)
Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Hawthorn is an IT infrastructure leader with 11 years’ experience building and operating resilient hybrid-cloud platforms for security-sensitive industries, currently managing global platform and network engineering teams. He blends hands-on expertise across Azure, GCP, VMware and Microsoft 365 with a focus on automation, observability and ITIL-driven operational excellence to translate complex business requirements into scalable, compliant solutions. Tim has led infrastructure work for high-value authentication and government projects worldwide, driven M&A infrastructure integration, and introduced unified security and monitoring stacks to reduce risk and simplify operations. Known for developing technical teams—hiring, mentoring and apprenticing engineers—he combines strategic roadmapping with practical delivery to accelerate time-to-market. Not obvious from job titles: he routinely balances multi-cloud, on-prem and customer-datacentre deployments for the same product lines, proving an ability to standardise operations across highly heterogeneous environments.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology, BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology at University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (43)
crossword10
game-engine10
minetest10
lua10
c9910
voxel10
voxel-engine10
game-development10
opengl10
docker8
gameplay7
minecraft7
visible7
pocketmine7
anticheat7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
0-afflatus/grailtest
Oct 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 137 commits, 67 pushes in 6 years 6 months
0-afflatus/grail_test
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 11 months
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