Brett Adams

Technology leader who turns Generative AI from hype into dependable, enterprise-scale capability. I lead a geodistributed team of Enterprise Engineers delivering, securing and governing the productivity and GenAI services that support a global workforce of 10,000+ employees. Having taken multiple GenAI platforms from evaluation through to secure production — including an 11,000-user Anthropic Claude Enterprise rollout — I pair hands-on platform engineering with the governance and change leadership that makes adoption stick.

Underpinned by 20+ years across cloud, infrastructure and enterprise systems engineering.

Technical Lead – Enterprise Engineering Productivity & GenAI Enablement at Elsevier (2022-01 – Present)

• Lead a geographically distributed squad of five Enterprise Engineers, driving service reliability, innovation and operational excellence across productivity and GenAI platforms.
• Own enterprise adoption, provisioning, administration and governance of multiple GenAI platforms, taking each from evaluation to secure production aligned to internal data-protection and Technology Process Review standards.
• Scaled Anthropic Claude Enterprise (Cowork, Code & Design) from evaluation to full production for 11,000+ users with governance and guardrail controls; deployed Microsoft Copilot to production; brought ChatGPT Enterprise live with governance controls; progressed Google Gemini from evaluation to production.
• Govern the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, Power Platform, identity and collaboration services protecting a 10,000+ global workforce, ensuring data protection and regulatory compliance throughout.
• Enable M&A activity through secure end-to-end migration and integration of acquired organisations (e.g. Google Workspace to Microsoft 365) into the core technology estate.

Consulting Principal Systems Engineer at Elsevier (2020-04 – 2022-01)

• Assessed and evaluated public cloud strategy across the business's Technology, Infrastructure & Operations tower, providing best-practice recommendations.
• Led public cloud implementation and migration projects to successful completion, partnering with stakeholders and project managers to define high-availability and high-resiliency requirements for business-critical systems.
• Embedded reporting, monitoring and incident-management tooling for Operations Command Centre visibility, and contributed to the design of key tooling within the organisation's PRC footprint.

Senior Systems Engineer at Elsevier (2018-12 – 2020-04)

• Provisioned and implemented public cloud and co-location systems across the business, both in the UK and globally, using Terraform as the IaC tool to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and technical teams across Elsevier to deliver requirements through to successful handover to the Operations Command Centre.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at SIRE Technology Ltd. (2016-11 – 2018-12)

• Provisioned, upgraded and administered cloud Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) environments for SIRE Technology and its clients, using a range of IBM Spectrum Protect versions and modules.

IBM Spectrum Protect / TSM Technical Consultant (Contract) at TechData (2016-08 – 2016-08)

• Solely delivered a fully automated IBM Spectrum Protect / Tivoli Storage Manager environment within a time-critical project at a Park Royal, London data centre — including IBM TS3200 tape library, V7000 Storwize storage, TSM for Virtual Environments (VMware vSphere 6.0) and space-management integration.
• Environment was subsequently transported by ship to the Black Sea to support one of the largest maritime archaeology projects ever undertaken.

Platform / Systems Engineer & TSM Systems Administrator at Pearson (2002-03 – 2016-06)

• Provided 3rd-line support across global 24/7 data centres, supporting physical and virtual enterprise server environments delivering key business services.
• Provisioned, upgraded and decommissioned Wintel server platforms and administered Linux (RHEL/CentOS), VMware virtual environments, Active Directory, DNS and IP address management at enterprise scale.
• Built Pearson's IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup environment from the ground up across two UK off-site data centres (2012–2016); the practices and procedures set the benchmark replicated across Pearson's global data centres.

BTEC first and national diplomas in Information Technology