Charles Smith

Background

About Charles Smith

Solutions architect, systems & consulting engineer advising on and building computing infrastructures for multinational corporations, federal government agencies, research institutions and Universities in Australia, the Asia-Pacific Region and United States. Currently associate director of infrastructure, network & security at Kyndryl. Lead solutions architect for data centre networks, compute and information technology security deployments on Defence programs. Technical advisor and information technology architect to CSIRO for the global Square Kilometre Array radio telescope ( ) project on supercomputing, network infrastructures and systems engineering. Specialist in supercomputing, network and systems infrastructure architectures, integration & audits for post-merger corporations. Providing assessment, advice and methods to achieve timely stable, cost-effective integrated Compute, WAN & LAN infrastructures. Multi-discipline systems engineering leader creating a vision and then delivering solutions in new technologies, infrastructure & products. Excels in bringing together engineering, marketing, technical, implementation teams that have lead to fundamental progressive changes in the global internetwork landscape. Architect of the Kyndryl Cloud Exchange DWDM & MPLS fabric linking multiple exchange offerings between clients, Hyperscalers and Public & Private Cloud services. Co-Author of IETF RFC network protocols, patent in encryption method for MPLS and protocol standards.