Gartner Expert

Ted McHugh

Sr Director Analyst

Ted McHugh is a Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, where he is a part of the IT Infrastructure and Operations Leadership team. His focus is on cloud computing and primary coverage areas include strategy, governance, operations, migration and skills.

Ted helps clients formulate their cloud and multicloud strategies, identify and implement appropriate governance and operations models and also advises on resourcing, cloud migrations and FinOps/Cloud Financial Management.

Previous experience

Ted has more than 20 years of experience within the IT industry, across a range of different business sectors. Prior to joining Gartner, he spent almost 16 years in Financial Services/Insurance filling a number of Enterprise Architecture roles covering operations in Ireland, EMEA and Latin America. He also spent a number of years as a consultant working with clients in the Telco, Banking, Utilities and Transport sectors. Over the course of his career, he has gained a broad range of technical expertise across all layers of the application stack, software development lifecycle, data, infrastructure and cloud.

Professional background

Graham Technology , Sr. Deployment Consultant , 2 years

Liberty Mutual , Regional Architect, 16 years

SAIC, Consultant Technical Architect, 2 years

Areas of coverage
  • I&O Organizational Strategy

  • I&O Operations Management

  • I&O Platforms

  • Head of Infrastructure and IT Operations Leadership

  • Evolve Service Management and Cloud Operations

Education

MBA - Smurfit Business School, UCD, Dublin IE

BSc Computer Applications - Dublin City University, Dublin IE

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Cloud Financial Management, Cost and Value Optimisation

02

Cloud Strategies - Ideation, Development and Implementation

03

Multicloud Strategies and Workload Placement

04

Cloud Operating Models, Capabilites & Governance

05

Migration Strategies, Business Case and Candidate Application Selection