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Alex Hurst

▸ Programme recovery

Completed2025 – Present

Technical Remediation and Customer Acceptance

Senior Director, Technical Program Management & PMO

Coordinated remediation when a configuration issue blocked acceptance on a deployment involving thousands of GPUs — validated with engineering, vendor and customer stakeholders, then folded into future acceptance criteria.

Context

A configuration issue blocked customer acceptance on a deployment involving thousands of GPUs, placing the commitment at risk until remediation was proven.

Business objective

Unblock acceptance by the required deadline and prevent repeat failure modes in subsequent deployments.

Scale and complexity

  • Deployment involving thousands of GPUs
  • Acceptance blocked pending validated remediation

Role and accountability

  • Coordinated engineering, vendor and customer validation
  • Drove remediation planning to the required deadline
  • Incorporated lessons into subsequent acceptance criteria

Challenge

A configuration issue blocked acceptance on a deployment involving thousands of GPUs.

Approach and interventions

  • Coordinate engineering, vendor and customer validation
  • Deliver the remediation plan to the required deadline
  • Feed lessons into future acceptance criteria to reduce repeat work

Governance, planning and coordination

  • Cross-party validation before declaring acceptance readiness
  • Deadline-owned remediation plan with clear accountability
  • Standards update so the issue informs future controls

Decisions and trade-offs

  • Treat acceptance unblock as a coordinated validation problem, not a unilateral engineering fix
  • Convert the incident into updated acceptance criteria rather than a one-off workaround

Delivery outcome

Acceptance progressed on schedule. Lessons were incorporated into subsequent acceptance criteria.

Business and operational significance

Shows technical recovery discipline and continuous improvement of acceptance standards at infrastructure scale.

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