EDS Global Field Services, a leading service integrator that is wholly owned by Electronic Data Systems, has appointed Richard Taylor technical architect. Before joining EDS GFS, Taylor worked for the past nine years with Xenon where he specialised in Exchange and Active Directory projects, before moving into designing and implementing storage solutions and enterprise level backup and recovery. During his time with Xenon, Taylor gained Microsoft, Novell and Citrix certifications. Prior to that Taylor spent a number of years working in Malawi in the Ministry of Heath Statistics Unit.