Continuous Change

Hire an experienced EA for business transformation facilitated by IT

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I'm an Enterprise Architect and Consultant for hire. Contract or permanent roles considered in the areas of setting up EA functions and driving maturity in established EA teams. I'm a troubleshooter, fixer, advisor and an asker of awkward questions - all leading to helping my clients to investigate, discover, analyse, gain insight and then move forward with pragmatic transformation decisions, roadmaps and plans.

I'm ..

   An experienced Enterprise and Solution Architect with extensive sales, technical and product experience of large enterprise software solutions - primarily in defence, government, law enforcement, aerospace and manufacturing and logistics.

   A confident, articulate, customer-facing technical consultant with broad experience in sales, marketing and business/technology consulting. I'm a specialist in technology adoption, deployment, training and value creation.

   A solution and enterprise architect selling to, advising and supporting large enterprise client’s IT teams and CIOs. Helping client leadershiop extract business value from technology deployment and transformation programmes.

   An innovation champion, facilitator, business case mentor, project manager and development team leader.

   An experienced public speaker, educator and consultative seller riding the architect elevator. Comfortable engaging with all levels of a client. Enjoy travelling to meet and help global clients of all backgrounds and industries.

 

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Work examples and projects

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Presently, Enterprise Architect, Sopra Steria UK

Enterprise Architect responsible for consulting on and introducing into our clients various strategic transformation initiatives - including Enterprise Architecture, portfolio management, data governance and analytics, Cloud, product & service innovations and delivering continuous service improvement initiatives. Responsible for creating new intellectual property, products and services offerings in the areas of EA, digital transformation services and application portfolio management. Evangelist for digital working including improving client use of collaboration, knowledge management, PMO & portfolio management and mobile devices. Head of the Architecture Practice of over 40 archtiects. Innovation and ideation process champion.

+ Large UK public service provider digital transforamtion advisory consulting - new EA capability, tools, processes and team creation.

+ Large UK public service provider digital transforamtion advisory consulting - new IT target operating model creation.

+ Large UK retail clients (x2) mainframe modernisation and optimisation advisory consulting.

+ Responsible for and designer of infrastructure security patching strategy and service for a 4m+ customer £1.5bn+ UK telco.
Infrastructure and apps modernisation, security and patching and Enterprise Architecture for £50m+ ITO service.

+ Large global energy provider – established an EA function for the CIO to integrate PMO and IT Delivery functions with strategic architecture services.
Outcome was new EA team established, Lead EA hired and EA governance structure established, communicated and went operational. Invited to perform follow-on consulting work in M&A advisory and maturity assessments.

+ Pre-sales transformation road-maps and solutions for 3 UK water businesses transformation of services and technology landscapes based on business value-driven benefits models and digital transformation-driven technology refresh roadmaps based on the SMAC stack.

+ New UK nuclear power provider – established application portfolio management as part of improving EA team capability. Also performed EA maturity assessment. Realised improvements in project pipeline governance, portfolio change mgt., and alignment to strategic imperatives. Outcomes included reduced number of SharePoint apps, migration of php apps to SharePoint and digitisation of numerous manual processes. Improved security and EA posture and reduced projects risk profile for client’s investment negotiations with UK Government.

+ Created and mentored an off-shore (Indian) team of consultants to perform data analytics, BI dashboards and predictives for client application portfolio information and advisory services.

+ Established an EA capability at a Scottish public services body, including EA governance, TOGAF use and portfolio management.

+ Delivering a data centre migration, de-risking and managing the business applications of the migration for client above.

+ Financial services complex system architect to ‘recover’ an at-risk project with an alternative ‘cut down’ lower-cost pragmatic solution.

+ UK regional police force – established a capability in and delivered a project of comprehensive application portfolio management services to rationalise IT estate. Base-lined applications portfolio catalogue, identified candidate applications & options for rationalisation. Transitioned the estate to CGI service. Outcomes include: vastly improved view of portfolio, providing new insights, consolidated SharePoint infrastructure some applications, rationalised apps and associated infrastructure estate reduced cost and complexity.

+ Secure IL3 Mobile Service and IP created and taken to investment board. Outcomes: Successful creation of IP and used to drive multiple client sales projects and has spawned multiple smaller sets of IP creation.