Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Known for bringing £multi-billion IT infrastructure and application solutions from design to implementation, I am a business-minded Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect. It is my goal to deliver solutions that meet organisations’ unique needs by collaborating with senior stakeholders to gain a holistic view of their operations and ensure that IT investments align with business goals. Additionally, I am dedicated to capturing new business and expanding existing practices through uncovering untapped market opportunities and effectively conveying the value of solutions. In order to create solutions that grow with organisations and remain on the cutting edge, I continually learn, adapt to and take full advantage of new technologies and methodologies. I also strive to develop and embed optimised architecture processes. EXPERTISE Enterprise Architecture Governance | Solution / Application Architecture SDLC Management | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) | PRINCE2 | PMP Architecture Roadmaps | IT Strategy Alignment | V-Model, Waterfall, Spiral and Agile Consulting & Bid Management | Stakeholder Management | Risk Identification Cost / Benefit Analysis, Budgeting and P&L | Business Partnering Global Team Building & Leadership | Training & Mentoring TECHNICAL SKILLS MODAF | TOGAF | ArchiMate | Sparx EA | IBM Rational Rhapsody | MooD MS Visio | UML | SysML | BPMN | IDEF | XACML | V Model
Delivering solutions for new ways of working in accredited and secure environments, across multiple agencies, with £100m annual budget. Designing and implementing new collaboration tools e.g. Wi-Fi, room booking, e-mail etc. Elaborating system requirements, defining High and Low Level Designs, managing RFI / RFQ, governing COTS integration and Transition to Operation across multiple security classifications and agencies.
Working with the Chief Product Owner to integrate across 3 submarine classes, the development of a Common Core Infrastructure for an evergreen Combat System capability. This will enable all software, from navigation to sonar, to be accessed from a single console including the £31bn future Dreadnought class submarines.
Managing the Cyber Resilience Architecture for Leonardo, part of Team Tempest, in the Concept phase of the £2bn a year project for the replacement of Typhoon. Drawing together a cohesive direction to apply the best of NIST SP800 and NCSC Cyber Architecture Framework (CAF) cognisant of future integration of Safety and Security. Creating a MoDAF architecture from Capability to Activities, to Organisation using Sparx Enterprise Architect.
Airbus GPT is the prime contractor to the UK MoD for the Saudi Arabian National Guard communications system. I am responsible for Governance of a new $350m Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) solution for 79,000 Saudi Arabia National Guard, contracted through the UK MoD and delivered by 8 subcontractors >400 staff. Specifically, the survey, design, install, test and transfer to service of 200+ Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) sites, over 8,000km of fibre optic Kingdomwide network. ✔ Unblocked survey and design quality issues through analysis, definition and implementation of standards and process for the outsourced design of >200 secure Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) sites. This action increased delivery 20-fold in 6 months. ✔ Identified and defined project scope creep >300% impacting both project time and cost. Negotiated change management process to be implemented to control the scope of project.
Lockheed Martin UK is the UK-based arm of Lockheed Martin Corp, a global security and aerospace company. Appointed to a newly created position, I deliver a critical Enterprise Architecture (EA) view across projects for a UK government customer to ensure alignment of projects, minimise overlaps and discover gaps. My scope of duties includes optimising project delivery processes, creating effective frameworks for infrastructure processes and gaining a deep understanding of clients’ needs to identify opportunities for new business. I also manage budgets of up to £4m, contribute to bids of up to £1.5b and lead a team of 7 Architects. ✔ Ensured that Lockheed Martin’s bid for the UK MoD Marshall project for an Air Traffic Management (ATM) service valued at £1.5bn met Invitation To Tender (ITT) requirements and achieved high scores for technical solution. Conducted an architectural review of bid response and system engineering documents to define best value MODAF views; built and led a team of 5 Architects producing 78 MODAF views based around SOA. ✔ Performed as Chief Architect on a £100m bid for a UK MoD Information Exploitation Programme (IEP), which is a component of the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) Programme combining Digital Mapping, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Cloud-based Geo-Analytics and Geo-Data Exploitation. Architected integrated system that consolidates collection, sharing and discovery of data traditionally gathered through multiple locations, systems and databases. This new capability will allow the MoD to transform raw imagery and sensor data into layered, detailed maps which support troops on the ground. ✔ Drove the continuous cost-effective, profitable execution of projects, ensuring delivery against P&L expectations.