Ireland
Experienced Solution, Enterprise Architecture and Data Management leader, with a proven track record for delivering high quality service and strategic solutions to achieve business goals and gain market advantage, consistently exceeding expectations. A committed and flexible individual with a wide level of technical expertise and a strong work ethic dedicated to quality and delivery. Accomplished in the design and development of client/server architecture as well as in an SOA environment. Communicating at all levels within the business, building and leading successful and committed teams that consistently deliver timely business solutions to tight deadlines. A clear strategic thinker, who understands business issues, can assess technology and manage the delivery of solutions from conception to execution, perceived as an enabler for business change, Specialties: Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Leadership, Team Management, Solution Architecture, Resource Management, Design Delivery, Business Consultancy, Vendor Service Management, SOA, , Business Analysis, Retail, Logistics, Insurance, Business Capability modelling, Architecture tools, complex event processing, Tibco
Consulting engagement at Lloyds of London
• Key member of the Group Architecture team and Architecture Review Board, contributing to strategic oversight and governance. • Delivered and owned the end-to-end solution architecture for a new insurance broking platform based on Salesforce, tailored for the London Market. • Led the design, delivery, and technical oversight of integration between quote-and-bind portals and the new broking platform for the Schemes business, aligning multiple vendors on a shared approach. • Provided programme-level architecture and governance oversight to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives. • Introduced and implemented a standardized Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) framework across the group. • Developed a high-level architecture for Group Finance to support the business case for the future target operating model.
• Key member of the Senior IT leadership team. • Manage and lead a team of 5 highly skilled Data Engineers/Analysts and Architect • Management and use of 3rd party vendor to deliver Data solutions as part of an extended team. • Responsible and delivery of the AA Ireland Enterprise Datawarehouse, trading reports and Data Management. • Management of AA Enterprise Architecture and use of architecture to highlight risks, gaps and aid planning and collaboration across the business. • Delivery of solution options based on high level ideas. • Chair of the Data Governance Group and Architecture Board • Instrumental in delivery and adoption of visualisation reporting to replace Excel based reports to improve efficiency and insights.
As part of the IT transformation programme, advising the Leadership team at the AA on architecture, helping understand and document their current architecture, target architectures and a roadmap of how to meet their vision and objectives. Following the TOGAF framework to introduce and deliver: Governance - Implemented and chaired a technical design authority. Architecture – documented the as is, target and transitional architectures , presented to the executive steering group. Planning – created an architecture plan to identify, track and deliver architecture deliverables. Thought leadership on solution and vendor selection for a new insurance system, enterprise service bus architecture, CRM and integration between these and existing systems.
Successfully managed a team of highly skilled and experienced Solutions Architects keeping them motivated, focused and continually improving. Designing and delivering Enterprise Integration with many third parties for Creditchecking, Fraud, Payments and network provisioning and recently for new B2B business venture at Carphone Warehouse. Business analysis and delivery of business critical and commercial solutions to tight timescales and quality across enterprise applications in the retail domain across europe.
Key responsibilities Design of complex solutions for Retail, Finance and Integrating with 3rd party suppliers using XML through Tibco messaging and business works. Producing high level design documents for these solutions from business requirements/discussions with business users utilising UML. Involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC) from input into the requirements through, design, development, test and implementation. Technical lead for projects ensuring the design, development and test is carried out on time and at the required quality. Review of design documents to ensure they meet the design standards and follow the correct design and architectural principles of the company. Key Achievements Subject matter expert on many of the Carphone Warehouse Systems. Lead designer for Vodafone creditchecking and connections project. The project used Tibco messaging and business works to communicate with Vodafone systems. Technical lead for load testing, using QA load, for the upgrade of our point of sale system to Oracle 10g, liaising with 3rd party consultants. Delivery of solution for the sale of fixed line services and the integration to a new billing and CRM system from the point of sale system. Played a key part in establishing an Agile methodology for delivering solutions.
Key responsibilities Leading a team of 4, responsible for maintenance and development support of the Financial, Retail and Stock systems (client/server architecture) written in the Uniface 4GL, accountable to the Business Services Director. Analysis and design of small business critical projects that were required, using a RAD/Agile approach to development. A high pressure hands on technical role to eradicate bugs, manage change requests and conduct technical consultancy to the business. Key Achievements Reduced number of reported bugs from over 100 down to a consistent 20. Automated and improved financial posting interfaces from the sales system to the finance system written in PL/SQL. Key member of Technical Review Board Established the development and reporting of key metrics Further developed knowledge of Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, Uniface (4GL)