Experience

Axiologik

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Architect & Architecture Practice Lead

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  Head of Architecture practice responsible for creating and growing a new digital architecture practice to provide technology architecture services to Axiologik's growing client base. Supporting clients requiring Chief Architect / CTO leadership to create and transform digital services across every part of an organisation and in multiple industries. Head of Architecture practice responsible for creating and growing a new digital architecture practice to provide technology architecture services to Axiologik's growing client base. Supporting clients requiring Chief Architect / CTO leadership to create and transform digital services across every part of an organisation and in multiple industries.



BT

• Belgium
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EA Operations Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Nov 2021

  Pan-BT global responsibility for EA Consultancy, EA Practice/Ways of working, Architectural Tooling & Governance.

• Technology Tribe Lead

  • Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

  Tribe lead, responsible for driving customer centric value-stream transformation of customer experience unlocked by Customer IdentityChampion and evangelist of Product lead approach, embedding user-research across new cross-functional & iterative execution modelAssembled & mobilised Tribe from nothing to a 60+ strong multi-squad tribe;



Plusnet

• Brazil
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technology Director (Plusnet CIO)

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

  Plusnet CIO responsible for full-service E2E IT operation supporting the Plusnet Business & It's multiple UK brands, including operation of its own product platforms - Broadband & Mobile Networks.Proud to have lead a broad team covering Infrastructure operations, Service Management, Software Engineering, Information Security, Architecture & Delivery Management.

• Chief Architect

  • Dec 2017 - Mar 2020

  Chief Architect responsible for Technology Strategy across all PlusNet PLCs line of business, alongside delivery architecture, architectural governance & assurance.



Slater and Gordon Lawyers

• Australia
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Architect

  • Mar 2017 - Nov 2017

  Enterprise Architect for Slater and Gordon Group, focused on business and technology architecture. Enterprise Architect for Slater and Gordon Group, focused on business and technology architecture.



Capita Transformation

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Solutions Director

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

  Digital Transformation Lead, heading digital delivery, digital experience and solution design for Capita's clients, predominantly focused on Local Government predominantly using agile methodologiesFocused on delivering meaningful digital change across every aspect of our client's operations, automating, simplifying and reducing the cost to deliver best in class service.

• Chief Architect (Capita O2 Partnership) & Lead Solution Architect

  • May 2016 - Oct 2016

  Chief Architect responsible for architectural transformation & delivery architecture within Capita’s Partnership with O2. Lead Architect & technology partner supporting Tesco Mobile & Capita partnership.



Premier Farnell

• United Kingdom
• Capital Markets

• Head of Domain Architecture (Corporate)

  • Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

• Solution & Enterprise Architect

  • May 2013 - Jul 2015

  Senior Solutions & Enterprise Architect with a global B2B & B2C electronic component retailer leading solutions architecture within the Supply Chain, ERP & CRM domains.Working closely with the CIO, Head of Architecture and senior leadership team, delivered a new global IT strategy alongside conceptual target architectures, supported with 5 year roadmaps and indicative budgets to ensure the strategic focus was on delivering the strategy. Lead strategic budgeting, working with Commercial & IT Finance teams supporting the CIO to deliver annual investment proposals to the global board aligned with BAU IT budgets.Delivered IT cost and risk models to global board, elaborating IT spend by business capability, matched against risk scoring to contextualise IT strategy and investment prioritisation.Providing support for business operating model development, feeding changes in business direction into IT strategy, alongside the development of an OM for the global architecture team.Domain ownership for Finance, HR, Information Management and the GIS Organisation developing a multi year £million+ technology roadmap integrating legacy, new and emerging technologies.Lead vendor product evaluation and acquisition processes of application solutions, ensuring business involvement to validate functional fit and alignment with business strategies.Lead solution delivery for strategic projects, including Financial Reporting (Oracle Hyperion) and BI Reporting platforms. Show less



Capgemini

• India
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Enterprise & Solution Architect (Lead Consultant)

  • Aug 2012 - Apr 2013

  Lead architect for a multi year £million+ customer bid, elaborating potential solutions and estimating time and cost. Lead Enterprise Architect with a global home services insurance client, producing high level enterprise and solution architectures representing a core system re-write. Role involved developing an engagement using TOGAF deliverables, mentoring architects in their design and use, including leading the design, validation and adoption of business architecture artefacts. As an IT thought leader, assessed client business strategies, drilling into market and customer propositions to identify innovative ways modern IT could deliver against well understood objectives whilst also demonstrating opportunities to gain significant advantages against competitors. Led the development of an IT strategy for a global client, continually synthesised and validated with a parallel client led business strategy / target operating model programme. Created logical road maps & delivery plans for global clients strategic systems refresh, including; policy admin, call centre, revenue management & billing and enterprise services (security, MI, etc). Engaged with global business & IT stakeholders to ensure strategy met business need IS needs, alongside demonstrating the value of enterprise architecture as part of a new global culture. Show less



VocaLink

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solution Architect

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

  Senior architect, leading architecture teams delivering national mobile payments solutions. Supported development of new technical operating models for strategic mobile payments platform, driven by new commercial priorities, alongside commercial business units. Developed an approach to architecture that aligned with the agile methodology used for large development projects. Championed a business focus to IT, architecting solutions with a business focus, rather than being IT lead, involving challenging siloed practices & encouraging better collaboration within the COO community. Lead architect on a number of commercial bids, working with customers to elaborate potential solutions in terms of customer value drivers, internal effort/cost to support commercial bid packaging Show less



Yorkshire Building Society

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Sep 1997 - Feb 2012

  Solution Designer Responsible throughout project lifecycle as solution designer. With the setup of an internal enterprise architecture team in 2010, this role evolved into a solution architecture role, translating enterprise architectures into deliverable solutions according to architectural roadmaps. Championed Enterprise Architecture within project delivery teams to turn previously theoretical roadmaps and strategies into real world improvements Led work in establishing technical governance, blueprinting and design authority processes. Responsible for leading technical teams through delivery process. This includes mentoring & training developers on new technologies, ensuring technology transition. Supported development of TOGAF compliant EA patterns and policies for emerging technologies. Involved in tendering process for 3rd party suppliers of software solutions and/or technical expertise, responsible for leading technical specification & signing-off preferred technical/business solutions. Working closely with outsourced design and delivery, specifically for design governance. Developer / Senior Software Developer Technical lead, leading large cross-functional technical project solutions for internal customers. Responsible for Leading large teams of technical staff, including design & planning of technical solutions. Following successful agile pilot, key leader in executing a series of projects using iterative methodologies. Championed focus on development QA and peer review, implementing effective processes to improve software quality, protecting project deliverables. Show less