Experience

ACCA

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Professional Education Technology

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  Responsible for the Technology road map of the Professional Education directorate. Acting as the key technology stakeholder in all Professional Education projects, working with IT&T to ensure the Professional Education technology needs inform the overall organisational technology road map. Providing support and guidance to all projects to ensure that scope and business case are properly defined and that key milestones are properly defined to ensure project delivery is properly streamlined and the deliverable will meet the business needs.Working with suppliers to ensure services are properly delivered and opportunities for improvement are maximised.

• Application Architect

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2016

  Responsible for defining and altering the strategic business capabilities and to guide the business towards a defined future technology state for the organisation.Represent and support the wider Enterprise Design Authority as regards decisions and areas of dispute concerning the Enterprise Applications Architecture.



Scottish Water

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Architect - ICC Programme

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2014

  Responsible for the architecture and design for a number of projects within the programme. Applying best practice architecture principles to product selection, high level and low level design to ensure solutions meet functional and non functional requirements in line with strategic vision and governance standards. Leading a small team of experienced architects and working with framework partners and vendors to ensure successful delivery.

• Technical Architect

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Overall architecture responsibility for the Digital Platform project. The project is delivering devices, infrastructure and software to 600 field based users. Working with framework partners and suppliers to ensure the solution meets the functional and non-functional requirements as well as the organisational architecture and governance standards.

• Solution Architect

  • Feb 2012 - Dec 2012

  Solution Architect with particular focus on Middleware for a new programme of work delivering a number of projects. Contributing to target architecture, defining current state architecture and the programme architecture principles. Identifying enabling projects to build the foundations for the main project deliveries and engaging with product vendors to understand market offerings in the areas of interest for the various projects.



Business Stream

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Integration Consultant

  • Nov 2011 - Feb 2012

  Providing consultancy on Middleware aspects of separation from parent company IT infrastructure to a new service provider. I also provided technical consultancy around a new BI implementation, with specific focus around development standards. Providing consultancy on Middleware aspects of separation from parent company IT infrastructure to a new service provider. I also provided technical consultancy around a new BI implementation, with specific focus around development standards.



SAIC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Mar 2011 - Nov 2011

  Responsible for Design and Delivery of a Trade Effluent Sampling Portal. Responsible for Design and Delivery of a Trade Effluent Sampling Portal.



ACCA

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solution Architect

  • 2008 - 2011

  Architect on project to implement Oracle SOA Suite platform to deliver global Online Marking System. I also provided consultancy for a number of other Web Service/SOA based projects. Technical Architect for a project to improve enterprise systems performance, reliability and to ensure continuing vendor support. Architect on project to implement Oracle SOA Suite platform to deliver global Online Marking System. I also provided consultancy for a number of other Web Service/SOA based projects. Technical Architect for a project to improve enterprise systems performance, reliability and to ensure continuing vendor support.



Scottish Water

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Integration Architect

  • Dec 2003 - Oct 2008



William Grant & Sons

• United States
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Database Administrator

  • Sep 2000 - Dec 2003



Initiative Software

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Oracle Support Analyst

  • May 1999 - Sep 2000