Thomas Nelson
Principal Architect - Enterprise and Strategy at Foodstuffs North Island Limited- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Convolutional Neural Networks
CourseraAug, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Deep Learning Specialization
CourseraAug, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Sequence Models
CourseraAug, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
CourseraJul, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
CourseraJun, 2018- Oct, 2024 -
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
CourseraJun, 2018- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Foodstuffs North Island Limited
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New Zealand
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Retail
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400 - 500 Employee
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Principal Architect - Enterprise and Strategy
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Aug 2020 - Present
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Lead Enterprise Architect
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Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
Leading the new enterprise architecture practice at Foodstuffs North Island. Helping to drive a digital transformation effort - and to frame what those buzzwords mean within an iconically New Zealand grocery co-operative.
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Digital Domain Architect
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Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Currently responsible for the architecture of the digital domain at Foodstuffs
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Solution Architect
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Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
Led the architecture effort for retail software solutions arising from the merger of Foodstuffs Wellington with Foodstuffs Auckland; This covered a new centralised scale management solution, a new outbound pricing management solution in SAP, electronic shelf labelling and integration of this with SAP-ECC. Designed a micro service back-end replacement for a legacy in-store scanning solution, which achieved significant savings in both time and cost compared with estimations of traditional approaches.Initiated and prototyped a new cloud-based store ordering solution as a single-page web application running on consumer mobile devices. Provided governance and architectural input from formal development through to full production.
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Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Ltd
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New Zealand
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Retail Groceries
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100 - 200 Employee
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Solution Architect
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Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Solution Architect for “New World Online” eCommerce platformResponsible for:o Ensuring that both the technical and process solutions achieved mandatedinstitutional, project and architectural design goals e.g. usability, performance,security, disaster recoverability.o Design of key integration components, methods and interfaces.o Providing solution design artefacts (documentation and model diagrams) for use bythe business, development and testing streams of the project.o Providing business analysis and support across all project streams where technical orcomplex system issues arise.• Provide solution design and delivery oversight across elements of the Foodstuffs Wellingtonproject portfolio.• Identify and foster business opportunities where technology can be applied to the benefit ofthe society. Key Achievements• Instigated and designed a highly available RESTful web-service layer to provide external- facing system integration services.• Envisioned and prototyped a low-cost digital signage solution for member stores.• Implemented and configured Salesforce service cloud to cover the customer service andsupport component of the New World Online solution. • Implemented a cloud based third-party delivery support system (vWorkApp) to providedelivery dispatch functionality for New World Online, utilising off-the-shelf devices in-car (7”ruggedized android tablets)• Re-design of the New World Online vendor’s payment process to move it from a U.S. model to one that would be NZ market acceptable.
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Software Architect
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Jul 2011 - Aug 2012
Integration Architect for a new in-store financial system implemented using Microsoft Navision* Design of interfaces to both in-store and corporate ERP systems* Planning of system features and development work* Responsible for review and alignment of the interface development work stream* Developed the ERP to Store Accounts Receivable interfaceProvided a strategic design aspect to the development teamKey AchievementsImproved communications with business stakeholders * Made stakeholders a part of the process * Successfully injected agile planning and estimation methods into the solution delivery processDeveloped domain-specific automated testing tools for use by the retail development team * Saved weeks of project time, effectively reducing the test cycle from days to hours and allowed testing to shift from an ad-hoc exploratory process to a well-bounded, well-described repeatable process
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Contract Analyst Programmer
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Dec 2010 - Jun 2011
Modernisation and refactoring of codebaseInitiated agile development and TDD/BDD approaches
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Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Ltd
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New Zealand
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Retail Groceries
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100 - 200 Employee
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Contract Analyst Programmer
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2008 - 2009
Developed automated software to convert Delphi/Interbase source code to VB.NETDevelopment of supermarket retail support software
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Application Development Manager
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2003 - 2008
Managed the retail systems development team (5+ FTE)
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Technical Team Lead
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2001 - 2003
Lead developer for retail systems development team. Solution design and skills mentoring.
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Analyst Programmer
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Oct 1997 - 2001
VB/SQL Development for supermarket retail solutions
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Analyst Programmer
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1995 - 1997
Financial system programming in COBOL. DG Mainframe system programming in C. Development of low-level tools and utilities.
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Computer Operator
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1994 - 1995
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Williams & Kettle Ltd
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Napier, New Zealand
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Computer Operator
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1992 - 1994
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Education
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Massey University
Computer Science and Psychology -
Havelock North High School