SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 15 years’ experience of working as an Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst, Project Manager and Technical Consultant within large and mid - sized organizations globally.
• A highly experienced, results-oriented, business leader, skilled Enterprise Architect, and thought leader who has demonstrated the ability to lead cross-functional teams of professionals in achieving mission critical results in a variety of highly competitive industries, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments.
• A broad professional background and an excellent education provide a solid foundation to solving challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions that leverage and align IT capabilities with evolving business needs.
• A seasoned practitioner of methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Agile (SCRUM, Kanban), DevOps, a certified practitioner of TOGAF, PRINCE2 and MSP.
• Major projects include corporate storage strategy project, Shared Service Centre implementation, ERP (SAP) procurement and implementation to achieve the business process improvements, CRM implementation, IT infrastructure integration and rationalization post mergers, virtualization initiative at enterprise level.
• Provided leadership to key strategic change initiatives including M&A transitions, business transformation, migrations, desktop rollouts/refresh projects, data center moves, and complex integration undertakings with budgets up to £3M.
• Planned and delivered the entire process for acquiring and rolling out a comprehensive, 5-year storage strategy project for the enterprise, saving up to £1.5 million annually and providing 99.9% uptime at 4 data centers and 7 large regional offices
• Planned and migrated servers, applications and storage infrastructure in AWS cloud and maintained a hybrid environment
• Achieved the business goals and delivered 4 large business acquisitions, aligning IT strategy by merging and integrating Network infrastructures, Active Directory, Print Services, Storage infrastructure and Exchange migrations for twenty thousand (20,000+) users which complied with corporate standard infrastructure architecture.
• Transformed Carillion’s IT infrastructure transition to MS Platform 2000 Active Directory, including MS Exchange migration for over 10,000 users, to provide on-going support to important business strategies with reduced costs and improved productivity.
• Worked with the technology partner and transformed servers infrastructure into virtualization for the corporate, worked with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the business objectives providing capacity for growth, scalability with 60% reduced operational costs.
• Led 4 large desktops and laptops rollouts and integration projects to meet the business objectives in large enterprise environments that achieved standards, improved users’ productivity with reduced support costs.

SPECIALTIES :

• Program/project Management
• IT Change management
• Large scale Platform Migrations
• IT Transformation/integration
• Due diligence pre/acquisition
• Enterprise Architecture

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Requirements Analysis
• Change Management
• Technology design and lifecycle
• Stakeholders Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Transformation Projects Delivery
• Develop future state architecture blueprints
• Mergers/Acquisitions/Integrations
• Experienced with cloud technologies
• Developing global technology roadmaps
• Communications skills
• Managing Cross Functional Teams

CAREER HISTORY:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect & Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was working as an Enterprise Architect and Senior Program Manager at Confidential to deliver it’s vision.
• TOGAF was the key framework used to develop the overall architecture to deliver Confidential 's vision.
• As a result, a number of applications development projects have emerged and he was working with the nearshore and the offshore teams to develop the systems as part of the program. Development Projects were managed by adopting Agile methodology including Scrum and Kanban.
• The architecture involved in the preliminary phase, Architecting the Vision, Business, Systems and Technology Architectures (ADM cycle) and the project was moving towards the POC stage.

Confidential

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivering an architecture that supports the most efficient and secure IT environment meeting the business needs.
• Ensuring that IT delivers competitive business advantage to the organization
• Aligning IT strategy and planning with the enterprise’s business goals.
• Architecting, designing and implementing multiple solutions in parallel while monitoring the integrations required for each system internally and externally.
• Developing past, present and future state architecture documentation for the solution architecture library
• Risk Management of information and IT assets through appropriate standards and security policies.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Getronics provides services to organizations on complex ICT projects and programs in both private and public sectors to a global clientele.
• Working as a Project Manager in a client facing role and delivered datacenter and infrastructure programs such as desktops refresh, Exchange migration, SAN upgrade & data migrations, and virtualization projects.
• Worked with the business and analyzed the requirements of the business for the changing business needs of Subsea 7, a leader in the Oil and Gas industry.
• Gathered the business requirements and delivered a new SAN Storage Infrastructure at Subsea 7 Global Data Centre based on HP 3PAR technology and completed migrations of Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint, SAP, Microsoft Lync 2010, and Hyper V & SQL Clusters to the new SAN environment.
• Also planned for the next phase of the business plan to deliver Storage infrastructures (SANs) at locations such as Brazil, Houston, Aberdeen, Paris, Perth, and Singapore.

Digital Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to markets while meeting organisation’s cost and risk reduction objectives.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.
• Delivered ecommerce websites and bespoke applications development projects with internal and 3rd parties teams.
• Managed the integration of the new systems with other involving internal teams and third parties

Confidential

IT Manager/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• He worked with IS department to design and implement functions to address strategic planning, quality and improvement, transformation and governance needs.
• This involved building new capabilities by architecting, designing and implementing target solutions to achieve business goals.
• Delivered critical infrastructure and integration projects, provided leadership to all the projects conducted by Carillion.
• Was responsible for the project management practices through benefits realization review and project close out/handover.
• Led and managed projects deliveries through on site and remote teams working across time zones and different cultural and languages.

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Equipped the regional business with business process integration and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software (SAP HR/Payroll, Accounting/Financial) to deliver the business strategy, provided business continuity measure and DR planning.
• Delivered a long-term IT strategy for the regional business by improving its capabilities to accommodate business growth and profitability.
• Built a service delivery model through a centralized helpdesk and supported by both onsite and offshore team.

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.
• I developed, enhanced, and maintained reference architectures for various capabilities.
• My prime responsibility was to translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability to achieve the bottom line and business objectives.
• In addition to building the strategic capabilities, Confidential was responsible to provide IT Support and Services to the business units based in the North of England and Scotland.
• Recruited and managed IT Support teams in addition to managing projects, implementing new site set-ups, delivered services to the agreed SLA targets.

Confidential

Regional IT Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Microsoft Exchange was the primary group-ware product under my list of responsibilities that I supported as a mission critical application.
• I was directly accountable to the IT manager and the IT director within Confidential with regular liaison with the regional directors.