Brian D. Smith Email & Phone Number

London, Uk, Gb

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

AEA Atlanta Chapter is dedicated to the development of Enterprise Architecture profession through events, meetings, seminars to discuss current and emerging trends in Technology and Business. The goal is to inspire practicing and aspiring professionals to exchange and learn new information, industry trends, emerging technologies so that we can provide best of breed solutions and contribute to the companies we work for, communities, state, country and worldwide.

Dawsonville, Georgia, Us

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

• Managed IHG’s Enterprise Architecture Governance Team as acting Director, including hiring and leading SOW vendors, contractors, and full-time staff. • Lead IHG’s initiative to develop an Enterprise Portfolio Management practice and to implement an Enterprise Architecture platform, including: o Requirements and RFPo Vendor and product analysiso Senior Leadership and MEC approvalo Executed software and services contractso Developed platform implementation and adoption programo Identified and executed core use cases including: technical standards compliance; development of application and technology portfolios; articulation of strategies, goals and capabilities; mapping of projects to capabilities; etco Project governance, including Architecture and Executive Steering Committees and stakeholder managemento Led the development of APIs to serve application and technology portfolio data to an internally-developed single-page web application designed to present application, API, and services data and their dependencies in a company standard user experience• Led the Change Management workstream as the Change Management Process Owner in support of IHG’s ServiceNow re-implementation and ITSM initiative• Managed IHG’s Gartner relationship.• Facilitated the establishment, continuing improvement and execution of IHG Global Technology Governance processes, with ownership and accountability for Architecture Governance. Led the weekly Enterprise Architecture Forum and internal Global Technology governance reviews• Supported other GT governance initiatives including GT PMO Governance enhancements, SDLC development, SOA Governance. Steering Committee member for GT PMO Governance process improvements• Captured current and future state process details and developed BPMN process diagrams in support of Global Technology PMO PPM Program and Clarity implementation, including process decomposition, drawing, and documentation

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Responsibilities included:* Enterprise portfolio tracking and strategic analysis* Enterprise IT and architecture governance management and process improvement* Business process modelling* IHG City Plan - a dynamic repository of company intellectual assets - development

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Two separate engagements: • Solutions Architecture team member on a project to design a next-generation, cloud-based inventory & reservation system for the company’s @4600 properties across 100 + countries and 9 brands• Business Analyst for Owner Relationship Manager product team• Led domain analysis & discovery sessions for requirements elicitation and business analysis including business process modeling using BPMN • Applied a structured business architecture methodology for capturing product delivery team's vision • Assisted with planning workshops for Solutions Architecture, Quality Assurance and User Experience teams on project methodologies• Contributed to planning and design of Scenario-based approach to guide domain analysis sessions, including work effort estimations, milestones and scenario writing.• Created a Business Process Inventory• Produced Use Cases, wireframes and requirements for internal application used to support the company's franchise owners.• Led user interface rewrite, converting from Adobe Flex to extJS. Developed a Style Guide to provide documented UI standards for the new interface.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Project leader, product management/business analyst team leader and business analyst for successful development and rollout of Agilysys’ next-generation Property Management System, Guest 360.Key Accomplishments:Compiled product requirements and maintained product development roadmap.Managed team of both full-time and contract Business Analysts and a Technical WriterCo-inventor on two separate patent applications related to the product, #s 20120016699 and 20120016698Produced dozens of Functional Requirement Documents/specifications for many of Guest 360’s primary functional areas, including:• Inventory• Groups• Interfaces• Housekeeping• Reports

Nashville, Tn, Us

Primary project manager, business analyst and account manager for multiple hospitality software systems for Gaylord Entertainment, including: • LMS• LMS Accounts Receivable• DataMagine archiving • IDeaS Revenue Management• ResNet Internet Reservations• eBill CD Group Bill Review• Passkey• Emailer HTML Confirmations• Maritz electronic comments• WERKS Revenue ManagementResponsible for system implementations, upgrades, enhancement development, end user support and vendor relationship for the above systems. Position requires a strong customer focus, advanced planning and problem solving skills, technical skills and aptitude and ability to understand and assess business requirements.Key Accomplishments:Rollout of PMS and related systems for Gaylord Palms and Gaylord Texan openingsNew system deployment of Passkey and eBill to all Gaylord Hotels.

Stowe, Vt, Us

Stowe, Vt, Us

Psychology, History

Mps, Hotel Administration

Diploma