Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture for Universal Logistics, ensuring it aligns with business priorities to deliver scalable and secure solutions.Establish multi-year IT Strategy to support overall business objectives.Lead the design and implementation of technology roadmaps.Provide architectural oversight to project teams.

Lead the initiative to transition to Amazon Business B2B solution, enabling legacy system to be deprecated and business value to be realized.Focused on strategizing and accelerating customer's cloud adoption journey.Worked across partners to execute a customer’s data center exit strategy, migrated S4 Hana workloads from three (3) global regions and 400 dependent applications to AWS within 12 months.Built trust with senior decision makers and act as independent advisor. Developed cloud adoption roadmaps and coordinated cloud maturity assessments.Coordinate migration projects and deliver digital innovation initiatives.Applied Enterprise Architecture discipline to solution proposals, ensuring alignment to IT Strategy.Collaborated with sales and product teams to address customer success objectives.

Pre-Sales Lead Architect role for complex and/or high value opportunities.Worked with senior executives as trusted technical advisor/ partner to identify and propose specific strategies, initiatives and remedies necessary to align technology infrastructure with corporate objectives.Jointly architected a modernization initiative to Verizon’s OSS/BSS ITSM stack with phased capability releases to decompose, bespoke systems and ITIL processes to reduce tech-debt.Defined solution architectures and value-based business case propositions.Lead solutioning phase of bid management proposals in response to RFIs and RFPs.Lead solution development of partner start-up initiative to digitize and revolutionize the customer shopping experience in select grocery stores.Jointly architected a modernization initiative to Verizon’s OSS/BSS stack with phased capability releases to decompose monolithic, bespoke systems and reduce tech-debt.Drove architecture, SDLC and organizational transformation that enabled Verizon to define and develop new product offerings through business agility and value streams.Championed the use of SAFe in the development of a strategic ServiceNow platform;Developed, trained and supported architects to embrace architecture modelling initially using ArchiMate and Archi to produce Logical, Physical and Deployment NorthStar architectures for Agile Product Management team.2021 Verizon Winner's Circle award winner - Verizon's most dedicated and accomplished sales professionals (62 winners across Verizon Business Group)

Architecture responsibility for definition, development and delivery of solutions within Dealer Financial Services business line within Ally Financial.Introduced concept of Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to prioritize software development work.Provided governance to internal tooling and architectural standards.

Delivered Architecture Patterns for strategic themes including, Real Time insights, Web Security and Associated Standards, Edge API Gateway.Established documentation management discipline for the team to ensure value in maintaining an enterprise continuum across government departments.Defined documentation standards, artefact registry and enterprise continuum

DXC Technology (a convergence of HP Enterprise Services and CSC)

Lead Architect in the EMEA Office of the CT providing a level of architectural governance across multiple enterprise transformation programs, including red-team delivery reviews and educating teams on best practices.Delivery of highly automated secure managed private cloud service for Deutsche Bank Investment Bank; over 80,000 workloads globally across 18 strategic data centers; multi-billion dollar.EA modelling of solution from Business layer (ArchiMate and BPMN) through to sequence diagrams (UML) ensuring traceability of requirements, motivations and business drivers.Development of service and release roadmaps to ensure alignment with customer integration points, systems and services.Defined methodology, tools and process architecture stretching from discovery, through application ‘contexting' to automated cloning of workloads from legacy infrastructure to Cloud;Delivered scalable architecture for non-Production environments, enabling solutions to be developed and released in parallel thus reducing time to market for delivering capability

• Defining policy and strategy specifically relating to the transition of services from legacy into the target solution in order to accelerate legacy closure.• Identification and embellishment of closure opportunities to enable the release of client funds to support the client’s internal business case for investment in the target solution.• Engagement in a variety of topics from performance and capacity aspects of the target solution (to ensure volume of migrating information content remained proportional to the target capacity) through to defining additional service offerings for enhancing the end-user experience of the target solution.• Frequent liaison with the client; primarily at senior executive level.

Delivery of Defense Internal Infrastructure across UK armed forces incorporating convergence of Office automation systems across 300,000 devices across fixed, land deployed and maritime environments and multiple security domains.

Primary responsibility for ensuring new technologies were implemented by the regional support teams to an agreed standard.Design lead for Microsoft server infrastructure implemented across the organization; the technology package, incorporated a new Windows XP Pro SP2 desktop, ZENWorks 6.5 workstation management, Exchange 2003, Roaming Profiles (incl folder re-direction), DirXML, Patchlink (Novell Patch Management) and File System Factory.

Supported numerous separate NetWare 4.11 networks both from a hardware and administrative perspectives. One of my major roles included assessing the viability of moving to a Windows NT network and to propose a rollout plan.

Install and configuration of front office systems.Administration of the corporate mail system.