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Epworth, Gb

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

London, Hammersmith, Gb

The strategic partner for the business, helping them to get the best use of emerging technologies and innovation opportunities to deliver maximum and sustainable value. We use insight from external industry, vendors and academic partners to evolve and execute these strategies to achieve our business and operational goals.

Reading, England, Gb

Reporting into the CIO, my team are accountable for: - Operations strategy: ensuring it's designed to set, challenge, and inspire the business with future opportunities and the risks that technology can present, and to drive and shape the future of Operations and Operating Model Strategy to best serve the business and Group- Technology Partnerships: Identifying and developing existing and new technology partnerships across industry and academia- Technical Assurance: Ensuring we have end to end technical assurance across all of our transformation and BAU projects so what gets built, meets the scope, architecture and design

Reading, England, Gb

Responsible for implementing the new IT Operating Model leading our transformation to become a truly product-led, highly skilled, multi-modal organisation.

Reading, England, Gb

Department head of solution and service design c150 permanent employees and managed service resources. Providing E2E design leadership across all IT led projects and programmes, and are accountable for the E2E design and providing clarity and resolution on all solution & service design matters and issues.

Reading, England, Gb

The Solution Design Manager role reports to the Chief Architect and is responsible for managing a team of over 35 permanent and contractor Solution Designers providing design leadership and specialist IT Design Governance expertise and guidance. My team are accountable for the end to end design of the project, providing clarity and resolution on all design matters/issues, and ensuring the solutions delivered are of a consistently high quality, meet requirements, are operationally fit, and move the IT Architecture forward.

Reading, England, Gb

Responsible for: • Portfolio Management of the Run IT Portfolio for Telefonica UK (O2) • Serving as the primary client relationship and communication, engagement and reporting between senior IT leaders, business owners and P&Ls for all IT Run demand, for example; new capability, business transformation programmes, software/hardware upgrades, decommissioning, contractual/regulatory changes and service improvement and capability initiatives. • Evaluating, challenging and prioritising new IT demand in terms of cost, ROI and alignment with business and technology strategies in year and in response to changing markets • Maintaining a detailed view of both planned (strategic) and unplanned (trading) demand. • Working alongside Business Architecture, IT Architecture, PMO, business stakeholders and Finance functions to assess and plan all IT demand both annually, and in-year.

Reading, England, Gb

About Me: I managed the IT Integration Engagement team. With E2E IT responsibility for the applications which glue the IT Architecture together. These included SOA, Access & Registration, and Business Process Management (BPM). My team provided expert knowledge, consultancy support and design time governance to projects and business areas wanting to use SOA and Access & Registration services.Ask Me About: Service Oriented Architecture, SOA Adoption & Business Benefits Realisation, SOA Governance, Service Identification, Business Architecture, Business Capability Modelling, Access ＆Registration, Business Engagement & Analysis, Agile Scrum

Reading, England, Gb

As part of O2 UK's IT Architecture Team I was part of the original team that led O2's adoption of Service Oriented Architecture implementing the governance frameworks, reusable services and platform components. The SOA Governance Team (SGT) provides the focal point for governance in O2 UK with the authority, responsibility and ability to develop and maintain a common view balancing control with support and assistant. The SGT has four objectives:1. To ensure compliance with processes and policies for service build and use. 2. To provide expert skills and services to projects 3. Provide SOA knowledge management, thought leadership and journey management 4. Realise cost reduction against the IT portfolioAs a key member of the SGT the SOA Business Architect owns the SOA service identification and specification method; the O2 UK SOA business architecture and process model and maintains a view of how current SOA services fit into those frameworks.

Reading, England, Gb

Joined O2 as a Business Analyst in the Business Solutions team, working initially on the Bill Validation initiative, followed by Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Phase 2, along with triaging a variety of small change projects. Also implemented the BSRD peer review process, supporting the roll out of the new BSRD template/clinics, and leading the team’s adoption of using use cases and associated BA training/support. Spent much of 2007 working on Returns & Repairs, initially on the MI piece and on the Improve Returns & Repairs Customer Experience initiative. In August 2006 I was assigned to the Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) project and was responsible for delivery of the SOA Services BSRD, the Service Identification Framework (SIF) for SOA in O2, and supporting the SOA platform and governance work streams in O2's adoption of SOA.

London, Gb

Project leader for the Sheffield City Council SafetyNET project - A web based application (.NET/SQL server) supporting the local ISA requirements for sharing information about the involvement of service’s practitioners with children and young people. Responsibilities included the following; Business analysis, requirement engineering and ensuring the successful delivery of bespoke enhancements and application support to web based applications for Sheffield City Council and ensuring optimal security for the viewing, recording and storing of highly sensitive data. Working closely with the client and onshore/offshore technical teams to define project scope and produce functional specifications using use cases and process modelling. Project management responsibilities inclusive of RAID management, quote compilation/mediation and presentation back to the client, ensuring all projects are delivered on time and to budget. Development and analysis of a complex XML Soap interface between the SafetyNET application and interfacing service provider systems.

Houston, Texas, Us

Working with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) and Jobcentre Plus, my role played a significant part in the successful delivery of bi-annual releases providing bespoke enhancements to core legacy systems and interfacing systems. Responsibilities included; Requirements collation, engineering and documentation to deliver high-quality/cost effective solutions consistent with legislative strategy. Visually modelling business/system processes using use cases and UML activity diagrams. Facilitating Requirement Collaboration Workshops with policy stakeholders and end users. Providing data and systems analysis on DWP/Jobcentre Plus systems. Identification of benefits and business savings whilst considering the implications of the application of technology to the client’s business environment. Production of functional specifications, high level design, capacity planning and entity relationship models. Role of project change manager; providing impact assessment on all change management requests and chairing the change control board. Supervising and training new and inexperienced analysts. Providing input to preliminary and critical design reviews and giving functionality overview presentations to the client and key stakeholders.

B.A. (Hons), Geography With It (2:1)

4 A'Levels, 10 Gcses, Geography, History, English Language