Graham Compton Email & Phone Number

Gloucester, Gb

United Kingdom

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As a Senior Systems Engineer, I led the requirements elaboration of four High-Grade Certificate Management components as part of a PKI based communication system. Working with suppliers and internal subject matter experts I minimised integration risk whilst maximising supplier innovation. I worked with other PM and SE colleagues to drive out delivery risk; derive the integration approach and ensure that the suppliers were on track to deliver against a fixed time-frame

Gloucester, United Kingdom

As an Engineering Lead, I was responsible for all aspects of systems engineering for the supplier in a key engagement with a major government department. This included customer liaison; leadership; assurance of process and engineering products; process improvement; coaching and mentoring of engineering staff in both system delivery and service management contexts.I led the definition, options appraisal and requirements trading for a mission critical delivery within a fixed time-frame.

London, United Kingdom

As a Senior Systems Engineer I scoped and shaped the delivery of a critical IL6 desktop upgrade programme to move from Windows XP to Windows 7. I defined the engineering approach and instilled the necessary engineering discipline into the team. I have systematically made key design decisions ensuring the necessary buy-in - including deviations from the Enterprise Architecture where appropriate.As a Systems Engineering lead to the portfolio management processes, I ensured that programme decomposition was appropriate and that each project was scoped appropriately.As part of the enterprise Systems Engineering team, I helped to embed Systems Engineering as a discipline within the organisation. I provided advice and coaching to programme and technical staff on the pragmatic application of Systems Engineering methods and techniques.Through planning and running formal assurance gates I provided timely intervention to key deliveries such as the introduction of strategic secure virtualised hosting services.

London, United Kingdom

As an Enterprise Architect in the Future IT Sourcing (FITS) Programme I put the procurement on a strategic footing through the definition of Architecture Objectives; Principles; and Technology Standards.In addition, I delivered the Tailored Architecture Framework for the Programme including: the selection and Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) of the Architecture products; writing the Product Descriptions; defining the Metamodel; and tailoring the Architecture Development Method (ADM) to align with the procurement lifecycle.This £1b+ cross-government MSP Procurement Programme was based on COBIT; TOGAF 9.1; and ITIL V3 and was a procurement exercise to move from vertical to horizontal integrated service lines.

As an Enterprise Architect in a £1b+ cross-government MSP Programme I led the consolidation of disparate and inconsistent architectural products into a coherent and configuration managed MoDAF architecture and defined the necessary Systems Engineering (SE) processes to ensure its ongoing management. I shaped the partitioning of the Programme into its constituent Projects ensuring that each Project had unambiguous and testable requirements; pioneered the introduction of Technology Readiness Level assessments to augment risk management; and conducted a benefits mapping exercise to support a gap analysis of the Project portfolio.

As the Chief Systems Engineer and Head of Design Assurance in a £1b+ cross-government MSP Programme I stood up and led the SE and architecture governance functions of the Programme. Reporting directly to the Programme Architect, I significantly increased the Systems Engineering maturity across the entire lifecycle – particularly in Requirements; Configuration; and Risk Management. In addition, I provided vital assurance to the Programme Architect, Manager and the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) allowing early management intervention and reducing rework.Responsible for the effective application of SE across the Programme, I tailored the SE process so that it focused on key risk areas and captured this in the Programme’s SE Management Plan (SEMP). I used this to provide direction and leadership across the engineering teams.I coached the wider Programme in the selection and production of the highest value MoDAF artefacts and ensured that the solution was compliant with the relevant legislation (RIPA; ATCSA; DPA; and EU DRD) as well as the Cabinet Office Security Policy Framework.I coached the Project teams on subject matter partitioning and the correct application of UML during the creation of the logical architecture, ensuring that RIPA and the Codes of Practice were correctly transposed as part of the requirements/design. I also coached the Project teams in solution option evaluation techniques including the assessment of build vs. buy decisions.Execution of this role involved engagement with board members; external suppliers (both commercial and other government departments); and a senior external review body. I have personally delivered and justified challenging review conclusions in a board format outlining clear remedial actions quickly earning the trust of the external review body.

As Lead Systems Engineer I led a team in the production of a bid proposal to another government Programme, securing £100m+ of additional external funding and enabling greater efficiencies and timely delivery across government.I quickly gained an appreciation of the internal political sensitivities; and the external customer’s drivers. I then built a productive virtual team through a series of workshops aimed at developing a common goal. This resulted in the production of a proposal that our organisation was able to commit to and the external customer was convinced added value to their Programme.The proposal detailed an ITIL V3 service to be offered across government and was realised by significantly increasing the scale of an existing IL6 OLAP Oracle database; and bringing on-line additional data feeds. Implementation of this service required significant business process re-engineering.

As Lead Systems Engineer for a £100m+ MSP Programme of Work, I helped define the strategy and then led a team of 20+ Systems Engineers in the partitioning of the Programme into several distinct Tranches; and discrete PRINCE2 projects. I successfully oversaw the Implementation; Integration; Verification & Validation of the first 2½ years of this portfolio.Responsible for all mobile communications and support to military operations capabilities; I created the MoDAF architectures and roadmaps and ensured that the capabilities were successfully transitioned into operation giving UK forces vital force protection and directly saving lives.The portfolio spans Data Acquisition; Processing; Storage; OLTP; OLAP; Visualization; and Communications as well as covering all aspects of People; Process; Information; Technology; and Facility. Both development and deployment took place with international partners and in a very constrained; heterogeneous; and security conscious environment.To execute this role effectively, I needed a detailed understanding of the workings at all layers of fixed and mobile telecommunications services as well as HF/VHF radio communications. The solutions were wide-ranging and built-upon Linux and Windows using C++; Java; and Oracle as well as including bespoke hardware components using FPGAs. I ensured the successful integration of the applications with TIBCO and FTP based transport mechanisms over WAN/LAN networks and Fibre; SatCom; and Microwave links (including new deployments).Throughout this period, I led; coached; and developed a rainbow team of 20+ Systems Engineers in areas such as MoDAF; stakeholder management; requirements elicitation and management; facilitation; architecting; design; and integration. I have also led by example, being one of the few of the SE leadership to run training courses on SE & consulting skills.

As Technical Director for a £40m+ MSP Programme Tranche, I led a team of System Design Authorities (SDA’s) in the production and execution of product roadmaps reducing duplication and overlaps in the product catalogue.By creating a System of Systems architecture model in UML, I ensured that all changes to these data acquisition and processing systems were successfully integrated with corporate repositories. This role required a detailed understanding of satellite and mobile communications services.Part of this portfolio was a joint development with international partners and I represented our organisation at international design reviews, ensuring the wider system met our requirements.During this time, I also built the wider community of SDA’s by instantiating and running a successful community forum across the whole department. This resulted in better sharing of plans and caught integration issues early, reducing rework and time to market.

As an Enterprise Architect I led a team in the joint development of an enterprise information model with our international partners. The model was defined in UML and several standard mappings (including binary and XML) to data formats were developed along with a set of supporting Java APIs. This work involved liaising with our developers and representing them as chair of an international working group. The work directly contributed to significant reductions in integration costs across our partner agencies.In addition, I led the introduction of the DoDAF Architecture Framework to the organisation. I wrote standard mappings of UML to DoDAF views and captured these as ViewPoint descriptions.

As Service Delivery Manager I delivered Continual Service Improvements to several mission critical database systems that were amongst the biggest of their type in the world. I led a team of 20+ in-house and contractor development and support staff, putting in place Service Measurement to highlight the main causes of downtime and systematically eliminated them through the introduction of Problem Management practices.The databases were built using a mixture Commercial Of The Shelf (COTS) and bespoke software in order to meet the non-functional requirements and included UNIX; Windows Server; Oracle; RetrievalWare; shell-scripts; Perl; C; C++; Java; Visual Basic; and Tcl/Tk.