Howard Foster Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Foster City, California, Us

Enterprise architecture engagement and support across all business and technical stakeholders in Product, Technology, CyberSecurity, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Operations and Corporate Development. Supporting the Chief Technology Officer Europe, Regional Lead EA and Global Product Development architecture teams. - Supporting architecture, platform, and shared service strategies across the enterprise.- Technology and value optimization framework for acquired entities and platforms integration.- Aligning technology delivery impact assessments for new Product Lifecycle Management initiatives.- Feasibility of GenAI options and tools for productivity gains across business and dev practices. - Defining end-to-end enterprise operational models for new hybrid Cloud hosting operations. - Contributing to Bank of England and FCA compliance reviews and regulatory strategies.Related Technologies: AWS (Global, Regional, Payment HSMs, Nitro), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Real-Time/Payment Platforms (VisaNet / Visa Direct / Tink / Yellow Pepper / Pismo), HR (Workday), Ops (ServiceNow).

Hull, Gb

Pre-sales, bidding, estimation, risk assessment, enterprise architecture, solution architecture and technical architecture.Providing strong delivery, leadership and solution architecture strategy consultation across various business domains, including: - Telecommunications (Telefonica / O2) - Lead Solutions Architect- Unified Voice and Contact Centre (KCOM / Cisco) - Solutions Architect- Financial Services (Visa Europe) - Solutions Architect- Marketing and Brands (Tag: Williams Lea) - Enterprise Architect- Commercial Services (Camelot) - Enterprise Architect- Travel-Airline (Virgin Atlantic Airways) – Solutions Architect- Travel-Rail (Rail Delivery Group) - Lead Solutions Architect- Travel-Rail (Transport for London) - Lead Solutions Architect- Construction (ConstructionSkills) – Solutions ArchitectProviding expertise in a number of cross-cutting Business and IT frameworks, techniques and practices, including;- EAI and Service-Orientation – Governance, management and technical enablement for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and APIs- Enterprise Content Management (EMC Documentum, Document Classification, Governance)- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) model and technology enablement- Customer Services Transformations (Omni-Channel, Contact Centers, IVR, Voice, Self-Service)- Business Process Modelling and Management (BPM)- Master Data Quality and Management (MDM) initiatives for business standard enterprise data models, repositories, service orchestration and choreography designs- IT Security Designs and PCI-DSS Compliance

e-Freight SOA - (8 MIL €, 2009-2013) - led by British Maritime Technologies (UK)- Consortium of 30 partners from 15 countries supporting EU wide shipping gateways- Accountable for business, data and technology architecture (SOA) with e-Freight business visions̶- Transformation of conceptual architecture to physical components and technology selectionSLAs for the Cloud (15 MIL €, 2008-2011) - led by SAP Research (DE) and Intel (IE)- Consortium of 11 partners from 7 countries to support embedding SLA-aware Architecture in Cloud Services- Delivery of SOA Monitoring Architecture, Service KPIs, QoS and Data Quality tools- Technical Design Authority (TDA) for Business and IT Architecture and Design decisionsSOA Frameworks (8 MIL €, 2007-2010) - led by LMU (DE)̶- Consortium of 16 partners from 12 countries defining and engineering standards for SOA̶- Leading 3 developers in 3 countries, annual budget requests, monitoring and reporting.̶- Delivery of services architecture models (governance, security, data quality, processes) for European systems engineering initiatives and standards. Maintaining planning and integration with use of collaboration tools (CRM, ERP, ESB, MDR, MDM and various Data Quality tools).

Programme and Demonstration Committee member for International Conference on Services Computing.

Consulting on application and tool support for WS-BPEL and W3C Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) in industry and academia.

Gb

Analysis and Design of Customer Relationship Management Business programme and systems for PwC S.A.Strategist for common process, data, modelling and standards.

Gb

UK IT Manager in Business and Data Service Integration / Middleware Solutions. Solutions Architect for integrating and designing collaborative global systems Workstream leader on Global Data Architecture initiatives, including business standard XML schema objects and data service, orchestration and choreography design (HR/Global Finance/CRM Domains).

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Developing B2B solutions with new and emerging Microsoft technologies, whilst facilitating development across U.K. and U.S. development teams. This position involved frequent travel to North America and around the U.K, and included high visibility client contact in both systems development, and internal and external training programmes (clients have included; Siemens (UK), Debenhams, BP (UK), Shell (UK) and Sainsburys).

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Leading a world-wide development project (~$450,000) for Purchasing Systems at Ford Motor Company to provide distributed RFQ and PO functionality and centralise administration of document preparation. Utilising Windows NT Server technology across 25 countries, this position involved systems development and support, combined with extensive international travel in deployment. Supervised from the U.S. Roles: Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing. Web/Xtranet - Developing a secure site for external supplier communication.

Phd, Computing

Msc, Computing