John Dawson Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, GB

United Kingdom

• Chief Architect within Cognizant Consulting.
• Leads Architecture Advisory and Technology Consulting capability in UK&I.
• Provides advisory and strategic technology consulting expertise to clients across all industry sectors.
• Delivery of business driven consulting services, ensuring alignment between business and IT initiatives.
• Enables organisations to modernise, transform and create new digital experiences and business models through effective business and IT change.

United Kingdom

• Principal Enterprise Architect within a global information technology and consulting team.
• Provides technology consulting expertise to clients across a range of industry sectors.
• Delivery of EA driven consulting services, ensuring alignment between business and IT initiatives.
• Enables organisations to create new digital experiences and business models.
• Acts as a trusted business technology advisor and key contributor in the establishment of technology plans that support business strategy and goals.
• Provides independent Enterprise Architecture assessments.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Instrumental in shaping the business strategy to support business growth and diversification of an existing £200m+ operation.
• Definition and ownership of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) and transformational change roadmap to realise the business objectives.
• Definition, ownership and execution of the IT Strategy.
• Established a portfolio of strategic programmes, current state and future state architectures, target operating models and the enterprise blueprints and roadmaps to deliver them.
• Established a team of skilled Enterprise and Solution Architects and formed an effective Enterprise Architecture practice.
• Supported the executive team in pre-sale activities that led to the success of a MBO and subsequent sale of the company to LDC (private equity house of Lloyds Banking Group) in 2011.

• Influential player in the definition of the business and IT vision associated with a large scale (~£15m) strategic change programme to establish a new line of business.
• Provided strategic leadership, expert consultancy and technical design authority on all matters relating to the programme.
• Defined the core architectural design principles and outline definition of associated business, technology and information building blocks required to realise the key business objectives.
• Instrumental in defining and overseeing the successful establishment of a new multi-channel Contact Centre operation, including the design and realisation of the operating model and associated IT and communications.
• Led the business in defining an enterprise-wide CRM strategy.
• Embraced cross-functional team working and involvement of third-party service delivery partners.

• A Senior Management role within a fast paced innovative digital media company, reporting directly to CEO.
• Successfully influenced, pioneered and shaped the way in which digital media is consumed by any device, anytime and from anywhere, whilst maintaining the integrity of the content rights for brand owners.
• Responsible for the design of the end-to-end services platform and customer proposition, including digital rights management, media asset management, media distribution, e-commerce, integrated billing and payment and.
• Successfully integrated media and payment services across a range of next-generation connected devices including IPTVs, STBs and mobile devices, significantly reducing the gap between traditional broadcast and on-line.
• Provided expert consultancy to global Consumer Electronic giants, including Philips, PACE, Commodore and Cisco-Linksys in addition to high-profile entrepreneurial ventures such as iTeddy (made popular through the BBC.
• Instrumental to the success of the iTeddy business, enabling retail sales of £11M in 2007 and providing the catalyst to a global marketplace through the subsequent sale of distribution rights exceeding £6M.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Co-founder, Director and Company Secretary.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Co-Founder and Company Director of Victoria Community Enterprise (VCE).
• Responsible for the initiation and subsequent implemention of a large capital redevelopment project converting church premises, located within the heart of a multi-racial and ethnically diverse environment, into a.
• Supported the expansion and growth of the business in order to develop, maintain and provide a range of managed services to both the local and wider community.

• Technical leadership role within a major UK-based BPO organisation.
• Responsible for developing ICT strategy and delivering this to clients through a solution environment.
• Instrumental in delivering IT transformational change for a number of large public sector, retail and financial services clients.
• Provided business and IT governance, ensuring strategic alignment and value for money.
• Pivotal in establishing a range of new business capabilities and managed service propositions to support business growth activities.

• Responsible for the management, design, development and delivery of web based solutions to local and central government, private sector and internal clients.
• Provided expert consultancy and business solutions to support the e-Government agenda.
• Pivotal in joining-up and e-enabling government services through the establishment of innovative solutions.
• Pioneered the design and implementation of key IT systems to underpin a multi-agency approach to the safeguarding of vulnerable children and young people in response to the Laming Report. This set out the approach and.
• Influential participant in e-Government and public sector IT steering groups and standards bodies.
• Provided technical leadership and business consultancy through active participation on local government IT strategy boards.

• Responsible for the analysis, design and development of business applications to support internal and external clients.
• Instrumental in replacing legacy systems with client-server and web-based solutions.
• Identified opportunities to increase efficiencies within existing BPO services and client-based processes through the innovative use of IT.
• Realised significant operational cost savings through the digitisation and standardisation of business processes and system automation.
• Introduced Rapid Application Development and Agile working practices to increase client engagement and significantly reduce delivery times.
• Designed, developed and realised the first web-based schools administration, catering and financial management system for local authorities in the UK.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.) With Honours, Computing

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