Phil Tate Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

I am engaged as a Cloud Migration, Application, Infrastructure and Integration Architect on a number of projects. I currently work in Public Sector, but have extensive experience in Financial Services. I have also worked in Telecommunications and Media. I am delivery and governance focussed and have made extensive contributions to a number of high value.

Bradford, United Kingdom

I managed a team of up to 15 architects and became the lead account architect, responsible for the technical elements of all programmes, including systems rationalisation, applications rationalisation, enterprise and data centre migrations for a financial services organisation.

I was brought onto the review the work performed by another architect and make the solution fit for purpose. I was responsible for integration aspects of boarding multiple councils onto a shared service platform. I wrote the solution architecture document and worked with the SAP team, along with the customer to deploy links between systems to provide.

I was the Lead Architect for an innovative project linking internal systems together for the first time. I was responsible for the overall solution and communicating the design in such as way as each third party could understand and successfully implement. I ran formal meetings and workshops to walk through the solution and worked to resolve any issues. I.

I was brought into create infrastructure architecture for a international planning and reporting financial package. Working to a challenging timescale, the technical architecture based on Microsoft Windows and SQL Server was produced and well received. I was additionally responsible for introducing document management, server specification and overseeing.

I was engaged as the development lead and application architect as part of a large programme of work to transform a large UK mobile phone operator. I produced detailed specifications for integration and configuration. I worked directly with the supplier in Sweden to agree interface transformations from their package to the customer’s systems.

I performed a technical project management role to move services from one set of data centre networks to another without loss of service to the business. I was involved in all stages of the project from requirements gathering to post implementation support.

I was the application architect and lead developer for a bespoke IT asset management system. Originally the project was to be only tactical, however due to the success of implementation, reliability and meeting the customer’s needs it was reclassified as the strategic asset management system.

I travelled throughout the UK and was responsible on a national basis for organising resources, capturing business requirements, validation and subsequent technical approval prior to business approval from the business sponsor and negotiation with the supplier prior to financial considerations. Projects included inventory management and repair management.

I ran a small IT business where in addition to successfully evaluating and reorganising the IT within a number of businesses, I was responsible for the financial and staff employment aspects of my business. I executed the IT transformation of a major international electronics company. Roles included evaluation of back office server requirements.

During my placement year at University, I worked as a software developer producing tools on an ICL mainframe.