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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

As Business Change Director, my role is to offer strategic guidance during pivotal transformations, leveraging a deep understanding of enterprise frameworks, governance, and standardisation. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, I navigate the current landscape, assess capability maturity, and provide assistance in the direction and execution of strategy. Whether it's supporting businesses during mergers and acquisitions, requirement gathering, or managing design and implementation phases, I position myself as a trusted advisor and reliable partner to my clients, ensuring they can successfully reach their objectives.Speculo are a specialist consultancy, dedicated to fostering agility in digital and organisational transformations. Transparency, impartiality, and vendor-independence are our guiding principles, as we provide a range of consulting services bespoke to our clients' needs. Our consumption-based charging model ensures our services are accessible to clients of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. We frequently assist in reviving stalled projects and support enterprises eager to transform, regardless of their current maturity level. At our core, we believe in maintaining a flexible culture that balances professional dedication with a healthy lifestyle, a philosophy we infuse into every project we undertake.

- Design and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks and solutions.- Leading IT strategy development and execution for various business sectors.- Managing stakeholders, facilitating effective communication and alignment across business units.- Requirement gathering, ensuring comprehensive and detailed project specifications.- Managing complex IT transformation projects, from initial planning to final implementation.- Delivery of solutions for mergers and acquisitions, supporting those clients through periods of change.- Knowledge of IT governance, enabling standardisation and efficiency across organisational processes.

London, United Kingdom

As an architect in both the Solution and Enterprise remit, I bought extensive experience in the design and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks and solutions. My track record in leading IT strategy development and execution across diverse projects and initiatives set me apart. Highly skilled in managing stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and alignment across different business units. My expertise in requirement gathering guaranteed comprehensive project specifications, tailored to the unique needs of each client. With a demonstrated history of successfully managing complex IT transformations, I was adept at guiding projects from inception to completion. Furthermore, my proficiency in delivering solutions for mergers and acquisitions allowed me to support businesses throughout periods of significant change. My strong foundation in IT governance enabled me to facilitate standardisation and enhance efficiency across organisational processes.Hessel Solutions served as a conduit for delivering independent architectural advice and guidance to various clients and customers. As an independent contractor, I provided tailored services, adapting to the unique challenges and needs of each client. The goal was to offer transparent, impartial, and effective architectural solutions to businesses of all sizes and sectors. I was committed to delivering high-value outcomes that drove business growth and success.

London, United Kingdom

• Facilitate and validate client requirements pertaining to any infrastructure related initiatives.• Evaluate and architect cross technology domain solutions for scalable and resilient system implementations which meet the agreed success criteria, whilst also adhering to regulatory requirements and aligning to the long-term strategic company direction.• Manage Initial Assessments received via Work Intake process – provide technology with an initial functional understanding, provision of basic design, resource and associated financial impacts.• Assess and guide in creation and evaluation of technology related costs within business cases.• Partner with Technology Development teams to ensure application architectures are consistent with desired deployment models.• Senior member of a global team of 12, mentor and inspire the creation and provision of solution architecture services, and their alignment to global technology strategy and direction.• Create and maintain architectural designs and documentation, leading in the creation of support models for new implementations.• Method and Pattern development based on TOGAF / BCS principals within the enterprise architecture domains. Specific emphasis on cross domain collaboration for complete creation of those artefacts.• Initiate the company’s long-term strategic technology direction within the team and educate the wider technology community with regards to client architectures.

London, United Kingdom

• Requirement analysis, design and implementation planning for new technology requests initiated by the business.• Application profiling and evaluation for mergers and acquisitions as well as new business products• Creation and ownership of methodology and standard approaches for application profiling.• Project technical stakeholder engagement and management; including business owners, application owners, technical managers and global management.• Vendor management regarding solution designs, application evaluation and profiling.

Espom, Surrey, United Kingdom

• Supported 2500 UK users across 12 locations, both remotely and onsite, with second line queries.• Collaborated with multiple teams to provide technical fixes, and reduce escalations to third line support.• Facilitated the creation and maintenance of support documentation, which translated to a reduction in support ticket resolution times year on year of 30%.

Haywards Heath, Sussex, United Kingdom

Haywards Heath, Sussex, United Kingdom