An experienced SC Cleared, Enterprise Architect & Fractional CTO, with more than 18 years of experience in providing consultancy in leadership and direction in designing and implementing Enterprise level Technology strategies, solutions and architectures.A result orientated individual who has excellent management skills and a performance record for building strong customer focused technical solutions across a variety of commercial and public sector environments. Significant experience and strengths in relationship building with key stakeholders, shaping and defining digital transformation strategies to deliver operational excellence with innovative use of technology to support business objectives. Has strong influential and leadership skills where key strategic decisions need to be made at senior management level to ensure successful outcomes for both parties.Domain knowledge: End User Computing, Multi Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) Hosting, encompassing the majority of Microsoft, Citrix and Virtualisation technologies as well as a good understanding of other areas such as network, storage and client-based technologies.Proficient in several functions including, Bids/Pre-Sales, Business Development, Contracts, Outsourcing, Global Offshoring, Service Delivery, Project Management, Transition and Transformation.
Jlr Professional Services Ltd
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DirectorJlr Professional Services Ltd Jan 2024 - Present
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Enterprise ArchitectMozaic Services Limited Jan 2024 - Aug 2024Defence Aerospace - Responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance and assurance, for a medium-scale and complex architecture procurement tender. Providing Assurance that the Service requirements have appropriate cost inclusion during the Supplier procurement phases, supporting the tendering, evaluation and supplier down selection process.Helping shape an enterprise wide Tool Strategy to support a data driven digital transformation journey. Providing technical leadership, guidance and assurance for a ServiceNow implementation aligning to a SIAM service model framework. -
Account CtoAtos Aug 2021 - Oct 2023Health & Life Sciences - Helping shape the customers digital business vision. Translating the vision into a digital transformation strategy underpinned by business objectives, supported by a technical strategy. Responsible for continuously driving the hospitals innovation around new and emerging digital technologies & services that align to their business needs. Responsible for leading Technical Implementations, including architecture, design, cost competitiveness and service optimisation. Responsible for managing technical teams of Architects, technical specialists & domain experts during BAU, projects and bids. Ensuring delivery aligns to the overall contractual obligation, architecture strategy and business objectives. Focal point for technical queries to the account management team, ensuring technical integrity, ownership and governance of the infrastructure architecture within the account.Working with the Technical Engineering and delivery units, ensuring a coherent and consistent technical strategy is applied, providing technical direction and architectural governance on all infrastructure solutions within the Trusts environment. -
Enterprise ArchitectAtos Jan 2016 - Aug 2021Defence – (Bids), Responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance and assurance, for a large-scale and complex End-User-Services - Defence RFP (circa 180K users, TCV >£100m). Providing Assurance that the solution and transformation approach has appropriate cost inclusion during the bid phases and is deliverable in transition.Public Sector – (Bid and Delivery), Responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance and assurance, for a large-scale and complex data centre migration under aggressive timelines – Nuclear Authority RFP (TCV £1mil). Financial (Insurance & Stocks) – Responsible for a portfolio of clients within the finance sector. Providing technical direction and architectural governance on all infrastructure solutions within the accounts. Being the focal point for technical queries to account management. Running innovation workshops to support business strategy and customer digital journey, ensuring the application of a coherent and consistent technical strategy. Proactively finding new opportunities working with the client, Portfolio, Technical Engineering and delivery units. -
Lead Technical ArchitectAtos Apr 2012 - Dec 2015Financial Client (Insurance) - Responsible for owning and driving the end-to-end implementation of a fully outsourced Greenfield hosting solution (TCV £10mil) for a financial client. Leading and managing the architecture team, by providing governance, technical direction and being the technical design authority across multiple areas of the technologies deployed. Presenting concise information for both non-technical senior financial stakeholders and technical audiences. Working with the Transition Director provided Financial/ contractual governance on the scope of the solution to ensure transition keeps within scope and budget.Government (Transport) Client – Technically designed, Lead the implementation of a £2million Strategic Disaster Recovery solution comprising of 250 multi-platform server estate, across two Data-Centres for a high-profile government organization, which required no impact or downtime to service and with their Client programme of work running in parallel on same servers. Thought leadership, design governance and coordination of technical teams, ensured each move, downtime managed efficiently to minimum impact for client and allow Atos to meet aggressive timescales and milestones. -
Technical Consultant / ArchitectAtos Sep 2007 - Mar 2012Financial sector (Solution Architect):Designed and led a £2million infrastructure upgrade Bid. Followed by directing and governing the implementation delivery to very aggressive time scales. Installation, build and configuration of 198 servers, across multiple platforms ranging from Solaris, ESX, RHEL and Windows. Successfully delivered within 6 weeks from contract signature ahead of time within in budget.Enterprise sector (Datacentre Transition Architect):Designing and implementing a migration solution for a Datacentre Exit, covering Storage, Networks and Large and complex servers across different Platforms. Data migration design of SAN Storage (Hitachi 9980v/HDS USPV) across two DataCentres with zero service impact.Enterprise sector (Technical Architect):Provided Technical Leadership. Driving the resolution of 10 high-profile issues visible at exec level. Rebuilt client relationship, confidence, and trust, which resulted in client contract renewal worth £50million. -
Senior Systems Administrator & ArchitectAtos Sep 2005 - Sep 2007Government Sector - Provided technical support and architectural design, support on Windows, SQL & Citrix platforms. Senior member of a team of Wintel engineers responsible for keeping business critical IT infrastructure running 24/7. Involved in high profile infrastructure projects to refresh server estate and transitioning new business acquisition & merges. -
Desktop/Server Support TechnicianMercedes-Ilmor Jun 2003 - Oct 2004Provided 3rd Line support for Citrix, NAS Storage, ESX, Windows 2000 - 2003 servers, SQL Server, Lotus Notes, DNS, Active Directory, ISA Server and Microsoft SMS server systems. Senior Technical escalation for junior members of 2nd Line Server Team
Rita P. Education Details
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Bsc (Hons) Computer Science -
Science & Engineering Studies
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Rita P.'s current role is Enterprise Architect / Fractional CTO (Active: SC Clearance).
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Rita P. attended Loughborough University, Loughborough University.
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