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Reading, Gb

London, Gb

Driving strategic optimisation of 3 layers of enterprise architectures across Europe : 7 retail banners (brands including B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama), 3 banner types, 1 Group.Part of leadership team for Order Management, Fulfilment, Store Operations (incl tills & checkouts), Supply Chain & Logistics product domains.

London, Gb

Working with a great team in a FTSE100 retailer undergoing major transformation, I was responsible for: *Translation of Kingfisher’s business strategy to IT strategy. *Internal strategy consulting to encourage long term and holistic thinking across IT and Business.*Innovation - strategic interventions, new technology / market / start-up scanning and PoC identification. *Strategic guidance, operating model design and enterprise architecture for major initiatives that cross architecture domains.

Bangalore, In

Operating out of the Strategy Transformation practice, I combined business strategy / analysis, enterprise architecture and ITIL service management consulting experience to deliver strategic change for blue chip clients.Highlights include:*IT Operating model design and lead contract content negotiator for £500m outsource as part of high profile divestment (banking client).*Established an Enterprise Architecture function for an International Logistics client - remit to lead pattern-based design, adoption and governance of a new IBM tech-stack (IaaS and SOA / Microservices).*Project recovery, vendor dispute management and solution architecture to enable group rollout of petrochemical portfolio management solution (upstream oil & gas client).*Global enterprise architecture analysis, transitional architectures, digital application strategy and initial MDM business case as part of major acquisition (business services client).

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

As part of Wipro Consulting's Enterprise Architecture group, I was a consulting architect, working with clients to define corporate strategy-enabling technology solutions. Highlights include:*Lead Architect for full IT & Business Transformation Strategy for national Electricity Distributor (Ghana)*Lead Consultant for Data Centre Consolidation study for Electricity network NGO.*Implementation planning, operating model and service model design for BPM and Portal deployments for one of the largest UK banks.*Led an Enterprise Architecture repository function, providing a catalogue of modelling and data management services to Group Global Architecture for a global utility company.*End to End monitoring review (linking infrastructure right through to customer perception metrics) for a leading insurer.*Deconstructed consulting service offerings to component parts, to enable replication, off-shoring and move to non-linear revenue models.

Varied freelance business execution and strategy advice - www.lear-thinking.com•Reduced impact of financial obligations and provided portfolio articulation for a niche IT Infrastructure specialist. •Branding, launch, and value chain business consultancy for new ventures including Commercial Real Estate, Judo, Accountancy, Network Solutions, Hotels and Heating businesses.

Time spent in China, Philippines and Hong Kong prioritising the study of martial arts and philosophy.*Exposure to 15 martial arts systems. *Travelled to Incan Temple of Maccu Piccu in Peru with 70yr old father.*Extensive philosophy / business reading and free dispute mediation / consultancy to several small businesses.*ISEB Certificate in Systems Development Techniques – UML (inc. exam). *ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (exam BH0-006)

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for project management of the Go-to-Market workstream of a simultaneous (7 country) international joint product launch with Vodafone. Successfully repositioned new Blackberry device from business to consumer retail store merchandising locations - proven (in part) by also designing / rolling out out an improved field data collection approach across all countries.

West Hartford, Us

Offerings articulation and marketing strategy to create a compelling set of project management service offerings for external customers. This marketing work was complemented with internal business analysis to improve delivery efficiency and consistency; achieved by creating a PRINCE2-congruent control process set for a £150m turnover Project Management Office (PMO)

West Hartford, Us

Responsible for integration / migration scenario planning - specifically cross-tower collection and dissemination of configuration data. Operating within integration tower of £7bn service improvement initiative for Department of Work and Pensions. In addition to my core role I led the troubleshooting and successful resolution of a critical data issue that was delaying the entire £7bn initiative and incurring significant daily commercial penalties from multiple partners.

West Hartford, Us

Responsible for solution fit and process analysis, documentation and recommendations for UK strand of EMEA programme - a heavily customised business critical £12m ERP/CRM implementation project.

Agency-side role, responsible for multiple concurrent lead generation campaigns. Encompassed target market/USP identification, test matrix design, data sourcing, segmentation and campaign management for high value technology solutions (e.g. ERP, CRM).

Gb

Responsible for portfolio and product management of mobile handsets and accessories for B2B mobile telephony reseller.

Antwerpen, Be

Various roles due to promotion every 6 months, covering MIS structuring / reporting, process design, competitor and compliance research, new market viability assessments, new product launch, new routes to market (specifically affinity partnerships including WWF, Sky and 2 Premier League football clubs).

London, England, Gb

Mba, Master Of Business Administration

Business Architecture - Bcs Professional Certificate

Enterprise & Solution Architecture - Bcs Certified Practitioner

Enterprise Architecture - Togaf 9 Certified Architect

Itil Service Strategy / Itil Service Transition / Itil Foundation

Prince2 Project Management Practitioner

Foundation Cert In Software Testing, Foundation Cert In Business Analysis