Thomas Glover

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Director of Technology and Architecture @ Genus PLC
Stapeley, England, GB
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Tom is a respected Enterprise Architect with almost 30 years of experience, specialising in the leadership, design, implementation, and evolution of intricate and global platform architectures across sectors such as Financial Services, Life Sciences, Public Sector, Telecommunications, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. His leadership in Enterprise Architecture is marked by a robust focus on emerging technologies, innovation, and particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain.In his current role, Tom's leadership extends to guiding the design of large-scale Digital platform architectures for major Thoughtworks clients, spearheading Digital Transformation engagements. He takes a hands-on approach to leadership, not only evangelising these opportunities at the client CxO level but also leading the client design and implementation. His management of complex architectural problems is characterized by his championing of Systems Thinking methodologies and frameworks, and his advocacy for agile approaches such as Domain Driven Design, Event Storming, Technology Radars, and Wardley Mapping.A recognised leader in the field, Tom emphasises the use of proven modelling capabilities for Enterprise Architectural description, notably in the area of The Open Group ArchiMate standard and the C4 Model. This thought leadership has been particularly essential in the IoT space, where his passion for technology infrastructure and innovation has manifested in a focus on cloud computing opportunities and cloud platform partner alliances.Tom's leadership extends to community knowledge-building. He actively engages in public speaking and facilitates community events to promote emerging technology awareness. Tom's advocacy for client co-innovation for IoT and emerging technology opportunities underscores his belief in community building between client and partner, reflecting his leadership in fostering collaboration.With extensive and proven leadership capabilities in articulating Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation challenges and opportunities, his comprehensive understanding of Enterprise Architecture, combined with his strategic and visionary leadership and management skills, positions him as a leading figure in the field, capable of bridging the gap between traditional practices and cutting-edge technological advancements. His ability to lead teams, manage complex projects, and inspire innovation underscores his status as a top-tier Enterprise Architect and leader in the industry.

Thomas Glover's Current Company Details
Genus PLC

Genus Plc

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Director of Technology and Architecture
Stapeley, England, GB
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genusplc.com
Employees:
1433
Thomas Glover Work Experience Details
  • Genus Plc
    Director Of Technology And Architecture
    Genus Plc
    Stapeley, England, Gb
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  • Genus Plc
    Director Of Technology & Architecture
    Genus Plc Nov 2024 - Present
    Basingstoke , Hampshire, Gb
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  • Thoughtworks
    Enterprise Architect
    Thoughtworks May 2024 - Nov 2024
    Chicago, Il, Us
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  • Thoughtworks
    Technical Director
    Thoughtworks Jan 2017 - Sep 2023
    Chicago, Il, Us
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  • Ibm
    Internet Of Things Architect - Global Business Services (Gbs)
    Ibm May 2015 - Jan 2017
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
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  • Ibm
    Enterprise Architect
    Ibm Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
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  • Cognizant Technology Solutions
    Associate Director
    Cognizant Technology Solutions Jan 2010 - Jan 2014
    Teaneck, New Jersey, Us
    Responsibilities:I am currently employed at Cognizant as a Principal Architect. This requires me to function as both an Enterprise Architect and a Strategic Business Consultant. My proven experience in architecture enables me to apply my extensive industry knowledge and skills across the Cognizant portfolio. I am responsible for providing professional consultancy services to a wide range of client verticals, including Financial Services, Telecommunications and Life Sciences.I provide specialist consultancy in the areas of Infrastructure, Cloud, RFID and Mobility within Cognizant. I also plays a lead role in driving Innovation within the Organisation and its clients.Major Achievements:• Leading an Architectural Transformation Assessment for a leading Tier 1 Consultancy• Leading a Transformation exercise for a global pharmaceutical organisation• Complex platform and Vendor assessment for a Global Payments Solution for a Financial Services Organisation• Architectural and Technology transformation assessment for a leading UK Financial Services Organisation• Architectural Platform Consolidation and Rationalisation of a European Telecommunications Provider• Co-Chair and speaker at SEEC Cloud Computing Conference• RFID Architecture for 7000 person location tracking system• Lead Architect for Mobile Provider Revenue Assurance project (Data Warehousing)
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  • Gen-I
    Consulting Enterprise Architect
    Gen-I Dec 2007 - Jul 2009
    Responsibilities:I was approached by Gen-i to lead the technology architecture design for a new business unit to be setup delivering RFID and Auto-ID services to the New Zealand market. My primary role during that period was in the design and communication to the business of a series of architecture designs for a new service line specialising in business visibility solutions utilising RFID technologies. This involved research and analysis of the potential market together with assisting in the design of a cost model for the implementation and operational support of the solution. My secondary role was as the technology advisor for all aspects of RFID and Auto-ID. This involved a number of education sessions with various teams and Sales Units.The output of the team was a series of RFID prototypes, demonstrations and pilots. These have been in the areas of Real Time Location Tracking (RTLS), Supply Chain and Rural Traceability. I was responsible for leading the design, and to a great extent, the implementation of the prototypes and pilots. I was also heavily involved in the Animal Identification arena, in conjunction with the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) initiative from MAF.Major Achievements• Architecture Design for Auto-ID Service Portfolio• Establishment of Customer Facing Prototyping Infrastructure Platform• Design and Delivery for Rural RFID Traceability Pilot• Architecture design for RuralZone Concept• Design and Delivery for Container Tracking Prototype using GPS and RFID
  • Telecom New Zealand
    Consulting Enterprise Architect
    Telecom New Zealand Nov 2006 - Nov 2007
    Auckland, Auckland, Nz
    Responsibilities:This role was an extension of the previous position, but allowed me greater flexibility in a consultant position to engage with other areas of the business, particularly Gen-i and Next Generation Telecom (NGT). A key part of this consulting engagement was taken up in the areas of RFID technologies, Telecommunications software architecture and infrastructure.There was a considerable degree of RFID ongoing work with Gen-i following the initial prototypes. I was also seconded during this time to Next-Generation Telecom (NGT) to assist in the architectural design and thought leadership around Digital Identity, Trust and Privacy. I was invited by The Office of The Privacy Commissioner to deliver a number of technology presentations and was also invited to a number Technology Forums to discuss the pending Privacy Legislation Review.Major Achievements• Design and Deployment of Enterprise 2.0 Platform• Completion of RFID Proof of Concepts for Business• Privacy Commission Technology Consulting• NZ National Radio Appearance as “RFID Expert”
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  • Telecom New Zealand
    Technology & Infrastructure Architect
    Telecom New Zealand Nov 2005 - Nov 2006
    Auckland, Auckland, Nz
    ResponsibilitiesThis was a very unique role within Telecom and one that came with a sizable opportunity to directly affect solutions that Telecom brings to the market. I was responsible in the conceptualisation and prototyping of completely new solutions to keep Telecom at the forefront of this very competitive industry.The nature of the group that this role operated in was primarily to identify and develop new opportunities that Telecom can bring to the market. Additionally supporting the business by developing potential customer solutions that answer complex or ambiguous questions to support Technical capability and development.The focus of the team was:• Identification and implementation (prototype format) of new infrastructure technologies and customer solutions.• Development of roadmaps, building prototypes to demonstrate solutions that can be used by PR, Investor Relations and Marketing to highlight Telecom's leadership and vision, or to better understand potential or complex and ambiguous opportunities.• Key links in Product Management groups and Strategy to develop and deliver prototype solutions for future Telecom capability.My areas of expertise within the team were Data and Identity, revolving around the architecture requirements for the data and identity infrastructure components required to deliver the various prototypes within the business. A major part of my role during this period was the research, investigation and design of a number of RFID prototypes to enable the division to articulate the benefits of RFID technologies. This was a joint initiative with Gen-i.Major Achievements• Establishment of Secure Prototyping Platform• Research into Two-Factor Authentication Innovation using Mobility and Telecommunications• Design and Implementation of Mobile RFID Payments Prototype• Design and Implementation of Real Time Location System (RTLS) for customer demonstration purposes
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  • Asb Bank
    Technical Architect & Manager - Asb Online
    Asb Bank Dec 2004 - Nov 2005
    Auckland, Nz
    ResponsibilitiesThis role had three core responsibilities. The primary responsibility was the evaluation of new online technologies and solutions to enable the business to be “One step ahead” of the competition. This was enabled through the adoption of various Proof Of Concepts (POCs) in order to mitigate any risk elements in the proposed solutions. My team was responsible for the sourcing, design and implementation of the various projects.My secondary responsibility was to develop and communicate the ASB Online architecture framework to the technical and business areas within the Group. As the Online Architect I was responsible for representing the business interests of the Online Division with regard to IS and Network Architectural framework decisions made by the ASB Architects Group. I was responsible for the Online Architecture Design process surrounding platform design for new solutions. My team became responsible for the online infrastructure, mobility and security architecture design areas within the bank.My final responsibility was to provide specialist technical consulting services to various areas of the bank. This ranged from translation of technical concepts to the Executive to becoming involved as a troubleshooting resource for complex technical issues.Major Achievements• Technology Selection for new SOA Platform• Design and Implementation of Mobile Payments Solution (Pago) Proof of Concept• Design and implementation of centralised SMS Architecture• Architecture for ASB Mobility Strategy• Re-architecture for Secure Virtualised Prototyping Lab• Received ASB Innovation Award for Unique Solution
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  • Asb Bank
    Technical Consultant
    Asb Bank Aug 2004 - Dec 2004
    Auckland, Nz
    ResponsibilitiesThis was a strategic role where GTO required the ideal mix of technical knowledge and approach to the business and management. My main responsibility was to provide expert technical advice and consulting services.The secondary responsibility was to provide technical advice and leadership to Technical Support teams to assist with the resolution of complex technical problems. This required sound IT systems engineering experience including technical architecture across in infrastructure and internet, web hosting, performance analysis and capacity planning and performance tuning, recommendations and benchmarking to name a few. A major responsibility of my role was providing consultancy around the area of virtualisation technology to technical areas within the bank. Shortly after taking up this role, I was seconded to lead a team of specialist consultants for a two month project to investigate a number of Mobility initiatives within the Group. I was selected for this role as a result of my extensive mobility,messaging and networking experience. This resulted in a fast – track implementation of Vodafone Blackberries, OneBridge Mobile Groupware and Telecom T3G infrastructure to key business areas within the group. This also included a detailed analysis and review of the Citrix Wireless opportunities for optimisation for mobility customers.Major Achievements• Technology Selection for new SOA Banking Platform• Fast-track Blackberry Deployment Project• Architecture Review of Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)
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  • Trader Media Group
    Operations Support Manager
    Trader Media Group 2003 - 2004
    Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb
    ResponsibilitiesThe main function of this role was as an Infrastructure Technical Consultant to coordinate the efforts of the various operational teams in order to enhance all areas of operational service delivery for the TML hosted environments.My core responsibility within TML was to act as the Technology hub between the various business divisions. This is involved a great deal of consultancy in all areas of the managed service environment and also the internal IS departments within the organisation. I would provide technical consultation on new and existing projects to both the Project Managers and Senior Decision Makers (Board Level).I had active involvement in strategic discussions surrounding the future technology direction of the Internal and External technology facing areas of the business. My considerable experience in a wide range of technologies was welcomed as a valuable additional resource to the existing Research and Development Team. I was responsible for advocating the use of new and innovative technology solutions to the Business Decision Makers following extensive evaluation and testing exercises.A key project initiative was the technology implementation of an ITIL based Incident, Change and Problem Management system within the organisation. My efforts resulted in a major improvement in the way the teams interacted, notably in the areas of Incident, Change and Problem Management. My additional duties in this role were complex Problem Management, vendor liaison and technical project management to name but a few. My key role was to provide technical and strategic design guidance and advice to the various operational teams during the design stage of new projects and to ensure the operational success of those projects in the long termMajor Achievements• Architecture Design for Virtualised Testing Platform• Blackberry Deployment for Operations• Exchange 2003 & Windows 2003 Migration• Implementation of Web Incident Management System
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  • Trader Media Group
    Consulting Infrastructure Architect
    Trader Media Group 2002 - 2003
    Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb
    ResponsibilitiesI was engaged by Trader Media Ltd as an Infrastructure Architect to review the Business Continuity Requirements for their global internet hosting architecture.TML provide a number of hosting services centered around the New Media arena, the most popular of these being the UK Autotrader website. The autotrader.co.uk site alone generated in excess of 4 million page impressions per day. TML engaged my services in order to assist in the design to migrate to a globally load balanced architecture. The completion of the project has resulted in a globally resilient website running across two geographically distant datacentres.I made extensive use of VMware for DR planning and testing in what could only be described as a highly complex hosting infrastructure.Major achievements• Migration to a Global HA Web Operation• Storage Infrastructure Selection & Deployment - NetApp• Network Infrastructure Redesign• SMTP Redesign for BCP and Security
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  • Concept Metro
    Cto
    Concept Metro 2003 - 2004
  • Telecitygroup
    Technology Architect
    Telecitygroup 2000 - 2002
    Redwood City, California, Us
    ResponsibilitiesThe main responsibilities of this role were to act as the technical design authority for major contracts involving complex hosting requirements and to also act as the lead technical contact during contract negotiations.This role also involved the research and development of Internet Hosting products for use in a managed service environment for TeleCity Plc.TeleCity are a Pan-European Internet Colocation provider based in the UK. Their main revenue was based on provision of datacenter colocation space to ISPs, MSPs and Telecommunications providers. As part of an expansion program they were performing research into the possibility of offering managed services in addition to basic colocation services.I was the first member of a newly-created Technologists team whose role included the R&D of these proposed managed services. My particular areas of expertise were Microsoft Server products and Intel platform products.This position required research into a wide range of products such as server platforms, storage and networking. My assigned projects were in the area of virtual hosting platforms and hosted messaging/directory services. I was responsible for the complete design strategy ranging from initial scoping and proof of concepts to managed service delivery operational planning.Major achievements• Concept Architecture for a Turnkey Virtual ISP (VISP)• Managed Messaging Platform Architecture• EMC Engagement and SAN Implementation• Concept Virtualisation Architecture for Hosting• Systems Monitoring Platform Architecture
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  • Sema Group
    Messaging Architect
    Sema Group 1999 - 2000
    Homebush West, New South Wales, Au
    ResponsibilitiesI was engaged by Sema to take control of the Team responsible for managing the UK Government Home Office Email systems across the countrywide departments.At the time of his employment, Sema (now Schlumberger) were responsible for maintaining the complete IT infrastructure of the UK Home Office as part of a major FM contract. A crucial part of this contract was the management of the core Exchange Server and X400 messaging systems that facilitated the communications of over 4500 Home Office staff. My main role was the daily technical and administrative management of five team members who made up the Sema messaging team. The primary responsibility of this role was as Problem Manager for the Home Office messaging systems.My secondary responsibility included a complete review of the current management infrastructure and resulted in a number of technical deployments to improve the efficiency of the messaging management and maintenance. In addition to this role, I was also the chief technical liaison providing specialist consultancy to the Home Office regarding MS Exchange & Messaging related issues. The scope of this position included 25 Exchange servers supporting a total of 4500 people in various government departments. This role required government security clearance.Major achievements• Server Consolidation of MS Exchange Platform• Re-architecture of MimeSweeper Integration• Successfully protected against the “ILOVEYOU” outbreak• Y2K planning and management for Messaging platform• Implementation of SMTP reporting platform
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  • Unisys
    Consulting Messaging Architect
    Unisys 1999 - 1999
    Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us
    Responsibilities:I was appointed as the Technical Design Authority (TDA) for the Exchange Messaging Infrastructure for the Skipton Building Society. I was employed on behalf of Unisys who managed the IT FM contract with the Skipton Building Society (SBS).SBS manage 80 branches throughout the UK, each one containing Microsoft servers running Exchange, SQL Server and Systems Management Server (SMS). I was tasked with proposing a design to optimise the topology of the Exchange infrastructure of the branches.As a result of his extensive Microsoft experience as an Instructor, Tom was also engaged to investigate the Windows architecture as a whole to suggest design improvements.A major responsibility of his role was to produce the Microsoft Disaster Recovery Plan for SBS to enable the rapid recovery of Branch operation in the event of a major event. Related to this function was my work in helping to produce the Year 2000 Maintenance Project deployment plan, for which I also assisted in managing the rollout.Major successes• National Server Consolidation of MS Exchange Platform• Exchange Disaster Recovery Design and Implementation• Y2K Maintenance Planning Design
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  • Spring It Training
    Senior Microsoft Consultant
    Spring It Training 1998 - 1998
    Gb
    ResponsibilitiesI was employed as a Specialist Consultant Microsoft Trainer. My primary role was as the Senior Microsoft Trainer at the Leeds Centre, delivering the majority of the official Microsoft Certified courses on the BackOffice products. In addition, I also provided specialist consulting in MS Exchange Development, Internet Technologies and SQL Server 6.5. My areas of expertise were Exchange Server (all versions) and SQL Server 6.5.Major successes• Involved in the implementation of the new training centre• First Certified Trainer capable of teaching all SQL Server and Exchange curriculum
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  • Ctec
    Certified Microsoft Consultant And Trainer
    Ctec 1997 - 1998
    Reston, Virginia, Us
    ResponsibilitiesI was employed as a Microsoft Certified Trainer for the MS BackOffice Products. After achieving his MCT certification, I was responsible for the delivery of all the MS BackOffice products, including NT Server 4, SQL Server 6.5 and Exchange Server. I also delivered specialist consultancy in these areas, in addition to UNIX training and consultancy.Major successes• Fastest trainer in Company to achieve MCT Certification• First trainer to be capable of delivering entire BackOffice Curriculum
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  • Alder Hey Children'S Hospital
    Unix Administrator
    Alder Hey Children'S Hospital 1995 - 1997
    Liverpool, England, Gb
    ResponsibilitiesI joined the Trust as the UNIX Systems Administrator. I was responsible for the systems management of the Pharmacy, Finance, Theatre and Haematology UNIX systems. These ran various versions of SCO and AIX.I was given the opportunity to act as an application developer for a number of systems located throughout the Trust. These systems were primarily developed using a combination of Visual Basic, MS Access and SQL Server. Major successes• UNIX Platform consolidation and optimisation• Development of a Central Learning Dashboard• Design of Electronic Children’s Dose Software (ABCD)
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Thomas Glover Skills

Enterprise Architecture Cloud Computing Solution Architecture It Strategy Soa Itil Requirements Analysis Business Analysis Data Center Disaster Recovery Unix Togaf Technical Architecture Architecture Telecommunications Virtualization Infrastructure Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Agile Methodologies Innovation Management Emerging Technologies Vmware Application Architecture Enterprise Mobility Innovation Consulting Identity Management Decision Modeling Open Source Business Architecture Systems Thinking Decision Analysis Information Visualization Analytics Data Privacy Location Based Services Archimate Theory Of Constraints Enterprise 2.0 Private Cloud Performance Improvement Knowledge Management Business Model Innovation Internet Of Things M2m Rfid Ahp Qfd Rtls Innovation

Thomas Glover Education Details

  • The University Of Manchester
    The University Of Manchester
    Bioinformatics
  • The University Of Manchester
    The University Of Manchester
    Biochemistry

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