Toby Smith Email & Phone Number

Toby Smith is a Enterprise Architect at Rainmaker Solutions. Working out how the hard things should happen. at Rainmaker Solutions. They possess expertise in databases, stakeholder engagement, xml, project management, saas and 36 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "Toby is without a doubt one of the best Enterprise / Solution architects I have ever worked with. His ability to break down IT problems and solutions of highly complex systems, into user friendly examples is second to none. Over the many projects that I have worked with Toby, I cannot think of one where he was not influential in its success. Not only is Toby technically brilliant, but he is just an all round great guy. A brilliant person to have on your team, a natural leader and someone who understands the balance between keeping things technical and also dealing with users and customers of varied technical understanding. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Toby and would recommend him in a heartbeat to anyone looking for a brilliant Enterprise Architect. I would gladly welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future." and "I worked alongside Toby for 16 years. During that time his was responsible for all the operations around our SaaS offering and internal IT as well as client training and consultancy support. His depth of knowledge regarding hosting systems, email servers, networking, systems integration and data protection meant that our clients and staff could trust Toby to deliver systems to be robust, resillient and well supported. No matter how challenging the task, Toby always finds a way and is always focussed on devising solutions to improve internal processes, business operations and the customer experience. Our clients always rated the support service they got from Toby as excellent. "

Listed skills include Databases, Stakeholder Engagement, Xml, Project Management, and 37 others.

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  Senior Enterprise Architect

  Rainmaker Solutions

  Jan 2018 - Present - London, United Kingdom

  Rainmaker helps organisations transform. We work with public and private sector clients to design and rapidly deliver digital services, concept to live, changing the organisation not just the technology.I've worked with local councils on £6m+ disaggregations, splitting single-supplier outsourcing arrangements up into smaller, more agile and better managed services. I design the service divisions, provide technical authority in procurement and control on final delivery, keeping hold of the overall vision and aims throughout.I've helped central government on complex projects in procurement (CCS), standards delivery and spend control (Cabinet Office), EU Exit (FSA), change portfolio management & resource allocation (IOPC) and many other topics, providing technical expertise that forms their thinking into viable solutions, and game-playing strategies for most effective outcomes.I designed, and expressed in Wardley Maps, a market strategy for UK tourism (Visit Britain), producing the TXGB exchange, and rapidly prototyped a helpdesk during its initial delivery.I've helped private sector clients, including Fortune 100 global names, identify wastage and legacy in their IT provision, and personally strategised their route out, at high level and in detail.Discovery, alpha and private beta for new service delivery, fleet management of MacOS devices for UK Parliament, including high cybersecurity requirements.Ran a combined technical and user-need based discovery into DIT's disparate information sharing and collaboration platforms, resulting in consolidation suggestions for tooling and improvement plan for the corporate intranet, covering operatives and agents around the world.Helped a premium cycling events company to reimagine their pandemic-impacted offerings. The team produced a strategy, rebranding and changed relationship with their customers by creating a digital membership, integrated website and community app, and an approach to virtual cycling events.