Overall accountability to set the enterprise technology and architectural standards and roadmaps to support organizations strategic direction. Spearheading the coordination and integration of applications, infrastructure, data and business intelligence to facilitate and support the improvement of organizations processes and resources. Designed and implemented Enterprise Architectures in a shared services environment, and success leading programs with multi-million dollar budgets. Certified in TOGAF, an Open Group Standard.
Specialities
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Leadership & Organizational Change
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Business Transformation
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Roadmaps and Strategies
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Developing Strategic Partnership
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Technology and Innovation Analysis
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Legacy Modernization
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Sustainability and Risk Management
Highlights
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Led the development, and gain buy-in to an IT Strategy that is aligned with the business and business strategy. Coordinates development of strategies with other organizations in Technology function and the business. Identified opportunities for synergy, to develop and maintain processes and services designed to keep ongoing alignment with goals and strategies of the overall IT organization.
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Created, and maintained the short, medium and long-term EA roadmap for the future direction of technology and architecture in support of overall business objectives. This included development of yearly recommendations to the roadmap to achieve the overall portfolio and IT goals. Increased the speed of delivery and enabled a reduction in operating costs, enabled future business processes and allow technological change to be implemented rapidly with minimum cost and disruption.
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Partnered and fostered relationships with key technology suppliers to be up-to-speed on vendor product roadmaps. Developed and maintained relationships with strategic and major product and service vendors to form long-term strategic alliances.
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Fostered innovation in applying new technologies and external IT influences such as changes in technology standards, significant changes in strategic direction, regulatory requirement etc. to determine their potential impacts on the enterprise as well as IT operations by implementing a portfolio management tool and use that information to enable planning.
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Proactively identified potential risks; assesses their relative impact to the organization; and collaborates with others to ensure formation of a strategic approach to proactively address them as appropriate and ensure the Company’s ability to resume business at all times.
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Coordinated technology investments to achieve business value through governance and optimization
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Led and facilitated the creation of governing principles to guide solution discovery and decision making for the enterprise. This includes the development, management, governance and ongoing support of those standards throughout IT and our business communities. Ensured optimal governance structure and compliance activities; chairing the architectural review board that reviews/assures at appropriate stage gates, the level of capability and standards adherence for key projects.
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Provided business and technical guidance to senior and executive staff, business continuity team members, enterprise staff, and subcontractors; lead the development and reporting of key indicator metrics for IT; in collaboration with others, planed, directed, monitored, and participated in the development of program projects and analysis; ensured compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
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Identified and implemented business capability enhancements (e.g., organizational requirements for resources, processes, and tools) and cultural changes necessary to support the EA.