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World Food ProgrammeEnterprise Architect for Beneficiary Services
Jul. 2019Italy• Defined and promoted WFP’s Data Privacy by Design and Anonymization initiative: -- Inter-related projects involving Business and IT (Architecture, Development & Deployment): The Data Privacy by Design Project, the Retention Management and Data Lifecycle Project, Accuracy Management and a project to develop a standalone Anonymization Service and capability. -- Developed the project’s Conceptual & Logical Design documents to materialize requirements and produce accurate budget estimates; managed the execution of the project’s early stages.
• Introduced EA Governance to the software development process, tying all stages from requirements to deployment in order to ensure proper IT Project manageability, traceability and timely documentation in support of donor audits, together with documentation standards along Conceptual/Logical and Physical abstraction layers.
• Produced an Integration Pattern Library for adoption across the organization, promoting asynchronous messaging as an effective alternative data integration pattern. • Articulated the as-is and to-be application architecture of the core beneficiary assistance application (SCOPE) in the context of the overall WFP software ecosystem.
• Proposed improvement to the WFP’s data exchanges with Financial Service Providers in Africa and South Asia for increased security and alignment to standards, using Asynchronous Messaging as the prime integration pattern (replacing insecure file exchanges) when a common standard does not exist. • WFP technical lead in the architecture/design discussions with other UN agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF, Red Cross…) on the topics of data integration and a common digital identifier.
ThalesLead Enterprise Architect for M&A Synergies
May. 2018 - Jun. 2019Paris Area, France• In view the acquisition of security appliance and software specialist Gemalto, performed a cross-enterprise analysis of the E2E IS/IT landscape of both Thales and Gemalto, across the full scope of their operations and business units worldwide, in search for commonalities (reuse), overlaps (extension opportunities), and synergies at all levels, from infrastructure to business and engineering systems, and framed these in terms of alternate scenarios that could serve to materialize eventual opportunities for financial gains pursuant to the acquisition.
• Involved the full breadth of stakeholders from both companies to discover the finer details of their systems and as-is architectures, prioritizing initiatives that capitalize on the newly introduced Thales Digital Strategy and move applications to the Cloud as SaaS as part of its Cloud First Strategy
• Produced the recommended Post-Acquisition IS/IT Strategy, the Group target architectures and Transformation blueprint and strategic IT roadmap:
- A set of 57 proposals that align with the overall Group business strategy, in that many areas, were presented to the Group CIO, complete with options, proposed decommissioning or merging of environments, data migration and consolidation, assessment of risks and financial impacts in terms of potential savings, running costs and one-off costs to assess the viability of investment and augmented capabilities.
Smart DCCChief Enterprise Architect / Executive Advisor
Apr. 2017 - Apr. 2018London, Reading, United KingdomTechnology and Architecture leadership for the UK Smart Metering Initiative in coordination with the various Service Providers: CGI, Telefonica, Arqiva & British Telecom • Defined a Release Management Strategy based on Cloud Deployment that allows multiple releases per year, freeing the DCC from lock-in to a contrary and less Agile strategy. • Steered the DCC to adopt a "Secure Cloud First" strategy that will reduce costs, increase agility and decrease tight coupling to Service Provider hardware infrastructure constraints while ensuring that the tight security architecture remains unchanged. The project is currently underway. • Created the concept of Home Area Network (HAN) Software Emulation to enable testing future releases from energy supplier to virtual homes on the Cloud, and providing scale-up possibilities to exercise the full target of 53 million smart meter endpoints by the year 2020. • Audited the solution's Payment functions and performed a Failure Mode & Effects Analysis on the Pre-Payment feature introduced in the February 2017 Release, identifying areas of vulnerability that, if not addressed, could translate into serious SmartDCC liabilities. • Audited the DCC’s Architecture Principles and provided feedback for a complete rewrite to make these more effective and enforceable.
UK Ministry of DefenceChief Enterprise Architect / Technical Lead
Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2017RPP Project - Reading, United KingdomArchitecture Lead on a programme managed by Capita UK to develop recruiting portals for the Army, Navy and RAF for both candidates and recruiters. - In a first phase, introduced the concept of a Developer's Blueprint, a graphical design artifact intended to make it easier to communicate requirements to developers while guaranteeing completeness of coverage, and developed a supporting Blueprint complexity score to assist in planning and management. The methodology quickly became an enabler for the program's develop-right-first-time initiative (IEEE publication in process). - Created and headed the Architecture and Design Group to support the development of Blueprints and grew the team to include upward of 60 architects, systems analysts, user interface and user experience designers, for the production of Blueprints along several parallel streams in what became an aggressive Agile Design approach targeting the completion of Development within 12 months. Introduced Blueprint quality standards and mentored the team for consistency of deliverables. - In a second phase, adopted an overarching technical leadership & technical management role for the program with responsibility of the end-to-end architecture. Introduced a methodology that allowed the identification of orphaned forms and processes, with the aim of ensuring that the application's workflows work seamlessly when complete.
KeringExecutive Advisor / Interim CTO
Dec. 2015 - Apr. 2016Paris Area, FranceProvided steer on the IT Organization, Applications, Architecture and Infrastructure ecosystem and the strategy for migrating to a more modern and flexible target architecture with supporting technologies that satisfy organizational ambitions: • Introduced a full set of enterprise architecture, application architecture, data and security principles to be used to assess the value and appropriateness of alternate technology strategies in support of a 360º view of customer.
• Advised on strategies for the launch of an Omni Channel experience across all brands independently that blurs the line between retail store and online sales.
• Evaluated the full IT ecosystem and assessed it with the respect to satisfying the proposed principles and prioritized initiatives.
• Advised on the upcoming adoption of an SAP ERP system, highlighting effective integration strategies to support the targeted digital transformation.
LafargeHolcimEnterprise Data & Integration Architect: Strategy & Governance
May. 2013 - Dec. 2015Paris Area & Lyon FranceLeadership and active participation in the development of IT Governance and Strategy in the EAI domain (Integration & Data), and in the launch of a formal EA discipline at Lafarge. Optimized available technical/technology integration alternatives by validating and promoting loose-coupling best practices: • Reinforced Architectural Governance through the introduction of Architecture Principles, an Architecture Pattern Library (logical to physical datacenter deployment) that rationalizes choices and promotes reuse together with a Logical Architecture phase to follow Business Requirements gathering in the project control process. • In coordination with the group IT infrastructure teams, defined the role of emerging IaaS, PaaS and iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) opportunities, as well as architectures to enable efficient inter-datacenter exchanges and service exposure. • Launched and managed technology adoption POCs/projects, and in particular validated a loosely coupled integration architecture involving the company's ERP systems (JD Edwards and SAP via SAP/PI) that promised significant performance improvement and a resulting reduction in infrastructure costs. Extended the concept to asynchronous message exchanges between the company data centers and external logistics software providers (via ActiveMQ/AMQP). • Provided technical guidance to all integration projects and mentoring to business analysts and solution architects introducing and enforcing effective best practices to improve performance. • Rationalized the Data Architecture strategy through proper Governance of Canonical Data Models spanning all integration flows and the company's Master Data Management initiative.
Alcatel-LucentChief Enterprise Architect
Jul. 2012 - Apr. 2013Paris Area, FranceArchitectural leadership and mentoring in a group providing standards, roadmaps and vision for the application of best practices in EA, process architecture, security architecture, technical architecture, application architecture, integration and data. • Drove for changes through a project to re express and reposition the organization’s IT Principles towards increased authority and effectiveness involving all stakeholders (Technical Architecture, Information Architecture, Integration Architecture and Security) which has had a major long term impact on the Enterprise Architecture Governance process. • Developed the Integration & BI Framework Pattern Library, Use Cases and How-To guidelines that define allowed integration architectures for the EAI Group together with clear guidelines that help Project Managers and Solution Architects focus on what physical platforms to use (ESBs or Message Brokers, SAP or others). Developed a prototype for a web-based wizard to help users focus on applicable patterns faster. • Addressed existing issues holding back the company’s SOA (e.g. tight coupling, SOAP vs. REST, etc…) and properly positioned its move to a webMethods integration platform in that context. • In a project to justify the existence of the Architecture group, was able to derive a quantitative assessment for the Value of Architecture. • Helped establish the standards for and mentored the newly created Business Architecture unit in the use and support of BPMN and IDEF.
Network RailChief Business Architect for the Planning Domain
Mar. 2012 - Jun. 2012London, United KingdomRecruited to address the organizational, technical and architectural reasons behind the poor performance of Network Rail’s main infrastructure and timetable planning application. Undertook an overall assessment of the whole IT landscape and how service is ultimately provided to users. Explored the architectural details of the application with its developer in Germany and the general expectations with the business users, and to what extent these were being met. Finally, assessed architecture practices against actual implementation and measured the latter with respect to a set of Principles that Network Rail should eventually implement, thus highlighting the reasons why the application failed to meet the expectations of the business.
CMA CGMChief Architect / CTO
Dec. 2007 - Jan. 2012Marseille, FranceRecruited by to represent the client’s technical priorities and concerns to a joint venture created with IBM that had taken over the company’s IT operations and development functions following rapid growth that had propelled this company to becoming the third largest container shipper in the world, leading to a major transformation programme: - Ensured technical coherence between the company and its joint venture with IBM (CMA CGM Systems) - Provided direct oversight of all recommended infrastructure procurements and the planning and adoption of new hardware and software technologies and architectures - Defined the IT & IT Security strategy with a technical framework and technology roadmap formalized in a set of IT Principles. - Initiated a shift in technologies to modernize the company's development infrastructure and its technical architecture towards improved availability, scalability and performance and led the implementation of the company's new generation security architecture spanning web-facing and internal systems. - Led the strategic move to more efficient integration architectures, which included a decoupled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enforced through the development of clear architecture patterns and placed the seeds of a supporting BPM strategy. - Technical leadership for algorithmics and science/optimization/simulation related projects in logistics and performance. - Technical Lead for the major performance benchmark projects and simulations executed at IBM’s Montpellier Research Labs for three years in a row in an attempt to prove the continued scalability of the company’s ERP system running on IBM high-end servers, and the continued validity of the adopted technologies. - Contributed to the definition of the company’s infrastructure strategy (HA, DR), and in particular storage (real and virtual) and high-end servers given rapid growth of inter-related data
A.P. Moller - MaerskChief Architect / Head of Architecture
Apr. 1999 - Dec. 2006Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, DenmarkTechnical and architecure authority assisting the CIO in the management of a technology transformation programme to modernize and rejuvenate the company’s ERP systems and its IT infrastructure with the objective of reducing costs, improving agility and embracing online business securely.
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