Hired as an Enterprise Architect Functional delivering an integrated future state architecture for finance & risk.
&bull Supporting the business with gathering business requirements and creating a globalRS17 Project Start Architecture.
&bull Co-ordinating global touch points with local architecture-function and solution design processes.
WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
&bull Determining the to- be business, application, technology and data architecture on Group and CC level based on the architectural requirements.
&bull Translating the Global Finance Strategy and Finance & Risk business objectives into a globalRS 17 Business and IT architecture in order to makes sure that all Finance & Risk initiatives are coherent and mutually strengthening
&bull Hired as Global Enterprise Architect and Program Manager across Governments and Administration responsible for architecture assessment of a European Union agency.
&bull Incorporated As-Is, risk analysis, gap analysis, benchmark against life critical apps in healthcare, recommendation, and cost and project.
&bull Managed cross-functional team of seven members, improving infrastructure and raising funds from the European Union to implement the application.
&bull Identified problem areas and devised approach methodologies in accordance with budget and tight deadlines.
&bull Monitored staff members throughout the process and prioritised IT tasks according to company objectives.
&bull Employed as Global Enterprise Architect across Electronics, Aerospatiale, Avionics and Defence responsible for assessing potential new projects for incorporation into the customer public cloud Digital Factory initiative.
&bull Involved functional and non-functional requirements, roadmaps, buy vs build, AI, IoT, encryption key management and data architecture.
&bull Played an instrumental role as Product Owner Digital Security, also across Electronics, Aerospatiale, Avionics and Defence, securing entire customer Digital Factory Platform from DevSecOps to infrastructure.
&bull Incorporated CI/CD security, encryption IaaS and PaaS (HDD, VM, FS, Apps), SOC & SIEM, reporting, security patch management, security governance, firewall / WAF and data security.
&bull Secured the CloudFront edge location, ensuring reliable sensitive data protection, as well as a decrease in latency.
&bull Defined, structured and managed the concept and implementation of the Security Operation Center (SOC).
&bull Oversaw daily publishing operations for internal cybersecurity magazine, distributed to 65,000 readers, including layout, content strategy and editing.
&bull Responsible for speaking on company&rsquos behalf at important networking functions, handling key demo organisation.
&bull Defined and managed the Digital Initiative data protection project. Reviewed of GDPR requirements and their impacts on practices and processes.
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY &ndash Worldwide
Global Enterprise Architect Director (Retail, Electronics, Textiles, Chemistry, Services, Retail Sales)
Global SAP Taskforce Director
Global Demand and Portfolio Management Director (Retail, Electronics, Textiles, Chemistry, Services, Retail Sales)
&bull Reduced global operation costs by 60% when managing an annual budget of $22.8 million.
&bull Supervised an international team of >160 on an onsite/near-shore/off-shore model.
&bull Performed usage analysis to rationalise infra by 30%.
&bull Led and managed SAP taskforce to continually improve SAP systems, implement best practices and enforce entire SAP landscape stability.
&bull Significantly enhanced the credibility and productivity of the SAP taskforce by leveraging SAP expertise.
&bull Mitigated business risk and strengthened internal controls by recommending multiple high calibre security solutions.
WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
&bull Reduced global operation costs by 40% and managed overall program of $30 million.
&bull Implemented cutting-edge governance and project methodologies to improve program delivery times by 30%.
&bull Successfully reduced overall program running costs by 15% through the implementation of cost analysis while redefining requirements gathering.
&bull Architected and managed digital transition to world-class public cloud infrastructure.
&bull Architected and managed IoT implementation and security.
&bull Reduced third-party vendor prices by 25% on average by entering into effective negotiations.
&bull Managed transition in 100 days for a total budget of $11.5 million/year operation, reducing global operation costs by 60%.
&bull Rationalised infra by 30% by performing usage analysis (19 sites, 450 HPC nodes, 900 servers, 1.5 PB storage).
&bull Managed overall program of $70 million, focusing on global operation cost reductions of 40%.
&bull Orchestrated transition of in-house developers to outsourced model, reducing overall operational costs by 60%.
&bull Managed the takeover of 19 sites and 3 hubs with an overall team of 120+ employees.
&bull Designed next generation of Supercomputer/HPC in alignment with business structure/requirements.
&bull Architected and managed digital transition to world-class public cloud infrastructure.