Experience

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  Woodcraft folk

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2009

  National committee member

  Active and influential trustee of a 20,000 member educational youth charity.- Co-ordinated a number of social, training and educational events of varying sizes involving hiring equipment, dealing with suppliers and venues; a number proving popular and are now regular fixtures.- Played crucial roles on organising committees for large scale events with over 5000 people attending.- Founded a peer-education project which achieved press acclaim and is being rolled out nationwide.- Gained experience fund raising from negotiating and securing a number of local and government grants. Show less

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  Sainsbury's

  Sept 2009 - Jul 2014

  Built and led a team of 12 BAs to deliver a portfolio of digital marketing projects:- Included one of the UK’s largest automation projects, handling 28m customer records and 1bn+ monthly impressions.- Mapped architecture and created enterprise technology roadmap to guide £500m capital investment.- Lead Solution Architect on innovative digital transformation projects including the UK’s first in-store mobile shopping and checkout app and integration with legacy till systems. Show less

  • Business Analyst Manager

    Sept 2012 - Jul 2014

  • Solution Architect

    Mar 2011 - Sept 2012

  • Technology Graduate

    Sept 2009 - Mar 2011
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  Envirtual limited

  Jul 2014 - Mar 2016

  Senior consultant - enterprise & solution architecture

  Engaged on cloud-driven digital transformation projects within FTSE 250. Defined strategies, and achieved solution and enterprise architecture deliverables in multidisciplinary teams:- Led 15 architecture services engagements from pre-sales to delivery, gaining highly positive feedback. - Created new valuable service lines in business capability, cloud readiness, and innovation horizon scanning.- Developed SaaS products for innovative startups from business case modelling to product roadmaps and solution architecture for SaaS applications. Show less

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  House of fraser

  Aug 2016 - Jan 2018

  Enterprise architect

  Hired to establish much-needed architecture governance and build a key set of artefacts to modernise and turn around business operations. Worked extensively with C-Level stakeholders across all major organisation units and managed widespread priority conflicts.- Defined a 3-year enterprise roadmap of 9-figure capital spend, both business and technology.- Tackled detailed quantitative analysis and built innovation business cases to drive faster, data-based decision making.- Led development of a major technology initiative for the board to define the ‘store of the future’, supporting the business turnaround. Collaborated with retail startups and large technology vendors on blockchain, AR/VR, IoT and AI concepts.- Co-ordinated the definition and population of a full meta-model driven architecture repository, governance structures, policies, and processes. - Created a multi-dimensional business capabilities model, As-is/Target application and business architectures with all artefacts mapped to business strategy. Show less

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  St. modwen

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  Senior enterprise architect

  Engaged to unpick technology amassed over 50 years of operation and develop a business strategy-focussed tech blueprint for the Executive Board. - Led small focused, and semi-independent team, and collaborated with the Exec to uncover the needs and write the strategy.- Undertook full tech estate audit and created cloud-first strategy and created £multi-million business case for the largest programme of technology investment in the firm’s history.- Ran investment benchmarking exercise vs industry peers and significant internal discovery activity to identify desired state, gap, and roadmap. Show less

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  Ciklum

  Mar 2018 - Feb 2020

  Head of enterprise architecture (interim)

  Senior strategic role reporting to the CIO, responsible for the global architecture of all global systems. Board collaboration. - Led development of the global Technology Strategy and 3-year roadmap unlocking significant efficiency, stability, and profitability benefits through overhauling and modernising Ciklum’s underpinning technology platform.- Established an architecture function and governance structure, and held a leadership role the delivery of 11 major multi-location transformation projects.- Transitioned legacy custom-built estate to best-in-class SaaS applications, sponsoring implementations including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Successfactors, and Kimble. Show less

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  Aldi süd

  Feb 2021 - Jul 2023

  Principal domain architect (via marx)

  Oversaw global architecture strategy, development, and governance, focusing on business capability. Remit across all technology-enabled business changes in e-commerce, marketing, customer service and 7,000 physical stores.- Architecture Lead for a complete refresh of the retail platform running all physical stores globally.- Led strategic initiative to define the Business Capability Model and simplify business aims.- Lead architect for the global Click & Collect solution blueprint. Show less

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  Marx technology consulting ltd

  Feb 2021 - now

  Head of enterprise architecture practice

  Greenfield role building the practice from 1 to ~30 people, and to a multi-million-pound turnover.- Commercial leadership, managing budgets, resources, delivery, and C-level stakeholders, combined with presales and delivery.- Typical programmes establishing/transforming global enterprise architecture functions, enabling M&A integration, and implementing new enterprise systems.- Established core structure and methodologies to position for delivery, taking on a hybrid internal leadership/client facing role, capturing and translating strategic business needs into enterprise technology strategies and defined roadmaps. Show less