Alan McSweeney

Current

Enterprise and Solution Architect, Strategic Consulting, Lead Business Analyst at Objective Information Systems
Projects at Recent

Past

Professional Services - Strategic Consulting at System Dynamics
CTO at DSS
Programme Manager - Bank of Ireland Managed Service at Hewlett Packard

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Education

Trinity College, Dublin
UCG

Connections

136 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Alan McSweeney’s Summary

Roles:

- Strategic Consulting at System Dynamics
- CTO at Decision Support Systems (DSS)
- Programme Manager at Hewlett Packard/Bank of Ireland
- Contract Programme Manager and Solution Architect
- Technical Director at ICON Systems
- Systems Consultant Manager at DASCOM Services
- Systems Software Manager at Northern Telecom
- Technical Support Manager at Department of Finance, Central Computing Service

Current Projects:

Online banking real-time fraud analysis
Loan origination
Budgeting and planning analysis and system selection
IT architecture and strategy development
Business process management using ARIS toolset
Large-scale infrastructure virtualisation

Alan McSweeney’s Specialties:

* Enterprise architecture, IT strategy and solution and technical architecture design and specification
* Business process and workflow analysis, modelling and design
* BABOK
* TOGAF
* Large-scale infrastructure virtualisation
* Business intelligence and data warehousing
* Compliance - BASEL II, SEPA, COBIT, ITIL, ITSM
* Vendor and partner management
* Bid management
* Programme management
* Development and management of customer relationships
* Financial planning

Alan McSweeney’s Experience

Enterprise and Solution Architect, Strategic Consulting, Lead Business Analyst

Objective Information Systems

(Computer Software industry)

April 2009 — Present (9 months)

OIS delivers an integrated set of architecture and management services:

Application and Infrastructure Consolidation Analysis and Design
Business Case Preparation
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Business Process Analysis and Design
Business Process Modelling
IT Strategy and Architecture Development and Design
Information Technology Control and Governance Framework
Information, Document and Records Management
Information Technology Study, Fact Find and Gap Analysis and Remediation
IT Strategy and Business Alignment
ITIL IT Service Management Fact Find and Gap Analysis Framework
Organisation Change Analysis and Management
Project Management Maturity Fact Find and Gap Analysis
Security Audit and Assessment
Information Technology Security
Proposal Evaluation and Solution Selection Framework

OIS takes an integrated approach to all programme and project life cycle phases required for business change, business and information technology alignment, system design, implementation and operations, and continuous improvement. This is based on two pillars of:

1. Architecture and Realisation

This is focussed on enterprise vision, strategy, architecture, implementation, delivery and subsequent operation.

2. Management and Processes

This addresses the management of large-scale business and information technology initiatives and associated programmes and projects.

This schema is complete frame of reference for delivering business and information technology changes and associated business and technology initiatives, programmes and projects. This reduces risk, improves quality and acceptance of change by the organisation.
Projects

Recent

(Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

Recent projects include:

Personal loans system solution architecture
MIS system analysis and design
Virtual server infrastructure solution selection for client
Managed services selection for client - from service design to tendering and evaluation
Budgeting and planning solution selection for client
Professional Services - Strategic Consulting

System Dynamics

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Projects:

Development of service sales offerings
Business intelligence (Business Objects) project for large retail bank
Web strategy and architecture for large multi-national manufacturing company
Online probate system analysis and design
Budgeting and forecasting system analysis and specification for large utility
Real-time online banking fraud analysis and solution design for retail bank
Personal lending system for retail bank
IT strategy for retail bank
ERP system analysis and design for manufacturing company
CTO

DSS

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — April 2008 (2 years 1 month)

Developing and defining project and solution products and services, developing vendor relationships, project delivery, product and service research

Professional Services Group
- Migrated previous Infrastructure Solutions Group to Professional Services Group
- Staff recruitment

Product, Project and Service Strategy
- Development of project and service strategy, solutions and value propositions: data management, server virtualisation, data warehousing and business intelligence, managed service, software delivery, architecture design, PMO setup, business continuity

PMO
- Setup PMO

Vendor and partner relationship development and management
Bid management and development and delivery of customer proposals and presentations
Solution architecture design and specification
Business development
Improving solutions and projects sales process and work with sales teams to develop services vision and sell projects and consulting services
Business intelligence
Designed and implemented very large scale server virtualisation (greater than 2,000 servers) project
Implemented IBM storage business partnership
Programme Manager - Bank of Ireland Managed Service

Hewlett Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Programme manager with on bank's technology transformation and refresh programme managing programmes of projects and project teams with combined budget in excess of €23 million:

- iSeries/AS/400 consolidation - 12 sub-projects involving separate systems and applications across multiple Bank business units
- Messaging and mail consolidation - 11 subprojects across multiple Bank business units
- NonStop (ATM/POS) replacement of hardware and upgrade and migration of applications
- Mainframe consolidation and application and data transfer
- Branch server, client, network and infrastructure refresh - involving upgrading 500 branches and migrating applications from NT4 to Windows 2003 Server/XP client - responsible for the technical design component of this programme
- ActiveDirectory implementation for 16,000 users

BASEL II implementatio

Alan McSweeney’s Education

Trinity College, Dublin

BA (Mod) , Mathematics
UCG

MSC , Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Additional Information

Alan McSweeney’s Websites:

Alan McSweeney’s Interests:

Enterprise architecture, IT strategy and solution and technical architecture design and specification Business process and workflow analysis, modelling and design Programme, project, analysis and development methodologies and processes: PMI, UML, PRINCE2, SSADM, LSDM, SDLC Data warehousing and business intelligence: SAS, Cognos, Business Objects, SQL Server and other tools IT Governance: COBIT Infrastructure and application consolidation and virtualisation Requirements analysis and specification, write tender/requirements documentation, vendor selection and negotiation, vendor management Project Management Office and associated project management and solution delivery processes and templates Solution Architecture Concept (SAC), Requirements analysis and management, Solution Architecture Blueprint (SAB) Document management, imaging and workflow systems

Alan McSweeney’s Groups:

ModernAnalyst.com - Business Analyst Community
IT Governance
AIM Ireland
VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
VMware Consolidation
Programme Managers / Directors
Emerging Technology Group
BI-Business Intelligence & EPM-Enterprise Performance Management Practioners Group
IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)
Project & Programme Management
ARIS User Community
Ireland Chapter of PMI
STRATEGY PROFESSIONALS NETWORK
Aris Professionals!!!
Innovation Value Institute
Prodata Consult 'Associate Program' Group
Bizcamp Ireland
Irish Project Portfolio Management Forum
Surviving 2009/Thriving 2010
IIBA Ireland Chapter