Guy Tozer

Current

• CEO at Doriq Limited

Past

• Enterprise Architect at LCH.Clearnet
• Instructor at Learning Tree International
• Enterprise Architect at Environment Agency

• Data Architecture Consultant at Axon Solutions
• Various at Exxon Chemical
• Systems Analyst at Scicon

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Education

• University of Southampton

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Guy Tozer’s Summary

Consultant and Author on Metadata Management, development and adoption of rigorous approaches to Enterprise Architecture.

Founded Doriq Associates as a vehicle for defining a cohesive approach to EA, bringing knowledge management, process management and toolsets together.

Guy Tozer’s Specialties:

Enterprise Architecture, Metadata Management IT Strategy, Information Architecture

Guy Tozer’s Experience

• CEO

  Doriq Limited

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1994 — Present (15 years 3 months)

  Guy is a senior consultant with over 25 years experience in IT. He has significant specialist knowledge in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Information Management, reinforced by a wide experience in implementing these ideas in large-scale businesses.
  Guy is a recognised thought leader on corporate data and information control practices, being one of the first to espouse the need for strong metadata-driven backbones to drive IT management activities. He draws on many years experience of helping large organisations migrate to well-architected approaches, through profound understanding of the issues involved, tempered with experience in dealing with the human and financial factors.
  
  Guy has strong, recent experience in strategic alignment of business and IT goals. Significantly, he also brings experience of nurturing the organisation to a level of maturity and deploying the mechanisms and practices to ensure that these goals stay aligned in the long term.

• Enterprise Architect

  LCH.Clearnet

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

• Instructor

  Learning Tree International

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Services industry)

  1997 — 2007 (10 years )

  For many years, Guy has been a lecturer with Learning Tree - writing, tailoring and delivering courses to IT professionals on a worldwide basis. Areas of knowledge presented on these courses include:
  • Building an Oracle Data Warehouse - Hands-On (January 1997 onwards)
  • Business Process Re-engineering (February 1997 onwards)
  • Client/Server Analysis and Design (November 1997 onwards)
  • Relational Database Design (October 1999 onwards)
  • UML (Unified Modelling Language) (October 2001 onwards)
  
  Other in-house courses have been created and delivered under the Learning Tree brand, in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) architectures, Requirements Planning and BPR.

• Enterprise Architect

  Environment Agency

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  March 2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Guy worked as a consultant within the Environment Agency in the role of Enterprise Information Architect. The Agency has been setting up an Enterprise Architecture function based on a tailored framework (loosely aligned with TOGAF). Guy raised maturity of the Agency regarding Enterprise Architecture, with specific reference to information policy, management and analysis. His work during this time included:
  • Definition, management and establishment of detailed architectural framework and metamodel.
  • Design and implementation of centralised repository structure for capture, control and proliferation of architectural knowledge
  • Definition of project and programme engagement processes backed up by detailed engagement and consultancy with major in-flight programmes to advise on and control major architectural alignment work
  • Definition of a cost/benefit model for component and information re-use and incorporation in standard project economic model.

• Data Architecture Consultant

  Axon Solutions

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AXO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

• Various

  Exxon Chemical

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1984 — 1994 (10 years )

• Systems Analyst

  Scicon

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1981 — 1984 (3 years )

Guy Tozer’s Education

• University of Southampton

  BSc , Maths with Computer Studies , 1978 — 1981

Additional Information

Guy Tozer’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Guy Tozer’s Interests:

metadata management, enterprise architecture, IS strategy

Guy Tozer’s Groups:

BCS, Engineering Council

•    Enterprise Architecture Forum
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    METADATA MANAGEMENT
•    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
•    BCS Consultancy SG
•    Data Architecture Professionals
•    BCS Chartered IT Professional
•    Business Process Professionals
•    Data Quality and Metadata Management
•    Data Governance & Stewardship
•    Angel Investors Group UK
•    Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe
•    IT start-ups - innovate together!
•    Agile Enterprise Architecture
•    Entrepreneurs Meet Investors
•    BUSINESS NETWORK WORLDWIDE

Guy Tozer’s Honors:

Books Published
• Information Quality Management (ISBN 1 85554 355 9), NCC-Blackwell, Oxford 1994 172pp
• Metadata Management (ISBN 0 89006 280 3), Artech House, Boston and London 1999 318pp

Guy Tozer’s Contact Settings

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