Jacques von Benecke

Current

Health Enterprise Architect at BT

Past

Principal Consultant at Compuware
MD and CTO at Mobius SA

Education

The Open University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Jacques von Benecke’s Summary

Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect (certified TOGAF practitioner), Several management qualifications from open University, MBA (Technology Management). Principal Consultant and several management positions on IT based projects. MD and CTO positions held in a South African and Mauritian based IT company. IT experience in many industries including Health, Government and Banking.

My future goal is to be CIO or CTO of a large multinational organisation who understand the need for good information systems and the benefits of formal Architectural frameworks to support these systems.

Jacques von Benecke’s Specialties:

Government liaison, Solution and Enterprise Architecture development and management. Organisational change, implementing new technology, people and large program management.

Jacques von Benecke’s Experience

Health Enterprise Architect

BT

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

September 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

I am responsible for the integration of sub-systems in the Spine Enterprise Architecture. This involves defing and designing service oreintated Architectures (SOA), working with the client (the England NHS) to determine the business solution required and development partners across the world to deliver the solution. I also work closely with the service delivery direcotorates to ensure Service Levels are maintained as well as any major defects are put through the design phases of future releases. This is currently the biggest IT project in Europe and is part of the NPfIT program sponsored by the English Government.
Principal Consultant

Compuware

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

September 1998 — July 2004 (5 years 11 months)

Consultancy roles for various tools that Compuware supplies to the furtune 500 companies. Was a Java Lead and product champion for their award winning Model Driven development suite OptimalJ. Held various positions all relating to consultancy, architecture, Design, Development and management.
MD and CTO

Mobius SA

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1991 — May 1998 (7 years 5 months)

Started as a trainee programmer and worked up through the ranks to CTO of Mobius Mauritius through study, dedication and extremely long hours. The positions held ranged from programming, designing, analysis to project manager, regional manager and IT Director for a local government (Kangwane). Through this time I also did some hardware engineering to build networks and mid sized unix servers.

As a shareholder in the company I was very dedicated to the success and expansion of the company and was allowed to open the Mauritius based Mobius as Managing Director where I stayed until I came to England.

Jacques von Benecke’s Education

The Open University

MBA , Information Technology and Management , 2000 — 2006

Professional Certificate in Management, Professional Diploma in Management, MBA (Including post graduate courses in: Managing Development and Change, Managing Resources for the Market, Technology Management: An Interactive Approach, Strategic Management of Technology. Thesis titled: Why can’t we accurately estimate Service Orientated Architectures?)