
Strategic Technologist / IT Leader
Swindon, United Kingdom

Strategic Technologist / IT Leader
Swindon, United Kingdom
Jonathan Woodward is an experienced strategic technologist with extensive business development, commercial and management skills, operating within the Goverment (Law Enforcement, Homeland Security & Intelligence) arena for Detica.
Jonathan has 15+ years experience within IT, delivering cutting edge technologies into large scale multi-million pound projects, many at a national scale, as well as driving new propositions to market as a key member of the customer facing team. This includes taking lead positions for strategically important or high profile engagements.
Open to contacts relating to Innovative Technologies and Solutions that address the complex challenges that we face in Business and IT today.
Law Enforcement, Justice, Homeland Security & Intelligence
* Technical and Strategy Consulting
* Strategic Sales & Marketing
* Business Development
* Product Development
* Emerging Technologies
* Innovation Management
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Addressing the complex challenges in the Gov sector around Defence, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security and Intelligence
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Astera3D develops interactive, photo-realistic 3D models. Typically these devices are in the high desire consumer categories; products like digital cameras or media players.
(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2009 — August 2009 (5 months)
Lead EA in the production of the 2015 Architecture Vision for Policing, which has a circa £1Bn IT spend per year.
Using TOGAF as the approach.
(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — April 2009 (4 months)
Stream Lead for the strategy, process and data capture to allow the convergence of the application estate across the Police Service. This included the development of the Champion Challenger process.
(Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — April 2009 (6 months)
PentiP is a national IT solution that supports the police and courts' business processes for penalty notices. PentiP covers road traffic offences and penalty notices for disorder.
The DORS (Driver Offender Re-Training Scheme) System records details of offenders that have been offered and accepted a retraining course as an alternative to a penalty.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)
Chairman for newly created Microsoft UK SOA BPM User Group.
The group exists to enable its members to maximize its understanding of the Microsoft SOA and BPM product and partner landscape through:
Knowledge Sharing
Networking
Leveraging the collective real world experience of members
Find more info at http://www.sbug.org.uk/
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Corporate executive dealing with strategic decisions about the future technical direction of the company, providing oversight for SunGard’s technology efforts to solve significant Public and Private sector challenges for the company’s customers.
- Management of technology innovation and evangelist team providing horizon scanning and thought leadership on key technologies: SOA & BPM, Information Management, Mobility, Infrastructure and Applications Development.
- Management of strategic technology alliances for additional value and competitive edge as early adopters.
- Provision of due diligence for multiple acquisitions and project/product technology decisions.
- Management of the adoption of new technology skills, tools and processes for competitive advantage.
- CxO level communication internally and with customers and partners, providing the forward vision of the company.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Working as Lead Technologist within the Strategic Solutions team, a new business incubation team created to help provide the vision for the next opportunities, products and services for SunGard Vivista and build the next 3YR company strategy.
Key areas of focus included building market propositions and solutions and providing overarching technology guidance for emerging UK security issues around Resilience, Intelligence and Identity. This resulted in multiple go-to-market opportunities, new product and services lines.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 9 months)
Chief Technical Architect for Vivista and Head of Technology Group, line-managing a 30+ strong team of senior technical architects and technical design authorities across the business to provide coordinated guidance and vision across all products and services.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years )
Technical Design Authority for large National Justice Solution - NSPIS Case and Custody, which is now live across 35+ Police Forces in England and Wales. This included the technical management of 100+ technical staff designing, developing and testing an n-tier enterprise class solution and working with multiple customer stakeholders across the criminal justice community.
(Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1998 (5 years )
Lead developer in small development team delivering multiple projects ranging from new payroll solution to TV script writing software. Additionally provided technical and on-call support to the on-air broadcasting system including tape robots and schedule ordering.
Bsc , Computer Science , 1989 — 1993
New Technology,Product and Business Development
Intellect
TOGAF Certified
Full International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Member