Natty Gur

Current

CEO and ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT/IT STRATEGY CONSULTANT at Dao2com

Past

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT (IT STRATEGY) at DOD
Group lead at ESI
PROGRAMMER / TEAM LEADER at VARIOUS COMPANIES

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Education

HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

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Information Technology and Services

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Natty Gur’s Summary

Professional Chief Enterprise Architect (EA) and IT Manager, experienced with developing and overseeing enterprise architecture frameworks, IT strategy and coordinating with large, complex IT organizations including governmental utilities and financial organizations. Skilled in all areas of programming and project development. Specialize in interfacing business strategies and technology. Excellent interpersonal relationship and people management skills. Proven troubleshooting and issue resolution skills. Recognized industry wide for reducing IT costs and optimizing IT operations. Proven project management capabilities. Operate a professional EA website (www.theeagroup.net) and blogs on Microsoft, SAP and CIO.COM platforms.

Natty Gur’s Specialties:

Zachman/TOGAF
Project Management
Business and IT Strategy
UML/ERD/BPMN
Design/Programming
Business Technology
Telelogic SA/ARIS
Data Engineering/MDM
People Management
ITIL/COBiT/CMMi
EA Subject Matter Expert
IT operations/Portfolio Management

Natty Gur’s Experience

CEO and ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT/IT STRATEGY CONSULTANT

Dao2com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

worldwide positions)
Manage boutique Enterprise Architecture Company (4 employees), which provides EA services to SAP, IBM, Defense agencies, Centrica (British Gas), CLP, EMC, Krung Tai Bank, AMAT and others. Serve as active EA senior consultant. Oversee projects that assist customers in translating business goals into enterprise architectures and supporting strategic processes. Supervise all aspects of enterprise architecture including methodology and utilizing tools such as System Architect and ARIS. Perform gap analysis to illustrate the difference between existing usage and market potential. Create migration planes for businesses, information, application services and technology domains and participant in the Governance process.
Creating meta-model which reflects EA objectives
Collect meta-model information using different approaches and resolving conflicts
Analyzed collected data to understand current architecture in all enterprise domains and creating target architecture
Create IT 3/5 years roadmaps
Established and directed an architecture review boards.
Developed SAP enterprise architecture framework that has been tested by one of SAP's biggest accounts resulting in excellent feedback.
Created and maintained design and re-design of enterprise-wide business processes using BPMN, process decomposition and process simulation.
Formalize agreed MDM by modeling data on conceptual, logical and physical levels.
Capture applications interfaces, relations to other IT assets and to business capabilities
Presented for internal and external stakeholders and customers (working with CXO on daily basis).
Led pre-sale efforts and worked closely with customers to teach enterprise architecture frameworks.
Company general management.
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT (IT STRATEGY)

DOD

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — January 2004 (5 years 1 month)

Create Implement and govern a five-year strategy program for the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Increased enterprise productivity and decreased cost of IT maintenance. Utilized TOGAF to align technologies with business strategies to produce clear understanding of technology practices, systems development methodologies and standards management. Researched and developed a new architecture to reflect the enterprise's new business goals. Supervised team to search business information systems and architecture infrastructure to align IT with business goals and increase IT control and governance. Aligned enterprise resources into EA structures and established architecture review board. Drafted enterprise standards, principles and blueprints. Utilized capabilities, processes charts, EPC and BMPN to design enterprise-wide business processes. Modeled information at conceptual and logical levels to expedite information flow.
Supervised 300 developers to in designing and developing more than 100 systems.
Directed architectural effort facilitating technical outcomes including migration from DNA to .NET, Java interoperability and existing mainframe applications, downsizing mainframe applications and developing unique application architecture based on the WEB, improving productivity and reducing costs.
Created best practices for systems development, systems operations, development tools, and platforms.
Group lead

ESI

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ESIO; Semiconductors industry)

January 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 6 months)

ESI developing knowledge based products such as employee scheduling software, business rules and workforce management

Head of product infrastructure Division
- Guide and supervise a team of 7 programmers to provide support for the existing product and develop a new one.
- During this period the teams developed:
o A screen (interface) generator (C++\VB) based on a large number of OCXs.
o A module which enables the generating and association of dynamic constrains for elements within the nesting system.
o A data base communication module enabling the dialing to various data bases.
PROGRAMMER / TEAM LEADER

VARIOUS COMPANIES

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1992 — January 1997 (5 years 1 month)