Enterprise Architect & Project Manager
Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
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- Enterprise Architect & Project Manager at T-Systems
- Past
- Education
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- The University of Wolverhampton
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Paul Edwards’s Summary
Applications Solutioning/Consultant/Project Manager with wide ranging experience and exposure including mobile application development, deployment and strategy.
Paul Edwards’s Specialties:
Business Consulting,
Pre-Sales support including Cost Modelling, Governance and Solution Design,
Application Development management with real delivery experience,
Mobile Application development, including Dexterra.
Paul Edwards’s Experience
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Enterprise Architect & Project Manager
T-Systems
(Public Company; DT; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Enterpruse Architecture, Sales Support, Portfolio Development, Programme Management & Strategy.
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Owner
PAULEDW Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — November 2008 (5 months)
Independent IT Services Professional
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BAU Process Analyst
Vodafone
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)
Business as Usual Support Process Definition
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Consultant
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — August 2008 (8 months)
Applications (Java and .Net utilising Dexterra) & Mobility Business Strategy & Implementation Consulting
Project Delivery Manager for Vodafone Applications Services (VAS) with Vodafone Group. -
Portfolio Architect
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years)
Working as a Pre-Sales Portfolio Architect I had the responsibility to provide client facing solution design, costing and sales support for applications service offerings and related capabilities to meet the requirements of large enterprise clients including; Ministry of Justice, Metropolitan Police and Ministry of Defence.
The work undertaken involved creating and presenting innovative solutions for sales pursuits and accounts while leveraging portfolio best practices across EDS while remaining cost competitive. -
Business Process Consultant
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
Whilst working in an Account level focus group, I was heavily involved in defining the Enterprise wide business process and organisational make-up of handling new business requests from the client through to proposal creation.
The previous process for dealing with New Business was in-efficient and visible to the client. My involvement included identifying the problem areas, defining the new process and strategy and introducing the revised process defined above in-flight. -
Mobility Architect
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — August 2006 (8 months)
Development of a Microsoft Mobile based Secure Government messaging solution encompassing CESG accredited products.
Group advisor of security accreditation and relevant products such as HP Protect Tools, BeCrypt, etc.
Experience of solutions using Dexterra and Microsoft .Net within enterprise mobile application solutions. -
Architect & Development Manager
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — January 2006 (8 months)
Responsible for hands on management of a team of designers and developers on a testing $2M development tooling project to assist in delivering a large desktop refresh for a security conscious government department.
Responsibilities include maintaining a hands-on approach to ensuring deliverables are met on agreed timescales and quality and architecture is kept in line with corporate standards.
Personal deliverables included standardising the development process encompassing requirements baselining and change control with multiple code releases and integrated testing earlier in the lifecycle. Co-locating the testing team and involving them in design discussions and adopting an agile approach to development using multiple code streams, feature driven development and time boxed releases.
Project was developed using .Net 2.0 in its early stages while participating in the Microsoft Technology adoption programme. -
Portfolio Architect
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — May 2005 (5 months)
Provide pre-sales support and solutioning within the applications area. Pursuits included a Applications Portfolio assessment and future mode of operation planning for a large Police Authority in the UK.
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Technical Leader - .Net Development
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — December 2004 (10 months)
Lead Architect for a newly created design and development team.
Portion of my time was spent on marketing the team and its capabilities/successes to the wider EDS communities while engaging in technical discussions to procure new work.
Generated a European wide profile for a team of BizTalk, SharePoint, .Net 2.0 agile developers and designers.
Increased productivity of the team with just-in-time training to allow projects take on and successful delivery. -
Technical Authority - Microsoft Development Team
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)
I was appointed a member of the Technical Authority team on a large Government account. This gave me responsibility for supporting, guiding and ensuring the technical direction of solutions and conformance to the strategy and direction of the account by consistent use of tooling, products and process while helping to define the strategy for my area of expertise (Microsoft development).
Projects included ASP.NET workflow management tool for processing government claims, ASP.NET internet facing tax calculators for Inland Revenue home page, ASP/VB web based application for managing office employee access to national systems, file store permissions and email distribution lists.
Paul Edwards’s Education
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The University of Wolverhampton
BSc , Computer Science , 1995 — 2000
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