IT Architect at IBM Global Business Services. MBCS. CITP
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
IT Architect at IBM Global Business Services. MBCS. CITP
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Solutions architect with background in systems integration, management consulting and project management, but now firmly focused on technical architecture. Consummate internationalist, professionally as well as in my personal life (see references to our travels).
Enterprise application integration (EAI), middleware, solutions architecture, enterprise architecture, business process automation (BPM), workflow, project management, service-oriented architecture (SOA), J2EE, IBM WebSphere and Rational
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Career break to travel round the world for a year and a half, visiting Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Canada, USA, China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Four contracts/projects:
- Solutions Architect at BT Syntegra (NHS NPfIT Programme), Feb–Apr 2005
- Solutions Architect at Sun Microsystems, Jul–Oct 2004 & Jan 2005
- Advisor on Project Management Methods at Capita, Nov 2004
- Project Manager at EDS, for Inland Revenue, Sep 2003–Jul 2004
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)
June 1997 — August 2003 (6 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 8 months)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 9 months)
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)
March 1993 — December 1993 (10 months)
MSc , Computing Science , 1993 — 1995
For my MSc project I developed a macro-economic model simulator in Visual Basic.
MSc , Technology and Innovation Management , 1990 — 1991
My MSc thesis was a study on the impact of US Inward Investment on the European Computer Industry.
BA(Hons) , Economics with Mathematics , 1987 — 1990
European Baccalaureate , 1977 — 1986
Sailing, hillwalking, photography
RYA (Royal Yachting Assocation), BCS (British Computer Society)