Wayne Horkan

Current

Chief Technology Officer - UK and Ireland at Sun Microsystems Ltd.
Volunteer Technologist & Director at Street UK Foundation.

Past

CTO - UK Public Sector at Sun Microsystems Ltd.
Senior Consultant - UK Public Sector at Sun Microsystems Ltd.
Enterprise Technical Architect at Sun Microsystems Ltd.

Chief Technical Architect at Harrods Online Ltd.
Internet Development Manager at Harrods Ltd.
Volunteer Technologist at ICOF - Industrial Common Ownership Fund (www.icof.co.uk)
Technical Consultant at Keane Ltd.
Senior Software Engineer at Touch Systems Ltd.
Computer Programmer at THI

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Education

King Edward VI Grammar School Aston

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500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Wayne Horkan’s Summary

Wayne Horkan FBCS CITP, FIoD, SMIEEE, MIET, is a highly talented, successful and experienced Technologist and Business Leader with an extensive career in IT / IS over more than seventeen years specialising in Architecture and the composition, delivery, and implementation of ICT systems. Intelligent, enthusiastic, objective, and passionate, especially about technology and the people who enable the benefits it can bring.

Current role is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland at Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Sun), a globally renowned Technology provider and significant contributor to the Internet age. As Sun's leading technologist for the UK, I represent the UK and Ireland Technical Community and provide Technology and Architectural leadership to the Sun UK and Ireland executive team, across Sun's largest customers and partners, and to Sun’s consultancy and delivery organisations.

Outside of my work at Sun I am a Non-Executive Director at Street UK, a charity involved in tackling Social and Financial exclusion. I also enjoy socialising in a number of membership organisations, with a focus upon; Professionalism in IT, Enterprise Architecture, Directorial Excellence, and Social Entrepreneurship.

Wayne Horkan’s Specialties:

• Strategic alignment of IT with Business
• Delivery of large scale / complex systems
• Business Transformation / Programme direction
• Building a Professional Organisation
• Portfolio Management & Product Development
• Technology and Business Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture & Data centre economics
• Customer alignment / Partner & vendor management
• Technology Architecture (Logical and Physical)
• Programme review, turn around & rescue

Wayne Horkan’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer - UK and Ireland

Sun Microsystems Ltd.

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

2006 — Present (3 years )

Technology Leader for the UK & Ireland: as Chief Technologist (CT) for the geographically established market (GEM), I represent the UK & Ireland Technical Community & provide leadership to the customer facing Technology & Business Consultants in the Global Sales & Services Organisation (GSSO).

Designed the Business Ops. Model of industry Chief Technologists - aligning technologists with industry business units & customers’ needs. Implemented Technical Governance: unified & consistent communications across industry, technology, delivery & ops. divisions, i.e. co-ordinating Portfolio Management & Investment. Innovation in sales support by using EA to capture & interpret customer IT estate data.

Work directly with customers & partners: evangelist & ambassador for Sun. Liaise with NGOs, standards bodies & Universities - grow mindshare & map to the wider technology sector eco-system. Public speaking & presentation: recently at Enterprise Architecture 2006, meet with press & analysts.
Volunteer Technologist & Director

Street UK Foundation.

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Street UK is a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) specialising in the provision of financial, business support & advisory services for the owners of small businesses, the self employed & individuals to enable them to access finance. By supporting financially excluded individuals with tailored financial services, and offering a secure pathway out of debt, welfare & cash-economy dependency on a sustainable basis.

As a Non-Executive Director I sit on the board of Street UK and actively participate in advising, coaching, and governing the Street UK management team.

Set technology direction & strategy, helping define Business Continuity plans & IT / IS implementations. Recently virtualised & consolidated the existing Microsoft (MS) based environment across a fully redundant VMWare virtualisation platform. Originally implemented the previous Wintel infrastructure (integral & in production for over 7 years).
CTO - UK Public Sector

Sun Microsystems Ltd.

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

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

Provided leadership to the technical community operating in Government. Established Sun's Technical Leadership position in support of significant & strategic Governement intiatives (such as Gershon, Lyons, etc.) and in major sales campaigns - directly generating revenue. Supported the Industry Sector manager - produced strategy briefings on the Public Sector IT / IS landscape.

Reviewed HM Revenues & Customs (HMRC) IT outsourcing relationship with Capgemini, Fujitsu & BT (Aspire): a £3B / 10 yr contract, involving 5000+ IT related staff.

Technical advisor to the Sun team on the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Reviewed £80M integration programme for United Utilities (UU) Water: subsequently gracefully shut down, saving over £40M. Reviewed Vertex outsourcing bid to UU Water (£70M / 5 yr contract). Designed replacement HMRC Departmental Integration Server (DIS) with Software AG. Achieved Sun’s highest consultancy fee: for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) roadmap at HMRC.
Senior Consultant - UK Public Sector

Sun Microsystems Ltd.

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

Helped deliver Liberty enabled “Single Sign On” (SSO) to the UK Government Gateway (GG). Team leader developing a real world, functional, SOA pilot at HMRC. Trouble-shooter at the Cabinet Office “TrueNorth” Data Centre (£120M / 5 yr), incl. predictive systems management & automated provisioning. Successfully re-architected 1901 census website for Qinetiq & Public Records Office (PRO). Wrote the security policy for Cabinet Office Content Management System (CMS).

Chief Architect, & built business case, developing a DIS product to work with the UK GG: Sun UK's 1st profitable self developed product generating £20M+ (80%+ market share).

Developed a method of sizing & capacity planning complex / large scale systems from functional requirements, also developed a top-down approach to security policy definition.

Other clients incl.: Police IT Org. (PITO), DTI, Birmingham City Council, SCC, Rural Payments Agency (RPA), Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA), DEFRA, IND, UK e-Uni., DCA.
Enterprise Technical Architect

Sun Microsystems Ltd.

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Reviewed EDS’s delivery at & for HM’s Inland Revenue (IR) – specific focus on the e-Delivery programme, interviewing senior levels of IR, EDS & vendor staff, looking at innovation, value & quality of delivery.

Lead Sun technologist on UBS Warburg's enterprise application integration (EAI), personalisation portal & SSO solution - Future State Technology Architecture (FSTA). Components incl. iPlanet Directory, iPlanet Meta Directory, Oracle Directory, Oracle Portal, Oracle RDBMS & IBM WebSphere App. Server.

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB): Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) & Data Centre Consolidation study of 5000+ servers.

Other clients incl.: Lloyds of London, the London Clearing House, Avis Rent–a–Car, Orange, Diageo (Guinness / UDV), Vodafone, General Electric (GE) Consumer Finance, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Centrica, Evolve Bank (Lloyds TSB), Barclays Bank, Colt Telecom, Dixons, Legal & General, B&Q, Threadneedle Investments (Zurich Insurance), Ford Motor Company.
Chief Technical Architect

Harrods Online Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Reported to Mohammed Al–Fayed & the board of directors; made recommendations leading to savings in maintenance & development of Harrods Internet: £4M+ / 1st yr alone.

Chief Technical Architect ensuring Harrods e-commerce strategy was viable. Oversaw designs, technologies & partner organisations involved in Online delivery. Designed the Systems Architecture & Infrastructure of Harrods Internet, incl. online shopping, browsing, personalisation, credit verification & clearance, tax calculation, order fulfilment & shipping.

Developed under a ‘best of breed’ paradigm: large scale integration (in Java & XML) of front-end web services & back-end systems for an international offering, by global teams. Oversaw integration component: shipping, logistics & fulfilment systems via warehousing & delivery partners (i.e. Spiegel in Chicago). Managed the team & participated building web, app. (J2EE & Vignette CMS), database & secure web servers: oversaw implementation at UUNet’s Atlanta facility.
Internet Development Manager

Harrods Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Manager of the team delivering Harrods' Internet, Intranet, & Extranet (web site graphic design, video & audio streaming), Knowledge Management System (KMS), Internet connectivity & firewall security (subsidiaries incl. Fulham FC, Harrods Estates Agency, Turnbull & Asser, Kurt Geiger, Liberty Radio, Punch Magazine & Metro Aviation).

Performance, appraisal, interview, delegation, & team building, project management (plans, costing & budget).

Rolled out Internet access & email to 2500+ users. Designed & delivered Firewall, incl.: Checkpoint Firewall-1, Websense Enterprise (filtering & content verification), Clearswift MIMEsweeper (SMTP / email content security gateway). Built systems monitoring solution: 8000+ devices, incl. 2500+ MS Windows NT “electronic point of sale” (EPOS) terminals – used HP OpenView & Transcend, over a Sun Solaris platform. Introduced Customer Relationship Management (CRM), designed procedures for automated routing of customer interactions & queries.
Volunteer Technologist

ICOF - Industrial Common Ownership Fund (www.icof.co.uk)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

1995 — 2000 (5 years )

ICOF Provide loan finance for co-operatives, employee owned businesses & social enterprises - raising money by public share issue, lending it for social purpose & collective benefit. Also manage loan funds for several other organisations providing co-operative & community finance.

General volunteer activities, inc. packing, shipping, lifting & carrying - “helping out”.

Installed Operating Systems (OS), set-up desktop systems. Coaching & mentoring of system developers & lead programmer / application architect.
Technical Consultant

Keane Ltd.

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

E.ON / Powergen / East Midlands Electricity (EME): Team lead & application architect of a Client / Server, messaging & integration system; allows consumer choice sourcing services & resources, part of the UK de-regulation of the Electricity & Gas Industry (“19M”). Incl.: Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), PRINCE 2, HP UNIX C++, Oracle RDBMS 7/8 (Pro*C, PL/SQL) MS Visual Basic (VB) 4/5, & COBOL. Personally delivered a metadata driven, GUI tool, that dynamically integrated the “Data Transfer Catalogue” (DTC) - allowing EME to avoid £1M / month fines by providing missing corporate functionality.

Sun Life (AXA) Insurance: Technical Design Authority (TDA) of a Work Flow & Imaging system. Incl.: FileNet IMS & Visual Workflo 3, MS SQL server 6, MS VB 6, Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) & IBM Mainframe DB2. Network resizing & redesign due to additional traffic.

Number of Finance Co.s: Security Consultant, specialising in MS Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server & Cisco PIX.
Senior Software Engineer

Touch Systems Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

Application Design, System Analysis & Software engineering / Computer Programming in C, MS Visual C++, Delphi (Object Pascal), FORTRAN & Assembler. Customers incl.: Bentley, Ford, Rover, Land Rover, Nissan, Vauxhall, Rolls–Royce & Frigidaire.

Developed “Configured off the Shelf” (COTS) software: Fault Logging Analytic & Graphical System (FLAGS) brought Statistic Process Control (SPC) to the manufacturing process – shop floor data collection & reporting for production, traceability & quality control. Hand held computers for mobile workers; Barcode systems for manufacturing traceability, warehouse & asset tracking; Client / server database & application development; Management Information System (MIS) reporting & administration; Integration to 3rd party products (i.e. MS Excel).

Bespoke development of a wireless tracking system (of automobile frames) for Land Rover: reduced vehicle thefts & “missing” vehicles down from 500+ / yr to 10- / yr – rolled into the standard FLAGS product.
Computer Programmer

THI

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

Installation & creation of a proprietary customer records management solution, inc. network design & network installation.

Application design, programming (in C) & implementation to hardware. Database design, data normalisation & logical data design. Produced supporting documentation.

Wayne Horkan’s Education

King Edward VI Grammar School Aston

1981 — 1986

Additional Information

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Wayne Horkan’s Interests:

Motorbikes, Motorbike riding, Motorbiking, Motorcycles, Motorcycle riding, Motorcycling, Martial Arts, Karate, Shinto-Ryu, Kung Fu

Wayne Horkan’s Groups:

British Computer Society, BCS,
Fellow of the British Computer Society, FBCS,
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, IEEE,
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, SMIEEE,
Institute of Directors, IoD,
Fellow of the Institute of Directors, FIoD, FInstD,
Lunar Society,
Member of the Lunar Society,
Institute of Engineering and Technology, IET,
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, MIET,
Parliamentary IT Committee, PITCOM,
Member of the Parliamentary IT Committee,
Member of PITCOM,
European Information Society, EURIM,
Member of European Information Society,
Member of EURIM,
Confederation of British Industry, CBI,
CBI Innovation Science and Technology Committee, CBI IST,
Member of the Confederation of British Industry,
Member of the CBI,
Member of the CBI Innovation Science and Technology Committee,
Member of the CBI IST Committee,