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 Grammer School Aston

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Wayne Horkan’s Summary

Talented, successful & experienced Technical & Business Consultant, with an extensive career in IT / IS implementations for 14+ years. It’s been said that I’m intelligent, enthusiastic, objective & passionate – and I feel that’s especially true about technology & the people who enable the benefits it can bring.

Currently I am Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland at Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Sun) – Sun are a globally renowned Technology provider & a significant contributor to the Internet age.

A member of the British Computer Society (BCS), I hold a Chartered Fellowship of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), the highest and most senior grade of professional membership of the society.

I have broad skill base, from the highly technical; i.e. enterprise architecture (EA), application & systems integration, design & development of large-scale / complex heterogeneous systems; to more social capabilities; i.e. technical governance definition & implementation, people management & team building (mentoring, coaching & staff development).

Other positions at Sun incl. CTO for UK Public Sector, Senior UK Public Sector Consultant & Enterprise Technical Architect: I have been at the centre of a large number of strategically important, high profile engagements for Sun over the last 6 years, and I can honestly say it’s been an honour as well as a great deal of fun.

Previously to Sun I accelerated Harrods Ltd into the Internet Technology arena: as Chief Technical Architect I successfully led the technological implementation of Harrods’ Internet aspirations.

Prior employment also includes positions as a Technical Consultant at a Systems Integrator (SI), Senior Software Engineer at an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) & as a Computer Programmer before that.

Wayne Horkan’s Specialties:

* Strategic Consultancy
* Enterprise Architecture (EA) & EA Frameworks
* Solution Architecture (SA)
* Systems Architecture / Infrastructure Architecture
* Application Architecture
* Systems Integration / Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
* Account Planning & Business Development
* Information Systems (IS) / Information Technology (IT)
* IS / IT Management
* Technical Governance: Design, Adoption, Implementation
* Programme review, audit, troubleshoot, 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 (2 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 (8 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 Grammer School Aston

1981 — 1986

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Wayne Horkan’s Interests:

Motorbikes, Motorbike riding, Motorbiking, Motorcycles, Motorcycle riding, Motorcycling, Martial Arts, Karate, 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