• Travelling to South America, East Asia, South Asia and Southern Europe. 
• Looking after an elderly terminally ill close relation. 
• Completed multiple cloud related courses leading to Azure Architect and AWS Architect, pending examinations. 
• Studying for Certified Professional in Artificial Intelligence Architecture at London School of Business and Administration.

Architecture governance, create the solution architecture artefacts and oversee software delivery within a digital transformation programme from inception to delivery.

Solution Architect and Consultant for Global Customer Data Management Platform for China.

• Identify and document the current Chinese Architecture and analyse compliance with BMW strategy, standards and policies.
• Identify the EMEA Architecture developments and enhancements of the platform. Support and introduce architecture enhancements to comply with the Chinese requirements and BMW Group standards and policies. Define the future state Architecture (Physical, Logical, Execution).
• Assist business and technical stakeholders to identify requirements, obtain approval for solutions and deliver the enhancements. Collaborate with the 3rd party suppliers.
• Evaluate the suitability of the current technical architecture and performance tests to comply with the future demands. Forecast future system resources. Support and monitor the data migration process.

Identify the omni-channel Architecture and the integration to the backend systems for a platform to offer insurance products and Services to customers.

Define the architecture to aggregate and expose external and internal customer portfolio, accounts transactions and reconciliations, and savings data for external consumers for open banking ? PSD2.

• Identify the current state integration architecture. Define the target state architecture and propose a tactical intermediate architecture considering the given constraints and the IT Strategy. Compile a technical roadmap, the SAD and the high-level design for the project. Obtain approval from the Enterprise Architecture Committee for the SAD.
• Liaise with the business owners and business analysts to define the requirements, Processes, Epics, Use Cases. Advise the Project Manager, Business owner, Enterprise Architects, Software Architects and Third-Party Service Providers.
• Identify the needs of the global business and technical stakeholders and address their needs in the architecture. Create the process and documentation for the transformation projects.
• Create a platform to expose backend Service APIs which can be consumed by the mobile and the web channels. Evaluate the integration of AI products to the existing Architecture.

Architect a Core Accounting Platform to expose core accounting functionality to core banking users.

• Perform solution architecture consulting. Create an intermediate architecture for phase 1 of the program based on the current architecture and the state target architecture to replace the core accounting system (transactions, credits, debits, reconciliations) and the database. Compile the SAD, high-level design and Service Governance documents.
• Validate Requirements, advise the Project Manager and lead other architects and the offshore team. Liaise with the core banking users and advise on consuming the services.
• Identify the needs of the business and technical stakeholders and address their needs in the architecture.
• Create a platform to expose backend Service APIs which can be consumed by other business areas, define the REST service APIs and the API platform. 

Architect a global Web Application Platform for Asset Management and identify the change required for the current Wealth Management Platform. Architect and lead the Cloud Architecture.

Define integration architectures and define a Digital Architecture Roadmap for the Technology Services.

Technology and Loans Application using the KONY Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).

Enhance and monitor the integration of a Web API based Geospatial solution with the existing environment and online e-commerce and fulfilment systems.

• Evaluate the business requirements and Web Service API?s. Identify the architecturally significant requirements and enhance the existing views of the architecture.
• Liaise and advise the internal stakeholders and the 3rd party solution providers on the best-fit architecture and design as well as provide guidance to agile DevOps teams and testing teams.
• Identify the performance bottlenecks, define performance tests and recommend improvements to the system.
• Monitor the compliance of the Enterprise Architecture standards and policies in projects.

Enhance the online customer service functionalities of the web application platform and integrate the Identity Management solution to the web application.

Integrate the Credit Card Account Server application with the Barclays Secure Identification & Verification Security Solution.

Define the Integration Architecture of the Mobile Applications (Video Streaming, Mobile Sports Book, IOS & Android) to the existing environment.

• Liaise with the business analysts and change managers to identify the requirements and processes.
• Define the integration architecture and create the architecture documentation for implementing mobile applications and their integration to the existing web application architecture and the WH Service Layer.
• Liaise with the internal stakeholders and 3rd party vendors to ensure the delivery of the agreed application design and the API?s. Monitor the service provider deliverables and support the go live process.
• Resolve all technical issues of the delivery team. Analyse the existing systems environment and the performance impact on the existing infrastructure.
• Identify Solutions/Infrastructure/Performance and external systems integration bottlenecks.
• Monitor the compliance of the technical standards, software development process, and agile methodology. Obtain approval of the Solutions from the Enterprise Architecture Board.
• Perform Architecture consulting and assist the PM in all technical aspects and estimations.

Manage and lead the offshore development team. Define the Architecture to fully automate the Courier Services processes and integrate the external systems of TNT/ACE to the platform and the portal.

Senior Consultant Architect, Volkswagen AG, Germany

• Perform strategic consulting on web applications architecture and usage of web frameworks at VW.
• Recommend strategy, roadmaps, standards and their initial implementation at VW. Develop a model to forecast application server resource requirements depending on the usage of specific web frameworks in web applications.

Define the integration architecture for the JavaEE based web and mobile platform to consume multimedia content and services

• Define the architecture requirements for the project. Produce the technical and information architecture documentation.
• Evaluate the existing application and network to make recommendations for performance enhancements considering the solution and systems integration requirements.
• Identify the required integration work to assist the 3rd party solution provider.
• Assist the offshore content delivery platform solution provider to deploy the platform.

• France Telecom/Orange R&D, London, UK
  • Define the integration architecture for the web and mobile platform to consume multimedia content and services.
• Dept. for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), London, UK
  • Systems Analysis and Test Planning of a web-based system in JavaEE
• Transport for London (TfL), London, UK
  • Supplier and Architecture Evaluation as well as Architecture support for a change program.
• Siemens Logistics & Assembly Systems, Konstanz, Germany/Royal Mail, Langley, UK
  • Test Planning and execution, execute acceptance tests with stakeholders as well as error analysis of a Production Control System in Java which fully automated and controlled the Langley plant.
• Analysis, Design and Programming of web applications & online banking and brokerage applications:
  • Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
  • COLT Telecom Europe GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  • Deutsche Post AG, Trier, Germany
  • Lufthansa Passenger Systems, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  • Lufthansa AirPlus InternationaGmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  • Deutsche Bank/ Andersen Services GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
  • Daimler Benz Inter Services GmbH (Debis) / DBV Winterthur, Munich, Germany
  • Volkswagen-Gedas mbH, Wolfsburg, Germany

Reverse Engineer a web-based application to a UML model to assist a data centre migration

• Analysis of the application, generate and specify the UML model to understand the complexities of the application components and the data model.
• Identify relevant code paths for testing on different application layers, i.e. Application Server (Oracle), Messaging (JMS), Integration/Web Services (XML/SOAP) and Staffware (Workflow).
• Code review, identify patterns and make recommendations for change of the application delivered by the external 3rd party solution provider.