Expert Details
Architecture, Technology & Energy
ID: 738273
United Kingdom
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2017 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Project Management | Institution: The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Year: 2009 | Degree: MS | Subject: Advanced Control and Systems Engineering | Institution: The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Solutions Architect | Department: Exploration and Production |
Responsibilities:Responsible for delivering technical leadership and management of the requirement analysis, design, development and implementation of product strategies, digital roadmaps, and solution blueprints for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native projects that meet new and changing business needs and digital visions.• Translated business strategy into solutions architecture, leading the analysis and design of solutions, and orchestrating the development and delivery of solutions across products, services, projects, and systems. • Assessed current business drivers and digital capabilities, discovering the required digital capabilities, and articulating comprehensive solutions to meet dynamic business, technical, operational, & IT priorities. • Collaborated with stakeholders to define digital requirements, articulating the minimum viable products. • Distilled critical information from the requirements, balancing immediate products with wider perspectives. • Captured functional & non-functional requirements into solutions, ensuring fitness in technologies & costs. • Developed models, methods, attributes, and reporting tools, simplifying product design and development processes, ensuring best practices for authentication, authorisation, security, governance, & compliance. • Championed solutions communication, minimising complexity to gain approvals to proceed with designs. • Designed the interface protocols between new and existing applications, databases, middleware, and tooling, ensuring a unified environment and architecture priorities for software characteristics & functions. • Assessed new and existing architectures against the software requirements and design specifications to identify operational limitations and gaps in functional coverage, ensuring solution meets all requirements. • Established coding standards and project practices for governance, quality attributes, and version control, ensuring architecture solutions support design extensibility without complexity or breaking the codebase. • Supervised the progress of development team and analysed field datasets, ensuring solution codes fit architecture pattern for fluid interaction between interfaces, identifying areas for risk and cost optimisation. • Supervised iterative Scrum lifecycle stages and ascertained product backlog, sprint planning, backlog, execution, review, and sprint retrospection are up to date, ensuring a sprint’s output is a shippable quality. • Provided guidance and coaching to developers and engineers, guaranteeing the service of new solutions. • Approved final solutions before launch, ensuring full compliance with Enterprise IS Architecture policies. • Explored technology market, evaluating proof of concepts for innovative solutions and their adaptability. • Analysed business and information technology (IT) environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, recommending solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, & innovation). • Supported product owners in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services, or systems, ensuring architecture runways align with business requirements over their lifecycles. • Envisioned and executed innovative enterprise solutions through forward-thinking practises, from IT/OT triage to early shaping, business case to delivery, or end-to-end responsibilities including architectures, services, security, governance, costs, third parties, transition, and transformation, and risk management. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2018 | Employer: TotalEnergies | Title: DevOps Engineer | Department: Exploration and Production |
Responsibilities:Responsible to ensure collaboration and automation of processes for a $21 million integrated technology project over its life-cycle stages including the definition of product backlog, design, architecture, implementation, maintenance, & management), ensuring value optimisation in line with product requirements.• Defined and implemented Interface Management policies and procedures. Prioritised queries to minimise cost, time, or schedule impact due to interface issues, ensuring functional specifications and selected solutions consider security, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and other organisational requirements. • Ensured software align with SOLID and object-oriented programming OOP, test-driven development TDD, behavioural-driven development BDD, & acceptance test-driven development ATDD principles. • Ensured software was tested in line with architecture standards, validation, and compliance requirements, ensuring continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment CI/CD pipelines. • Managed architecture systems, software and hardware interfaces, and database administration, ensuring enough attention to access control models, authentication protocols, and identity life-cycle governance. • Ensured applications are developed, tested, and verified for high cohesion and low coupling principles. • Managed the preparation of impact analyses for any proposed requirement changes, ensuring periodic assessments to validate implementation and traceability of requirements into design specifications. • Assisted in the implementation of technology innovation management program for operational phase, worked closely with Contractors, ensuring efficient relationships with a diverse stakeholder population. • Carried out configuration, testing, refactoring, validation, deployment, and liaised with internal/external stakeholders to execute changes where necessary in line with change control/version control procedures. • Ensured documentation deliverables were in place, up-to-date and in-line with TOGAF and ITIL principles. • Consolidated architectural and design artefacts, ensuring consistency and availability of repositories for applications, programs, and projects, forming the unit of knowledge for dissemination to stakeholders. • Supervised schedules and budgets and communicated progress status and values to key stakeholders. • Managed post-go-live support, resolving issues to minimise business disruptions and eliminate risks. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2014 | Employer: TotalEnergies | Title: Systems Engineer | Department: Exploration and Production |
Responsibilities:Responsible for exploring and developing models with which systems information and definition engineering databases can be connected to form digital threads and create digital twins for predictive data analytics.• Worked with database administrators to improve systems interoperability, data twinning, and threads. • Provided system level expertise to cross-functional development teams for model design & development. • Administered systems information databases, from controlling access to data and managing user accounts to writing scripts and coordinating system upgrades with the operations and maintenance teams. • Collaborated with architects, developers and quality engineers on the development and implementation of new applications for existing architectures, ensuring new solutions meet all the design requirements. • Actively involved with instrumentation and control systems infrastructure configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring, ensuring all network services are secure, resilient, optimised, and compliant. • Performed system backups, replications, and recovery. Maintained backup and recovery infrastructures. • Maintained and supported physical and virtual servers, and control systems database environment, ensuring engineering standards and design patterns for network delivery across all environments. • Supervised performance, health, and scalability of both enterprise and industrial network infrastructures, ensuring Company-wide objectives and key performance indicators, SLAs, and SLOs are met. • Managed operational technology and information technology (OT/IT) components of operations, their architectures and data structures including PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, CMIMS, and Asset Management. • Administered service contracts and frame agreements including contract tendering and renewals, followed up with PR, PO and JPC creations, invoice processing and suppliers’ relationship management. |
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