IT Strategy and Architecture Team Leadership

Company

Telefonica Ireland

Year

2012

Created an IT Strategy in response to challenging market conditions and Telefonica’s move into new, non-telco verticals such as finance and health. Played a key role in defining and finalising their annual budget and provided interim leadership for the Solution Consultancy team.

I delivered this assignment as a Consultant working for Mosaic Island.

Past Assignments

Merger and Acquisition, IT Strategy

2015

Housing Associations

In support of a due diligence exercise, I developed an IT Blueprint, IT organisational redesign and indicative investment plan for the merger of two large London Housing Associations with a combined annual turnover of over £320m.

Enterprise Architecture - OTT Internationalisation

2014

Sky

Architecture definition, costing and outline plan for an internationalised OTT platform for linear streaming, download and SVOD supporting SkyGo and NOW TV propositions for the newly formed Sky Group.

Project Rescue and IT Strategy

2014

Peabody

Review of a challenging project delivering a new Housing Management platform (QL). Subsequently, produced an IT Strategy to support delivery of their business plan. Recommended an extensive organisational redesign of the IT function and adoption of Agile approach.

Consulting and IT Strategy

2014

New Charter

An initial user audit to determine challenges they were experiencing in engagement between business and IT which led to the production of a new IT Strategy.

Solution Architecture - OTT Platform and Metadata

2013

Sky

Definition and selection of a new Video Asset Management (VAM) solution to curate all IP based video assets and their associated content metadata, and manage their transcode and encryption.