What I do

What I do

Help companies bridge the gap between technology and business by: explaining technology to a CxO in a way they can understand and can see the benefit; designing and architecting innovative but workable technology solutions to business problems and opportunities; and, developing and delivering marketing messages and presentations that convince.

The way I work

Two ways:

• Taking director level cross-functional roles covering: marketing, product management, systems architecture, standards and sales support at companies such as Mondex and Commerce One
• Facilitating and extending people's ideas and thinking as a consultant with over twenty years of experience in doing, managing and motivating consulting teams in IT strategy, development, architecture and IT organization with companies such as Ernst & Young

Where I’ve worked

SAP as a standards architect including: as SAP's WS-I Board Member and chair of the WS-I Sample Applications activity where I've been driving interoperability for Web services solutions between SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Novell; as well as chairing the RosettaNet Architecture Advisory council where we help set the standards technology and architecture direction for RosettaNet. I've also developed marketing materials - see Building Standards Based Business Applications that describe SAP's approach to SOA, Enterprise Services and standards. You can also read my SAP Developer Network (SDN) blog.

Commerce One a B2B eCommerce and composite process management software company where I held Director level positions in Product Management and Engineering. The role has been cross-functional including: marketing, product management, systems architecture, standards and sales support. This included supporting revenue of $100m (2000-01) by developing XML business document and standards for Commerce One's MarketSite platform

Mondex International, a financial smart card technology company where I was Development Director/Product Manager with responsibility for how electronic cash could be used for business to consumer payments on the Internet

Ernst & Young, a "big four" consultancy, where I conducted and managed a wide variety of assignments including: technical/application architecture, IT/IS strategy, project management, data mining systems, quality management, data distribution and capacity management. The market sectors in which I worked included: insurance, distribution, finance regulation, utilities, oil, entertainment, accountancy, legal and healthcare.

Some quotes ...

"The Business Web Services Scorecard is the best model for Web Services I have ever seen" - the eCommerce Architect of a $12bn utility company on reviewing the Business Web Services Scorecard

"The Life Assurance division has the best management information within the group" - the main board of a bank with $350bn assets on reviewing the results of a data warehouse/business intelligence system I designed and built

"I have some very positive feedback on your articles and would like to run some more" - the editor of the Financial Times Virtual Finance Report commenting on articles published about using smart card technology for eCommerce

"The board approved the project with confidence and within half an hour" - Group CIO of a multi-national general insurer after the first use of an IT project investment appraisal approach I devised and implemented.

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