IT has been helping the business to automate for years; it's time we took our own medicine, and I'm playing my part.
* a highly experienced metadata and modelling specialist; excels as both a team member and as a consultant
* currently an independent consultant, and was an internal consultant for many years at Abbey National, which was then the fifth largest bank in the UK.
* my personal objectives have always been to achieve the desired end, and to push the boundaries of what IT believes is necessary, accommodating both the local and the enterprise perspective
* an evangelist of cooperative ways of working, the sharing of information, reusing what works, and looking for the best way of making shared information available
* wide-ranging roles? I relish them. New tools and techniques? I optimise them.
* In the past year I’ve been promoting metamodels, arranging product demonstrations (to reverse-engineer SAP and other ERP solutions), a power user for modelling tools, developed a conceptual data model for enterprise master data, produced a draft Logical Data Model for a compliance data warehouse, and an Enterprise Data Model for one of the largest corporations in the world. I've also commenced the production of a common data model for an enterprise programme, to enable them to understand the data shared between the multitude of applications involved.
I could be the modelling expert who revitalises your data modelling environment. I could be the metadata evangelist who works from within project teams, or from within the Enterprise Architecture function. I could determine the understanding necessary to make that urgent project complete on time, yet avoid compromising the potential of the data. I could be the person who finally links your ERP-managed data to the rest of the organisation. I could equally be the person who ensures that your data and process models are synchronised, and that your reference data is reliable.
Professional Experience
Experienced at treading the fine line between understanding the business and understanding the constraints and potential of IT, and documenting that understanding in such a way that both business and IT can benefit.
Specialities
Expertise in: data modelling; metadata management; XML management; change management and impact analysis; viewing problems from an Enterprise perspective; process modelling
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