Dao2com Work Values

Daily Duties at Dao2com:

Manage boutique Enterprise Architecture Company (4 employees), which provides EA services to SAP, IBM, Defense agencies, Centrica (British Gas), CLP (China light power), EMC (Energy market company), Krung Tai Bank, AMAT and others. Serve as active EA senior consultant. Oversee projects that assist customers in translating business goals into enterprise architectures and supporting strategic processes. Supervise all aspects of enterprise architecture including methodology and utilizing tools such as System Architect and ARIS. Perform gap analysis to illustrate the difference between existing usage and market potential. Create migration planes for businesses, information, application services and technology domains and participant in the Governance process. • Creating IT strategy for Petroleum and Energy Infrastructure company (PEI) – 10 months: • Challenge: Merging several IT departments into one IT department that will address all business needs. • Approach: Modeling business capabilities, core business processes, Information, applications, databases, technologies, servers, communications and relations between them. Understanding current security framework, BCP/DRP, internal and external Information flows, IT governance, project management, Budget planning, IT structure and human resources management, Training and IT involvement in overall enterprise management procedures. Analyzing all collected data and relations to create set of principles, standards and blueprints for IT merging. Create POC project to prove principles and blueprints. Creating 3 years roadmap for all mentioned aspects. Manage team of 4 IT domain experts. • Results: IT roadmap approved by board of directors. POC project already being adopted and used by users. • Creating enterprise architecture group for Krung Tai Bank – 5 months: • Challenge: Creating new EA team while demonstrating EA benefits to upper management. • Approach: focusing on three paint-points the bank is facing and using EA to help/solve those pain-points. Engagement focused on: reducing IT costs, aligning IT to business needs and increasing IT availability. Doing the project in cycles and agile approach. Each cycle include: creating and elaborating meta-model (using Telelogic SA) to address the pain-points, collecting and cleansing data from existing resources and interviews, analyzing the data, creating BI reports to communicate results with management. Weekly training sessions for knowledge transfer (TOGAF/Zachman). Manage team of 10 enterprise architects. • Results: EA project was approved by bank management (as well as approve of phase two). From data cleansing the project managed to reduce complexity in servers and technologies. Creation of one language across IT. Setting clear goals for EA team at the bank. • Creating EA practice for Energy Market Company – 6 months: • Challenge: creating EA practice with ready to be used repository, principles, blueprints and governance framework to ensure company’s operation license renewal. • Approach: Adjusting TOGAF to company needs. Creating meta-model, collect data by importing existing resources and interviews, data cleansing, creating to-be architecture (principles, blueprints and standards) of business, information, applications and technology domains based on solid understanding of business capabilities and processes. Reengineering business processes where needed. Establishing and directing architecture review boards and embed EA as part of SDLC. • Results: Set of principles, blueprints and standards that used by applications and projects. Renewal of company’s operation license. • Using enterprise architecture to create SOA design for Centrica (British gas) – 8 months: • Challenge: creating SOA solutions based on dynamic business processes and existing applications & technology stack. • Approach: Using enterprise architecture to model (BPMN) processes, indentify business services, understanding logical information used by business services, using logical entities to assign applications that will provide software services and understanding impact on technology stack. • Results: Generating SOA design documents from collected EA assets, creating solutions which supporting dynamic business needs. Creating one language across IT. • Creating enterprise architecture repository to support SOA and MF migration for Government office – 10 Months: • Challenge: Understanding relations between IT assets in complex environment (MF, Windows, Unix, Linux, Power builder, VB, .NET, Java, PL1, Natural, C/C++, Oracle, SQL Server, Adabas) with high volume of data entry, data storage (Peta of storage) and multi locations. • Approach: start from modeling business core capabilities and main processes. Modeling structure and un-structure information (MDM-Conceptual, Logical and Physical modeling) to map data flows (between capabilities and applications) , using modeled information as SOA language, setting and imposing non functional requirements to information and mapping information to physical storage (SAN, NAS). Hanging on business capabilities applications, products and supporting servers. Doing work in cycles by working per business capabilities and show results every three months. Implement governance by plugging EA into SDLC and IT processes. Manage 3 enterprise architects. • Results: create and maintain 95% accurate repository. Using repository to plan DRP, recover from burned data-center, increase IT availability by 20%, using MDM to facilitate SOA solution, retire unused applications and successfully migration of MF applications. • Creating SAP enterprise architecture framework – 12 months: • Challenge: creating within one year a new EA practice that will help SAP customers to migrate to SAP future ERP SOA platform. • Approach: using TOGAF as a starting point, understand SAP SOA architecture and strategy and adjust TOGAF to support it. Implement and integrated business oriented EA framework in ARIS. Communicating with SAP customers and partners to communicate the new framework and get feedbacks, creating training program, training 20 enterprise architects around the world and implementing successful pilot at Intel. • Results: Putting SAP as a one of the leaders in the enterprise architecture domain. • Adjust IT to support new business strategy for governmental office – 18 months: • Challenge: create IT architecture that will address CEO demand to see how IT will support new innovated and completely different business strategy within 3 years timeframe. • Approach: Using TOGAF, DODAF and FEAF to map business goals, objectives and new capabilities. Mapping capabilities to existing applications and identifying missing applications and technologies to support new business needs. Creating several POCs to show new architecture feasibility. Working with CEO and other CxO on daily basis. Simplified and summarize complex technology problems for business audience and get their buy in. manage two architects. • Results: Manage to change IT architecture within 18 months with the ability impact the business and to become major department associated with business success. • General cross engagement tasks: • Presenting for internal and external stakeholders and customers (working with CXO on daily basis). • Leading pre-sale efforts and worked closely with customers to teach enterprise architecture frameworks. • Company general management.

What they like about Dao2com:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

enterprise architect, enterprise architecture, togaf, soa

Skills

Leadership , Zachman/TOGAF certify, UML/ERD/BPMN, Telelogic SA/ARIS, ITIL/COBiT, Business and IT Strategy, Project Management, EA Subject Matter Expert, Data Engineering/MDM, Business Technology, People Management , IT operations/Portfolio Management

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