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Consulting Services

Location:
Lewisham, Greater London, United Kingdom
Salary:
100000
Posted:
April 15, 2024

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Tony Anyiam

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Core Services Portfolio

Consulting Services, Quality Assurance, Technology Delivery, Corporate Finance and Risk Management, Information Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Architecture, Data Modelling,Big Data Governance and Policy, Internet of Things-Development and Policy, Systemic Risk, Data Ethics and Risk, Application and Information Security, Fin-Tech & Block-chains, Cloud Analytics, Data Development and Economic Policy, Bespoke Application Development Solutions for Cloud Engineering, SAP Implementation and Development objectives, Cloud Engineering, AWS Web Services, GCP-Google Cloud Platform. Enterprise Software Modelling, Dev-Sec-Ops, DevOps, Information Security, Cybersecurity, IAM-Identity and Access Management, Enterprise Architecture, Testing, Site Reliability Engineering, Agile, Infrastructure Right Sizing and Evaluations, Master Data Management,Data Engineering, Data Management, Financial Engineering, NIST, ISO9000, ISO27001,NCSC,PCI-DSS. Employment/ Work History

Qualsys Consulting, United Kingdom EMEA February 2017- Date Chief Architect/ Chief Technology Officer

Data-Centre Operations Optimization (Zero Threat Model). Our varied portfolio of clients operates in the MENA region, hence as part of our services portfolio strategy for effective optimization, I implemented a data center & Risk services strategy enabling a holistic approach to design, transformation, and streamlining of data and business operations for improved efficiencies across the enterprise framework and to provision efficient Risk and disaster recovery objectives for RTO and RPO process objectives. Key Process Management Objectives

Development of Technology policies, for global IT Enterprise delivery and Information Security for strategic objectives spanning group-wide Enterprise Architecture, overall Risk Management, Fin-Tech and Quality Assurance.

Driving secure by design principles by promoting information security and Risk management as integral parts of our key delivery focus.

Enterprise Architecture and Automated Implementation lifecycle: Management of Infrastructure-As-Code deployments to enable and produce consistent repeatable architectures that conform to IT & IS strategic function, eliminates Systemic risk and conforms to compliance and policy standards.

Adhere to and maintaining compliance and security frameworks through a rich set of FALCO rules for compliance, security standards and benchmarks by Implementing Automated Governance principles.

Management and Development of Scalable Security design and Risk based implementation principles and standards for: (Network, Compute, Security, Database Application principles).

Maintaining Enterprise environments using Immutable infrastructure patterns thus reduces configuration drift that results in compliance and incidence issues.

Balance the complex trade-offs between the need for corporate-wide efficiency through commonality and business unit/plant/geographic unique requirements

Measure and monitor process performance on an ongoing basis; conduct key benchmarks and ratio analysis across set targets.

Accelerate (MTTR) Mean time to Response and Remediation through Deep visibility and enforcing Continuous monitoring and Compliance with CSPM with out of the box Configuration checks for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks. (CSPM-Cloud Security Posture Management and Zero threat Detection).

Exposure to well-known Security standards, principles and frameworks including NIST, ISO9000, ISO27001, NCSC, PCI-DSS.

Coordinate process-enabling systems (e.g., SAP, Dynamics, S4Hana, SAP BPC, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP FICO) whilst ensuring continuous process improvement (including sharing of best practices objectives across near shore and offshore operational entities) •

Advising on well architected frameworks for end-to-end Applications, global IT delivery and key security related technologies and frameworks whilst assessing the risks associated with proposed changes.

Communicating process strategy, operation, and details to stakeholders - Train stakeholders in effective process execution • Define clear roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities for process management Summary

Development and Deployment of a Cloud Centric Centre of Excellence across Private, Public and Hybrid Infrastructure for Enterprise IT Strategic Objectives.

Global finance Power Curve Decision Management Systems deployment & Integration for SAP Enterprise Cloud across EMEA for intelligent payment finance and investment management solution built on cloud native active-active micro-services architecture ensuring high availability and scalability, consumed as a service

Technical Program Management for the design and delivery of Server-less data- centric application solutions for increased flexibility and Agility across host of customer application interfaces.

Technical Program Management and delivery for the development and deployment of API interfaces

/endpoints and integration solutions spanning geographical edge optimized Data Centre locations, regional end-point locations, and private VPCs within geographically located Availability zones and Edge locations for data centre optimization, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

Multi-cloud deployment capabilities across AWS Cloud Integration and Solutions Architecture development with Identity and Access management (IAM), Automatic Load Balancing (ALB), Kafka Streams, NoSQL, Redshift, AWS Snowflake Configuration and Optimization options for scalable architecture, Google Cloud Platform operational deployments across Availability zones and Regional end-points .

Technical Code Reviews and appraisals of Object development for CI/CD pipelines and end to end process delivery.

Driving Secure by design by promoting Information Security as an integral aspect of key quality objective.

Overseeing the overall IT information security engagement objectives for overall projects.

Delivery of Global Enterprise IT and SAP implementation projects across varied industry sectors

Implementing multi-project lifecycles, budget and financial management responsibilities and Onshore and Offshore resources capability management across multi-vendor environments.

Global and International financial management solution delivery projects including SAP Business process and consolidation (SAP BPC), SAP Finance and Controlling (SAP FI-CO), SAP Supply Chain Management, SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI) across multivendor environments.

Phased rollouts including small to large programmes of transformation and change.

Incorporation of IT governance standards and industry “best practice “methodologies within global IT projects delivery life cycle.

Integration of industry standard benchmarks as Key performance indicators for measuring overall IT effectiveness of solution delivery against corporate objectives for overall business gains

Developed and enhanced end to end enterprise data model across geographical zones which captured data modelling of business concepts required to service operational customer lifecycle, by eliminating redundancy across departmental data silos.

Data model curation applicable to operational service reporting, analytics, metrics across technology use cases.

Ensuring and implementation of a fit for purpose data operational business process to enhance model, onboard, transform data into our BI warehouse and enable optimal access for business user maximization. Dangote Industries Ltd/Dangote Cement Group, Africa March 2012- February 2017 Director/Group Head of Information Technology -Dangote Cement. Group Head -Information Technology/Global ERP Lead-Dangote Cement Group Wide SAP Implementation/ERP Process Optimisation. – Lead DANGOTE CEMENT-Group Wide SAP implementation

Global ERP Systems deployment for SAP Enterprise Computing Architecture across 16 Countries with Phased deployment Cycles.

Total responsibility for the rollout of (SAP BPC) Business planning and Consolidation for quarterly and Year to End Financial reporting parameters to ensure standardized reporting and risk compliance in line with IFRS regulations across all facets of the operational process lifecycle to eliminate Systemic Risk . Enabling governance and compliance, enforcement of key adherence to risk metrics and organization specific risk controls allowing for global cloud and ERP teams to validate compliance measures for auditors and stakeholders. Deep visibility through cloud logs and audit events with cloud meta data to detect and block attacks using CNCP FALCO rules powered by CNCF runtime security project and SYSDIG. ISOP- Total responsibility for the deployment and rollout of the (ISOP)-Improved Sales Order processes with Systems Oriented Architecture integration to align with overall Procure2Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) Procurement and Payment cycles with further integration of Plan to production requisitions to service (SAP-FICO) financial management streams ensuring alignment to standards and ensuring financial controls and accountability. Group wide implementation and rollout of SAP/HRIS SAP Success factors across multiple domains in 9 Points of Presence as part of group wide SAP Hana and SAP S/4 Hana migration and rollout. Change Management Board/Change Control-Responsible for Change Management and Control processes adoption for all SAP modules across operational and product lifecycle environments through process reviews and control procedures by ensuring group wide SOLMAN adoption as the de-facto standard change management control tool for issue logging resolution and management.

Deployment of the first ever Cloud Based Customized Logistics and Tracking Solution for Dangote group (Transport Management Solution) to enable logistics management and tracking of all truck assets from plant locations en-route customer deliveries via open trip and trip closure parameters as an enabler to monitor overall plant production revenue via monthly reporting statuses of all open and trip closure parameters. Liaison with the Global Risk team develop a risk-based framework to capture, measure and set defined metrics for risk mitigation and Business continuity across operations in all Francophone and Anglophone countries for production. Development and Deployment of an SAP Centric Centre of Excellence@ Dangote Cement and Global Core Team with responsibility for managing all end-to-end SAP issues across Anglophone and Francophone countries for all SAP business processes and module deployment.

This served to reduce overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ensure rapid SAP application deployment parameters across regions, reduced Maintenance cost and Overall (ROI) Return on investment within the first 3 years. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Provisioning of business value add recommendations to Management on strategies for new technologies and systems.

Ensuring project and product life cycle priorities and success measures are clearly defined and effectively monitored.

Enabling governance and compliance, enforcement of key adherence to risk metrics and organization specific risk controls allowing for global cloud and ERP teams to validate compliance measures for auditors and stakeholders.

Review and approval of current and future technology architecture for the Cement Organization.

Review and approval of changes to IT Structure, key product metrics, key accountabilities and practices in line with industry standards.

Provisioning of product lifecycle service catalogue reviews for continued strategic relevance.

Conduct a review of all product exceptions and projects on an ongoing basis.

Monitoring and review of service levels, improvements and overall IT Service delivery.

Assess and improve the Dangote Cement Organisation's overall IT effectiveness. TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION DELIVERY

Infrastructure & Applications Centric Objectives – Responsible for the management of a team of global team of storage and Network engineers comprising Integration and clustered solutions for SAP applications. Stakeholder Management - Global Soft skill enhancement delivered across project teams with SMART objectives to ensure optimal efficiency and skills enhancement.

Communications Management across all project facets - Storage Platform automation Configuration & Deployment - managed end to end Configuration & optimization for Storage Area Networks and Network Access Storage platforms including Switches, Fortinet s firewalls. Ensured the provision of host connectivity of VMs (Unix/VMware), across EMc storage and Server Assets. Implementing Best Practices for Database optimization - VMware server utilization, supervision of the entire build and optimization and maintenance of the entire Virtual machine infrastructure. Supporting the Underlying VM Domain Structure which underpinned the high availability clusters and EMc Disaster recovery infrastructure and Storage foundations, including Storage and Server Assets, monitoring and performance management for end-to-end high availability solutions across clusters.

Software Release Management, Change Management, Sandbox and Test Management parameters across deployment and project cycles from Development through to implementation. Contracts Management: leveraging of existing contracts and third-party engagement in other to extract maximum value. Conducting requisite KPI and SMART Assessments, Contractual Time/time sheet Management and monitoring against designated Cost-Centers and Service Catalogues. PLANNING, BUDGETING & MONITORING

Conducting a comprehensive review and approval in line with organisational objectives, the IT organisation's plan and budget for the short and long term.

A review of the current IT performance against plans and budget and recommend changes and key priorities as required.

Review, prioritise and recommend IT and overall product investment initiatives to the group steering committee.

Establish a balance in overall IT product investment portfolio in terms of Risk, Return and Strategy. IT RISK ASSURANCE

Review and Recommend for Approval in line with Overall risk metrics and IT governance – A Risk and Control framework.

Monitor compliance with defined standards and agreed performance metrics and parameters.

Ensuring that key product vulnerability assessments of new technology are performed to align with overall Disaster Recovery Strategy.

Reviewing and ensuring the effectiveness of the IT Risk Management and Security plan.

Ensuring the effectiveness of the Disaster Recovery plans and review reports on periodic disaster recovery tests and processes.

Review Key IT risk and security measures relevant to the Cement Organisation's IT processes and systems to ensure added value optimization and efficiency levels maintained.

Ensuring Dangote Cement’s adherence and compliance to relevant industry standards and statutory regulations.

Zurich Financial Services (APPLABS) Switzerland Sept 2011 – Mar 2012. Programme Manager /Director-Testing & Quality Assurance SAP Convergence Programme for European Accounting Centre (EAC) Kingfisher Corporation Dec 2010 – September 2011

Programme Test Manager/Director (APPLABS)

DARWIN BQDS Multi-Channel Programme

Infosys Consulting Sept 2008 – December 2010

Senior Manager - EMEA-Transition and Transformation Programmes. ESSENT ENERGY-TRANSITION & TRANSFORMATION, Netherlands BOOTS UK - CRM TRANSITION PROGRAMME Jan 2009 – August 2009 BOOTS ANALYTICS AND TARGETING PROJECT.

Primary Phase delivery (contract)

Senior Energy Project Manager, EDF Energy Global Aug 2006 – September 2008 B & IT (Development Solutions)

PROJECT PONTOON – B & IT May May2008 –September 2008 CHANGES TO PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR CUSTOMER GAINS PROCESS PROJECT PAYMENT BY RESULTS Mar 2008 – August 2008

Q4/SAP BW PROJECTS TO PAY-PUR. ORDER BILLING AND INVOICE SPECIFICATION Nov 2007 - March 2008 PROJECT PRESSURISED CABLES –ASSETS INTEGRATION AND MIGRATION Dec 2007- June 2008 Education, Training & Certifications

Prince2 Accredited

ISQTB/ISEB Qualified

Microsoft - Application Security Training / Microsoft Certified Professional. Robotic Process Automation: Secure Bot Developer

Automation 360: Secure Bot Development.

Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Harvard University - Contracts Law & Management

Yale University – Financial Markets

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Architecture & Systems Engineering (AI &Aerospace), Internet of Things – Implementation & Governance, Cyber Security -Technology Applications & Policy, Big Data Governance. University of California, Berkeley - Fintech & Block-Chains, Technology and Applications Columbia University- Enabling Technologies for Internet of Things, Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analysis Machine Learning for Data Science and Analysis

West Virginia University - Forensic and Fraud Accounting Universiteit Leiden - International Tax Law

Duke University - Behavioural Finance



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