Enterprise Architect Architecture

Nicholas Hill

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Professional Summary

Highly experienced Business and Technology Leader with extensive expertise and success. Relentless passion for creating and sustaining business innovation, enterprise operational excellence and sustainable outcomes from highly impactful transitions, modernizations and disciplined strategic alignment between technology and business.

Professional Acumen

Enterprise Architecture Leadership:

A.Business Enablement

B.Technology Stewardship

C.Operational Excellence

Professional Experience

Managing Enterprise Architect

Capgemini

September 2022 – April 2023

Managing Enterprise Architect

Leader of a major client engagements capturing current state, projecting future state and development of a roadmap and business

Part of a highly talented leadership group defining the Enterprise Architecture service offerings which also encompass Agile development, product management, Business Architecture and XAAS industry trends, methodologies, Observability.

Enterprise Architecture Manager

Grant Thornton

April 2022 – September 2022

Enterprise Architecture Manager

Leader of a major Public Sector client engagement advancing the internal competency, FEAF and TOGAF EA frameworks, Business Architecture practices and principles

Integral member and leader of EA talent for Public Sector EA engagements.

Enterprise Business Architect Leader (Contract Position)

MTX Group - April 2021- March (2022)

Enterprise Business Architect Leader (Contract Position)

Led the deployment of a grant management application for the State of Massachusetts Early Education and Childcare for disbursement of over $200M in ARPA funding.

Lead Business Architect for the SBA funded Resource Portal/Training Portal Managed Services engagement with specific focus on AI/Chatbot, ITSM Incident Management and analysis on Small Business Owner’s motivations and government programs in response to COVID-19.

Enterprise Architect (Contract Position)

Humana Healthcare - August 2020- March 2021

Enterprise Architect (Contract Position)

Design plan and implement comprehensive architectural guidelines and processes to support several federated teams across the enterprise

Provide EA governance self-service model for documentation around guidance, protocols, and processes to create standards for engineering teams

Developed an Architecture Risk Assessment and Scoring model based on the Humana Architecture life cycle to allow for Solution Architects, Project Managers and Development teams to assess risk and determine the level of architecture review required.

Created an iterative Architecture Assessment adoption model to facilitate enterprise-wide immersion and acceptance of the Architecture Risk Assessment.

Principal Enterprise Architect

The Walt Disney Company - July 2013 - September 2021

Principal Enterprise Architect

Initially establishing and performing Enterprise and Business Architecture disciplines and practice the role evolved into Service Management Lead for ITIL and Analytics functions due to organizational change and Senior Leadership strategy shift.

Led the introduction and proposal to leverage TOGAF as the EA Framework.

Participated in the initial adoption of and transition to the ServiceNow platform for all ITIL disciplines (IM, PM, CM, SACM) for the Disney Parks worldwide.

Key resource in the transition of the entire Parks and Resort applications and business services portfolios from On-Premise to AWS.

On-boarded the International Disney sites including Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Responsible for major ServiceNow enhancements that impacted Change Management change jurisdictions via an introduction of new data elements to identify whether applications were guest-facing, what markets were served, and which business domain was served by the application.

Performed process analysis for Incident, Problem, Change and Configuration Management disciplines and provided adoption guidance to the main commercial web and digital development studios and teams supporting Parks and Resorts.

Formulated an application risk scoring model that was further embellished to provide a risk score for applications in support of continuous delivery and minimal change management protocols based on calculation of historical factors for Incidents, problems and changes.

Extensively engaged application and product owners for several portfolios for the capture and update of SACM configuration data within ServiceNow for computing assets to ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of asset information.

Managed a Service and Process Improvement teams for all ITIL disciplines that consisted of Process Owners, process modelers and SMEs to identify operational excellence improvements for the successful leverage of the ServiceNow platform.

Led the development of an Analytics base via ServiceNow and ITIL tools and technology principles to better align the technology application portfolio to value streams, products and services.

Provided Enterprise Architecture leadership for the Architecture Approach and ARB governance

Initiated Business Architecture for approval and adoption of the BMM Standard to model and develop Master Plan capabilities, functions, processes, and models to contribute to change the paradigm to deliver projects based on roadmaps and business motivation models.

Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

Infosys Technologies - August 2008 – June 2013

Senior Principal Enterprise Architect

Led the Enterprise Architecture practice and delivered several profitable client Enterprise and Business Architecture engagements using the TOGAF EA Framework.

Led a global energy company to determine the overall architecture standards, architecting guidelines and design authority model. Defined and built out the EA function to support a federated architecture organization model.

Led the Architecture/Technology segment of a consulting engagement for the largest Canadian banking institution to create a combined technology and business roadmap. Using Technology/Business capability decomposition analysis drove out a prioritized executable roadmap for the bank’s trading platforms.

Led the largest US/Canadian Insurance Company to define and construct and enterprise architecture organization. Together with the Director of EA jointly presented at the Open Group the successful partnership to establish an EA model that embraced managed architecture services. The Architecture operating model was based on leverage of the TOGAF Framework

Participated in an Open Group podcast around TOGAF and other EA structures and approaches.

Technology and Architecture team leader to help one of the largest Class 1 railroads companies in North America develop a transformational, business aligned technology transformation roadmap.

Chief Information/Technology Officer

Burns & Wilcox - February 2007 - February 2008

Chief Information/Technology Officer

Led the consolidation of the 38 branch office computing capabilities into one centralized enterprise complex located at the headquarters site and supporting approximately 1000 end users.

Directed the delivery of an Imaging system, Citrix and Microsoft Office suite to all branch locations at an accelerated pace resulting in monthly productivity gains of $70,000.

Introduced and implemented Blade server and SAN storage technologies that provided advanced computing capabilities and also precluded the need to perform a $400,000 Headquarters data center expansion project.

Re-architected and revamped the entire core network infrastructure and consolidated 6 email platforms/systems into 1 centralized Microsoft 2007 Outlook/Exchange complex.

Ongoing responsibilities included vendor management, Board of Director reporting, people management and development, architecture planning and driving alignment between technology and business strategies.

Senior Enterprise Architect

Safeco Insurance - October 2003 – July 2006

Senior Enterprise Architect

Formulated and negotiated $30M funding for the Safeco Claims Systems 5-Year Technology Blueprint and Roadmap.

Established from scratch an EA organization that leveraged TOGAF and led the EA framework analysis that included Gartner, Zachman and FEAF and TOGAF.

Conducted and delivered the most comprehensive Risk Assessment analysis read and embraced by the CEO and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors.

Architected and deployed a real time data retention/disposal solution gaining compliance to corporate policy and eliminating multi-million dollar litigation risk.

Designed and developed an Enterprise Architecture program unifying all enterprise architecture efforts and establishing the Enterprise Architecture Governance model.

Engineered the initial charter and organizational structure for Enterprise Architecture within Safeco covering EA services/functions, standards, governance model, role definitions, business and IT strategy alignment, blueprinting and road mapping of business portfolio architectures.

Delivered Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Rules Engine (BRE) Enterprise solutions supporting SOA and EDA.

Independent HIPAA Privacy/Security Consultant (Contract Position)

Berkley Heart Labs - March 2002 – January 2003

Independent Consultant (Contract Position)

Created the HIPAA mandated privacy and security policies and practices for the Laboratory and Clinical operations

Translated the research and policies decisions inherent with the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations to provide policy documentation and to train the different facets of the Laboratory operations (e.g. billing, clinical trials, etc.) on the new regulations.

Senior Enterprise Architect

Kaiser Permanente - June 2001 – February 2002

Senior Enterprise Architect

Architected HIPAA Solutions for Privacy and Transactions leveraging IBM Message Broker technology assuring compliance to Federal regulations. The solutions for both transactions and privacy included the integration of J2EE based applications.

Rendered future state architecture using the Reference Model for Open Distributed Computing (RMODP).

Led architecture initiative articulating a National Systems Strategy outlining the strategy and direction for Kaiser Provider and Payment business systems portfolio.

Senior Enterprise Architect

Ernst & Young, LLP - January 1998 – June 2001

Senior Manager

Initiated and built from scratch the Enterprise Application Integration consulting practice that generated $30M in consulting revenues with over 200 practitioners.

Led several integration projects and engagements for P&C Insurance and Healthcare Payer/Provider companies.

Managed development of a P&C policy administration application for major insurance client using over 75 consultants and generating $8M in consulting services revenue.

Cigna Healthcare 1994 – 1998 (AVP Application Development)

IBM Corporation 1980 – 1994 (Advisory Mainframe Systems Engineer)

Formal Education

1976-1980 - Claremont McKenna College

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy

1988--1990 - Jacksonville University

Masters of Business Administration

Professional Education

TOGAF 9 Certified and Instructor

Zachman Enterprise Architecture Training

Six Sigma and Total Quality Management Black Belt Training

Leadership Tomorrow Graduate

Selected and Completed Seattle’s Leadership Tomorrow Program

Negotiation Skills Training

Technology and Methodology Training (numerous)

ServiceNow and ITIL Training

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