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Michael Tonkin

Enterprise Architect

Michael Tonkin
50 years old
Villeurbanne (69100) France
Professional Status
Freelancer
Available
About Me
Energetic and motivated team player with leadership capacity

Quick learner, with a proven ability to adapt to new challenges

Experienced in driving IT organisational changes

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Multicultural background; trilingual Swedish, English and French
  • Enterprise architecture in the insurance industry
  • Solution architect for "corporate" solutions
  • Review & certification of all projects' architectural orientations, propose alternatives
  • Promote architectural best practices in the IT community
  • Maintain architecture artefacts, used for for business-IT prioritisation in the event of business continuity (cyberattack for example)

Enterprise Architect

Freelance
2021 to August 2021
  • Main customer: April insurance
  • Enterprise Architecture Tool Selection Study & implementation for use by an international team
  • Create and administer an EA site with erwin EA (formerly Casewise)
  • Mega HOPEX v1.3 Administrator
  • CIAM Tooling Study
  • Define a Europe-wide process for User Lifecycle Management, and tool specification
  • Coordinate project-to-run for an industrial solution
  • Enterprise/Information Architect for the "Development and Industrialisation" domain
  • Ensure all solutions conform to the Corporate directives and appointed technology track
  • Define long-term solution roadmaps to maximise user value while reducing information system complexity and cost
  • Conduct pre-studies to evaluate business case of proposed technological changes
  • Business information modelling, in partnership with process managers
  • Identification of Master Data and ensure correct management of these
  • Appoint and follow-up architects to each project; "EA Certification" of all proposed changes
  • Part of core team for deployment of new internal EA Framework, describing the EA role within the group
  • De fine, set up and manage a decentralised organisation focused on methods, processes and tools for Operational Service Delivery Management on seven sites across the globe
  • Define standards, methods and tools for Delivery Managers
  • Organise seminars, teambuilding, and workshops for anchoring new ways of working
  • Set up network of experts to ease best practice sharing
  • Anchor role, responsibilities and ways of working with the external stakeholders
  • Manage a team of more than forty technicians and delivery managers
  • Accountable for meeting the Service Level Agreements
  • Chairman of technical projects decision committee
  • Set up and follow up KPIs of team performance
  • Responsible for driving the Continuity Planning on application side
  • Build and follow yearly budget
  • Business analysis using CAMP methodology
  • Establish business value & viability of proposed organisation
  • Formalise AOM Service with Service Manager, de fine SRM role
  • Local rollout of the Volvo SOx IT General Controls, SOx processes and related tools
  • Reporting to global project, local IT management and Renault Trucks Internal Audit & CFO
  • Prepare and follow internal and external audits, define and follow up remediation plans
  • Manage a team specialised in CRM and web applications. Applications are followed from the project
    stage into full-scale production and throughout their active life.
  • Negociate and implement Service Level Agreements, provide KPIs, check and act on deviations
  • Managerial role for 4 team members
  • In charge of PDM applications in production environment
  • Multi-site, multi-platform installations
  • Train embedded systems for Alstom