Jon's background
Jon has extensive professional experience in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy and IT Governance. He has successfully executed Solution Architect roles on major international projects. He has worked in private and public sector organisations and has recent experience in banking and finance, insurance, leasing and energy.

Jon is able to diplomatically arbitrate multiple interests to create consensus in challenging IT decision processes. He articulately communicates the benefits of enterprise architecture and governance to business and IT stakeholders.

His experience in software development and solution architecture allows him to identify risks implicit in technology platforms, solutions and architectures. Jon is able to explain these risks to business and IT stakeholders in a way that enables identification of strategic options. Jon is an Open Group certified TOGAF 9 trainer.

Jon's capabilities
IT Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
Solution Architecture
Technology architecture and planning
Architecture review of solution architectures and software packages

Jon's select achievements

Aurora Energy - Principal Consultant, directly responsible to CIO, led a team of four consulting architects delivering:

• IT Strategic Plan
• IT Capability Assessment
• IT Governance and Project Gating processes and templates
• Establishment of internal enterprise architecture capability, including
  mentoring customer staff
• Development of Baseline and Target Architectures
• Multi-user enterprise architecture repository and modelling capability
• Three-year planning roadmaps for infrastructure and business applications
• Business Domain Strategies
• Architecture and project review of Retail Customer Contestability Programme

McMillan Shakespeare - Senior Consultant delivering:

• Definition of IT governance processes
• IT system “health check” in context of business strategy
• Definition of IT Principles
• Creation of As-Is and Strategic system integration models
• Establishment of enterprise architecture processes
• Identification of functional and information gaps

Sensis - Senior Consultant delivering:

• Responsible for SOA service design on major solution implementation project
• Identified enterprise services through business process reviews
• Reviewed and enhanced methodology and work practices for defining SOA
  services

Transport Accident Commission - Enterprise Architect delivering:

• Revised IT Governance processes
• Established Enterprise Architecture corporate portal
• Architecture reviews of business systems and infrastructure in preparation for core business systems replacement

Bank South Pacific (PNG) - Senior Executive Project Manager delivering :-

• Responsible for risk management, data warehouse and decision support systems
• Project manager for selection and implementation of new banking risk management system (Fiserv IPSSendero) to support Basel II compliance
• Development and management of IT governance processes
• Development of Baseline and Target application and technology architecture

Wells Fargo Bank (USA) - Consulting Solution Architect delivering :-

• Risk assessment of solution architecture and software engineering processes
• Identification of issues relating to application architecture (scalability,
  deployability, manageability)
• Identification and remediation of software engineering process management issues (change / configuration management, automated testing)

Land Transportation Office (Philippines) and the Land Registration Authority (Philippines) - Principal Solution Architect

• Responsible for overall application architecture for two major national
  infrastructure solution projects
• Preparation and management of solution architecture tender response

Bank of Queensland - Principal Solution Architect

• Defined integrated enterprise solution architecture for retail banking
• Consolidated network and communications agreements with single carrier, rationalising network architecture and enabling strategic solution architecture

Telstra - Principal Consultant

• One of seven managers responsible for national technology and architecture
  standards
• Responsible for communicating and interpreting enterprise architecture to
  development and integration projects nationally
• Established enterprise standards for software engineering technical infrastructure