Michael Tonkin
Enterprise Architect
49 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
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 Architect
April
Since August 2021
- 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
Exakis Nelite, Magellan Partners
February 2018
to August 2020
- 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 Architect
Volvo Group Trucks Technology
January 2013
to February 2018
- 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
Service Operations Office
Volvo IT
April 2011
to December 2012
- 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
Manager, Application Production
Volvo IT
February 2007
to April 2011
- 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
Project Manager
Volvo IT
2005
to December 2006
- 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
Team Leader, eBusiness Application Operations
Volvo IT
May 2003
to January 2005
- 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
PDM & CAD Operations
Renault Trucks (Volvo IT)
March 1999
to May 2003
- In charge of PDM applications in production environment
- Multi-site, multi-platform installations
Aeronautical Engineering
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Mega HOPEX
Advanced
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LeanIX
Good
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BiZZdesign
Good
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Orbus iServer
Intermediate
-
erwin BP/EA (formerly Wasewise)
Advanced
- SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- ITIL Foundations (v3)
- Big Data Foundations (Stakes and perspectives)
- Architecture
- Capability Management
- IT Catalogue Management
- SOA
- Master data management
- Continuity management
- Infrastructure
- IT Operations
- Process Management
- Line Management
- Project Management
- Quality Management & Audit
- Organisational Change Management
- OS: Unix, Windows
- Web: Apache, Websphere WAS
- Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- B2B: Websphere MQ, CFT, Microservices
- Operations: scheduling, monitoring
- ERP: Siebel, SAP
- English - Native language
- Swedish - Native language
- French - Bilingual
- German - Conversational
- Spanish - Conversational