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Michael Tonkin

Enterprise Architect

Michael Tonkin
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
  • 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

ITIL v3 Foundations

Global Knowledge

November 2010

Master of Engineering (Hons.)

Imperial College London

September 1993 to June 1997
Aeronautical Engineering

Erasmus

Ecole Centrale Lyon

October 1995 to June 1996

Baccalauréat Européen

Schola Europaea, Luxembourg

1993
  • Mega HOPEX
    Advanced
  • LeanIX
    Good
  • BiZZdesign
    Good
  • 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
  • Member of the Board of ScandinaVie Lyon, a French-Scandinavian cultural association
  • Hiking
  • Parlour games
  • Gardening; permaculture