Business-focussed principal / lead architect, design authority and technology leader with a wide breadth of experience. Thought leader, trusted adviser and problem solver transforming IT to create growth and support business model innovation, I specialise in cloud or digital business transformation, strategy, enterprise architecture and solution architecture leadership with a focus on successful delivery and a keenness for new challenges.
Proven pre-sales, solution and enterprise architecture record:
• Architecture leadership & governance, cost modelling, P&L and risk management
• Solution architecture, enterprise architecture (TOGAF) & strategic planning
• Cloud transformation, infrastructure (data centre, servers, networking & security)
• Application architecture, development & maintenance
• End user IT: architecture, deployments, desktop virtualisation, application management
• Service management and IT operations: architecture, transition & management
• Simplifying and removing complexity to maximise operational efficiency and reduce TCO
• Creating and leading ground-breaking, ambitious solutions with measurable positive ROI
• Driving change & communicating complex strategies & solutions at all levels
• Led & won many bids for consulting or managed services engagements up to $150m / year
Recent roles:
• Transformation architect for the EUC stream of a digital transformation programme
• Account CTO for a managed services client
• Global TDA for large, complex migrations
• EMEA infrastructure consulting architecture lead for desktop virtualisation solutions (VDI)
• Global Windows migrations, application management, desktop virtualisation & deployments using on-shore, near-shore and off-shore models
• Lead architect BBC iPlayer distribution service
• Lead architect for a managed services provider delivering high availability, high integrity, secure, high volume business critical enterprise applications, data centre and cloud services (SOA, DaaS, IaaS and PaaS)
Director (interim / contract) @ I setup Ausculta Ltd (www.ausculta.co.uk) in 2014 to offer contract lead enterprise architecture, lead solution architecture and IT consulting services as well as local IT services. Deliberately business-focussed, we use our experience of solution and enterprise architecture to turn complex problems into simple solutions. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Transformation Architect (contract) @ From June 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 6 months) Global Solution Architect (Principal Consultant) @ From June 2013 to January 2014 (8 months) Global Solution Architect (Principal Consultant) @ From June 2012 to May 2013 (1 year) Global Solution Architect (Principal Consultant) @ From September 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 10 months) Senior Solution Architect @ From April 2007 to September 2010 (3 years 6 months) Technical Manager | Technical Design Architect BBC iPlayer @ From March 2006 to April 2007 (1 year 2 months) New Business Development @ From January 2005 to March 2006 (1 year 3 months) Principal Architect @ From January 2002 to January 2005 (3 years 1 month) Platform Architect @ From February 2001 to January 2002 (1 year) Technical Architect @ From September 2000 to January 2001 (5 months) Senior Consultant, Technology Consulting Group @ From January 1997 to September 2000 (3 years 9 months) United KingdomTechnical Architect @ From August 1995 to October 1996 (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomXSoft - Solutions Consultant @ From August 1993 to August 1995 (2 years 1 month) Slough, United KingdomTechnical Consultant @ From April 1990 to August 1993 (3 years 5 months)
Jerome Semichon is skilled in: Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Pre-sales, Technical Architecture, Managed Services, Infrastructure, VDI, Virtualization, Integration, Storage, Business Process, Security, Data Center, HP