Rob Eddowes

Rob is a business architecture and enterprise architecture professional with over 20 years’ experience as an IT developer, strategist and architecture leader including functional architecture with SAP and Oracle platforms. Rob has assisted business leaders towards their operational and strategic goals using Information Technology to significantly reduce costs and improve business capability.

He has a history of successfully leading people, generating value, progressing strategic goals and executing multiple complex programs. He has a powerful combination of business strategy implementation, IT strategy and enterprise architecture expertise. An innovative thinker with a direct and confident style is motivated and diplomatic, experienced and qualified at working, building and maintaining relationships at an executive level.

A hands-on approach to leading and delivering change in complex programmes. Experienced in architecture governance of business critical IT systems, issue analysis, option evaluation, blueprint & roadmap creation and deployment, defining architecture strategy and maintaining IT policies, principles and standards ensuring risk profiles support risk tolerance.

Specialities
Business Strategy Alignment, IT Strategy, Business Architecture, IT Architecture, Solution Architecture, Integration Architecture, Reference Architecture, Application Architecture, Lead Architecture, Business Process Management, Data Architecture, Information management, Data Warehouse, and Business Intelligence, SOA, web, API & digital platforms

Qualifications and Frameworks
Bachelor of Computer Science (Network & Software Engineering)
Master Instructor – IBM Rational University (Object Technology, BPM, Architecture, RUP)
Enterprise architecture – TOGAF, Zachman, Cap Gemini, IEEE & SEI frameworks, UML & Archimate
15 years Business Management experience (reporting to CEO), finance, HR, sales, CRM, supply chain