Michael Bell

Domain Architect for the Energy Markets division, responsible for the divisional IT architecture and strategic roadmap. Key advisor to the IT Group Manager and Energy Markets leadership team.

Responsible for enterprise information strategy, information architecture and strategic roadmaps – guided by business strategy, project demand, industry developments, and the need for timely and effective business outcomes.

Responsible for the Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytics stream within a strategic ERP transformation program. Managed a project team of information management consultants, comprising onshore and offshore resources, and vendor experts. Managed the delivery of strategy, architecture and design blueprint for a new enterprise business intelligence solution, incorporating SAP HANA in-memory technology, and real-time reporting and analytic capabilities.

Responsible for the establishment of a data migration strategy within a strategic ERP transformation program. Managed a project team of data migration consultants, comprising onshore and offshore resources, and a network of internal business and technical subject matter experts. Established the strategy for legacy data migration to the new ERP platform, including data quality assessment, remediation, conversion and cutover. Established a detailed inventory of legacy data to be remediated and migrated. Established an industry-benchmarked estimating model, so the data migration costs and resource demand could be analysed under a variety of scenarios.

Responsible for the information aspects of the IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture. Established the Architectural Reference Group (ARG) as a formal governance body, and embedded governance into the Project Management Methodology. Governed, reviewed and endorsed Solution Architectures created by project initiatives. Established the Enterprise Architecture Principles and the Enterprise Information Model. Established the target state Enterprise Technologies and Standards reference model. Defined initiatives within the IT Strategy, including Corporate Performance Management, Enterprise Content Management, and Master Data Management.

A founding member of the Enterprise Architecture team, responsible for defining a new, global, target state Enterprise Architecture for Foster’s Group. Established a target architecture that included business processes, information, application and infrastructure components, using Capgemini’s Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF). Established the role of Enterprise Information Architect. Established the Global Architecture Principles. Assessed, selected and implemented an Enterprise Architecture modelling toolset. Defined the target state Information Architecture, including the Enterprise Information Model, Corporate Performance Management, Enterprise Content Management, and Master Data Management.

Responsible for global Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse architecture. Defined a Global Data Warehouse and Information Delivery Strategy. Established data sourcing and reconciliation patterns for the new Global Data Warehouse. Assessed and selected a global Budgeting & Forecasting solution. Architectural governance of Business Intelligence Solutions including finance, sales, marketing and human resource initiatives.

Design Lead, responsible for establishing, and ensuring compliance with, group-wide IT architectural standards. Designed and reviewed infrastructure, application and information architectures for a range of projects including: B2B e-commerce; trade promotion planning; data warehouse; reporting and analysis; application integrations & divestments. Reviewed & upgraded the Business Intelligence technology infrastructure, to achieve stability & performance improvement. Created an Operational & Analytical Reporting Architecture. Assessed, selected & implemented a global standard Business Intelligence toolset.

Information Strategy, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse consulting engagements for clients in the insurance, healthcare, directory services and retail industries.

Business Analyst and Architect, responsible for requirements analysis, architecture, solution design, development and support for stock and inventory systems. Lead Architect for Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse design and architecture in group-wide Data Warehouse projects.

Consulting engagements in transport and telecommunications. Reference data management, application support, database design and performance tuning.