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Mandy
Shaw: Strategic Architect and
IBM
System i Consultant
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Contact
contact
Mandy Shaw
Director, iPerimeter Ltd
1 Lansdown Place East
Bath
BA1 5ET
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 1225 436302
Mobile +44 7710 447966
Email
Skype shawmandy
Availability
Company Registration Number 6761012
VAT Registration Number 970 0417 40
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experience
Strategic
Architecture
- 2009-2010: Strategic
architect for a retailer implementing a
centralised web based point of sale solution, based on Java and Oracle
and replacing the existing distributed client/server application
- 2005-2008: Chief Architect,
Logicalis UK: strategic role in
defining Logicalis' propositions and ensuring that marketing messages
were backed by strong business cases, effective vendor relationships,
clear routes to market, and suitable resourcing
- 2007-2008:
Acted as technical design authority and programme
manager
through the planning, deployment, launch and ongoing development of a
successful demonstration suite (Innovation Centre)
showcasing the
organisation's cross-technology solution skills
- 2005-2007: Led a team
providing cross-technology strategic
architecture
and
technical account management services
- 2005: Solutions architect
for a retailer implementing a business
process engine for effective systems integration across stores and head
office
- 2002-2006: Principal
solutions architect for the well known Web
self-service application for family history researchers
http://www.1837online.com (now http://www.findmypast.com),
using IBM DB2
and clustered IBM WebSphere servers on a Linux platform (click here
for more details)
- 2000: Solutions architect
for a business-to-business Web
storefront for
a large optical products organization, using XML for integration with a
range of back end ERP systems via the customer’s strategic
EAI
product
System
i Consultancy
- 2009-2010: Strategic
architect for a retailer implementing a
centralised
web based point of sale solution; involved in all aspects of this
complex project, but with particular focus on
integration with, and governance of, the organization’s
extensive
suite
of System i based line of business and management information
applications, and on DB2 for i performance
- 2007: Designed and
implemented high performance System i
application
integration solutions for two large customers' SOA initiatives
- 2004: As lead architect,
provided education, consultancy and
mentoring
to a large insurance company deploying System i as a strategic mixed
workload platform
- 2000-date: Head of Logicalis
IT Forum
- 1998-2000: Architect for the
well known motor insurance website http://www.elephant.co.uk,
using IBM WebSphere Application Server on the System i platform, with
extensive integration with the customer's existing System i back-office
systems (click here
for more details)
- 1998-date: A wide range of
projects involving Lotus Domino on the
System i platform
- 1995-1996: Feasibility study
for the porting of Digital's DEC/EDI
Client from Unix to AS/400, plus technical project management of the
implementation on AS/400 and MVS platforms
- 1991-1994: Design and
implementation of the DOS software elements
of an
AS/400 imaging product, involving high-performance graphics
programming and complex interfacing
- 1990-1991: Consultancy and
mentoring for a pharmaceutical company
moving all applications from IBM mainframe to AS/400, focusing on
recoverability, security and connectivity
- 1989-1998: Development and
delivery of many AS/400 education
offerings
- 1986-1988: Design,
implementation, technical and user
documentation,
installation, training and support for a System/38-based
telex management system, written in RPG III and including complex BSC
communications programming
Quality
and Information Security
- 2008:
Managed the integration of Logicalis' GRACE
(Governance, Risk and
Compliance Engine) operational risk product acquisition and the launch
of a consultancy-led business to drive it
- 1998-2001: Quality Manager
- 1992-2000: Consultancy and
teaching in AS/400 risk management,
security
and auditing
Management
- 2001-2002: Managed an
e-business services team of 20, deploying
IBM WebSphere and Lotus Domino solutions for a wide range of customers
- 1985-2004: Major involvement
in (and for long periods management
of)
internal IT infrastructure, operations and systems at
Pacific/Catalyst/Notability
- 1996-1997: Launched and
managed a Lotus Domino services business
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