23 years in IT

Senior Enterprise Architect · Vivicta

Architecture leadership for a Nordic banking-services account across Norway, Sweden and Finland: about 3,000 virtual servers, 120 dedicated physical hosts, a corporate private cloud and around 100 AIX LPARs.

• Established account-level architecture governance, including HLD/LLD templates adopted by architects and used in proposals, delivery estimates and commercial costing.
• Standardized datastore design across dedicated VMware environments, reclaiming unused SAN capacity – storage costs reduced by approximately 25%.
• Led the architecture for moving a dedicated customer environment to a new tenant in the corporate sovereign private cloud – recurring operating costs reduced by approximately 20%.
• After a corporate separation, redesigned Microsoft and Red Hat compute pools with the licensing, platform and virtualization teams and moved selected workloads from VMware to Hyper-V – about 20% lower licensing and a further 10% lower hardware-related costs.
• Developed release-management and lifecycle governance; contributed to security controls, SLA gap analysis, business continuity planning and resilient cross-country connectivity for payment services.

Senior Enterprise Architect · Tietoevry

Established enterprise-architecture foundations across five business areas.

• Defined enterprise architect responsibilities, key activities and their integration into existing structures and processes.
• Developed the initial architecture governance model, documentation approach and strategic direction.

Client Enterprise Architect · Kyndryl

• Led the architecture of a virtual desktop infrastructure refresh in automotive finance – dedicated VMware/vSAN farm with F5 load balancing – from assessment and proposal through implementation oversight.
• Prepared the technical proposal, architecture documentation and migration plans for a midrange technology refresh (IBM Power Systems, VMware, NetApp, Cisco); managed domain architects during implementation.

Client Enterprise Architect · IBM

• Created an account technology roadmap and release-management overview supporting a banking client’s contract extension into midrange services.
• Led and moderated stakeholder discussions to align service scope, operating model and technical direction.

Infrastructure Architect · IBM

• Planned and managed regulator-driven network segregation of about 600 Linux, Unix and Windows systems into production, UAT and development zones.
• Created a cost-effective test and development platform meeting banking security requirements, extended to IBM Power Systems, Solaris and Oracle RAC workloads.

Linux & VMware System Engineer · IBM

• Designed and built the infrastructure for migrating about 1,000 databases of a core-banking Oracle RAC platform to a database-as-a-service model.

Senior IT Administrator · Municipality of Boskovice

IT for a municipal organization of about 160 users across two sites, including ownership of the IT budget.

• Owned the IT budget and the full procurement cycle: tenders, vendor selection and contract negotiation.
• Delivered an EU-funded regional technology centre – a private-cloud-style platform shared by 73 municipalities.