Murtaza Kanchwala

Murtaza Kanchwala

London Area, United Kingdom
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I am a driven, dedicated technology executive with 25+ years of industry experience…

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Experience

  • Amplifi Capital Graphic

    Amplifi Capital

    London Area, United Kingdom

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    London Area, United Kingdom

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    Hong Kong SAR

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    Hong Kong SAR

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    London Area, United Kingdom

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    Hong Kong

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    Hong Kong

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    Hong Kong

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Christchurch, New Zealand

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Education

  • MIT Sloan School of Management Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

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    Activities and Societies: Core: Strategy and Innovation

    Courses:
    1. Product, Design, Development and Management (June 2011)

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    Thesis Topic: "Technological Innovation and Strategic Business Growth: A Comparative Study of Healthcare and Financial Services"

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Licenses & Certifications

  • Certified Process Professional (Level 1-2)

    BP Group (iCMG)

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  • TOGAF Certified

    The Open Group

Patents

  • USER VERIFICATION USING FACIAL FEATURES

    Issued HK30105660

    There is provided a computer implemented method, computer readable medium and system for verifying liveness of a subject depicted in a plurality of acquired images. An initial facial mesh is generated from multiple images in acquired images of the face of the subject. Further images are acquired subsequent to communicating to the subject a prompt indicative of an emotional state. A
    difference facial mesh is generated from facial landmarks extracted from a further image; and the change of…

    There is provided a computer implemented method, computer readable medium and system for verifying liveness of a subject depicted in a plurality of acquired images. An initial facial mesh is generated from multiple images in acquired images of the face of the subject. Further images are acquired subsequent to communicating to the subject a prompt indicative of an emotional state. A
    difference facial mesh is generated from facial landmarks extracted from a further image; and the change of some predetermined edges relative to corresponding edges of the initial facial mesh determined. A model trained by a machine learning algorithm evaluates whether the difference facial mesh corresponds to an expected emotional state for that subject following said prompt. The above steps are repeated and if a predetermined number of a difference meshes for a subject correspond to expected emotional states the subject is verified as live.

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Projects

  • DX Network Services - Enterprise Data Architexture

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    Technologies: Sparx, webMethods, JD Edwards, Legacy Systems, Mobile Devices, Qlikview, Business Objects, SQL Server, .NET

    • Information Architecture – definition and design of the DX Corporate Data Model and Information Flows
    • Data Governance Framework
    • Information Life Cycle Management
    • Metadata Management
    • Information, BI and Real Time Analytics Strategy
    • Define Business Object Model (BOM) and Logical Data Model (LDM)
    • Mapping of BOM to Processes, LDM and…

    Technologies: Sparx, webMethods, JD Edwards, Legacy Systems, Mobile Devices, Qlikview, Business Objects, SQL Server, .NET

    • Information Architecture – definition and design of the DX Corporate Data Model and Information Flows
    • Data Governance Framework
    • Information Life Cycle Management
    • Metadata Management
    • Information, BI and Real Time Analytics Strategy
    • Define Business Object Model (BOM) and Logical Data Model (LDM)
    • Mapping of BOM to Processes, LDM and Physical Data Models

  • Yodel - Information and Data Architecture

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    Technologies: Oracle Fusion SOA Suite, EssBase Hyperion, Legacy Systems, Mobile Devices and NoSQL (Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB)

    •Setting the technology priorities, direction, roadmap and strategies for the organisation in collaboration with the executive team
    •Defining the Enterprise Information Architecture Strategy
    •Identifying technology solutions
    •Define end to end enterprise solution & architecture for integration, information, data and applications on multiple hardware and…

    Technologies: Oracle Fusion SOA Suite, EssBase Hyperion, Legacy Systems, Mobile Devices and NoSQL (Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB)

    •Setting the technology priorities, direction, roadmap and strategies for the organisation in collaboration with the executive team
    •Defining the Enterprise Information Architecture Strategy
    •Identifying technology solutions
    •Define end to end enterprise solution & architecture for integration, information, data and applications on multiple hardware and software environments
    •Define the strategy for Enterprise Data Model, MDM Architecture and Governance
    •Design and define Information Flows, Conceptual Data Model, Logical Data Model and Canonical Data Model
    •Implemented Application Innovation Fabric (App Platform) using the Event Store Concept (based on EDA – Event-Driven Architecture)
    •Adopt the use and implementation of TOGAF as the architecture framework for current and future IT projects
    •Work in line with the CIO and Director of IT Demand to achieve, strategies business and IT goals.

  • Ahold Delhaize - HR Services Platform

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    Sector: International Retail Group

    Technologies: Oracle Fusion SOA Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Various Legacy Systems

    • Define end to end enterprise solution & architecture for applications on multiple hardware and software environments
    • Define HR domain (Employee data) involving MDM, SAS, BPO Solutions within retail environment
    • Define business processes to be in PeopleSoft (HR Functions) and Siebel UCM (Employee Master Data)
    • Defining the end to end process flows…

    Sector: International Retail Group

    Technologies: Oracle Fusion SOA Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Various Legacy Systems

    • Define end to end enterprise solution & architecture for applications on multiple hardware and software environments
    • Define HR domain (Employee data) involving MDM, SAS, BPO Solutions within retail environment
    • Define business processes to be in PeopleSoft (HR Functions) and Siebel UCM (Employee Master Data)
    • Defining the end to end process flows and converting business requirements to solution requirement along with client side SA and BA
    • Responsible for functional and non-functional requirement gathering for end to end solution
    • Responsible for working with all implementation partners (Wipro, Logica, Infosys and Oracle) and ensuring all the requirements (business and functional) are being met by individual applications
    • Define security requirements and model for the solution with the security team
    • Define infrastructure solution with the infrastructure team
    • Responsible for the test strategy, data migration and cutover strategy for the project
    • Responsible for leading the business, functional and technical team for producing the solution blueprint during the define(initiation) phase
    • Responsible for review and approval of the solution blueprint with Ahold Architects and Oracle
    • Responsible for end to end design of the solution
    • Supplier (Logica, Infosys, ATOS, Wipro and Others) Management and Relationship for Solution Architecture, Design and Delivery.

  • DHL - New Forwarding Environment (NFE)

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    Technologies: Middleware Evaluation, JAVA, SOA, UML, Cognos, SAP, Oracle, WebMethods, Teradata, Legacy (Mainframes and AS400)

    • Design and implement integration strategy architecture and product evaluation.
    • Solution Architecture and design patterns supporting the integration backbone
    • Responsible for NFE Architecture Strategy (Blue Sky thinking) for technology enablers (BI, BAM, BPM, Portals, Collaboration, ECM, DWH, IAM, Mobile Services, Enterprise Search and Metadata)
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    Technologies: Middleware Evaluation, JAVA, SOA, UML, Cognos, SAP, Oracle, WebMethods, Teradata, Legacy (Mainframes and AS400)

    • Design and implement integration strategy architecture and product evaluation.
    • Solution Architecture and design patterns supporting the integration backbone
    • Responsible for NFE Architecture Strategy (Blue Sky thinking) for technology enablers (BI, BAM, BPM, Portals, Collaboration, ECM, DWH, IAM, Mobile Services, Enterprise Search and Metadata)
    • Contribute to all the NFE white papers for architecture definition.
    • Strategies NFE (transformation program) for Cloud Computing Architectures
    • ARIS business and process modeling use within architecture frameworks
    • RFI, RFP and Vendor Evaluation Workshops in line with CAP Gemini
    • Defining Application Strategy Roadmap for Oracle/SAP suite of applications

    KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
    • Consistently develops successful strategies to match and exceed business goals
    • Led design, architecture, and strategy efforts to ensure EA compliance; was acting as Lead Architect on NFE (transformation program)
    • Gained confidence and expertise within 2 weeks of introduction to architectures
    • Appointed as an application stakeholder on the Integration Backbone design initiative

  • Airwave Solutions - Asset Management Enterprise Software

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    Acting as a Systems Designer / Architect who understands the business and its processes and aligns them to software design perspective. The project is to help design an on-line, hosted suite of applications which analyse and monitor client’s Assets and Networks. The solution will be one that incorporates component re-usability so that it doesn’t require them to re-invent the wheel every time a client wants an enhancement or do an upgrade. Use of UML, OOA and OOD methodologies. Building on the…

    Acting as a Systems Designer / Architect who understands the business and its processes and aligns them to software design perspective. The project is to help design an on-line, hosted suite of applications which analyse and monitor client’s Assets and Networks. The solution will be one that incorporates component re-usability so that it doesn’t require them to re-invent the wheel every time a client wants an enhancement or do an upgrade. Use of UML, OOA and OOD methodologies. Building on the existing product set for the future. Key responsibilities includes, Technical design, Business analysis, Service based design, ER Modelling, Functional Analysis (Use Case, DFD) and component reusability, RDBMS, .net, MS VS and Multi-tier systems.

    Produce development standards and procedures for the development team, business processes, requirement models for enhanced systems design and analysis, high level and detail level designs, integration methods and models, component model designs.

  • NHS - Network Rollout

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    Working as a part of the Project Support Office (PSO)

    • The role was part of urgent signoffs of IT projects prior to the new budget. My role was to review the projects and solutions proposed by IT. Whether the solutions proposed will fit into the current and proposed architecture for NHS.
    • Recommend solutions and recommendations on the architecture, technologies, software, hardware, networks, etc.
    • Provide a rationale for the projects to be approved and progressed through…

    Working as a part of the Project Support Office (PSO)

    • The role was part of urgent signoffs of IT projects prior to the new budget. My role was to review the projects and solutions proposed by IT. Whether the solutions proposed will fit into the current and proposed architecture for NHS.
    • Recommend solutions and recommendations on the architecture, technologies, software, hardware, networks, etc.
    • Provide a rationale for the projects to be approved and progressed through implementation.
    • Working on project budgets ranging from 50K – 6Million
    • Provide a high-level architecture view for all the IT projects.

  • Fonterra - AsiaONE Project

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    Was part of the AsiaONE project for their client Fonterra Brands. Implementation of JD Edwards ERP throughout ASIA (Singapore, Philippines, UAE, Saudi, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka).

    Architecture and Strategic Consultancy. Lead a complete global technical team with developers, analyst, DBA, Network Consultants, etc. System Integration Architect and Strategy decisions for the business including software selection and platforms.

    Review and approval of Solution Designs and…

    Was part of the AsiaONE project for their client Fonterra Brands. Implementation of JD Edwards ERP throughout ASIA (Singapore, Philippines, UAE, Saudi, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka).

    Architecture and Strategic Consultancy. Lead a complete global technical team with developers, analyst, DBA, Network Consultants, etc. System Integration Architect and Strategy decisions for the business including software selection and platforms.

    Review and approval of Solution Designs and Blueprints.

    Implemented a global security framework and testing simulation platform.

  • Notting Hill Housing - ProjectONE

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    ProjectONE (JD Edwards ERP Implementation)

    • Build the complete development team from scratch and managed the technical team inclusive of CNC, Developers, DBA, Infrastructure Consultants and Network Consultants.

    • Design structure for functional requirements, change management, issues, direct and indirect impact to the system.

    • Liaise with the IT Board at strategy decision level, coordinate with the project management, functional teams, technical team, systems team and ICT…

    ProjectONE (JD Edwards ERP Implementation)

    • Build the complete development team from scratch and managed the technical team inclusive of CNC, Developers, DBA, Infrastructure Consultants and Network Consultants.

    • Design structure for functional requirements, change management, issues, direct and indirect impact to the system.

    • Liaise with the IT Board at strategy decision level, coordinate with the project management, functional teams, technical team, systems team and ICT on a daily basis.

    • Approval of functional and technical specification, monitor technical team’s tasks and development procedures, approve development followed by QC

    • Deploy development to UAT for system testing, perform estimations of work and budgets.

    • Defined and designed complete data migration and interfacing strategy for the business.

    • Designed bespoke data migration and interfacing suite using VB6/SQL Server.

    • Liaising with hardware and software vendors

    • Worked on their Mobile Working project. Defined and designed the complete architecture for the solution and deployed successfully.

    The project involved bespoke development of the middleware (.NET) and integration in to their ERP (JD Edwards and Sx3). The solution also involved development on PDA (Pocket PC) using HTML, C# and MySQL.

  • British Plaster Board - ERP Implementation

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    • To define solutions based on the business requirements defined by application consultants. Review the requirements; perform impact analysis, risk assessment, estimation and technical specification.

    • Perform development of the requirements based on the technical specification once approved. Pass the development through unit test and QC. Once approved deploy to UAT for testing.

    • Attend strategy design meetings for defining system architecture for interfaces. Define interfacing…

    • To define solutions based on the business requirements defined by application consultants. Review the requirements; perform impact analysis, risk assessment, estimation and technical specification.

    • Perform development of the requirements based on the technical specification once approved. Pass the development through unit test and QC. Once approved deploy to UAT for testing.

    • Attend strategy design meetings for defining system architecture for interfaces. Define interfacing architecture and apply to overall requirements.

    • Define system architectural documents for development. High level and detail level design documents including component designs and sequence diagrams.

  • Calor Gas - Onboard Truck Computing

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    Was part of their On-Board Truck Computing and Point of Sale project.

    The project involved complete end to end solution design, build and deployment. The solution required integration into their ERP (JD Edwards).

    Technologies used were TIBCO, JD Edwards, C++, Java, VB, T-SQL

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