Overview
IT Architect — 25+ years across enterprise, data, cloud & AI
This page is an overview, not a CV.
Profile summary
- 28 years in IT: 10 years in architecture and in leading IT transformation, after 18 years in software development and business analysis (BA)
- Sectors: banking (17 years), insurance and asset management (1.5 years), industry (2 years), public administration (1.5 years), IT consulting firm (3.5 years), other (2.5 years)
- Cross-functional experience: master planning and IS landscape planning across enterprise, solution and data architectures; leading transformation (planning, budget, risk, steering/architecture committees); lead architect (over 100 applications), coordination of about 60 contributors, process redesign (project architecture document PAD, ESG rating), regulatory compliance
Recent engagements
Education & titles
• Supélec (1997) — Engineering degree, electrical engineering & signal processing
• CNAM (2009) — Master 2 in Management Science (finance)
• European Engineer (EurIng) certified
Competences
Domains & expertise
IT & enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture & IS landscape planning — master plans, application/data-flow mapping, baseline and target architecture; TOGAF, Archimate, Zachman. Data & AI: BCBS 239, Power BI, Spark, data federation, LLM/RAG/agentic AI. Cloud & infrastructure: GCP, AWS, hybrid, Kubernetes.
IT transformation
Process redesign & agile ceremonies (PAD); change management; regulatory compliance (DORA, FRTB, ESG); methods — DevOps, Scrum, TDD/SDD, build factory, ITIL, user-acceptance testing & go-live.
Project management & business analysis
Opportunity studies, statement of requirements, RFI/RFP/RFQ; planning, budget, risk, coordination of up to 60 contributors, reporting; PRINCE2.
Strategy & sectors
SWOT, value chain, value-stream mapping, scenarios, ROI/TCO/NPV/break-even; investment banking (rates, VaR, Murex/Summit, Basel IV, AML); insurance; digital (e-commerce, SaaS, open source); corporate finance (M&A, carve-in/carve-out, SPACs).
On the side
Independent researcher in linguistics
Ancient languages — currently Akkadian. Philology meets computation: prosody, sound patterns and linguistic structure, supported by an engineering background.
⚡ akkapros — Toolkit for Akkadian prosody reconstruction
Computes acoustic metrics (VarcoC, ΔC, %V) and generates multiple output formats (IPA, XAR, acute/bold) for Assyriology research. Open source, MIT licensed, archived on Zenodo.
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