Andrew Crane Profile

Industry Exposure

• Telecommunications/Telco
• Utilities - Power & Gas
• Industrial Sector
• Government
• Vendor Professional Services Sales
• Vendor Consultancy and Outsourcing

Experience

• Cloud Specialist - VMware vCloud Director and supporting products
• Mergers and acquisitions, business transformation and shared services
• 20+ years IT experience
• Enterprise and Domain Architect
• Technical/Infrastructure Architect and Solution Architect
• Project Management
• Consultant
• Vendor and Outsourcing
• Government advisor

Skills

Enterprise Architect

• Design and Implement VMware Cloud solutions
• Lead and reviewed the architecture for enterprise IT infrastructure and packaged systems
• Managed and participated in large projects and technical teams of 20+ staff to ensure key deliverables are achieved in a collaborative and timely manner
• Prepared Technology Plans and IT Strategies with 5-year outlooks
• Strong communication and stakeholder expectation management at all levels of an organisation
• Developed Business Cases with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV) and risk mitigation components
• Lead and developed company IT strategies for company mergers
• Excellent lifecycle and SDLC knowledge
• Lead and reviewed Business Requirement gathering, developed Scope of Works, reviewed Business Processes and written architecture documents at Conceptual, Logical and Physical layers
• Documented applications and interfaces between systems for SOA implementations
• Managed IT Budgets & Managed projects guided by Prince2 and Project Mentor frameworks
• Managed and prepared architectures guided by Zachman and TOGAF frameworks

Service Delivery

• Managed a team of 20+ staff to provide Infrastructure Services
• Managed Outsourced and Insourced delivery contracts
• Designed and delivered to SLA's as a vendor, and specified SLA's for contract negotiations as a customer
• Supervised ITIL managed services for implementation at customer sites
• Managed data centre relocations and prepared Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery infrastructure designs and tests
• Expert knowledge in Security, Network, Desktop and Messaging disciplines
• Sound Knowledge of Unix and Microsoft Administration and storage technologies
• Supervised Service Desk, Monitoring and Management systems
• RFP and RFI experience as a vendor and customer/corporation
• Vendor management and negotiation experience