Bringing commercial awareness and experience to a changing sector and IT function. Developing and maturing an Enterprise Architecture function in a forward thinking IT Department, with a particular focus on the pragmatic deployment of EA capability, IT strategy and business alignment. Member of the British Computer Society - TOGAF Certified Architect V9 - Certified Solution and Enterprise Architect via BCS

Head of IT Architecture & Governance @ Head of IT Architecture for a leading housing association in the South of England responsible for circa 27,000 properties, housing over 67,000 residents, supported by over 900 employees. I am the author of the Groups business led IT strategy designed to support the goals and objectives of the business for the coming three years, the strategy has been endorsed at board level, who have sanctioned a quadrupled IT change budget to support the move from a property centric view of the business to one where the customer is paramount. My team and I are accountable for the strategic direction and overall design of new IT solutions mapping business need across the enterprise ensuring the integrity of the overall IT estate is maintained and the appropriate solutions are deployed. As part of my role I advocate a pragmatic approach to the delivery of the enterprise architecture, through the use of standard EA frameworks. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Senior Solution Architect @ Responsible & accountable for the technical delivery of IT projects across the business, ranging from small tactical projects to large strategic initiatives, projects cross IT infrastructure, software development to hosted solution. Working directly with the business and SME's to ensure that the end state solutions are requirements driven and delivered to agreed scope. From September 2012 to May 2013 (9 months) London, United KingdomTechnical Consultant @ Security Cleared Consultant working for Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS). On site dell consultant at Freshfields law firm, acting as bridge between Dell and Freshfields, working directly with the Freshfields TDA to ensure design documents were requirements driven with the requisite quality to be approved by the client before solution delivery. From August 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 2 months) Technical Consultant @ Security Cleared Consultant working for Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS). On site dell consultant at TUI consolidating core infrastructure services across TUI specialist brands, including various migrations From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Solution Architect @ SA as part of multi million pounds transformation programme that was responsible for deploying Windows 7 client, Systems Centre Configuration Manager, Windows Server 2008 R2 and implementation and migration to the Microsoft Collaboration suite of products. I was tasked with leading the migration of 10,000 users from the Lotus Suite of products to Microsoft Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 300 Lotus Notes applications to MOSS. This role had a large customer focus and involved amongst other things liaising with 3rd party consultants challenging them on delivery of the solution and presenting to members of BAA executive and key stakeholders the projects technical progress, strategy and future plans. From March 2009 to May 2011 (2 years 3 months) Messaging and Collaboration Technical Architect @ Technical Design Authority and architectural responsibility for the messaging and collaboration technologies used within in BAA. Owner of product strategy and domain plans, ensure cost effective and appropriate solutions were deployed. From 2005 to 2009 (4 years) Messaging Administrator @ 3rd line Lotus Notes support role for 12,000 users and 50 Domino mail, application and intranet servers, dealing with user queries, carrying out preventative maintenance and scheduled maintenance tasks on the Domino Servers. Also supporting MIMEsweeper technologies and BlackBerry Enterprise Server From October 2001 to 2005 (4 years) Lotus Notes Admin @ From 1996 to 2001 (5 years)

Government & Politics, A/S Levels @ College of Richard Collyer From 1993 to 1994 Ifield Commnuity CollegeIfield Commnuity College Mark Lyons is skilled in: IT architectures, IT Strategy, Solution Architecture, Customer Focus, Project Implementation, Team Leadership, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Architecture, Microsoft Exchange, Infrastructure, Computer Architecture, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Active Directory, Integration