Simon Gianoutsos

Current

Principal Solution Architect at Telecom New Zealand

Past

Enterprise Architect at Telecom New Zealand Ltd
Principal Architect at Xtra
Manager at Ernst & Young

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Education

University of Waikato
University of Waikato

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Simon Gianoutsos’s Summary

In my career I have worked in a variety of roles including Business Analysis, Development, Testing, Deployment, Ongoing Support, Project Management, Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture.

Most recently I have been involved with large Enterprise & Solution Architecture activities which have had no shortage of challenges.

I am also extremely passionate about Online and Social Media technologies, and have been a technical Subject Matter Expert in this space for a number of years.

My current career objective is to obtain a senior management / CIO role within a large corporate organisation that fully utilises and builds upon my technical, innovative and personal skills and rewards me accordingly.

Simon Gianoutsos’s Specialties:

Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture with a focus on Consumer Mass Market, Online, Service Delivery, Telecom Directories and Broadband.

Simon Gianoutsos’s Experience

Principal Solution Architect

Telecom New Zealand

(Public Company; NZT; Telecommunications industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

- Led assessment of appropriate technologies for Telecom's Portal and Content Management space
- Lead Architect for the Shared Services deliverables of the Wholesale & Chorus Business Units
- Part of core team that arranged Telecom’s first Unconference
- Active involvement in driving the use of Social Media as a tool for customer and internal communication
- Lead Architect for the Retail Next Generation Telecom Programme, followed by a role on the Facilitation team overseeing our Solution Integration partner
- Lead technology solution design and domain development in the Online and Value Added Services domain
- Mentoring and supervision of a team of Solution Architects
- Escalation point for Architecture issues
- Articulation of technology solution issues and trade-offs to impacted key stakeholders in a business-focussed language to enable effective decision making by business owners
- Active involvement in the Yahoo!Xtra Programme from concept through to post go-live
Enterprise Architect

Telecom New Zealand Ltd

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NZT; Telecommunications industry)

August 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 5 months)

- Delegated Technical Authority across Online, Broadband and Telecom Directories.
- Development and evangelism of Telecom’s Enterprise Architecture.
- Guiding the business towards Future-oriented solutions, and working through tradeoffs where appropriate to deliver pragmatic outcomes.
- Roadmap development for Technology delivery.
- Ensuring total cost of ownership is being considered for solutions.
- Significant involvement in Vendor selection & Partnering initiatives; including Yahoo!Xtra, Content Management/Portal, Application Server Stack.
Principal Architect

Xtra

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 5 months)

- Solution architecture for Xtra, Telecom Directories Ltd and Xtra Mobile Services in particular.
- Mentoring of peers in Solution Architecture best practice.
- Obtaining buy-in to solutions from IS Operations and Product Management.
- Contributing to Xtra becoming more systematic and process driven in successfully delivering projects.
- Content Management & Delivery Subject Matter Expert.
Manager

Ernst & Young

(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1997 — April 2001 (4 years 2 months)

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is a strongly disciplined consultancy company that follows well-proven business process and software development methodologies. This work involved regular contact with clients, at technical, business and executive levels. Through this work I had involvement in all parts of the Software Development Life Cycle, right the way from Analysis and Design, through to Development, Testing, Deployment, Ongoing Support and Project Management. These roles were challenging and spanned across a number of technologies and industries.