Dean is an Enterprise/Solution Architect with over 15 years of experience leading high-risk, high-responsibility digital business transformation projects as a technical consultant and people leader. Dean has extensive experience advising senior executives and providing strategic leadership as part of the architectural governance process. As a technical lead, Dean creates enterprise-level service designs and processes along with all supporting documentation. Skilled in all aspects of the solution design and software development process, Dean is an expert in translating business requirements into technical solutions and is fanatical about quality, usability, security and scalability. Dean is a Sparx EA specialist assisting organisations develop or extend their architectural repository to document the relationships between solutions and business capabilities through a combination of techniques and formats. Dean has a deep understanding of current technology trends. He is strong in translating business requirements into new ideas and technologies through understanding needs, providing advice, managing risks, and delivering the right technologies. Dean has broad hands-on experience working across different enterprise architecture frameworks. He is passionate about helping clients redesign, develop and deploy critical business applications to meet operational and strategic objectives and return on investment. Dean has been involved in multiple ERP replacement, email service migration, digital co-existence, identity and access management, and enterprise data warehousing projects (which involved data design, migration and warehousing solutions). Dean has also worked on multiple AWS DMS/Cloud integration projects and designed a data quality rules-checking engine for a core NZ Government Ministry. Since joining IQANZ and Johnson Partners, Dean has provided Technical Quality Assurance (TQA) and technical delivery services to many NZ Government and private sector organisations (projects and programmes) over the last five years and is sought after by his clients.