1. Richard Hardy June 2015
CV - Richard Hardy
IT Architect
Professional experience
• ALPIQ Management AG
Lausanne, Switzerland April 2009 to September 2014
Role: IT Architect, Infrastructure Architect
Responsibilities:
• Organise and Lead ICT infrastructure strategy and design
• Set up and coordinate the IT specialists in each infrastructure sub-domain
• Organise IT coordination activities (technology forum)
• Coordinate infrastructure activities with the other architects (architecture board)
• Elaborate coherent IT infrastructure strategies for each area
• Introduce standards in all areas
• Implement architecture governance and methodology (based on TOGAF)
• Take the design lead for infrastructure changes
• Conduct service evaluations RFI and RFP for data centre location and workplace strategies
• Rationalise the application portfolio of two recently merged organisations
• Design and implement the infrastructure architecture roadmap based on the strategies
• Introduce a Corporate ITAM tool, with necessary standards and best practices
• Elizabeth Arden International SA
Geneva, Switzerland November 2006 to March 2009
Role: Oracle Team Leader
Responsibilities:
• Management of the Geneva development and support team, comprising 5 people (3 internal)
• Senior developer on a global team designing, building and supporting business intelligence
solutions
• Strategic direction for BI projects and advisor for other IT projects
• Support local Oracle systems, OLAP and OLTP
• Groupe Mutuel (Clio SA)
Martigny, Switzerland April 2006 to October 2006
Roles: Consultant Business Intelligence Architect
Responsibilities:
• Designing and developing business intelligence solutions
• Expert advice to business intelligence architects designing a replacement solution
• Orange Communications SA
Lausanne, Switzerland October 2000 to March 2006
Roles: BI Database Architect, Database and ETL and testing team leader
• Design of data warehouse and reporting applications running on all the information systems
• Technical project management for business intelligence projects
• Organising technical environments and the development standards.
• Organising DBA team, liaison with UNIX administrators.
• Structured testing of data warehouse applications and ETL
• Provide the lead for a team of internal and external analysts, designers, developers and testers
whose goal is to enhance and re-design some large reporting platforms.
• Leading a team of offshore testers to validate the integrity of business intelligence applications.
• ACT Insurance Systems January 1998 to July 2000
Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
Reporting Analyst / Data Warehouse Developer
Responsible for organising all reporting activity.
Structured development of reports and reporting platforms using CASE tools like Oracle Warehouse
Builder to support Insurance activities.
• British Nuclear Fuels Plc August 1996 to December 1997
Sellafield, Cumbria. UK
System Manager for development of an Oracle based information computer system, supplying product
quality and materials accountancy for the Mixed Oxide Fuels Production Plant (MOX). A key member of
the development team, responsible for administration of the databases, application development and
application re-work and testing. Involved with analysis, design and documentation and for setting up the
development environment and working practices. Systems had to comply fully with ISO9001.

2. Richard Hardy June 2015
• Avesta Sheffield Ltd. October 1994 to June 1995
Shepcote Lane, Sheffield, UK
Reporting for the production planning and control system for the hot rolled stainless steel plate mill.
Using Oracle reports. Designing and building a data warehouse system for reporting on legacy data
merged with recent data from multiple systems.
• Etelä- Savon Energia Oy June 1994 to October 1994
Mikkeli Finland.
Analysis, design, development, documentation and implementation of a system for forecasting and
managing fuel bookings for the power station, a PC based MS Excel application.
Language Skills
• English (Mother Tongue)
• French (Fluent)
• German (Basic)
• Arabic (Basic)
Language Qualifications
DELF level A4 French March 2003
Alliance Française Diplôme Avancé June 2008
Education
Professional Qualifications
TOGAF Practitioner September 2013
Oracle Warehouse Builder August 2008
Oracle Database Administrator September 1996
Sheffield Hallam University. September 1992 to June 1996
BSc (Hon’s) Software Engineering (Upper second class)
Final year subjects:
• Thesis: "Data Warehousing, Problems and Solutions in the Stainless Steel Industry", completed in
association with Avesta Sheffield plc.
• Advanced Databases
• Process Management
• Human Computer Interaction
• Knowledge based Systems
• Software Engineering Management
Part of the degree course was spent on placement at Avesta Sheffield (UK) and Etelä-Savon Energia (Finland)
Personal Information
Address : Chemin De Charmontel 7, Telephone: +41 (0)78 870 5488 (m)
1008 PRILLY, +41 (0)21 647 8306 (h)
Switzerland. e-mail: rmh_rickhardy@hotmail.com
Nationality: British / Swiss
Date of Birth: 29.09.1969 Age: 45
Marital Status: Single
Interests: Mountaineering, Scuba diving, Indian cooking