1. Implementation, Customization, Giving Direction, Managing Compliance, Ensuring Time of Delivery, Consultation and Advice to Board level. 2. Provide functional and technical leadership in the development and support of systems. 3. Gather business requirements and processes to accomplish development and support activities. 4. Ensure successful alignment between functional requirements and technical solution. 5. Manage resources (people, hardware and software) for support and development – including mentoring (not spoon-feeding) - white-space situations. 6. Vast management experience has led to the identification and enhancement team synergies. 7. Most often used in re-alignment of problematic projects – since author was one of the first ten Siebel Trainers in South Africa, so chosen because of existing (especially Oracle) skill set (having worked for Oracle). 8. Over 25 years of Development experience and skill set has enabled quick problem resolution and orchestration of Team capabilities. 9. An Architect is in charge of the Technical and Functional Leads and can also be viewed as a Technical Team Lead or Senior Developer, with emphasis on the Technical. That being said the author’s Functional skills are not far behind with the advancements using Oracle OUM and Enterprise Architecture TOGAF. 10. Industries include: Serviced Financial Companies (as consultant of SPL, DiData, Oracle, ...) such as Old Mutual, Sanlam, Discovery Invest, ABSA, FNB, Standard Bank; Agricultural (Utopia); Telecommunications (Vodacom, Telkom); Media (National Media); Public Sector (SABS, NHBRC); Aeronautical (Fujitsu, CO3); Pharmaceutical (Adcock Ingram); Finance – Investment / Insurance (Discovery Invest, Old Mutual, Sanlam); Device / IoT& other Systems Integration; Consulting (Self, SPL, DiData, Reverside, Falcorp) –to mention a few…