Craig Beattie
Senior Analyst at Celent
- Location
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Financial Services
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Craig Beattie's Overview
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- Senior Analyst at Celent
- Past
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- Insurance Analyst at Celent
- Applications Architect for Insurance and Wealth, Strategy & Architecture, Business Services at Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Applications Architect for Insurance and Wealth, Group Architecture and Business Improvement at Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Platform Architect Lead at RBS Insurance
- Technical Architect - Strategy, Architecture and Design at RBS Insurance
- Technical Architect at RBS Insurance
- Technical Architect at Direct Line
- QA Technical Architect at Direct Line
- Systems Analyst through to Technical Architect at jamjar.com
- Programmer at Racal Defence Electronics
- Programmer at Picdar Technology Ltd
- Summer Placement at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- Education
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- University of the West of England
- Imperial College London
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Craig Beattie's Summary
Experience: Enterprise Architecture, Insurance Systems Technical Architecture, M&A, E-commerce
Focus: Core systems architecture, infrastructure management, IT delivery
Craig Beattie is an Analyst in Celent’s insurance practice, based in the London office. He brings extensive experience in the use of enterprise architecture and applications architecture practices in the insurance industry, working within insurers.
Mr Beattie has advised insurers on IT strategy, legacy modernization, insurance vendor analysis and enterprise architecture topics, principally in the EMEA region. Since joining Celent Mr. Beattie has been a speaker at industry events in North America and London, as well as Celent events in Europe. He has spoken on topics such as the influence of mobile on the industry, use of social networks by insurers, big data, on telematics subjects as well as trends in insurance core systems and the future of insurance.
Recent consulting clients have engaged Mr. Beattie for policy administration vendor analyses, market entry strategies, and product messaging work for insurance vendors.
Recent reports have covered core systems analysis, use of social data by insurers, the role of big data in insurance and analysis of consumer trends in UK motor insurance.
Specialties
Enterprise Architecture, Insurance Systems Technical Architecture, M&A, E-commerce, Core systems architecture, infrastructure management, IT delivery, Mobile, Social Media
Craig Beattie's Experience
Senior Analyst
Celent
Public Company; 51-200 employees; Research industry
January 2013 – Present (5 months)
Craig Beattie is an Analyst in Celent’s insurance practice, based in the London office. He brings extensive experience in the use of enterprise architecture and applications architecture practices in the insurance industry, working within insurers.
Mr Beattie has advised insurers on IT strategy, legacy modernization, insurance vendor analysis and enterprise architecture topics, principally in the EMEA region. Since joining Celent, Mr. Beattie has been a speaker at industry events in North America and London, as well as Celent events in Europe. He has spoken on topics such as the influence of mobile on the industry, the use of social networks by insurers and how the evolving use of the Internet will influence insurance in the future.
Recent consulting clients have engaged Mr. Beattie for policy administration vendor analyses, market entry strategies, and product messaging work for insurance vendors.
Insurance Analyst
Celent
Public Company; 51-200 employees; Research industry
February 2010 – February 2013 (3 years 1 month)
Craig Beattie is an Analyst in Celent’s insurance practice, based in the London office. He brings extensive experience in the use of enterprise architecture and applications architecture practices in the insurance industry, working within insurers.
Mr Beattie has advised insurers on IT strategy, legacy modernization, insurance vendor analysis and enterprise architecture topics, principally in the EMEA region. Since joining Celent, Mr. Beattie has been a speaker at industry events in North America and London, as well as Celent events in Europe. He has spoken on topics such as the influence of mobile on the industry, the use of social networks by insurers and how the evolving use of the Internet will influence insurance in the future.
Recent consulting clients have engaged Mr. Beattie for policy administration vendor analyses, market entry strategies, and product messaging work for insurance vendors.
Applications Architect for Insurance and Wealth, Strategy & Architecture, Business Services
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Banking industry
January 2009 – February 2010 (1 year 2 months)
Member of the Architecture team in Strategy & Architecture. Working with the Insurance Division and the Wealth Division.
Working with Brands such as:
- Coutts and RBS Coutts
- Adam & Company
- Direct Line
- Churchill
Applications Architect for Insurance and Wealth, Group Architecture and Business Improvement
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Banking industry
May 2008 – January 2009 (9 months)
Member of the Application Architecture team precominantly working with the Insurance Division.
Platform Architect Lead
RBS Insurance
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Insurance industry
January 2008 – May 2008 (5 months)
• During this time I formed a team of Technical Architects aligned to various platforms within RBS Insurance.
• I reviewed Architecture Certification methods and bodies with a view to rolling out to the team. I was unable to complete this in the time I was leading the team although hope to roll out my recommendations to the broader architect community in RBS.
• I handed the team over when I was invited to join the Group Architecture function in May.
• I’m happy to say one of the team members and a mentee was a Medallist for Software Developer of the Year 2008 (the individual excellence categories were merged in 2008).
Technical Architect - Strategy, Architecture and Design
RBS Insurance
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Insurance industry
November 2004 – December 2007 (3 years 2 months)
I was responsible for ensuring that the architectural designs within Insurance were compliant with RBS Group policy and that these were communicated to and accepted by the new service owners, RBS Group IT.
Technical Architect
RBS Insurance
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; RBS; Insurance industry
October 2005 – July 2006 (10 months)
During my role in SA&D I was tasked with providing a technical and application architecture for all of the RBS Insurance web sites including Directline.com, churchill.com and privilege.com. The goals of the project were to become DDA compliant across all the websites, deliver a consistent architecture to sell Insurance over 10 products and the entire brand set (some 50 distinct Quote & Buy web sites) whilst working to the constraints present in the wrap up of the Direct Line Churchill Integration Programme.
Technical Architect
Direct Line
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry
October 2003 – October 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for describing the existing architecture and providing designs to support the Integration programme for Direct Line Insurance Group and Churchill Insurance Group.
QA Technical Architect
Direct Line
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry
January 2003 – September 2003 (9 months)
I joined an already running project to provide a centralized integration tier to two businesses running in Europe. At the point I joined IBM Websphere Application Server 3.5 running on Z/OS had been chosen as the target platform with an implementation in Java and HTTP/SOAP selected as the integration tier. The development was outsourced.
During the course of the project I interfaced with consultants from the development team, IBM, and Direct Lines IT Services teams to resolve some significant issues with the target architecture and allow the completion of the project in a timely manner. I was part of the team responsible for determining that Websphere 3.5 was inappropriate and performing the upgrade to Websphere Application Server 4 on Z/OS. I identified conflicts with the Apache SOAP libraries and recommended the solution. I went on to fine tune the application and configuration to significantly reduce the number of MIPS required.
Systems Analyst through to Technical Architect
jamjar.com
May 2000 – December 2002 (2 years 8 months)
I joined the project 4 months into its life span. In the time with the project I worked on elements throughout the site from small HTML projects, java servlet based projects through to configuration of Apache Stronghold, Interwoven Teamsite, the Unix servers, etc.
With my promotion to Senior Analyst my role extended as a technical resource for the contractors working on outsourced projects. I have been responsible for ensuring the smooth integration of a significant new section of the site, and for proposing how best to integrate future projects. I was also solely responsible for a number of short term projects.
Programmer
Racal Defence Electronics
1999 – April 2000 (1 year)
Working in C and C++ on real time Electronic Warfare system. Development is done on Sun machines running Solaris and implementing for both Solaris and VxWorks on the Power PC. Work involved debugging and extending an existing system and writing a number of scripts to aid in the adoption of the Rational Rose and Apex development environment.
I had been given responsibility for the teams intranet site. To this end I have set up the Apache web server (on Solaris) and also the Tomcat JSP/Java servlet server. I have implemented a number of small java beans as part of the intranet application using XML.
Programmer
Picdar Technology Ltd
1999 – 1999 (less than a year)
Working in C and C++ during my time with this company working on Windows, Macs and Unix platforms. Projects have included automatic extraction of text from PDF files for indexing by a database, a test harness for an image support library, some image manipulation for the unix platform. I also designed and implemented an icon editor dialog on the MacOS platform.
Summer Placement
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry
June 1998 – September 1998 (4 months)
Worked with the Agent Technology Group on a Human - Agent interaction study.
Craig Beattie's Publications
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Big Data: A Guide to Where You Should Be, Even If You Don’t Know Where You Are
- Celent
- February 2013
Celent has defined five tiers of data capability: Spectator, Experimenter, Practitioner, Innovator, and Scientist. Using these tiers, we suggest that an organization can understand where it is in terms of Big Data capability, but perhaps more importantly where it should be.
In Big Data: A Guide to Where You Should Be, Celent provides a simple set of tools and steps to help any organization better understand Big Data, better understand their existing capabilities, and get to the level of capability they want and need. -
The Customer, Google, and UK Car Insurance
- Celent
- April 3, 2012
Authors: Craig Beattie, Catherine Stagg-MaceyThe UK motor insurance market has seen evolutions and revolutions at great speed over the last 25 years, with a variety of tools and messages delivered to an increasingly educated and price-sensitive consumer. What insights might recent search behaviour provide? How are customers responding to this speed of change? Are there opportunities not serviced by the industry?
In a new report, The Customer, Google, and UK Car Insurance: Lessons from Evolving Customer Search Behavior, Celent reviews the history of car insurance in the UK and examines more recent search data to understand how consumers are responding and what they are looking for. Celent examines how searches for keywords in Google’s search engine have changed, and even the rise of mobile as the new platform for searching. -
Big Data: A Guide to Where You Should Be, Even If You Don’t Know Where You Are
- Celent
- February 2013
Authors: Craig Beattie, Bill Fearnley, Jr., Bob MearaCelent has defined five tiers of data capability: Spectator, Experimenter, Practitioner, Innovator, and Scientist. Using these tiers, we suggest that an organization can understand where it is in terms of Big Data capability, but perhaps more importantly where it should be.
In Big Data: A Guide to Where You Should Be, Celent provides a simple set of tools and steps to help any organization better understand Big Data, better understand their existing capabilities, and get to the level of capability they want and need.
Craig Beattie's Projects
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TOGAF 9 overview
- October 2009 to February 2010
Team Members: Craig BeattieAn effort to communicate TOGAF 9 principles swiftly and succinctly to my colleagues.
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Big data in insurance
- January 2013 to Present
Team Members: Craig Beattie, Nicolas MichellodInsurers should not believe that competitors are laggards. They must treat data as a critical raw material.
Craig Beattie's Skills & Expertise
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Technology
- E-commerce
- Mobile Devices
- Mergers
- Social Media
- Infrastructure Management
- Databases
- IT Strategy
- SOA
- Requirements Gathering
- Business Analysis
- Insurance Software
- Architecture Assessment
- Requirements Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategy
- Integration
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Business Intelligence
- Systems Analysis
- Analytics
- Program Management
- Process Improvement
- Business Transformation
- Business Strategy
- Change Management
Craig Beattie's Education
University of the West of England
MSc Machine Learning and Adaptive Computing, Computing, Machine Learning
1998 – 2000
The course concentrates on the application of Machine Learning and Adaptive Computing to industrial problems. The Centre itself has dealt with a number of industrial partners to deliver classification utilities and intelligent distributed systems.
The projects included a simple genetic algorithm simulator and an implementation of the ID3 algorithm. During the second semester I have worked on a simple implementation of a number of reinforcement learning algorithms in Java 1.1 among other projects.
In my spare time I extended the genetic algorithm work into a series of Java classes. I have completed a small genetic algorithm simulation tool written in Java 1.1. Other classes I am implementing involve reinforcement learning algorithms and classifier systems, particularly the XCS algorithm.
My dissertation concerns using a classifier system to improve the performance of a genetic algorithm on a number of example problems.
Imperial College London
MEng, Computing [Knowledge Engineering and Artificial Intelligence]
1994 – 1998
At the end of the first year I completed a project implementing wire-frame and solid object rendering in 3D. This was implemented in Modula2 on Unix systems.
At the end of my second year I completed a project investigating Human Computer Interaction issues implemented in tcl/tk.
During the third year I was involved in a group project with 4 other students. The project involved the implementation of an architectural walk through program. The project was completed in Visual C++ in Windows 95. The user interface to the system was my responsibility. Also during this year I completed smaller projects using html and Java 1.0.
The final year required that I work on a large individual project. To this end I investigated applications of artificial life implemented in APRIL (Agent Process Interaction Language). The system included implementations of Cellular Automata, a character recognition system using Neural Networks and a simple path finding system using genetic algorithms.
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Medallist - BCS Software Architect of the Year award, 2007
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