Over 30 years' experience managing multi-million dollar business operations as well as complex, international, multidisciplinary and multi-million dollar transformational change within the Telecoms, Professional Services (in particular IT Services), Utilities, Government, Not for Profit and Financial Services sectors.Spanning telecommunications, IT and large scale government projects, and seamlessly working across both IT strategy development and programme delivery, I have successfully held significant and influential executive positions, and specialise in helping organisations to drive down costs while implementing extensive change and preserving service quality.I am a seasoned Programme Director specialising in transformational change and technology delivery, providing successful outcomes in several multi-year projects with £ tens of millions budgets, and in addition have spent 12 years in outsourcing, as both customer and supplier of outsourced services, including management of CSC’s largest European account for 7 years.I have also spent 12 years consulting and contracting in Australia, in the telecommunications and Government sectors, as well as leading successful assignments for both Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse. This period included 18 months managing Oracle Australia’s Professional Services business.I have over 10 years to date as a CIO/Head of IT, with extensive international experience of public, private and not-for-profit sectors, most recently as Head of IT for one of Britain’s largest and best known charities, as well as IT Director Europe for a world leading network solutions company, and seven years as EMEA CIO for a Fortune 500 company, covering 25,000 users in 21 countries in EMEA. . Key commercial relationships include: BT, Vodafone, Lenovo, IBM, Global Crossing, SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and Telstra, as well as the Public Sector in both UK and Australia.Specialties: IT ManagementInternational Programme ManagementTransformational changeIT strategy developmentOutsourcingDue DiligenceIT governanceSupplier selection and managementData analysisData modellingERP implementationApplications portfolio managementTelecommunications strategy developmentCollaborative technologiesIT governanceCRMCloud strategies