I am a senior IT professional with over 20 years experience working mostly within the finance sector for global investment banks. I have extensive experience of architecting enterprise class infrastructure solutions and driving change. A background in vendor management and vendor relationship management was beneficial when tasked to deliver cost optimisation and productivity initiatives within the infrastructure division of a major retail bank. I achieved savings of over A$10M per annum whilst improving service levels. I also have extensive contract management experience and enactment of contracts exceeding A$100m in value. I have also had the opportunity to manage teams of people based on and offshore and have been responsible for the management of large infrastructure budgets.