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Sydney

Responsible for building and leading the Data, BI and Data Governance workstreams of the data and analytics team of 25 wonderful professionals.Key Achievements:• Project management across multiple streams of technology and service provision (internal and external). • Leading the design, build, and implementation of successful cloud & on-premises data solutions through the effective use of appropriate data platform, analytics, artificial intelligence & business intelligence tools.• Interfacing with the IT Leadership Team and other senior leadership to identify innovative uses of data.• Guiding the day-to-day activities of the data platform, engineering and analytics team, including hiring world class talent, reviewing work, and setting goals. • Participation in key technical and design discussions with technical leads as a hands-on manager.• Partnering with internal departments to oversee execution by Enterprise Analytics with high levels of agility and quality.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for concept and design of the Resolution Life corporate Regulatory reporting strategy. Formed and managed a 25 member cross functional BI development team. The resulting Cloud solutions were deployed in a Continuous Integration /Continuous Development DevOps model. Key Achievements:• Structured a new project to deploy PowerBI Premium across all business units. • Built a new BI team with membership comprised of internal staff and offshore service providers in 3 countries.• Developed strong support partnerships with business units, service providers & BI project team.• Designed & deployed Cloud based reporting strategy. • Developed a series of automated Data Marts and Report catalogue to support all reporting needs to satisfy Industry Regulatory and Compliance Reporting submissions.• Provide data lineage information from data source to consumption in a report.• Integrated Azure Active Directory, PowerBI Premium, Azure SQL Server cloud products with on-Premise access management tools to simplify user on-boarding improved access control and data security.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Reserve Bank of Australia has a significant investment in an Enterprise Data Warehouse and its supporting infrastructure. This platform required significant re-engineering to enable its continued use into the future with a markedly increased requirement to support additional data from many more sources and a much more prevalent awareness of data as a valuable Enterprise resource and to provide the tools to exploit that.Achievements:• Engage with project Solution Architect and IT department service providers to optimise ADCP platform design. • Optimise planned hardware platform to best utilise the IBM licensed VPU allocation to provide significantly improved performance.• Widen project scope to bring forward deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) software solutions onto the InfoSphere data engineering system on the ADCP platform for Enterprise Data Office (EDO) without altering project timeline or project budget. • Coordinate migration and testing of 10 unique data sets from original Windows platform to new and expanded Linux platform.• Execute project to plan and significantly below budget.

Sydney, Australia

Wesley Mission is a not for profit enterprise. They employ around 3000 people in 50 business units with a broad range of services catering to the vulnerable members of society. These services range from Aged Care homes to Psychiatric Hospitals to aiding the homeless to assisting families and children in need.Achievements:• Developed Data Warehouse to aggregate data from 18 business units in 9 source systems• Led project to install Cognos Analytics dashboards for 280+ users• Restructured new BI team with intra-team cross-platform technical support and unique self-sustaining culture• Designed and developed system to collate data from multiple systems into TM1 cubes and reports to a national Aged Care benchmarking program• Conceptualised and designed BI Strategy integrating MS Power BI into the deliverables of the BI team

Sydney, Australia

Aston Analytics is a boutique consulting company, providing specialist reporting capabilities to the Aged Care, Pharmacy and Allied Health industries.Achievements:• Designed architecture and software infrastructure modules for their private cloud based Data Warehouse based reporting solutions• Market research with direct links with potential clients to determine viability of products• Negotiated with key clients to provide beta testing sites for systems

Sydney, Australia

The Department of Lands records data regarding Land (titles, transfers, values, leases and other relevant data) on behalf of the Government of NSW. It is an independent operating business, expected to make profits for the Government.Achievements:• Demonstrated a proof of concept Data Warehouse and BI reporting system• Designed and built: SQL Server based Data Warehouse at the attendant infrastructure for roll-out of a Finance BI reporting system, supporting 100 users in 3 locations: Data Warehouse and BI reporting system for Land Title registrations data source• Merged disparate Finance (SAP) and Property (proprietary) data to enable coherent timely reporting against multiple data sources

Sydney, Australia

WebsterCare is a Health Industry IT provider. They have more than 4,000 systems deployed throughout Australia on a variety of software systems over a private cloud.Achievements:• Critically redesigned architecture of software, support teams and technology platform• Designed a new version of flagship Aged Care product to remove bottlenecks and data replication issues• Designed and built SQL Server backbone of the system, including database connectivity and manipulation scripts• Demonstrated functioning prototype Data Warehouse and BI reporting solution to overlay SAP ERP system

Sydney, Australia

Zimmer is a US based company that manufactures and distributes various implant and joint replacement products. Their Australian office in Sydney is their Asia Pacific IT hub. Achievements:• Designed and built Data Warehouse and BI system leveraging off AS/400 data sources for Australia and New Zealand• Aggregated data from 9 countries in the Asia Pacific region into a single data warehouse into SQL-Server based Data Warehouse• Adoption of SAP ERP from SAP system housed in Warsaw, Indiana to new SQL Server based in Sydney serving 6 Asia Pacific branches providing near-real time reporting to clients

Sydney, Australia

This work was undertaken for the Business Banking group within CBA. The key requirements for the project were to allow the bank to understand the primary drivers of costs and profits of individual clients and products of the Business Banking Group. This represented approximately 400,000 clients.Achievements:• Conducted reverse engineering on a limited proprietary database platform that did not allow for data extraction or external data examination and only provided a limited data storage period• Designed Data Warehouse to extract and consolidate a 12 month rolling data set around original limited system with a capacity of up to 100 million rows of data per month, 48 hour turnaround for end of months reports and exposed under performance and fraudulent bonus claims