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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Australia

SDM at ASX for the DLT Chess Replacement Project. Contracted via Technology People Group.

Sydney, Australia

• Recruited to ensure the operational readiness of AMPs major web portal, consolidating Wealth and Banking platforms. This in turn led to the opportunity to play a major role in centralising & enhancing the operational.
• Successful integration of a major change to the AMP online capability by enforcing operational acceptance along with stringent release and change management controls.
• Migrated a key & critical integration platform to AWS cloud, utilising scalable capabilities and streamlining the release management process to allow frequent but robust production deployments with no downtime.
• Lead the improvement initiative within the Centralised operating team, showcasing enhancements to automation and innovation, incident response & resolution, ticket reduction, asset management and reporting capabilities.
• Established the adoption of agile techniques now used on a daily basis, ensuring effective and efficient ways of working in the Centralised Run team.
• Awarded multiple times for promoting a positive cultural working environment, ensuring a highly engaged workforce.

Sydney, Australia

• Specifically recruited for the largest Credit Card project in Macquarie history, my core responsibilities were to ensure that at “go live”, the project, technical, operational and knowledge based deliverables were fit.
• Successfully developed and implemented the Technical Target Operating Model which interlaced current BAU strategy with additional roles and efficiencies to create a scalable model which can effectively grow to match.
• Successfully built the framework to provide an adaptable operational infrastructure flexible enough to cope with multiple product lines.
• Created, defined and presented on key senior role resource requirements to maintain and enhance the day to day working relationship with the business partner.
• Developed and executed the SLA strategy. In conjunction with business commitments, the aim was to not only meet service level obligations but to provide a platform to allow for continuous service improvement.
• Provided senior expertise on production & operational requirements.

Sydney, Australia

• Macquarie Wealth provides platforms and tools aimed at intermediaries managing client portfolios. Services include equity and managed fund trading, superannuation, insurance and private portfolio management. Reporting.
• Management of over 20 skilled IT professionals located both locally and remotely. The teams were regularly recognised for effective collaboration and working in sync to a shared vision.
• Showed exceptional leadership skills by developing a high performing cohesive team with a hunger for stability, efficiency and innovation. Showing a strong focus on career development, the team displayed minimal.
• Management of a $30m+ budget, which included forecasting and day to day management costs for infrastructure, resourcing and licensing.
• Fundamental role in several major revenue generating projects that integrated Macquarie with key business partners. I provided the operational consultation to allow the developments to be integrated and function.
• Highly regarded by senior management from the business and IT, with day to day interactions being a major component of the role.

Sydney, Australia

• As an analyst programmer my role was to provide technical support to the Macquarie Wrap Platform, including web based and backend applications providing a portfolio management framework for financial advisers. The role.
• Formed a strong working relationship with business stakeholders often involved in strategic collaborative steering committees.
• Recognised and promoted to lead the team for developing a strong customer focused team environment.
• Continually pushed the boundaries to investigate and implement improvements and efficiencies to get the most out of the systems and streamline business processes.
• Expertly examined logic contained within Sybase Stored Procedures to increase performance or data integrity.
• Renowned for providing on the spot solutions or data fixes regarding incorrect data or incorrectly applied logic.

London, United Kingdom

• Active part of a team, which designed and developed a web based project toolkit. The toolkit was programmed using Java (J2EE Servlets) linked to an SQL Database with a JDBC connection.
• Chief customer liaison, providing clients with on-site installation and support.
• Elected as release leader, managing a customer software log and the pinning of source code, ensuring reproducibility.
• Designed and implemented a test strategy, ensuring software progressed through a full development life cycle.
• Continually challenged and enhanced product capabilities providing Java add ons.
• Developed email and reporting module using Java and XML.

Post Grad Diploma, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Cell/Cellular Biology And Anatomical Sciences

A-Level, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths