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Sydney, Australia

Frontline management position within the IT Wealth area, responsible for the leadership of both development teams (12 people) and Business Analysts teams (20+ BA’s).Worked with demand managers and project managers to understand/estimate IT analysis and development efforts to allocate resources to projects based on demand pipelines driven by business priorities.As the team leader, my focus was to establish and maintain a high performance team.My responsibilities included people management activities, such as recruitment, performance monitoring/review/management, career development and mentoring.Managed ramp up / down activities, including vendor negotiations to procure staff/services, contract renewals and setup of virtual development environments for the offshore teams.

Sydney, Australia

As Lead Analyst, performed the roles of Release Manager for all the Life Risk applications, Deployment Manager in the Integration Technologies area, and Assistant Project Manager in a major data migration in the Product Systems space. Managed the release of all changes in the Life Risk applications, which included coordinating work between different teams at different locations, ensure any issues during the release were assessed, escalated and resolved according to due process, managed post implementation issues and conducted post-implementation reviews to assess/improve quality. In the Integration Technologies area, worked as the Deployment Manager for a project which delivered the first Straight Through Processing for ING Australia.

Sydney, Australia

As the Solutions Architect for the Life Risk area, worked identifying and defining business problems and developing solutions to maximize profitability through the strategic application of technology.My responsibilities included creating he solutions architecture documents for the implementation of new and existing platforms in the Life Risk area, ensuring the alignment with ING’s Enterprise Architecture; and review new/emerging technologies to assess their value to the business and manage the proof of concept, which involved liasing with technical staff and vendors.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for the overall data architecture of the backend systems, worked in collaboration with the larger Enterprise Architects to translate the solutions into a logical and physical data model that could evolve with future business needs.My responsibilities included setting up enterprise data standards, producing the database components of the IT roadmap, creating/maintaining the interfaces inventory, data modelling and metadata management.