Andrew Bates Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Auk, Nz

Harmoney was established in 2014 to introduce peer to peer lending to New Zealand. Harmoney has since become the largest online personal lending platform in Australia and New Zealand, giving people a quick and simple way to borrow online. Harmoney provides risk-priced, unsecured personal loans up to $50,000 and has helped 50,000 customers borrow more than $1.7 billion through over 80,000 loans (as of Jul 2020).

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Enterprise Architect working in the newly established IAG Enterprise Architecture team, defining and delivering the Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Roadmap for Application Architecture across CRM, DMS/ECM, BPM and Online domains.

Berkshire, Windsor, Gb

As Chief Technology Officer at Aldous Limited, Andrew was responsible for providing the direction and management of the development, design, operation, and improvement of the core products that Aldous take to market. Aldous produced CPQ (Configure/Price + Quote) software for the telecommunication vertical. Aldous provides tools for selling complex telco products over a variety of channels (online, retail, dealer, direct)

Chief Architect on the SalesTech Sales and Order Capture plarform - Aldous. Aldous has been specifically designed for Telecommunication companies and is based on an enterprise class Product Configurator allowing products to be found, configured and priced. Aldous supports consumer products through to complex enterprise products (such as IPVPN/Frame/ATM style networks) ensuring technical and marketing rules are enforced.

Deliverying software to support the fulfill domain, specifically the SID Product domain.

Contract Role providing strategic review and improvement suggestions for Online Billing application for leading Australian Telecommunications service provider in a multi-vendor environment. Project delivered an improved user experience leading to increased consumer take up, which reduced bill generation costs and inbound call centre calls for billing enquiries.

Working with Vodafone on SMS based applications such as Text Provisioning (change call plan), Text Top-up and Account Balance applications.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Worked on setting up the first Asia Pacific Application Service Provider (ASP) from installing hardware and software (including switches/routers and firewalls) through to managing third party relationships, business case, and certification of products on the platform (Functionality / Usability / Availability and Security). Platform consisted of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, MS IIS Web Server and MS SQL Server 2000. Citrix and MS Terminal Server instances were also utilised for providing Virtualised desktops (MS Outlook, Word etc)Involvement in the implementation of a Global instance of Siebel SFA for approximately 4000 sales people. Specific involvement in Sales Forecasting and Sales Compensation plans. Project was based in Philadelphia, USA.Technical team lead/Architect for a team developing a custom built Knowledge Management system for a Government department utilising JEE, IBM Websphere, Active Directory and MS SQL Server.

Acknowledged technical reviewer for two books published by WROX Press on IBM Websphere 4 and 5.IBM WebSphere 4.0 Application Server Deployment and Administration Handbook (Paperback) ISBN-13: 978-1861008114Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server ISBN-13: 978-0764543661

Business Consultant dealing with optimisation issues in the Transportation and Forestry industries.Designing software to support these optimisation decisions for large corporates in the New Zealand marketplace.

Bcom, Information Systems

Bsc, Computer Science