Ceo
Sydney, Nsw, Au
Founded in 2000, Anchor is an Advanced Amazon Web Services Consulting partner, providing DevOps consulting and managed services for customers wanting to transition their applications to the cloud.My responsibilities included:• Sales, Marketing, Business, and Product Development activities;• Process improvement;• Developing and recommending business plans for the board’s consideration;• Implementing all approved plans, policies and programmes and achieve agreed targets;• Overseeing the financial management of the organisation;• Overseeing the effective operation, administration, and development of the company;• Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory obligations.Major achievements:• Fostered a culture of trust, respect, transparency, innovation, and experimentation.• Architected and oversaw Anchor’s Agile, DevOps and business transformation.• Championed and implemented the V2MOM, an Agile company alignment and execution framework.• Developed and successfully executed a strategy to ensure Anchor remained relevant, profitable, and our services continued to deliver value to our customers.• Careful stewardship of the business to remain profitable throughout the transformation.• Transformed Anchor from being an infrastructure company into managed cloud services.• Created a People Operations team, performance management, and staff development systems.• Transformed Anchor into a sales and customer-led organisation.• Created a Digital Marketing team and strategy that delivers a reliable stream of inbound leads.• Sold the business to Digital Pacific in Feb 2017.