Barry Thomas Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As a freelancer my focus is on helping organisational leaders come to grips with the challenges of AI integration, focusing on enhancing human capabilities rather than replacing them. With the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence reshaping every facet of the workplace, my goal is to demystify AI for leaders and help them harness its potential while.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Same job, same team as in my previous role at Data61 but MoG'd ("Machinery of Government") into Federal Treasury. Solving the same challenges but for slightly different bosses.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Leading a team creating the technical and consumer experience standards that underpin the Consumer Data Right. The Consumer Data Right (CDR) is a key competition and consumer reform being implemented to enable and establish ethical sharing of consumer data across the Australian economy, starting first with the banking and energy sectors.

Sydney

Leading technical working groups developing consensus banking industry positions on the details of the Open Banking standards under the Consumer Data Right (CDR). Working closely with the ABA's member banks, regulators (ACCC), the Data Standards Body (Data61) and subject matter experts from across the financial services sector. Areas of focus have included.

Sydney, Australia

AltusQ is a business coaching firm operating across Australia and New Zealand, with clients ranging from SME’s to the very largest multinationals. As AltusQ’s CTO I was responsible for building and managing platforms for mentoring and leadership programs, client/program management and knowledge management. I also built and managed the AltusQ website and.

Co-founded the Lending Industry XML Initiative (LIXI) to create e-commerce messaging standards for the mortgage lending industry. Led the technical side of LIXI from a blank sheet of paper to almost universal industry adoption of a broad family of innovative standards.This role required a particularly wide range of skills ranging from purely technical.

Engaged to assist Resimac in adapting to the new standards-driven loan processing technologies arising from my work with LIXI. Advised the Resimac CEO and CTO on emerging technological and strategic opportunities.

LTS was a highly innovative developer of systems for the automated processing and approval of mortgage loan applications. My role there was largely to re-imagine how the mortgage lending industry could work if built on a standards-compliant, web-based architecture. This work led directly to the founding of LIXI (lixi.org.au), which became the peak.

Built a team of 10 writers to document Solution 6's extensive range of accounting software products. This was a highly dynamic environment with rapid growth, huge off-shore clients and plenty of management drama. It was exciting and I learned a lot but I can't honestly say it was fun.

Managed technical documentation, intranet and ISO 9000 projects for a wide range of clients, including banks, insurers, IT companies, government departments and even a margarine manufacturer.

Initially engaged as the technical writer for Cochlear's software team, working on ensuring all documentation met the exacting standards of the FDA. Moved on to help devise, write and implement a new company-wide product development process.

Melbourne, Australia

Originally employed by the State Bank of Victoria as a graduate trainee computer programmer, initially programming in COBOL on IBM mainframes. Moved on to Oracle development on an AS/400. Retrained in S/370 Assembler after SBV's takeover by CBA. Swapped over to technical writing and became the lead writer on the Commonwealth Bank Methodology project where.

Masters, Business (Information Innovation/Knowledge Management)

Graduate Diploma, Document Management

Bachelor Of Jurisprudence, Law

Activities and Societies: Monash University Triathlon Club (co-founder)

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