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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Defined product vision and prioritised team backlog to streamline execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of components for team.☛ Mentored team members in Agile best practice and story writing, ensuring quality delivery.☛ Launched a new digital cart and checkout experience, increasing customer conversion rates by ~4% and positioning AGL as a multi-product retailer.

Engineered the implementation roadmap for Telstra’s strategic ecommerce platform (Salesforce and Vlocity), collating requirements, creating scope with UX, and managed the story backlog as part of design and delivery of various elements of Telstra Plus – Telstra’s innovative loyalty program.☛ Designed, developed, and initiated Telstra’s loyalty program, leading to 1M customers joining within 90 days.☛ Saved $20M pa in product and promotion release costs to Telstra's ecommerce platform

Melbourne, Australia

Mitigated a number of audit issues and regulatory concerns regarding NAB’s capital calculation methodology. Built and retained relationships with key stakeholders and identified innovative ways to increase regulatory compliance.☛ Supervised the design of the new calculation methodology and evaluated its performance against regulatory expectations.☛ Accomplished process improvements, reducing capital calculation and allocation process from manual (two weeks) to automated, achieving a two-hour calculation.

Mlebourne

Provided expert insight for business and technology queries across the organisation. Outlined methodology for meeting Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), Asset Value Correlation (AVC), and Central Counterparty (CCP) requirements, including Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETDs).☛ Created reporting that allowed visibility of the multi-million dollar impact that the new requirements would have on NAB’s tier capital reserves ☛ Designed and delivered both tactical and strategic solutions for meeting Basel III requirements in tight timeframes

Masters Of International Relations, International Relations

Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy Major, Sociology Minor

Bachelor Of Science, Physics Major, Mathematics Minor

Invited to undertake Honours in Physics