Chris Dury Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Mountain Moving Co is a strategy consultancy specialising in applying futures thinking to help organisations build better strategies.Part of my efforts to apply generative AI to strategy is the development of Portage (https://www.portage.so) Strategy Design Platform. This AI enabled platform closes the gap between strategic foresight and the development of resilient strategies that work in today's complex environment.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Providing strategic consulting and guidance to clients across technology transformation programs, information security and management policy development, and management of risk and compliance.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Responsible for ICT Operations and Digital Transformation delivery with a focus on Client and Staff experience. Maintained high levels of customer service and employee satisfaction levels. Key achievements:- Redevelopment of Digital project governance and portfolio management- Development of cyber security framework, policies and guidelines- Delivered significant end user device refresh across organisation (700+ staff)- Delivered network re-architecture increasing resilience and reliability- Delivered modern cloud-based contact centre integrated with single view of client in Dynamics CRM- Delivered migration to Dynamics Finance & Operations including new operating model for finance team and ongoing support model- Delivered prototype Client App providing single experience across ECH services- Rationalised and simplified application portfolio realising significant licensing and cost savings

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

CTO & Co-Founder of a start-up focused on building technologies that help Health Professionals cross their organisational silos.

Adelaide, Australia

We established the Digital Advisory as a single team providing strategic guidance and advice across all Empired's services and locations. This team delivers a holistic viewpoint that is focused on the business impact that technology can make for our customers. As the practice manager, my responsibility is to guide and shape this team to achieve to goal of delivering exceptional long term value for our customers. My specific responsibilities are:- Define and drive the operational business plan for national advisory team - Contribute to global business leadership group- Drive delivery of high quality strategy and planning services to our customers- Championing our employee value proposition through inspiring leadershipSome achievements are:- Integrated cross-practice and business unit team to single advisory service- Developed cross-practice engagement model and unified framework for strategy advisory services- Drove development of review and governance framework- Established competency and behaviour based personal development

Adelaide, Australia

As the team leader for Architecture Services within the Enterprise Solutions division of Empired, my role is generally focused with growing the capability and maturity of our solution and enterprise architecture services for our customers. We have a large portfolio of projects to ensure appropriate governance controls are being applied including capturing best practices, solution IP and overall approaches that can best benefit our customers.My specific responsibilities are:- Defining and leading architecture services deliverables- Team leadership including resource allocation and utilisation management- Skills leadership and training management- Performance managementSome achievements are:- Designed and delivered Modern Enterprise Roadmap engagement package- Unified national team towards common vision and goals- Leading large scale projects architecture planning from cross-business perspectives including digital consumer experiences through to back-end data management.

Adelaide, Australia

As the Solutions Specialist, it is my role to represent equally the views of both the technical delivery and sales teams. This role provides an opportunity to bring my previous experience with architecting and designing solutions earlier to the conversation with the customer, which often means a better fit between the technology and business objectives, and ultimately a better outcome.My specific responsibilities are:- Enterprise and Solution architecture- Project scoping and estimating- Quality analysis and risk elimination- Fostering continuous quality improvement activities Some achievements are:- Designed solution Go To Markets and supporting collateral (project plans, sell sheets, etc.)- Optimised pre-sales process through structured estimation process, templates & tools- Improved project initiation and delivery frameworks- Developed targeted Go-To-Markets for industry/sector verticals

Adelaide, Australia

The Principal Consultant role within OBS represents a team leadership and mentoring role alongside traditional delivery or customer focused activities, which in my case was Solution Architect. This opportunity provided me with more mature leadership skills through formal responsibility for a team of developers, which fluctuated between 4-8 over the course of my appointment. I was also able to expand my technical skills and experience to develop a number of internal tools and processes aimed at quality and skills improvement.My specific responsibilities are:- Ensuring adequate billable work for team members- Maintaining quality and customer service levels- Performance Reviews for team members- Mentoring junior team members through skills development and improvements- Providing leadership and mentoring throughout all projectsSome achievements are:- Implemented a Developer Competency Framework and Code Review evaluation- Developed Test Quality Checklists and Project Quality Checklists- Rationalised internal toolset through adoption of PowerShell, NuGet and automated deployment techniques

Adelaide, Australia

As the Solution Architect, I was primarily responsible for the technical design and implementation governance of projects. The subtleties in a design of a solution for a customer can often mean the difference between project success and failure, with some solutions not able to adapt to emerging or changing requirements which are inevitable. My responsibilities are:- Technical design of solutions- Leadership and governance of project implementation- Quality assurance and risk minimisation- Pre-sales and technical adviceSome achievements are:- Leadership of the development of a large scale national project (multi-year)- Improved usage of TFS and project management tools- Quality improvement and mentoring of junior developers

Adelaide, Australia

As a Senior Consultant I was primarily responsible for analysis, design and implementation of customer solutions, and providing mentoring to other team members. On larger scale projects I would often take the technical leadership role within the delivery team.Responsibilities are:- Solution design and technical implementation- Quality assurance and testing- Documentation, training and handover of solutions to customersSome achievements are:- Designed an advanced InfoPath form querying tool which improved information access from days to seconds- Designed a health informatics portal which surfaced nationally collected statistics. The information gathered by this portal was ultimately published to the British Medical Journal (http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/21/11/948.abstract).- Successful delivery of projects with a Customer Satisfaction average of 91%

Adelaide, Australia

As a consultant my primary responsibility is the quality delivery of IT consulting services to customers. This includes configuration and customisation of existing software or technologies, or the development of custom solutions using ASP.NET, C# and/or SQL Server.My responsibilities are:- Quality delivery of IT Consulting Services- Technical design and development of software solutions- Testing and documentationSome achievements are:- Took over responsibility for an internally developed tool (PeopleSync)- Expanded use of quality development techniques within team (TDD)

Markham, Ontario

Lead development of UI team in large scale social networking site with e-commerce and media streaming Developed several custom User Controls improving user experience and reducing development timeWorked with back-end team to develop business objects and interfaces for presentation layerTrained team members in server-side (c#) programming, Control authoring and input validation

Albury, Australia

Developed e-mail broadcast management tool integrating existing software and third party commercial software. The tool allowed non-technical users to manage e-mail broadcasts and vastly decreased IT department management and consultation time.Created ‘dashboard’ style visualization tool for analyzing e-mail broadcast results in aggregate and detail views. Tool also exported to CSV and XML for more detailed analysis with third party tools.

Worldwide

Design and developed unique dating website utilizing a random number ticket scheme to link member profiles. Site is fully maintained with a suite of custom management tools and integrated with a third party e-commerce payment processor. Created intelligent interface for input of financial data for large packaging company.Developed custom administration tools for a Flash based site in ASP.NET / C# / SQL Server, also converting and integrating a PHP / MySQL tool to run alongside the new one.Developed Flash slot machine game integrated with custom Perl/CGI rules engine.

Toronto, Canada Area

Developed advanced Content Management System in ASP.NET / C# / SQLServer designed to reduce development time for custom web sites. CMS tool proven in over 15 medium to large websites, one a 3,000+ page high traffic hospital portal.Produced innovative interactive media in co-ordination with traditional media campaigns. Responsible for coordinating studio production, digitizing and compositing of video.Expanded internal toolset to organize internal agency media.Authored several position papers on developing interactive media for traditional media advertising clients.

Education record

Selected as one of 100 international leaders to take part in an intensive 30 day course in personal and professional development.

Digital Media Design, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia