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Melbourne, Vic, Au

St Leonards, New South Wales, Au

Executive role with accountability for the Atturra Managed Services business. A significant national team brought together through several acquisitions of well-established Australian businesses, delivering high-quality Managed and ICT Services across ANZ.

Took on the CEO role during a time of significant business challenges including a hostile takeover, high operational costs, and the need for a strategic refocus. Formed a tactical plan to reduce business costs, simplify our stakeholder engagement, and bring our technology teams closer to our customers. Working with an outstanding team of people across WA, Vic and ACT we made a significant change to the business over 2 years. Culture improved, the business bottom line doubled and, as a team, we significantly improved investor return. This culminated in the successful acquisition of Cirrus by Atturra in late 2023.

The COO role influences all aspects of the ASX listed national business with a focus on people, customers, performance, commercials, and change. After various acquisitions in WA, ACT and Victoria Cirrus expanded to a $100M+ ASX listed business with almost 200 staff. The primary focus of the COO role is to execute the vision of the CEO while overseeing the operating of the business. The role moves between strategic, tactical, and business operational focus depending on planned and emerging factors, and acts as CEO from time to time.

This executive role is responsible for ensuring excellent end to end delivery of IT solutions to the client base as well as efficient operational performance of the Cirrus Networks business.Cirrus Networks is an Australian IT solutions integrator headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. We provide an independent, flexible approach to designing, building, and managing IT infrastructure. By understanding your organisation’s strategic drivers, priorities and issues, Cirrus offer tailored solutions that help you achieve your objectives in the most cost effective way.

South Brisbane, Queensland, Au

PDC is a highly experienced global engineering design, detailing and 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) company. PDC brings an integrated approach and multidisciplinary engineering design, drafting and technology teams, expertise in project and asset management, and industry-leading proprietary BIM technology to deliver services across the full project lifecycle.This executive role is responsible for the operational performance of the business and oversees the Business Enablement division encompassing Business Development, Marketing, IT, People, Office Management and Quality to drive a strong and efficient corporate environment supporting the P&L divisions.

Perth, Wa, Au

Senior Management role responsible for the IT Services business unit, as well as operational responsibility for the Managed Services and Cloud business units. Reporting to the previous CEO of L7 Solutions in his capacity as Chief Solutions Officer (CSO) within the Amcom Executive. Role highlights include:-Responsibility for 90 IT professionals across consultancy, security, architecture, engineering, project management and service delivery. -P&L Management, budgeting, forecasting and reporting.-Governance, control and compliance.-Recruitment, retention and delivery capability.-Efficiency, capacity and strategic growth of the groups, empowerment of key management and leadership staff to achieve successful outcomes.-Delivering around $20M of professional and annuity services revenue across the groups.

Operational & Strategic Senior Management role providing leadership and direction to the business group managers for Integrations and Managed Services, as well as directing the operational shape of Integrations and Managed Services for future delivery of IT service offerings. General responsibilities include:-Day to day operational management based on escalations and emerging key opportunities from internal stakeholder groups and management.-Direct management of the pre-sales Technical Architect team.-Integrations and Managed Services Project & Service Delivery governance.-Budgeting, Forecasting and P&L Management for Integrations and Managed Services Groups.-Monthly group analysis reports to COO for presentation at board level. Present at board meetings when requested or act as stand in for COO.-Working alongside the Business Strategy Manager, Commercial Manager and Sales Manager to ensure a co-ordinated focus for product development, sales pipeline and delivery capability of L7’s product offerings.-Ensuring the effective delivery of the business line strategic plans and financial performance targets.

Perth, Wa, Au

Responsible for the operational delivery and financial performance of the Integrations business unit. Reporting to the COO, providing forecasting, efficiency, capacity and quality analysis against budget for all professional services in engineering and project management. Also providing the annual budget composition and organisational texture for the Integrations group based on growth targets driven by the CEO.Furthermore, manager of the engineering team servicing Sales, Integrations and Managed Services across L7’s key partner technologies. Directly managing resourcing, recruitment, training & partnership certification, performance and customer satisfaction. Additional responsibilities for Project Governance, Internal & External Stakeholder Management, Pipeline Management and Scope Review of all outgoing quotes and RFP tender responses.

Perth, Wa, Au

Senior Project Manager in the Integrations division of one of Australia’s fastest growing IT Services Companies. Responsible for the end to end delivery of various IT Infrastructure Projects across L7’s client base. Project and Programme Management aligned with Cisco, Microsoft, VMware and Citrix technologies. Delivered a range of projects accumulating to over $5 Million in products and services.

San Jose, California, Us

Manager of IT infrastructure and Support covering Scotland and the UK. Accountable for LAN/WAN, internet, telecommunications, ERP/MRP systems such as Oracle and SAP, desktop rollout; support, userids, licensing, Wintel Servers, AIX/UNIX manufacturing Servers, backup, disaster recovery and Sox404 compliance. A community of 1000+ users in 5 sites.

Process Engineer in a group of 14 Test Engineers. Involved in the day-to-day activities of the group and individual projects lending advice, direction and support when required. This covered end to end process and IT systems including Floor Control, Support Servers, Token Ring and Ethernet Network, Product Testing; Preload, Process Logistics, Sortation and Material Handling

Lead Greenock Test Engineer for Client Systems Desktops. Introduced new Products, Tests and Processes into PC Manufacturing. Developed test control code for special configurations and direct customers. Involved in all aspects of PC Manufacturing including top-level routing design, new product introduction, server setup and configuration, problem root cause analysis for current products and individual customer issues.