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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Flow - Academy of Motion is New Zealand’s first school of motion for modern flow activities such as: Martial Arts Tricking, Parkour / Free-running and Hip-hop Breaking (Breakdancing). Our mission is to offer a modern curriculum for these ever evolving movements, to de-construct them to allow the safest and most intuitive methodologies of learning for cutting edge concepts of high energy activities.Our facilities are unique - all surfaces, equipment, and obstacles are purpose build for these modern practices, you won’t find a place like this anywhere else!

Auckland, New Zealand

Sanford is New Zealand’s oldest and largest seafood company. We are focused on sustainability and on maximising the value of the resources we harvest from our oceans, enabling long term value creation from oceans teeming with life. Sanford sites can be found in eleven locations around New Zealand and we employ 1700 staff and sharefishers across the country.Full accountability for the orchestration of IT strategy, portfolio, budget, and operations.Responsible for defining the transformation roadmap and creating the business case fortechnology investment. Reporting directly into the CEO.Achievements:• Built a balanced IT team, established delivery governance, and improved customersatisfaction by ~10% YoY.• Re-architected all core services to establish a modern and secure technology platform:SD-WAN; private/public cloud infrastructure; collaboration (O365, voice, video, mobile);integration, data & analytics, print; identity and access; cyber security; and vessel comms.• Addressed tactical business capability gaps through best of breed SaaS solutions (e.g.HSEQ, treasury, sustainability).• Developed a digital strategy and roadmap, and delivered the first tranche of businesscapability (ecommerce) to support b2b and b2c outcomes.• Created the business case for investment and initiated a core systems replacementprogramme (ERP, HRIS, EAM, CRM) - framed and executed as business transformation.

Auckland, New Zealand

Group-wide accountability for IT services roadmap, planning, and execution. Responsible for business partnership and technology strategy alignment, vendor management, service management and productivity tools. Reporting directly to GM Group IT with budget accountability of ~$30M.Achievements:• Transforming the ‘Digital Workspace’ – Redefining employee experience of collaboration, mobility, and digital ‘tools’. New Zealand first – leveraging chromebooks and DaaS – resulting in cost out of $2.6M p.a.• Established IT relevance and influence through a client engagement practice and self-service capability. Increased customer satisfaction by 9% YoY• Overall identified and initiated spend reduction opportunities of ~$4.6M p.a.

Auckland, New Zealand

Led global transformational change programme. Significant influence required at all levels of the organisation. Delivered enterprise IT solutions with portfolio, vendor, and staff accountability.Achievements:• Transformed recruitment and internal staff movement, development, and progression. Applied external recruitment technologies, processes, and capabilities internally resulting in ongoing savings of $97M p.a. and reducing voluntary attrition by 20%.• Increased employee adoption of internal recruitment opportunities from 17% to 55%.• Conceptualized and implemented the company’s first organizational R&D practice.

Sydney, Australia

Managed the SDLC for global recruitment systems portfolio (technology strategies/road-maps, programmes, development and support). Led team across Asia Pacific and the US to address the needs of 10,000 managers, 70,000 employees, 2800 recruiting agencies, and 480 recruiters. Significant stakeholder management across a highly matrixed environment and multiple geographies.Achievements:• Directed recruiting system replacement initiative (globally) saving over $2M p.a.• Saved $10M p.a. by consolidating 29 applications and migrating to an Oracle platform.• Refocused and re-energized a distributed and dysfunctional IT team, increased client engagement, and substantially improved employee performance.• Developed and implemented a service-based pooled resource model.• Created and nurtured an IT community of over 200 staff.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for supporting transformational change in marketing capability locally (Asia Pacific) and globally. Led a team of Project Managers, IT Analysts, and Developers to implement and support marketing systems. Represented Asia Pacific business interests to global IT systems roadmaps and ensured alignment of Asia Pacific systems portfolio with corporate marketing solutions. Achievements:• Transformed marketing capability across Asia Pacific, providing end-to-end view of campaigns, customer interactions, and pipeline. Designed, and developed the marketing platform (process and application) with zero incremental spend.• Built and led an award winning project management team from scratch.• Directed the integration of crm tools (epiphany, salesforce.com, Siebel) resulting in cost savings of more than $2M a year.• Increased corporate systems adoption to more than 80%.• Navigated a heavily matrixed IT organisation to deliver multiple client projects across Asia Pacific.• Mitigated risk by migrating non-compliant applications to corporate platforms and ensuring 100% compliance of all 3rd party applications.

London, United Kingdom

Established and managed IT operations to support UK R&D and Regulatory Compliance organizations.Achievements:• Partnered with business and IT peers in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the US to define corporate IT strategies, drive alignment, and deliver IT programmes.• Built IT team from scratch, culminating in resolution times being halved, and support cases per user reduced by 60%.• Designed and implemented IT fit-out of new premises to support 100 additional staff.

Auckland, New Zealand

Support all aspects of IT for 3 locations (Auckland, Melbourne, and L.A.), in a manufacturing, sales, and engineering environment.