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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Architecture Practices Manager is a key role in the Technology team reporting to the Chief Architect; accountable for uplifting and maintaining the effectiveness and efficiency of SEEK’s architecture practice. Through establishment of lean processes, implementation of automated tooling, and facilitation of agile ways of working this role will play a key role in SEEK achieving its objective of becoming an “architecture led” organisation. The mission of this role is to help architects be more effective with their time while improving their sense of fulfilment in their work. This includes: Team Leadership, Community Events, Ways of Working, Process Optimisation, Demand Management, Communications & Change Management.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for: line management of teams of specialist and leaders, in Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. - Supporting the APAC Head of Engineering Practices in setting the strategic direction of Practices.- Leading all facets of the APAC Practices team, strategic projects and executive relationships.- Facilitating the evolution of SEEK’s APAC Engineering organisation by understanding the needs and barriers for leaders and teams bridging technology and product across APAC.- Oversight of workflow and resource management to enable Practice Leads and team members. - Accountable for achieving strategic metrics and direct accountability for initiatives.This team delivers a lot; building systems that enable engineers to be more efficient and effective, across 3 streams:-Engineering: platform security health & monitoring systems, graduate hiring across APAC.-Delivery: supporting OKRs, Agile delivery toolkits, communities of practice, and large-group workshops, demos, and retros.-People: team-health surveys, central hiring, partner hiring, onboarding, Grad induction program, role definitions, career paths, growth frameworks, and prograns for mentoring, internal mobility, promotions, diversity and inclusion.-Also learning and development programs to support technical skills uplift, and hackathons.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for: management of 1 team of Practice specialists in Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. (This is similar to Technical Program Manager, TPM)Delivered: - A central hiring program; hiring large volumes of mid to senior engineers using consistent anti-bias methodologies, and finding the best team to maximise the potential of each new hire. - Systems of work that allow for continue feed-back and improvement throughout the hiring and onboarding process.- Training and coaching in: anti-bias, interview skills, and technical white-boarding.- New Job definitions and career paths for BA’s, IM’s, and Engineers.- Facilitating improvements of company wide OKR processes.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for coaching 5 teams; 27 developers & 20 other people; in Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. - Partnering with Heads of Engineering and Product to build-up the team size, its happiness and its productivity. - Coaching these high-performing teams to iterate on their ways-of-working and to share with other teams. - Coordinating the work of the teams as they unify legacy APAC systems, ensuring accountability and transparency. In a rapidly scaling organisation this requires trading-off consistent ways-of-working with autonomy for efficient and effective scaling.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for coaching 3 teams; 20 people distributed between Melbourne and Manila. Coaching for Scum-style delivery. Facilitating collaborating with SAFe-style planning and reporting events. Collaborating with business stakeholders to breaking down business goals into product iterations. ★ Established a refresh design component library

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for: Line- management of 3 scrum teams.Key Achievements: Set up 3 CI-CD teams; LEXUS, Used-Vehicles, API Services Team.Accelerating delivery by introducing Agile best practice and amplifying successful approaches across work-stream★ Key Achievement: Lead role integrating 9 CRM partners into a real-time data pool, for 3 front-end teams

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for: Managing 1 scrum team in co-ordination with matrix managers.Delivered: launch of payments micro-sites for small business.Key Achievements: Refresh of the customer facing web-design on Adobe (AEM).

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for: Setting-up multiple teams, end-to-end delivery of retail websites.Delivered: personalisation of web and email experiences. Clients: ACU, Bunnings, Kmart, Nissan, NAB, HESTA, AustralianSuper.

★ Key Achievement: Driving a Europe-wide coaching program to help delivery teams.Clients: Vodafone, NHS, Tesco, Unilever.

★ Key Achievement: Migrating legacy to cloud systems.Clients: HSBC, LTSB, Deutsche Bank, AXA, Allianz.

Systems Coaching

Organisational Relationship Systems Coaching is a way of coaching teams (systems) to see and improve what is going on between them.

Mbs, Business- Ecommerce

Activities and Societies: Project Manager - IBM Information Supply Chain First Class Honours Degree.

Ibm Global Sales School, Sales

Distinction from the IBM Global Sales Schools programs in the IMI.

Certificate, Online Design

Activities and Societies: Modules: Web Design, HTML, Flash, , SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). ( DIT New Media Technology Centre )

Ma Media, Film

Including a Thesis on the Kurosawa's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Ba, English & Classics

Activities and Societies: Film soc