Leading the groups Enterprise DevSecOps transformation and establishing an enterprise capability.Responsible for the group's DevSecOps, Quality and Software Delivery Platform strategy. Leading the development, evangelism, delivery and maintenance of related technology strategies, road-maps, standards, designs and capabilities supporting development, testing, release/deployment, end to end delivery and realisation of customer centric solutions and business value at Westpac. Established and chair of Solution Delivery Architecture Working Group governing body.Key focus areas: DevOps, digital platform enablement, cloud realisation and transformation, core banking transformation, agile enablement, process re-engineering and removing constraints, automation, service virtualisation, application lifecycle management, testing and digital validation, non-prod data management, environments & tools. Key Tools & TechAtlassian Stack (On premises: JIRA DC, Confluence DC, BitBucket, Bamboo, HipChat, Crowd DC), Artifactory/XRay, Docker, Chef, Inspec, NGINX+, Cloudbees Jenkins, TFS, HP ALM, CA Release Automation (Nolio), CA Datamaker (Gridtools), CA Dev Test (LISA), Eclipse Che, Selenium Grid, Terraform, RHEL, Microsoft server products, misc on-premises infrastructure, Cloud constructs: AWS, Azure, OpenStack.

Established and continue to lead the Enterprise Test Environment Architecture and Design function. Responsible for analysing the Group strategy and vision, program plans, technical designs and test environment requirements of the 13 strategic transformation programmes with the subsequent development of the Enterprise Test Environment strategy, vision and roadmap aligned to the Enterprise domain blueprints. Additional deliverables included project establishment and vision, operating and process models, plans, schedules, financial model, budget/forecasts, presentation materials, CEO reporting, detail design and strategy, Application test environment designs. Responsible for strategy delivering Fit for Purpose test environments enabling the planned rate of change with a subsequent reduction in risk profile. Key highlights include:• Extensive stakeholder management, alignment and support.• Negotiating politically sensitive outcomes and balancing opposing drivers.• High value financial management, P&L, OPEX, CAPEX.• Developed the Enterprise Structured Repository for Test Environment Artefacts. Developed the Test Environment Configuration and Asset Management Systems.• Assessed over 300 applications and services developing a view of capability not previously available.• Established, developed and chaired the Test Environment Governance and Approvals Forum.• End to end technology exposure spanning all stacks and tiers from Mainframe, through midrange and Wintel to clients crossing SOA and middleware components.

Primary Engagement: Enterprise Test Environments Architecture and Discovery – Testing Transformation - WestpacTestLogistics (TL) is a Technically Focussed Professional Services organisation that services Tier-1 Financial, Telecom & Global Services Organisations. TL specialises in Test Environments Management, Test Data Management, Test Architecture, Technical Testing & Programme Level Classical Testing.

Owner/Manager – Project Manager – Architect - Senior Engineer – Consultant - ContractorOwner and Managing Director - Contracting and consulting at the business and SME levels. Provided complete IT services including consultation, project management, systems management, design/architecture, hardware and software supply, hosting services and technical support to various organisations. Managed a team of full time and contract consultants, technicians and supporting personnel. Operated a small hosting/datacentre capability on premises.

Managed the end to end delivery of multiple concurrent programmes. Responsibilities included scoping, requirements gathering, estimation, budgeting/forecasting, resourcing, vendor engagement & management, development of project plans, project briefs/presentations, capital submissions to board, reporting, quality assurance, governance & delivery methodology, controlled sign off & change management, testing scope & scheduling, implementation planning, communications plans, release and migration planning, inter-programme coordination, stakeholder management, Project Manager/Project Coordinator management.• Senior IT Project Manager and Optus technical lead on the large business division’s strategic online operational bill and traffic reporting web application replacement program. End to end strategy, delivery and management of a team of over 93 program resources and 6 reporting project mangers. Extensive vendor engagement and management both on and offshore (multiple teams local, interstate, UK, Singapore and India). SDLC management across multiple platforms. Budget in excess of $5M.o Key Technologies: Infrastructure, Windows Server, Linux, UNIX (AIX), VMware, SAN, Business Objects, WebLogic, J2EE/AJAX and Oracle.o Savings realised in excess of $1.1M through innovative delivery and lateral solutions. o Designed efficient/low cost DR architecture.o Initiated and performed a vendor assessment resulting in the replacement of the primary incumbent. Delivered significant cost savings while increasing quality and improving time to benefit realisation.o Successfully migrated, relocated and remediated the Optus Business operational reporting data warehouse from end of life infrastructure.

Part 2• Senior IT Project Manager on Optus Business Ethernet VPN product development project.• Senior IT Project Manager - Relocation of mission critical TOPS international operator services call switching system. Involved relocating end of life terminal based switching system to an alternate data centre. Project was extremely time sensitive and technically challenging due to the age of the hardware.o Personally developed/designed an interim international operator information database as a BCP risk mitigation solution, this was subsequently developed into an ongoing intranet based application saving the company upwards of $500K on the existing market alternatives.o Designed, developed and delivered a custom engineered video interfacing solution to replace the ageing/failing terminal “green screen” displays with an LCD based solution as new replacement units were no longer available. Advised by vendor that this was technically “impossible”. This innovation combined with the successful, on budget and ahead of schedule, project delivery saved in excess of $2.5M on the purchase of a replacement system.• Senior IT Project Manager Optus “Zoo” web portal platform get well program.• Senior IT Project Manager - Establishment of IT services for outsourced call centre (SMB business unit).• Total savings realised to date: upwards of $5.3M. Total program exposure circa $18M

Designed and managed Chubb’s disaster recovery strategy covering the Australian and New Zealand business. Completed a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), investigated and reviewed the technical infrastructure to develop accurate Return to Operation (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Investigated and reported on existing Business Continuity procedures. Architected a hot site disaster recovery framework, based around consolidation principles, blade server technology and advanced replication techniques and software. The plan covered over 72 applications and systems, involving over 300 Wintel and 20 UNIX servers of various operating systems and data base flavours across geographically dispersed data centres.Designed and outlined the project for the upgrade of the existing ATM and safe code management system.Defined a consolidation path for the existing infrastructure directly resulting in a company wide IT consolidation project.

Responsible for all technology around the NSW and QLD business. This included the 24-7 uptime of the Sydney data centre, systems architecture and design, build/integration and implementation of complex solutions involving bandwidth, security/firewall, Citrix remote access and Domino based intranet products, (mostly delivered to schools). Program/project management, presales support, product demonstration, troubleshooting and client liaison. Management of technical staff. Designed, scripted and implemented web interfaces delivering remote access, multi-platform, browser embedded thin client applications. Hosted/ASP product development and research.

Initially contracted as senior rollout consultant for a custom application to approximately 4000 systems (1300 financial planners and advisers) across Australia. On completion assigned to the AMP/GIO Adviser Technology support team as the top tier trouble-shooter and help desk system administrator. Responsibilities included: special projects, third level support ticket resolution including on-site support for key advisers, staff training, technical support and advice to the field support team and help desk, product testing and technical documentation. Also involved in special project development and research. Developed recommendations for re-platform to a portal based solution.

Start-up and management of professional audio services, hire, retail and production facility. Including in-house MIDI production, editing, programming and mastering, professional audio product sales and comprehensive technical support. Achievements include top Akai Professional sales for Australia, releasing compositions and working with a number of high profile music identities. A highlight being my contribution to the year 2000 NYE music and countdown for the City of Sydney broadcast to a live audience of 3 billion people. By 1998 the business had diversified to include IT support services and upon realising my real strengths in this area, I closed the retail outlet to concentrate on the next stage of my career.

Building on an underlying passion for audio and technology – developed abilities in sales and product support and was primary Akai contact between Japan and Australia. Achievements include increasing Akai sales by 150% in the first year and doubling the Akai Professional dealer distribution network in two years. The role involved extensive local and international travel, responsibility for the company’s presence and delivery of presentations at trade shows, seminars and exhibitions. Initiated the re-establishment of the Akai users group and re-establishment of the (previously closed) service department. Additionally performed service work on a number of products. The service department developed into a major revenue stream.