To provide guidance, mentoring and technical support to the IT teams and senior business leaders. To develop and communicate the IT strategic roadmap ensuring it aligns with business goals and objectives. Key Responsibilities• Discuss and develop opportunities for improvements to the IT environment in consultation with senior management, IT and Security teams and add to the Corporate IT Technology Roadmap • Provide mentoring, guidance and project support to IT team leaders as required.

To manage the IT environments and associated infrastructure and IT services for the group. This encompassed 550 staff, 4 datacentres and 9 offices throughout Australia, Asia, and the UK. Key Responsibilities• To lead and manage the Corporate IT, Network Services and Managed Services teams. Ensure each team is operating efficiently to meet or exceed business expectations and service levels.• To ensure user and team goals are aligned to the strategic direction and objectives set by the company.• Working with the Technology Leadership team to develop and define the Technology roadmap for the organisation and develop plans to implement that strategy.• Establish and manage the IT Capital expenditure and Operational expenditure budgets.• Creating monthly progress reports to the executive team on the performance.• Responsible for management of key vendor accounts.• Responsible for ensuring GBST’s security risks are mitigated to acceptable levels.

This role is a senior position within the Infrastructure Services group reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Services. My role is to oversee and assist the Corporate IT teams to ensure the work they perform, and produce is in line with the IT Technology plan and the broader strategic goals of the organisation. Key Responsibilities• Review of IT expenditure and capacity planning and modelling. Liaise with IT teams to develop and prepare annual capital expenditure (~$2.5M) and operation expenditure (~$4M) budgets ensuring that budget expenditure (and proposed projects) are aligned to business strategic goals.• Management of Microsoft Enterprise licensing (~$600K per year)• Act as a technical resource to the rest of the business.• Management of GBST co-location data centres in Australia – Over the Wire, Citec and Global Switch• Design of Microsoft Private cloud using Microsoft Hyper V and Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager.• Design and Management of WAN’s – Uecomm, Over the wire, Telstra• System and Network security – AV, Firewalls (Sophos, Cisco ASA)• IT Product and Vendor management for the group• Design, build and maintain a new web hosting environment for GBST’s web design agency (Emu Design) – which provides hosting to over two hundred clients.• Development of Office 365 implementation strategy • SharePoint Search, Search Results pages and Display templates to show customised information.• Office 365 implementation (exchange hybrid deployment, SharePoint Online, OneDrive); Major projects included migrating to Office 365 across the enterprise and across all regions. Active Directory integration and Exchange Online integration. Designed and deployed fully redundant ADFS solution into Azure.• SharePoint Online and OneDrive - SharePoint 2013 migration to SharePoint Online, migration of on premise SharePoint 2013 farm to SharePoint Online (approximately 100,000 files and 100G of data)

This role reported to the Group IT Manager. I managed a team of 9 windows and 2 network engineers in Queensland and NSW. The team provided IT support services to internal and external customers.• Internal windows environments (Desktop SOE and windows Server configurations)• Communications Systems – networks, phone systems and security• Microsoft licensing management• IT procurement – servers, desktops laptops, enterprise storage solutions• Sophos anti-virus and web gateway solution• IT support across the Microsoft stack of applications.• Pre-Sales consulting and Solution Architecture for the business• Team Management – performance reviews, identifying training for team members.• Job allocation of IT support activities.• Develop IT Roadmap in consultation with Group IT manager and in alignment with annual budget. • Manage, design and implementation of Sharepoint farm to be used as Intranets and Document Centres.

Windows, Communications and Security specialist in a team of three focussed on designing solutions for GBST’s customers.• Designing and implementing WAN’s and LAN’s • Development and implementation of IT Security policy.• Managing relationships with IT vendors • Designing and implementing large scale share trading (equities) sites.• Develop and manage the IT roadmap for the organisation. Researching new products and technologies and how they might be applied within the business to provide business benefits.