David Richardson

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Technology Domain Owner ( Data Manager | Data Analytics | Head of Data & Analytics ) at Westpac Institutional Bank
David Richardson's Location
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
About David Richardson

Data-driven leader with 20+ years in IT, specialist in designing, implementing, and managing data. Spearheaded analytics teams to translate business needs into actionable data insights, delivering data solutions that drive fact-based insights and decisions. Thrive in diverse environments leading cross-functional teams to strategically plan, deliver, and manage effective data and reporting solutions. Proven ability to cultivate open and transparent communication at all levels, fostering peer-to-peer respect and engender collaborative team cultures. Proven track record in building and managing application and infrastructure platforms and teams, developing and implementing data road-maps, providing technical input and mentoring staff, while retaining still the ability to be hands on. Successful history partnering with a diverse range of vendors to leverage vendor IP and resources to strive to and deliver best in class technology.

David Richardson's Current Company Details

Technology Domain Owner ( Data Manager | Data Analytics | Head of Data & Analytics ) at Westpac Institutional Bank
David Richardson Work Experience Details
  • Westpac Institutional Bank
    Technology Domain Owner ( Data Manger | Analytics Manger | Head Of Data & Analytics )
    Westpac Institutional Bank Mar 2013 - Mar 2024
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐’๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ฎ๐ž ๐€๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐–๐ˆ๐โ€™๐ฌ ๐‚๐ˆ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐†๐“๐’ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ: Drove technology strategy and execution to propose a roadmap and following on build and deliver a customer revenue focused data and analytics platform for WIB's client facing transactional business units: Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) and Global Transaction Services (GTS). ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐„๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐•๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž-๐€๐๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ: Cultivated strong relationships via active communications with key staff in each of the CIB, GTS and Finance business units to promote data advocacy and a data-driven culture. Identifying data pain points, capturing wish-list insights etc regularly proposed data-driven solutions, championed a โ€˜test and learnโ€™ delivery approach and gained recognition as a trusted business partner and data/data analytics thought leader. ๐ƒ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Championed Westpac's architecture team to develop a roadmap to migrate the platform's data tier to Azure SQL Managed Instance, a PaaS solution, to unlock further data insights by leveraging Azure Machie Learning (ML), services plus reducing Opex by moving off an on-premise sever based infrastructure. Successfully leveraged the platforms deposit book to PoC using cloud-based machine learning to successfully forecast deposit balances. ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐„๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐Œ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Leveraging Westpac's Azure cloud strategy, I successfully prototyped equivalent reporting using Microsoft Power BI and proved it functionally equivalent to existing QlikView reporting use-cases. Carrying out a cost comparison on license costs alone I presented a reporting migration journey to Power BI and the opportunity as a result to save significant annual OPEX costs.
  • Westpac Institutional Bank
    Application Service Manager ( Solution Designer | Technical Lead | Project Manager )
    Westpac Institutional Bank Mar 2010 - Mar 2013
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‚๐จ-๐€๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐–๐ˆ๐'๐ฌ ๐“๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: As part of the departments Leadership Team, I co-authored in 2010 a multi-year roadmap for the Treasury Data Management platform. Built on Microsoft's back-end (SSIS/SQL Server) with a QlikView reporting front-end, the platform models Westpac Group's balance sheet by sourcing complex group wide datasets to model Westpac Groups Balance Sheet. Empowering data-driven decision-making the platform has evolved to facilitate a number of key Westpac Group Treasury functions including Securitisation, Funds Transfer Pricing, and Liquidity Management generating too critical regulator reports for Westpac Group.๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก-๐•๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: Joined the department as a Senior Technical Lead, providing hands-on technical guidance, solution design and coding expertise. Consistent valued contributions led to a promotion to Application Service Manager, leading then a team of fourteen in building discrete platform elements aligned with the evolving roadmap. Empowering my team, I fostered critical thinking and championed innovative approaches, such as repeatable design patterns, to enhance both team productivity and data platform throughput.๐๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐–๐ˆ๐: Played a pivotal role in a number of first for WIB, each fundamental to the platformโ€™s technical implementation, including deploying the first Windows 2008R2 servers, implementing the first Storage Area Network (SAN) AN-based SQL Server 2008R2 cluster, and standing up the first SharePoint 2010 platform. These initiatives established foundational technologies for the platform's future development and enabler for scale-out growth and performance.
  • (Cfsgam) Colonial First State Global Asset Management
    Solution Delivery Manager ( Engineering Lead | Technical Lead | Technical Project Manager )
    (Cfsgam) Colonial First State Global Asset Management Oct 2009 - Feb 2010
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ & ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐š๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ (๐‚๐…๐’๐†๐€๐Œ):Led IT solution delivery activities across two project phases for CFSGAM, the consolidated funds management division of CBA Bank. Managed cross-functional teams: Facilitated collaboration between internal IT and external vendors to ensure successful implementation of the Kamakura Risk Management (KRM) vendor platform used to manage the Market Risk CFSGAMโ€™s funds. ๐’๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐†๐€๐Œ'๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐…๐— ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐’๐€๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฑ (๐๐ก๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ): In line with GAMโ€™s platform roadmap migrated all FX trade data and trade execution activities from SAP to Murex, a precursor to the adoption of the KRM platform.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Š๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ฎ๐ซ๐š ๐‘๐ข๐ฌ๐ค ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ (๐Š๐‘๐Œ) ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐†๐€๐Œ (๐๐ก๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ):Oversaw the internal IT team and external vendor throughout the process. Managed the build of infrastructure, KRM application deployment and configuration, integration with upstream systems and pre go-live data reconciliation activities.๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž (๐’๐ƒ๐‹๐‚) ๐๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ:Represented CFSGAM in the Commonwealth Bank's SDLC Process Improvement/Champion Community, contributing to process refinement and adoption across all GAM IT solutions.
  • Tabcorp
    Technical Lead ( Solution Designer | Technical Project Manager )
    Tabcorp Aug 2008 - Sep 2009
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ & ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐š๐ญ ๐“๐š๐›๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฌ:Led IT solution delivery activities on Tabcorp Casinoโ€™s $30m โ€œGalaxyโ€ program, a large-scale initiative to modernise casino management systems across all four Tabcorp casinos (Star at Sydney, Treasury at Brisbane and Jupiters at both Gold Coast and Townsville) by replacing them with the "Konami Casino Management System (KCMS)". ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐•๐ž๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐จ (๐–๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ):As Solution Architect designed critical interfaces between the new KCMS and casino edge devices. Project Managed the subsequent delivery by associated device vendors (local and offshore) to deliver interface software based on my designs, ensuring successful integration.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Š๐‚๐Œ๐’ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฌ (๐–๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ):Managed a team of five Solution Architects in analysing the existing application management landscape (As-Is) of the three Queensland casinos. Developed the proposed (To-Be) design incorporating the integration of the KCMS.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐–๐ž๐› ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ:As Technical Lead managed two software engineers in designing and implementing a Java web service to integrate Tabcorp's four hotel management systems with their public website and enable as a result online hotel inquiries and bookings.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐ˆ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ (๐“๐š๐›๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ ๐‚๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฌ):As Technical Lead managed three software engineers in reworking a historical application used to manage Patron Exclusions and capture Customer Incidents. Enhanced functionality, addressed performance issues, and improved efficiency within this system.
  • Next Financial (Acquired By Wilson Htm Securities In April 2009)
    Software Development Manager ( Development Lead | Head Of Software Engineering | It Manager )
    Next Financial (Acquired By Wilson Htm Securities In April 2009) Nov 2006 - Jul 2008
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ: โ€ข Provided technical direction, recruited, and managed the in-house software development team responsible for proprietary wealth management solutions.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ˆ๐“ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ & ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ: โ€ข Managed the team responsible for supporting the Windows-based WAN environment across the Sydney headquarters and three interstate offices (110+ users).๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ: โ€ข Managed relationships with external vendors like IRESS, Bloomberg, and Orc for trading applications and Interactive Data for the firm's data centre provider.๐Š๐ž๐ฒ ๐€๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ซ: โ€ข Successfully led the design and implementation of all web and desktop applications used to manage customer account and investment portfolios.๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ: โ€ข Introduced DevOps tools (Cruise Control, NAnt, NUnit, and NCover) to boost team productivity and ensure consistent software code quality.๐‹๐ž๐ ๐š ๐’๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: โ€ข Championed an enterprise architecture review to identify and assess operational risk and company readiness in the event of key component failure(s) and the ability as a result to maintain business continuity. โ€ข Recommended as a consequence the migration of business-critical systems to a data centre and following on ran multi-vendor tender selection process to choose a preferred data centre partner. โ€ข Successfully project managed the ensuing procurement and on-site to data centre migration.
  • Sydney Futures Exchange (Merged With Asx In July 2006)
    Senior Software Engineer ( Web Developer | Database Developer )
    Sydney Futures Exchange (Merged With Asx In July 2006) Oct 2004 - Oct 2006
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ to develop and implement critical systems supporting trading operations and back-end processes.๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž๐› ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐’๐.๐๐„๐“, ๐‡๐“๐Œ๐‹, ๐‚#, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“-๐’๐๐‹/๐’๐๐‹ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ:โ€ข SFE Austraclear Education Website: A training platform for clearing participants.โ€ข Internal Delivery and Settlements System: Streamlined processes for specific financial instruments.โ€ข Real-time Deal and Order Checker: Monitored the exchange for abnormal trades.๐„๐ง๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐, ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ:โ€ข Public website (HTML/JavaScript/ASP.NET)โ€ข Internal intranet sites (ASP.NET/T-SQL)โ€ข Windows forms & windows web services (C#/T-SQL)๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ.
  • Symantec
    Senior Software Engineer ( Web Developer | Database Developer )
    Symantec Jul 2003 - Sep 2004
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐•๐Ÿ” ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐œโ€™๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ, a .NET browser-based system for managing enterprise computing environments.๐„๐ง๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž:โ€ข Designed new front-end web pages using ASP.NET.โ€ข Reworked and modernised legacy code with ASP.NET and C#.๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐š๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž:โ€ข Designed and reworked SQL Server database objects (stored procedures, views, table indexing etc) to improve query performance.๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ.
  • Shopfast
    Software Development Manager ( Development Lead | Head Of Software Engineering )
    Shopfast Aug 1999 - Jun 2003
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐…๐š๐ฌ๐ญ (๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š'๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐…๐จ๐จ๐ ๐„-๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—-๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ‘๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ” ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ:โ€ข Provided technical direction, recruited, and managed the in-house software development team responsible ShopFastโ€™s e-commerce website, intranet and internal business applications โ€“ 4 web developers, 2 database/VB6 developers.๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ:โ€ข ๐–๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ: Designed and implemented a warehouse order picking system running on handheld scanners for pickers and packers, integrating with customer orders backend database (C++ server-side software).โ€ข ๐–๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ & ๐Š๐๐ˆ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ : Developed intranet systems using SQL back-end and ASP front-end.โ€ข ๐„-๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: Developed and maintained various parts of the ShopFast website (ASP, SQL backend) and middle-tier business logic components (C++/ATL, VB/MTS).๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐“๐š๐ค๐ž๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ:โ€ข Assisted in the transition of ShopFast's e-commerce platform to Coles' technology infrastructure after takeover by Coles in 2003.
  • Avaya
    Senior Software Engineer
    Avaya Mar 1997 - Jul 1999
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ-๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ (๐€๐ฏ๐š๐ฒ๐š'๐ฌ ๐๐‚๐Œ๐’ ๐•๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ).๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ:โ€ข Used Unified Modelling Language (UML) for design.โ€ข Implemented subsystems using Visual C++.๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ-๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:โ€ข Leveraged CORBA (Orbix) technology.๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ:โ€ข Utilized Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) framework.๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ.
  • Bae Systems Australia
    Product Development Team Leader
    Bae Systems Australia Feb 1995 - Feb 1997
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‘๐€๐€๐…'๐ฌ ๐…/๐€-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐’๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซโ€ข ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ responsible for 4 software subsystems.โ€ข ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐, ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ for analysis, design, coding, and testing activities, ensuring progress aligned with project management expectations.โ€ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ (HF Communications, Radar Altimeter, VHF/UHF Communications, Communication System Controller) using Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Booch Method).โ€ข I๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ subsystems in C++.โ€ข ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค to RAAF project representatives at regular meetings.
  • Rolls-Royce Commercial Aero Engines Limited
    Integration Engineer ( Test Engineer )
    Rolls-Royce Commercial Aero Engines Limited Apr 1994 - Oct 1994
    Derby, England, United Kingdom
    ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐“๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ (๐’๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ/๐‘๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐ฒ๐œ๐ž ๐๐‘๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ):โ€ข ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ž๐›๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ engine control system code (ADA, 68000) on Motorola 68020 hardware using logic analysers.โ€ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž for ground-based wind tunnel testing.โ€ข ๐–๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ for Rolls Royce, ensuring quality and contractual compliance of Smiths Industries' hardware and software components.โ€ข ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐‘๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐ฒ๐œ๐ž on-site at Smiths Industries (subcontracted to manufacture the engine control PCBs), collaborating closely with their engineering teams.
  • Bae Systems
    System Integration And Test Engineer
    Bae Systems Aug 1992 - Mar 1994
    London Area, United Kingdom
    ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐“๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐’๐ฎ๐›๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ & ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐‘๐จ๐ฒ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฏ๐ฒ:๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ:โ€ข Built system-level application code.โ€ข Identified and resolved application and infrastructure bugs/errors.โ€ข Generated executables for download, execution, and testing on embedded hardware.๐๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ก๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ :โ€ข Conducted tests on target hardware.โ€ข Used debugging tools to monitor system behaviour and ensure compliance with test schedules.
  • Bae Systems
    Gun Designer/Analyst
    Bae Systems Nov 1990 - Jul 1992
    London Area, United Kingdom
    ๐–๐ž๐š๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ & ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐‘๐จ๐ฒ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฏ๐ฒ:๐‹๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ-๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐›๐ซ๐ž ๐†๐ฎ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ:โ€ข Performed logical modelling and created object-based designs using Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD).โ€ข Collaborated closely with the customer throughout the design process, maintaining frequent verbal and written communication.๐„๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:โ€ข Represented the assigned areas at system/equipment interface meetings.โ€ข Provided feedback and verified updates to data exchange specifications.

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