Leading the Governance, Risk and Compliance Practice and assisting organisations manage risk and improve their maturity in the delivery and management of technology as a vCISO.

Working with clients across many industries such as Finance, Education, Government, Utilities and Professional Services, I provide:- Executive Advisory: provide C-level advice on technology management and business transformation. Assist organisations gain clarity and set direction, as well as organizing for successful execution.- Governance: provide best-practice governance, risk and compliance advice, as well as independent audit. Focus on information security.- Strategy: provide strategic planning, strategic analysis and review and thought leadership for emerging technologies.- Portfolio - enable organisations to develop and assess programs of work against their organisational governance frameworks and strategic objectives. Structure and govern programs for execution and assurance.- Innovation: leading design thinking and ideation, creating innovation frameworks and helping organisations disrupt themselves.- IT Management as a service: Backfill of IT management roles to support transition, provide burst capacity or to provide strategic mentoring.

- Strategic planning: Responsible for development of technology strategy and plans in alignment with overall corporate strategy, including business case development and analysis/modelling. - Corporate strategy development: Participated in corporate strategy development to outline technology opportunities and threats to senior leadership to ensure understanding and consideration in strategy conversations. - Asset management: Stewarded the technological assets of the organisation - managing obsolescence, risk, incorporating disruptive technological trends and anticipating emergent or changing operational or strategic needs to enable business capability. Ensured alignment and convergence across technology portfolios (IT/OT/Engineering).- Organisational capability development: Collaborated with service providers in technology, human resources, organisational development and executive leadership to ensure effective governing principles during programme prioritisation and execution. Assessed capability and developed maturity models to ensure service delivery is positioned for future initiatives at lowest TCO.- Governance: Advised and co-ordinated project and programme governance activities to provide technology and business alignment, ensure common understanding across stakeholders and maximise benefits realisation. Advised sponsors and senior executive of relevant strategic or project risks, mitigations and effective governance practices for technology. - Thought leadership: Created and sponsored research and development initiatives with academic or industry partners. Investigated and presented findings and implications of new technology or business developments to relevant areas of the organisation and senior leadership.

Provided business analysis and technology planning and management advice on projects and initiatives in the business to ensure benefits realisation. Worked closely with line of business, HR, finance, and technology providers to ensure holistic solution advice and/or to identify and diagnose complex problem spaces and seek resolution.- Analysed and developed reports on business efficacy and technological feasibility of strategic initiatives during conceptual phases of projects / programmes or during strategy development.- Elicited, analysed, and managed requirements, stewarding stakeholders through phases of the project from conceptual business requirements and high level options, tender specification, evaluation and contract award before entering development, testing and implementation phases.- Created high levels of stakeholder management across line of business and leadership, technology providers and project management functions to ensure project ownership, effective governance and benefits realisation.

Responsible for business support operations in desktop environments.Duties• Customer facing problem resolution and service delivery

Responsible for level 1-3 support and pre-sales activities across multiple verticals and sizes of organisation.Duties• Customer facing problem resolution and service delivery in desktop, server and network systems.• Identify and pursue leads and develop business centric proposals for technology change.