I am passionate about, and have a proven track record in, organising and managing aspects of Information Technology in the most efficient way possible. Specifically:• Aligning IT with business strategy – at CBA, determined and implemented technological and organisational changes to align with a strategic services model (including smartsourcing), Services Oriented Architecture and Agile methodology, and led my team through the changes.• Organisational Structure – in all previous roles, organised teams and people to effectively meet both customer and staff expectations;• Project and Program management – set up a PMO at AMP, project managed the development and implementation of all CommSee code modules at CBA (c. $100mill). Change approver for the $1bill+ SAP Core Banking replacement.• Financial and budgetary optimisation – at CBA, determined and managed the incremental spend on CommSee 3rd level support and maintenance (c.$10mill pa), and the spend on tools and process optimisation (c. $6 mill pa), plus a people budget in excess of $40mill pa.• Development methodology and tools – led the development of an SDLC at AMP and CBA, accountable for the Agile practice and Continuous delivery capability, and LEAN process optimisation in my 400 strong team at CBA.• Application Development and maintenance – managed the development and/or implementation of countless in-house and package applications for banking, investments and superannuation businesses.
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General Manager, Development & SupportCommonwealth Bank Aug 2006 - Dec 2013Sydney Area, AustraliaKey Responsibilities:• manage a development and support team of up to 400 IT professionals (including 120 offshore) consisting of developers, application architects, Oracle specialists, development deployment and support staff and application support staff, building and supporting CBA’s custom strategic in-house systems;• manage the engagement with our on and offshore vendors (HCL, TCS, Bitwise) over the provision of managed services and staff augmentation for project and support developer resources. -
Development Manager, CommseeCommonwealth Bank Nov 2003 - Aug 2006Sydney Area, AustraliaMy key responsibility was to manage the development of CBA’s in-house CRM/origination system, CommSee, which included over 2.5million lines of .NET code and ½ million lines of PL/SQL. CommSee has driven an evolution in customer service throughout the bank by providing a “single view of customer” and facilitating improved management of clients and fully integrated origination of products. -
Project ManagerTacit Group Feb 2002 - Sep 2003Sydney, AustraliaTacitGroup was a New Zealand based software development company specialising in Investment and Insurance administration systems through its flagship product, Talisman. My role was tomanaging all aspects of the customisation and implementation of Talisman software for a major financial services provider in Sydney.
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Business Solutions ManagerAmp Jan 2000 - Nov 2001Sydney, AustraliaMy key responsibility was to manage the development and implementation of IT business solutions for AMP’s investments business unit, including trading, settlements, unit pricing, investment reporting and client servicing functions across all wholesale investment classes and products, including superannuation. -
Application Services ManagerAmp 1996 - 2000Sydney Area, AustraliaMy key responsibility was to managed a team of over 50 A/Ps, BAs and PMs, split into 6 teams aligned by business function, implementing multiple projects for the support, enhancement and addition of new systems into a fully integrated suite of production client server investment systems. -
Systems ManagerAmp 1992 - 1996Sydney, AustraliaFront and back office investment systems -
Analyst/ProgrammerAmp 1989 - 1992Sydney Area, AustraliaVisual Basic, C and SQL. -
Analyst/ProgrammerIp Sharp Associates 1985 - 1989Sydney, AustraliaAPL
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Actuarial AssistantNsw Government Actuary'S Office 1979 - 1981Sydney, Australia
Des Webster Education Details
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Honours, Class 1 -
Pure Mathematics
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Des Webster's current role is Senior IT Executive.
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Des Webster attended Macquarie University, Queen's University.
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