Chief Technologist @ intelia focusing on defining the organisation's solution strategy with our emerging technology partners and building the internal technical capability to support.Technology strategy, architecture and delivery. Emerging tech, data, digital, innovation.

Founding member of the software mapping platform - HiveHub (now Aplas). Key aims are aligning the needs of users with our products & services and bringing on new technology & delivery partners.

Leading Innovation & Emerging Technology within DXC Professional Solutions, Direnc was responsible for leading large scale engagements, productising solution offerings, implementing Go To Market strategies and vendor engagement.Managed on and offshore teams (50+) across Australia, Vietnam, India and the US.Key areas of focus were Automation & Cognitive (Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Automation, VIrtual Digital Assistants), DevOps Tooling (SCM, CI/CD, Containers) and… Show more Leading Innovation & Emerging Technology within DXC Professional Solutions, Direnc was responsible for leading large scale engagements, productising solution offerings, implementing Go To Market strategies and vendor engagement.Managed on and offshore teams (50+) across Australia, Vietnam, India and the US.Key areas of focus were Automation & Cognitive (Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Automation, VIrtual Digital Assistants), DevOps Tooling (SCM, CI/CD, Containers) and Analytics and Insights (e.g. Cloudera, Hortonworks, Tableau, Qlikview). Show less

Clients including Carlton United Breweries, NAB, AustralianSuper, Telstra, Link Group, BUPA, IAG, Bank of Queensland.Engagements have included:- Product owner for digital transaction management platform implemented on .NET with an AWS backend, integrating to a number of SaaS systems and an advanced Identity Management Framework- Product owner of a Big Data Platform on AWS allowing for the combined analysis of over 100 data sources- Agile business analyst in the… Show more Clients including Carlton United Breweries, NAB, AustralianSuper, Telstra, Link Group, BUPA, IAG, Bank of Queensland.Engagements have included:- Product owner for digital transaction management platform implemented on .NET with an AWS backend, integrating to a number of SaaS systems and an advanced Identity Management Framework- Product owner of a Big Data Platform on AWS allowing for the combined analysis of over 100 data sources- Agile business analyst in the development of a superannuation mobile phone application with over 20k users- Scrum master during the migration of all enterprise integrations (real time and asynchronous) to a newly established platform- Lead Consultant in the development and board approval of a $10MM business case for a major integration platform upgrade- Lead Consultant in the review of end to end Program Management Framework including the capability of over 50 project management resources, a $50MM p.a. program delivery framework and systems in place to assist- Lead Consultant in the development of future state Robotic Process Automation (RPA) framework and operating model including process selection, solutioning, change management and ongoing operations- Lead Consultant during the review of current state and development of future state BI architecture including information management, technical integration and service models for a large superannuation organisation prior to a merger- Project Lead for a 30 consultant team in the planning and implementation (future state design, release planning, deployment, testing and support) during the establishment of a new data centre and the migration of over 2000 users and associated systems and processes across Australia, the US and EMEA during a large demerger- Lead Consultant in the review and re-baseline of a major project as part of this big 4 bank’s Strategic IT program for the migration of a number of business information systems from legacy to virtualised infrastructure Show less

Developed a 10MM business case to upgrade the integration platform. Presented and gained approval at board level. Helped develop, test with customers and deploy a number of customer facing mobile and web apps.Reviewed and designed a future operating model for the complete project delivery organisation.Developed a number of dashboards to make financial reporting a whole lot easier for people.

Ran the technical support team for AML apps.Managed a project to go P2V, move data centres and upgrade versions for a number of the AML apps as part of the Infrastructure on Demand project run with IBM.

Technical hands on role morphing into a project management role by the end of my time here. Key member of team splitting the beer and wine businesses' technical infrastructure and apps.Domain admin across 3 OU's - that was fun and learnt a lot about how networks operate, how AD works, how to quickly deploy, connect and shutdown VMs and how pulling the thread loose on a problem can sometimes uncover 10 more! But you gotta keep on pulling those threads!Helped establish a new data… Show more Technical hands on role morphing into a project management role by the end of my time here. Key member of team splitting the beer and wine businesses' technical infrastructure and apps.Domain admin across 3 OU's - that was fun and learnt a lot about how networks operate, how AD works, how to quickly deploy, connect and shutdown VMs and how pulling the thread loose on a problem can sometimes uncover 10 more! But you gotta keep on pulling those threads!Helped establish a new data centre, migrate 1500+ users across the globe and over 100 legacy apps (including moving to cloud native versions & migrations & version upgrades of core Finance (SAP, Peoplesoft) and ERP (JDE) systems).Managed a project to review and uplift security across order to cash systems engaging 3 competing vendors who had to work together. Show less

Engineering Officer (CAPT) in the Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME).A number of Army, DMO, LSD and CIOG roles including Troop Commander @ 17SIG, PM @ DMO, Lead Engineer @ Land Systems Division.Tasks included project management, engineering governance and development of Capability Definition Documents, Operational Concept Documents, RFQ's, and vendor management.Led a satellite systems technical team involved with land materiel… Show more Engineering Officer (CAPT) in the Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME).A number of Army, DMO, LSD and CIOG roles including Troop Commander @ 17SIG, PM @ DMO, Lead Engineer @ Land Systems Division.Tasks included project management, engineering governance and development of Capability Definition Documents, Operational Concept Documents, RFQ's, and vendor management.Led a satellite systems technical team involved with land materiel certification. Show less

Army engineering manager responsible for more than 20 staff overseeing the serviceability of a land material fleet within a Signals SquadronManagement of the technical support troop responsible for maintenance and serviceability of the land vehicle fleet of the unit. Charged with the analysis and diagnosis of complex technical and resource issues within the troop and development of timely resolutions presented to senior management.

Implementation of the university's internal document submission and grading system including customer workshops, business case development and data modelling. Technologies included Java, PHP.