Don Sharp Email & Phone Number

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

COO for the Western States of Australia - WA, SA, NTfor TTC - The Testing Consultancy✰ Leading the new high standard of Testing Consultancies✰ Member of the Australian Leadership team, empowered to move mountains to help Clients✰ Bringing the global best practices of TTC within local reach✰ Supporting discerning Clients with a genuine, collaborative.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

- Senior Team: key member of the senior team that ran WA- Client Solutions: truly understand the challenges facing clients and align them to Planit services- Business Proposals: responded to RFx, write proposals, present up to Executive level- Lead Staff: mentoring, training, motivating and problem solving- Practice Lead: Agile practice lead for WA.

Perth, Australia

- Significant engagements at Woodside, Fortescue Metals Group, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Murdoch University, Western Power, Department of Mines Industry Regulation and Safety, WesTrac, INX, City of Perth- Ultimately responsible for creating, owning and delivering bespoke complex client bids at and above organisational C level within global.

Hand-picked 2IC to the CIO and leader for the Strategic Planning, Development and Governance department that brought together several sub-departments and I.S. subject matter experts to govern and continually improve all I.S. delivery for business enablement. Responsibilities included Enterprise architecture, Applications architecture, Information Security.

Hand-picked member of the CIO’s Management team, responsible for a department of 20-30 Testers who performed all functional and non-functional testing. Quality was critical as these 24x7 real-time, distributed systems turned over billions in revenue each year and on the busiest days could lose up to $80,000 turnover per minute of downtime. Manager Testing.

Building VMWare images, servers, PCs and appliances such as web terminals for a range of project initiatives.

Ascot Racecourse

Performed most functions of an IT Manager including evaluating/buying/installing/configuring/managing/supporting all I.T. equipment such as server rooms, racks, cabling, servers, PCs, firewalls, enterprise management suites, security suites, switches, routers and VPN devices across a multi-site network.-- Key Achievements -- Rebuilt the entire network.

As Above

Developed an Automated test suite comprising hundreds of tests for a smartcard ticketing system.Worked with Sony in the R&D of the world's latest and greatest smartcard technology.Helped develop Quality procedures and processes as the company sought ISO 2000 accreditation.Helped create the Prototype Workgroup.

Cio Leadership Development

Certified Advanced Test Manager - Istqb

Certified Agile Scrum Master

Certified Agile Project Management Practitioner, Dsdm - Atern

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Commerce - Majoring In It

Activities and Societies: Helped re-form and run the Race Relations Council for Curtin University. Included core units - Law, Management.

Certified Agile Tester