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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Independent strategy and management consulting including technology due diligence.

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

A major focus in this role was technology modernisation, including an uplift in security and data controls. During this time, we delivered the first phase of the CRM and subscription management modernisation for our Enterprise Line of Business. AI/ML tooling was also a focus for this period with the roll out of tools backed by ChatGPT (Glean, Office 365 CoPilot, Github CoPilot), delivering good early results.

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

I led the strategic product and technology direction for MYOB, focusing on product evolution, cloud services, and customer engagement to drive business growth. My CTO responsibilities were expanded to include Product Managers, Experience Designers, Domain Specialists, Technical Writers, Product Analysts, and Data Scientists into my team. We developed and launched the MYOB Discovery and Delivery process to better align product investment to customer outcomes. We also overhauled technology standards.

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

I provided executive leadership for technology teams related to customer facing technology - on-premise and cloud products, CRM, subscription management, web, etc.We delivered major releases of new online products to SME and Practice customers. We migrated legacy data warehouse and bespoke data lake to a simplified data platform based on Snowflake. We also defined a 5-year security strategy, which has remained on track since delivery commenced in October 2020.

Chicago, Il, Us

As a Principal Consultant for Digital Transformation, I work with business executives across the globe to build the capabilities they need to become a modern digital business. Our team helps senior executives identify and understand the degree of fluency and investments needed in the key building blocks of Digital Transformation to build the capability unique to their context.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for defining ThoughtWorks Australia's strategy in terms of service offerings and capability development. As a new role for the organisation I developed the strategy in consultation with the leadership team and embarked on a change program with other leaders in the Australia business to shift the market position of ThoughtWorks and continue to expand the value that we bring to our customers.

Chicago, Il, Us

Supporting an amazing ThoughtWorks community in NSW and Queensland to deliver high value solutions for leading Australian enterprises, start-ups, and social organisations.

Chicago, Il, Us

I worked across a diverse set of roles in my early career with ThoughtWorks including solution architect for ThoughtWorks internal systems, enterprise architect for clients in the financial services, retail, media, and telecommunications industries. I am a passionate technologist that works to create innovative solutions for the problems facing my clients. Working with teams in England, India, and USA I have been responsible for providing architectural guidance and implementation assistance in the delivery of critical business applications.Mixed with a broad range of customer engagements I have performed many other internal roles. For extended periods I was technical assistant to Rebecca Parsons the CTO of ThoughtWorks, market lead for technology (Sydney/Brisbane), and am a past member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board.I continue to be involved in delivering software projects at strategic and implementation levels. I have developed systems in Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, and numerous other technologies.A particular highlight in working with the Thoughtworks CTO was creating the concept, developing, and launching the Thoughtworks Technology Radar, which is now a very widely distributed and read piece of thought leadership Thoughtworks releases multiple times a year.

Midrand, Gauteng, Za

I was a member of the senior management team at an enterprise software services company based in Sydney. My responsibilities were many and varied across the company, including solutions architecture, sales, marketing and management responsibility for the 10-person development team. Despite having a small footprint, customers ranged from small and medium sized businesses to national enterprises including Telstra and Qantas.

Santa Barbara, Ca 93105, Us

I worked both in the Professional Services and Product divisions during two years with 724 Solutions. Much of my services work was spent working with telecommunications providers across Asia and North America, most notably China Mobile, where I spent a period of six months consulting to the development team on the development of the Monternet platform who’s pilot covered 100,000 users with real production use growing to 10’s of millions of users in its first few months of availability.

Rüschlikon, Zürich, Ch

Having first been employed as a junior developer at GDI, I was quickly posted to the USA for a period of six months where I was given team lead responsibilities for client delivery of a new CMS platform running on top of Java.

Was first employed as an application developer in the Tandem services team in Sydney, Australia. My responsibilities included production support, application maintenance and development in both COBOL and Java.