Edwin Ashdown Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Empowering Enterprises with Microsoft AI.Practical Microsoft AI Copilot Solutions for real business transformation.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Led the establishment of a Strategic Cloud Enterprise practice, developing a roadmap and timeline to enhance capabilities including FinOps, DevOps, and technical delivery practices. This initiative facilitated a.
• A clearly defined and documented Cloud Operational Model.
• Development of a capability model with resource planning.
• Planned budget and forecast for delivery Opex and Capex.
• Establishment of a technical roadmap for Landing Zone implementation.
• Implementation of governance practices including Cloud Controls and Policies.

Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Build a Strategy to drive and adopt Enterprise Cloud DevOps consolidation, enable uplift of Cloud DevOps Practices and digital and cultural transformation. Budget and forecast management. Led quarterly resource and.
• Establish Key Epics to discover inefficient usages of Toolsets, create a roadmap and timeline for consolidation.
• Write business cases and a ‘whole of life costs’ budgets.
• Establish DevOps best practices, Backlog/Task management and pipelines for secure delivery.
• Vendor and third-party management and negotiations.Create and manage the delivery cadence for the DevOps Enterprise Practice.
• Run Quarterly planning Sessions, to establish large epics and breakdown long term goals and prioritise for quarterly delivery.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

How to bring about trust in your Organisation, how to elevate your knowledge workers to self-determining, innovative, collaborative, active Modern DevOps Practitioners.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Westpac is undergoing an agile transformation which includes the implementation of DevOps delivery pipelines. My role is to guide teams in the implementation of DevOps best practices through workshops and deep dive.
• I investigate Enterprise constraints that impede delivery (starting from Infrastructure as Code, through to auditability… Show more
• I investigate Enterprise constraints that impede delivery (starting from Infrastructure as Code, through to auditability and compliance including best practices in development and packaging for delivery, as well the.

Auckland, New Zealand

To engage with teams in both SOR (Systems of Record) and SOE (Systems of Engagement) to lead and facilitate workshops that guided teams to out think how they currently work and to constantly take into account Continuous (Integration, Delivery, Deployment, Monitoring, Security, Improvement, Testing, Compliance) in the implementation of practical.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• At Unisys New Zealand my role as the Asia Pacific DevOps Principal Consultant, was to define a strategy for engagement of clients with the view to sell consultative services in the form of DevOps Maturity Modelling.
• I defined strategies and initiatives to… Show more
• I defined strategies and initiatives to implement cultural changes within the organisation with a view to increase agility and value through the integration of DevOps practices.
• In my time at Unisys New Zealand I was engaged with several clients including New Zealand Transport Authority, IRD and Ministry of Education for several initiatives.
• This always involved discovery workshops with senior technical people, PMO groups for process information and education/benefit discussions at stakeholder level. Show less

Cayman Islands

• Develop Strategic RoadMap to uplift Infrastructure as Code, Build processes, Continuous Delivery/Deployment and Monitoring,
• Templated vApp provisioning utilising VMWare vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Environment Configuration Management via PowerShell Desired State Configuration.
• Deployments using Octopus Deploy maintaining 30+ environments with over 100 custom deployment packages and 20+ deployment projects. Implementing Environment promotion smoke Testing post… Show more
• Deployments using Octopus Deploy maintaining 30+ environments with over 100 custom deployment packages and 20+ deployment projects. Implementing Environment promotion smoke Testing post code promotion.
• Re-Aligning TFS/VSO CI/CD Builds to conform to industry best practices, to include unit tests, code quality management (SonarQube), Static code analysis and security (Parasoft), Daily Automated Integration test suite.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

IGMS Project:I have conducted a Continuous Delivery Assessment of the projects maturity in the delivery pipeline, from this I built a road map to delivery initiatives that uplift the targeted areas to better deliver automation, governance and visibility.The initiatives included better approaches to Build Management and Continuous Integration through.

Sydney

Part of a team that carried out Continuous Delivery Maturity Assessments for clients

North Sydney

Analysis of existing development processes and procedures.Recommendation and Documentation of implementation strategy for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.Design and development of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment utilizing best practice and best fit tools for minimal disruption to existing processes.Utilisation of build.

Sydney, Australia

I was tasked with Investigation and Analysis of the current Build Environment and to immediately address the large build times, the build stability and the inconsistencies of Build Environment.My Initial investigation was into the current build ecosystem and a detailed inspection into the processes for the build with a view to document and recommend the.

Brisbane CBD

My role was to investigate the manual build/delivery processes and enable automation across the mainstream applications so as to facilitate reliable and consistent quality of deliveries within the Enterprise. This was implemented in several different approaches, one of automation in packaging for complex Environments, automation of delivery through.

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

TFS installation and management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.MSBuild scripting for Build Configuration

Brisbane, Australia