Damian Cox

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Chief Advisor, Technical Director Modern ERP @ Rio Tinto
Brisbane City, QLD, AU
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Greater Brisbane Area, Australia
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About Damian Cox

Almost my entire career has been centered around the people, tools and technologies that process, manage, and democratize data. I have a deep passion for the folks who want to make better decisions based on their data and for organizations that take pride, and place real value on their data assets. I take their desire to spend less time wrangling data and more time making better decisions as my personal mission and I get a great sense of satisfaction when I see data “done right”.My leadership and collaboration style is collegiate and inclusive with a fundamental belief that great things are only achieved with great teams performing at their best. I get a real thrill out of creating the conditions for smart people to be able to do hard things.I am active in the broader data community as a past chair of the Brisbane branch of the Data Management Association (DAMA) and I strive to promote equality, diversity and inclusion as a member of Women In Technology. I am also an active member of Rio Tinto’s domestic and family violence working group.

Damian Cox's Current Company Details
Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto

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Chief Advisor, Technical Director Modern ERP
Brisbane City, QLD, AU
Website:
riotinto.com
Employees:
39972
Damian Cox Work Experience Details
  • Rio Tinto
    Chief Advisor, Technical Director Modern Erp
    Rio Tinto
    Brisbane City, Qld, Au
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  • Rio Tinto
    Chief Advisor, Modern Erp Technical Lead
    Rio Tinto Oct 2024 - Present
    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    The implementation of Modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a critical step in Rio Tinto's transformation, moving from outdated technology (ECC6) to a new, digitally enabled platform (S4) and application ecosystem. As this is a business led, Group-wide transformation effort, it requires a strong team to bridge the business and technology landscapes. From asset management to procurement, every aspect of our operations will benefit from this modernisation that offers an exciting opportunity to deliver a digital foundation that will stand Rio Tinto up well for ongoing digital transformation.In this role, I am leading the IS&T team delivering the technology in partnership with our global process owners, product groups, strategic partners and vendor organisations.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Is&T Chief Advisor Development And Technology (D&T) & Safe Production System (Sps)
    Rio Tinto Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
    Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
    I have been acting in this role since the announcement of the Partnering and Projects structure in December 2022.  In that time, the team and I have been working hard at establishing the accountabilities of business partnership for Development and Technology and the Safe Production System program. There is a great opportunity to foster effective partnerships to align strategic priorities, prioritise the work, and design and deliver technology projects across our business. I’m excited about what we can achieve and I’m eager to build on the work commenced while acting in this role.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Is&T Lead, Safe Production Systems
    Rio Tinto Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
    Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
    The Safe Production System (SPS) program is a market announced USD$2.3B productivity improvement program and board-directed strategic priority for Rio Tinto. • Lead the global technology response for the SPS digital stream.• Accountable for ensuring that critical enabling services, platforms, processes, and products provided by IS&T are delivered (and consumed) in line with the endorsed RT Digital Strategy.• Accountable for ensuring new ways of working with products and platforms (via Scaled Agile & Lean Portfolio Management) are embedded in the SPS Data and Digital Capabilities and that there is effective collaboration at all points of intersection between SPS and the service providers within IS&T.• Coordinate and lead an effective team of 200+ technology professionals and vendor resources across Rio Tinto’s major geographical hubs (Montreal, Salt Lake City, Brisbane, Perth and Mongolia)
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  • Rio Tinto
    General Manager, Data Services & Information Platforms
    Rio Tinto Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Accountable to lead a team in the definition and delivery of a business strategy that reimagined the core business data and analytics capabilities.• Executed a 6-month business engagement to build a set of data capability requirements backed by business value.• Worked with a strategic technical partner (Microsoft) to define a global hub and spoke data architecture.• Along with a new DataOps based operating model that focused on value, this became Rio Tinto’s Unity data strategy• Commissioned the implementation of the Unity data architecture with the USD$5.8M migration of the AWS data lake to Azure.• Maintained operational accountability for site-based data warehouses, the enterprise data warehouse (BW4HANA), and the enterprise data lake.• Headcount of 130+ employees and vendor partner resources with an operating budget of USD$13.6M and a project portfolio of USD$27M.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Manager, Group Data & Information Platforms
    Rio Tinto Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
    Strategic, Architectural and Operational accountability for the extended data pipeline within Rio Tinto.• Delivery of first prototype of Rio Tinto’s Operational Data Platforms (ODP) that provides local semantic • Member of Rio Tinto Data Council• Operational accountability for site-based data warehouses, the enterprise data warehouse (BW4HANA), and the enterprise data lake.• Teams covering Architecture and Assurance, Data Management, Operational (Site) Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Lakes, Enterprise Data Warehousing and the Office 365 (O365) platform, • Headcount of 107+ employees and vendor partner resources with an operating budget of USD$10.5M and a project portfolio of USD$32M.In addition, the embedding and engagement activities around key analytics and data engineering tools are delivered through my teams.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Senior Manager - Enterprise Analytics And Data Services
    Rio Tinto Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
    Brisbane
    Global accountability for data governance, data operations and for providing enterprise data services to Rio Tinto’s product groups and functions• Key visionary and primary strategist for the development of Rio Tinto’s Integrated Data Platform (IDP) as the Group’s single enterprise source of unified data and analytics services • Deployed state of the art cloud services (AWS) to provide rapid, scalable and flexible business data capabilities that allowed the business to rapidly experiment with new data and analytics technologies.• Operational accountability for ensuring Rio Tinto’s data assets are integrated, consistent and trustworthy while fostering the retained capability to the need for data modelling, extraction, transformation and other enterprise data services.• Devised the strategy for Data Separation for divestment with the subsequent successful execution of multiple business unit divestitures totaling over USD$2b• Headcount of 58 employees, contractors, and partner resources with an operating budget of USD$5.6M and a project portfolio of USD$8M.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Senior Manager - Data Governance, Global Business Services
    Rio Tinto Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
    Brisbane, Australia
    Responsible for the Data Governance discipline; working directly with business data owners to define a coherent data governance narrative for Rio Tinto. By seeking to implement pragmatic Data Governance, Quality and Management strategies that are standardized, sustainable and scalable, as a driver of the collective vision for data governance; and by providing central support for common services, this role is key to ensuring Rio Tinto’s data assets are integrated, consistent and trustworthy.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Manager - Data Transformation & Governance
    Rio Tinto Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
    Brisbane, Australia
    • Responsible for the quality of all data transformation delivery services for customers of the Rio Tinto Business Solution.• Devised the strategy for Data Separation for divestment.• Build and nurture the Data Transformation Quality management framework including the development of people, processes and frameworks that provide a flexible and scalable pathway into the business solution.• Provide thought leadership/subject matter expertise on Data Governance approaches.• Develop and foster the use of core and common toolsets for ETL and Data Quality purposes.• Successful delivery the data transformation activities of multiple business unit implementations and divestitures.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Data Team Lead - Solution Delivery
    Rio Tinto Mar 2008 - Nov 2013
    Brisbane, Australia
    • Responsible for all Release data migration activities for all current and past ABS Releases• Identification and implementation of process and continuous improvement activities.• Management and Administration of team HR functions for a 17 person team including offshore resources.• Management of process driven or technical resolution of issues and defects.• Management of risks.• Provide ongoing guidance to the business unit for their data related activities.• Key interface with business unit project management.• Escalation point for issues, risks and defects.
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  • Rio Tinto
    Data Migration Manager
    Rio Tinto Sep 2007 - Mar 2008
    • Responsible for Release 3 data migration activities (Build, Trials and cutover) across 4 Business Units on 3 continents in 4 time zones• Management of process driven or technical resolution of issues and defects.• Management of risks.• Provide ongoing guidance to the business unit for their data related activities.• Key interface with business unit project management.• Escalation point for issues, risks and defects.
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  • Bhpbilliton
    Sap Data Conversion Manager (Queensland Nickel)
    Bhpbilliton Sep 2006 - May 2007
    Townsville, Australia
    Project Overview• Conversion of the Queensland Nickel (QNi) SAP system to the BHP Billiton Global SAP template.• AUD$15 Million project over 8 months. • Covered existing QNI assets at Yabulu (North Queensland)• Project due to complete April 2007.Responsibilities• Plan and resource the end-to-end data conversion tasks for the project. • Manage a project team of 9 data conversion consultants. • Manage the delivery of a large-scale, complex data conversion exercise.• Manage and resolve system integration and design issues preventing the successful conversion of data.• Utilising my in-depth knowledge of the GSAP functional and technical landscape to provide advice on the best use of the available data conversion tools.• Further refined the data conversion toolset first developed for Project Unify.• Refined BHP Billiton’s Global Data Conversion Methodology
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Real Estate Consultant (Bma Township Management)
    Bhp Billiton Jul 2006 - Aug 2006
    Designed and successfully deployed a Township Management Solution to facilitate the rental and maintenance management of company managed housing and infrastructure assets.
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Data Conversion Manager (Wmc Resources)
    Bhp Billiton Aug 2005 - May 2006
    Project Overview• Conversion of the WMC Resources SAP system to the BHP Billiton Global SAP template• AUD$23 Million project over 8 months with two system go-livesResponsibilities• Manage a project team of 12 data conversion consultants. • Manage the delivery of a large-scale, complex data conversion exercise across multiple client sites and 3 time zones.• Manage and resolve system integration and design issues preventing the successful conversion of data.• Redesigned and implemented a complex data conversion toolset comprising of LSMW with embedded ABAP.• Formulated the plant maintenance data conversion design and associated data cleansing and collection strategies.• Designed a Data Conversion Methodology, for use by BHP Billiton globally, as a key deliverable of this project.
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Plant Maintenance Consultant (Bma Broadmeadow)
    Bhp Billiton Dec 2004 - Jul 2005
    Moranbah, Australia
    Project Overview• Operational readiness lead role for punch long wall construction and commissioning . Responsibilities• Manage a project team of 4 engineers and 2 maintenance planners • Manage vendor relationships to ensure availability of technical information critical to the integrity of the system• Facilitate and lead blueprinting workshops to identify client requirements.• Produce system design documentation that defines the required Plant Maintenance configuration and system processes as well as defining how the Broadmeadow maintenance processes will adhere to the BHPB corporate processes and work flows.• Configure plant maintenance related objects to support customer’s business processes as identified in the blueprinting phase.• Design the plant maintenance data conversion and collection strategy.• Creation of all Plant Maintenance master data including Technical Objects, Documents, Bills of Material, Task Lists, Plans and Maintenance Items
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Real Estate Consultant (Land Tenure Management)
    Bhp Billiton Oct 2004 - Dec 2004
    Moranbah, Queensland
    Project Overview• System Design for conversion of existing Land Tenure system into SAP Real EstateResponsibilities• Produce system design documents defining how land tenure management business processes will be accommodated in the SAP Real Estate Module. Included• Business Blueprint Documents• Process Flows• Data Conversion Strategy
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  • Bma Coal
    Sap Pm Consultant (Bma Utilities)
    Bma Coal Jul 2004 - Sep 2004
    Project Overview• Transfer of Water Pipeline Assets to. BMA GSAP System • Assets are not currently stored in any recognisable maintenance management systemResponsibilities• Produce a system design document that defines required configuration and system processes.• Design, Configure, Test and Implement the system design.• Cleanse and load the existing assets into SAP.• Produce functional and technical specifications for the automated uploading of historic work orders and measuring documents into SAP.
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  • Qr
    Sap Pm Consultant (Qr Leaps)
    Qr Feb 2002 - Jun 2004
    Project Overview• Implement a PM Solution for Facilities Management. • Client currently using an in-house developed maintenance management systemResponsibilities• Conduct workshops and system design planning meetings to formulate the best SAP solution that meets both the corporate needs of Queensland Rail and the specific needs of ISG Facilities Maintenance.• Design, Configure, Test and implement agreed solution in Queensland Rail’s SAP system.• Convert the existing assets, programmed work and maintenance schedules into SAP.• Provide advice on the best use of SAP to support business processes and requirements of ISG Facilities Maintenance.
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  • Ibm Global Services
    Sap Pm Data Conversion (Qr Leaps)
    Ibm Global Services Feb 2003 - Apr 2004
    Project Overview• Project to convert SAP R2 5.0J to SAP R3 4.6c. • Client implemented FI, CO, PP, PM, PS, SD, MM, BW• System went live 27 April 2004Responsibilities• Configure and modify DMIG data migration tool for the conversion of SAP R/2 data.• Configure R/3 data import tools based to support the conversion requirements for PM and PP.• Provide advice on the use of the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) data migration tool.• Provide advice on the required interaction between Plant Maintenance and other FI/LO modules. • Provide advice on the appropriate use of SAP to support PM business processes and requirements.• Produce functional specifications for required system customisations.
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Plant Maintenance Implementation (Cannington)
    Bhp Billiton May 2002 - Dec 2002
    Cannington, Queensland
    Project Overview• Project required the conversion of 3 SAP 3.1i sites to SAP 4.6b. Responsibilities• Provide advice on appropriate use of legacy data within SAP.• Configure plant maintenance related objects to support customer’s business processes as identified in the blueprinting phase.• Design the plant maintenance data conversion strategy.• Define and configure document management, storage and dependency requirements for Plant Maintenance documents• Manage the data collection, cleansing and conversion processes for plant maintenance key users.• Develop tools to support the collection and cleansing phases of the project.• Identify and convert data existing outside the legacy systems in Access databases and Excel spreadsheets.• Develop LSMW load scripts for data conversion to SAP.• Creation of all Plant Maintenance master data.• Manage data conversion dependencies for plant maintenance during cutover.
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  • Bhp Billiton
    Sap Plant Maintenance Implementation (Iron Ore)
    Bhp Billiton Aug 2001 - Apr 2002
    Port Headland, Western Australian
    Project Overview• Project required the conversion of 5 MIMS 3.15 / MAXIMO sites to SAP 4.6b. Responsibilities• Provide advice on appropriate use of legacy data within SAP.• Facilitate and lead blueprinting workshops to identify client requirements.• Design the plant maintenance data conversion strategy.• Define and configure document management, storage and dependency requirements for Plant Maintenance documents• Manage the data collection, cleansing and conversion processes for plant maintenance key users.• Develop tools to support the collection and cleansing phases of the project.• Identify and convert data existing outside the legacy systems in Access databases and Excel spreadsheets.• Develop LSMW load scripts for data conversion to SAP.• Creation of Plant Maintenance master data• Manage data conversion dependencies for plant maintenance during cutover.
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  • Csc Australia
    Sap Consultant
    Csc Australia 2000 - 2002
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  • Csc
    Sap Pm Data Conversion (Bma Coal)
    Csc Jun 2000 - Jul 2001
    Project Overview• Project required the conversion of 5 MIMS/DB2, 1 MIMS/Oracle and 4 FMMS/Oracle sites to SAP 4.6b. Responsibilities• Provide advice on appropriate use of legacy data within SAP.• Design the plant maintenance data conversion strategy.• Define document management, storage and dependency requirements for Plant Maintenance documents• Manage the data collection, cleansing and conversion processes for plant maintenance key users.• Develop tools to support the collection and cleansing phases of the project.• Identify and convert data existing outside the legacy systems in Access databases and Excel spreadsheets.• Develop LSMW load scripts for data conversion to SAP.• Creation of all Plant Maintenance master data• Manage data conversion dependencies for plant maintenance during cutover.
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  • Computer Sciences Corporation
    Sap-Pm Consultant
    Computer Sciences Corporation 2000 - 2001
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  • Bhp
    Oracle Dba / Web Development (Queensland Coal)
    Bhp Jul 1997 - Jun 2000
    • Specification, design and development of an Oracle based data warehouse solution for BHP Coal covering Maintenance, Production Statistics and Human Resources/Payroll.• Specification, design and development of an automated data extraction/mining process suitable for data warehousing on mainframe (MVS) systems.• Extraction of sea-going payroll data from VAX/VMS system for BHP Transport SAP Conversion.• Designed, developed and supported in-house intranet applications including an Employee Performance Appraisal System and a GST Miscellaneous Invoicing system• Applications support and enhancements of BHP Coal’s existing Web Applications.
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  • Bhp
    Analyst Programmer -Cics Cobol Db2 - (Australia Coal)
    Bhp Jul 1994 - Jun 1997
    • Specification, design and development of an automated data extraction/mining process suitable for data warehousing on mainframe (MVS) systems.• Extraction of sea-going payroll data from VAX/VMS system for BHP Transport SAP Conversion.• Project manager and technical analyst for the project to upgrade the system and application software for the HRI:M package for Y2K.• Specification, coding, testing and implementation of a BHP Coal specific Occupational Health and Safety System. • The development of DB2 Static I/O routines for the CICS to DB2 interface to improve system performance and response times.
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  • Brisbane City Council
    Computer Systems Officer
    Brisbane City Council Nov 1992 - Jun 1994
    • Specification, Coding, Testing and Implementation of programs, screens and reports in development and error log correction. • Programming in M:SDT, PDL, Viewprint, Ideal, COBOL, REXX and JCL.
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Business Process Data Migration Sap Integration Business Process Improvement Sap Implementation Project Management Management Team Management Business Process Re Engineering Strategy Data Warehousing

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