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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

London, Gb

Responsible for provision of Managed and Infrastructure services to FNZ Wealth and Capital Markets clients to support SAAS and PAAS Platform services. Leadership accountability stems across teams of Systems Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, Cloud Engineers / Architects, DBA's and Network Engineers. Responsibilities cover supporting infrastructure across 10x APAC datacenters in addition to a global ownership function for AWS Services.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Us

IT Programme Manager in the Information and Technology Services Division responsible for a diverse range of projects supporting Claims TPA services in the Insurance and Workcover industry. Major Programmes included:Comcover - Dept of Finance• Provided programme management across multiple streams including Infrastructure (IRAP assessed in-house Azure, AWS), backend claims platform, FNOL Web Portals, CRM and Risk Platforms• Established best practice processes across all phases from tender, initiation, discovery, and execution (development/test/migration of 22+ years of historical claims).• Coordination of partner development agencies and contractorsIcare - NSW Government• Positive stakeholder engagement across Gallagher and Icare executive teams, Finance, Operations, IT/Security, Training, HR, DX and CX teams etc.• Successful migration from the previous claims agent of >500K claim records across General Liability, Health Liability, Motor, Property, Construction & Miscellaneous product lines• Successful migration of over 5 million supporting documents/file notes covering 27 years of claims activity into GB’s Luminos claims system• Generation of data submission files for Icare’s (NSW Government) production data warehouse• Deployment of secure and compliant cloud environments • Deployment of a bespoke online claims lodgement portal for use by the 190+ Government AgenciesOther accomplishments include Merger & Acquisition projects (due diligence, on boarding), Office relocation's, complex Data Centre relocation's, systems integration etc.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

As the Projects and Services Manager (APAC), I was responsible for management and oversight of a team of project managers charged with delivery of a diverse range of Capital Markets related products to Global Banks and Capital Markets clients. Major achievements included the successful roll-out of back and middle office systems for HSBC and Deutsche banks with aggressive program timelines and complex deliverables. This role entailed client-side relationship management for managed services products including cloud/hosting services, OPTUS Evolve networks, ASX Servers. In addition, I was responsible for Support/Help Desk functions.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for managing teams of IT professionals responsible for delivering quality software and varying services to GBST and its clients (Global Banking and Finance Institutes) including:IT Service delivery and operationsProgramme Management (Master of Project Management, PMP, Prince2)UNIX & DBA managed services Implementation of GBST's software productsSales (Oracle, IBM, Progress, Optus Evolve)Consultancy - HA and DR SolutionsApplication Hosting

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

As an accredited Project Management Professional, I was responsible for a number of diverse roles including project management of large complex software development and infrastructure projects for global banking and finance organizations. This included business cases, initiation, planning, risk and issue management, project and financial reporting to executive management and chairing steering committees etc.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for Managing UNIX, DBA and Application Support for Enterprise level clients in the Capital Markets, Finance and Banking sectors.

Canberra, Au

A Defence Forces journey started as an Army Apprentice (Electronics) at an early age through to Supervisor Telecommunications & Supervisor Information Systems (RASIGS)

Masters Degree, Business Information Systems

Master Of Project Management (Mprm), Project Management

Diploma, Engineering And Telecommunications

Ass. Diploma, Computer Systems