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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

On assignment at Catholic Health Care:- documentation of as-is and to-be business processes for a Financials ERP replacement project- participated in the analysis of multiple enterprise agreements and re-deployment of interpretation rules for a time and attendance system across 41 aged care homes across New South Wales and Queensland;- requirements gathering and testing management for the rollout of a self-service app for home care clients.

Greater Sydney Area

As a direct response to the 2019-20 Bushfire Enquiry, Fire and Rescue embarked on a $28 million upgrade of radio, pager and vehicle telemetry communication technology known as the Connected Firefighter program. Hand-held radios and pagers are now 4G enabled and Vehicles provide a WiFi hub backed up by satellite connections to ensure communication availability. In addition, 4G connectivity allows for remote maintenance and upgrades to ensure the latest features, software version and security… Show more As a direct response to the 2019-20 Bushfire Enquiry, Fire and Rescue embarked on a $28 million upgrade of radio, pager and vehicle telemetry communication technology known as the Connected Firefighter program. Hand-held radios and pagers are now 4G enabled and Vehicles provide a WiFi hub backed up by satellite connections to ensure communication availability. In addition, 4G connectivity allows for remote maintenance and upgrades to ensure the latest features, software version and security patches are in place, which reduces risk and vehicle down time.Responsibilities:• Assisting with the setup of SAP Enterprise Asset Management master data for the new equipment to facilitate procurement and distribution. • Updating master data for network telecommunication towers to reflect new ACMA license agreements and spectrum information. • Reconciling radio and SIM card equipment records against vendor shipping documentation to ensure equipment was distributed to allocated personnel and fire stations and old equipment was returned for retirement/disposal.• Tailor custom enquiry reports to cater for new fields, search criteria, business validation rules and new integration with the emergency services computer aided dispatch system. Show less

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney

APRA Connect Programme:Working with two project workstreams for a replacement banking, superannuation and insurance regulatory data collection solution known as APRA Connect. This project was put into indefinite hibernation early April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parramatta, Nsw

Consolidated Information Management System Project:A new Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation covering Finance, HR and Enterprise Asset Management (Dynaway) that at the time, was the biggest implementation at an Australian state government agency. Responsible for managing the change request and business issue backlog. Worked closely with the business and third-party Microsoft partners as a defacto SCRUM master to groom work packages for sprints.

Sydney, Australia

GovConnect Restart Transformation Programme:Digitised transformation of HR, Finance and ICT service requests in a SAP workflow and mobility ecosystem across eight agencies/departments and two call centres to drive transparent governance and service delivery performance.DFSI was the accountable lead agency. All agencies had functional committees who were consulted to advise on specific business requirements and change impact.

Greater Sydney Area

Emergency Services SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Programme:Working closely with six Fire and Rescue logistic business units, Rural Fire Service and SES to harmonise asset maintenance where practical and follow the best industry practices. In addition to a fiduciary duty, EAM is an enabler for critical equipment to be kept in a safe and reliable working condition.The EAM project leveraged existing investment in SAP with touch points in Materials Management/Purchasing… Show more Emergency Services SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Programme:Working closely with six Fire and Rescue logistic business units, Rural Fire Service and SES to harmonise asset maintenance where practical and follow the best industry practices. In addition to a fiduciary duty, EAM is an enabler for critical equipment to be kept in a safe and reliable working condition.The EAM project leveraged existing investment in SAP with touch points in Materials Management/Purchasing, Portfolio and Project Management, Human Resources, Real Estate, Plant Maintenance and FICO modules.The solution has provided an integrated technical, financial and physical view of key operational assets classes (fleet, equipment and spare parts, fire stations and facilities, telecommunication towers). Show less

Sydney

Responsibilities: Business Requirements gathering and assessment, process modelling and analysis, technical Integration design and delivery activities for:• a procure to pay solution for editorial content interfacing an externally hosted invoice workflow engine with on-premise PeopleSoft Accounts Payable and bespoke master data management and Purchase Order systems• a commercial off the shelf magazine advertising booking system interfacing with PeopleSoft Billing and Accounts… Show more Responsibilities: Business Requirements gathering and assessment, process modelling and analysis, technical Integration design and delivery activities for:• a procure to pay solution for editorial content interfacing an externally hosted invoice workflow engine with on-premise PeopleSoft Accounts Payable and bespoke master data management and Purchase Order systems• a commercial off the shelf magazine advertising booking system interfacing with PeopleSoft Billing and Accounts Receivable modules• onboarding of a regional television network to the corporate platform together with the migration of accounts payable domain data • a security mechanism to remove sharing of commercially sensitive master data to facilitate the divestment of publication and broadcasting business units. Show less

Sydney

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Manager Financial Services and managing the continuity of service for the PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions and Supply Chain (Procurement, Project Costing, Inventory, Accounts Payable, Banking and General Ledger). Specifically - Incident, Problem, Change and Release management functions as they relate to the full PeopleSoft technology stack. This engagement was performed in parallel with the Nine Entertainment Company contract above.

Sydney

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Project Management practice lead and assisting with the establishment of new ERP consulting services. This involved working closely with the sales team on strategies and presentations to promote and differentiate the firm’s offerings. After six months, responsibilities became general consulting across all service offerings.Project Manager at TNT - Payroll upgrade to Sage Meridian with integration to SAP FICO. Project Manager at Lend Lease… Show more Responsibilities: Reporting to the Project Management practice lead and assisting with the establishment of new ERP consulting services. This involved working closely with the sales team on strategies and presentations to promote and differentiate the firm’s offerings. After six months, responsibilities became general consulting across all service offerings.Project Manager at TNT - Payroll upgrade to Sage Meridian with integration to SAP FICO. Project Manager at Lend Lease - Key Performance Indicator (KPI) aggregation application. Business Analyst - assisting to author and publish the Non-Functional and Web Service Requirements for the National Electronic Conveyancing system (a government initiative for unified conveyancing across Australia). Details can be found at this link -http://www.necs.gov.au/NECS-Independent-Expert-Advice-Reports/default.aspx Business Analyst - assisting to develop the project management plan and change management roadmap for the creation of an IT PMO at Brookfield Multiplex. Show less

Sydney

Acumen Alliance was sold to Oakton circa 2007. Responsibilities: Engaged as the Principal Consultant to lead the PeopleSoft Financials practice. This role also included Business Development.Achievements:• For Commonwealth Bank’s $160m PeopleSoft Financials implementation (working with PwC and EDS):o Stewardship of the automated batch schedule providing 15/7 coverage and processing 8 million journal lines a month from over 100 product/policy system feeds. The bank… Show more Acumen Alliance was sold to Oakton circa 2007. Responsibilities: Engaged as the Principal Consultant to lead the PeopleSoft Financials practice. This role also included Business Development.Achievements:• For Commonwealth Bank’s $160m PeopleSoft Financials implementation (working with PwC and EDS):o Stewardship of the automated batch schedule providing 15/7 coverage and processing 8 million journal lines a month from over 100 product/policy system feeds. The bank was the first site in the world to use a new scheduling tool for DB2 and PeopleSoft and this processing automation was fundamental to the success of the programme.o Produced the functional specifications and implemented Average Daily Balance Ledgers.o Re-engineered General Ledger archiving processes for reliability and scalability.o Mentored and transferred knowledge to production support staff on PeopleSoft functionality and technologies. • Other Commonwealth Bank engagements:o In conjunction with KPMG, managed the quality assurance testing of International Financial Reporting Standards changes introduced for the Premium and Retail business units.o Participation in the design and integration of a bespoke Sarbanes Oxley compliance application to redress deficiencies in manual handling of transactions for retail products - used by 1800 bank staff with an annual $10bn throughput.• Project managed a team of up to ten for two PeopleSoft version 8.8 implementations covering Project Costing, Procurement, Inventory, Accounts Payable, Asset Management and General Ledger. • Nurtured relationships with production system support clients - monitoring service level agreements; proactive continuous business improvement; regular communication with key stakeholders. • Delivered a suite of key analytical management, operational accreditation and billing reconciliation reports for the International General Manager of SAI Global (Standards Australia). Show less

Sydney

Achievements:• For the implementation of a $100m plus Supply Chain programme at Metcash, managed the quality assurance of technical work products.• Integrator for a new subscriptions subsystem that was critical to the cash flow of SAI Global (Standards Australia), representing 51% of operating profit (31% revenue). • For the University of Sydney, designed and integrated a bespoke Student financials subsystem.

Sydney

Seer Technologies was a joint venture between Credit Suisse First Boston and IBM. Their key products were an integrated CASE tool called Seer*HPS, NetEssential middleware and a companion SDLC methodology called The Seer Method (TSM) based on rapid application development (RAD) principles.Level 8 Systems acquired Seer in 1999.Delivered solutions to:Department of Immigration and Multi-Cultural Affairs in Canberra - Team Lead for the department’s first endeavour using a… Show more Seer Technologies was a joint venture between Credit Suisse First Boston and IBM. Their key products were an integrated CASE tool called Seer*HPS, NetEssential middleware and a companion SDLC methodology called The Seer Method (TSM) based on rapid application development (RAD) principles.Level 8 Systems acquired Seer in 1999.Delivered solutions to:Department of Immigration and Multi-Cultural Affairs in Canberra - Team Lead for the department’s first endeavour using a client/server Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and relational database (DB2). Following Software/Information Engineering principles and best practices advised the implementation team on technical standards across the entire system development life cycle (following a blend of The Seer Method (TSM) with CSC Catalyst). Built code generators using the proprietary TurboCycler tool that traversed predominately functional artefacts (data, process, window flow, business object state and runtime deployment models) in the CASE repository to produce code stubs – C code for client components and COBOL code for mainframe server components.MLC - Cash Receipting SystemState Bank of NSW - created enterprise models as part of a strategic review into integration and Service Orientated Architecture. Show less

Sydney, London, Bournemouth Uk, Perth And Dampier

• Reserve Bank of Australia – bank supervision and short term money market monitoring applications. Also redeveloped the in-house library search engine and reservations/loan management.• Australian Gas Light – introduced electronic benchmarking of third party deliverables during system validation testing for a bespoke Billing and Accounts Receivable ERP. • JPMorgan Chase – analysis and re-engineering of a trading system for fixed interest securities in the secondary market… Show more • Reserve Bank of Australia – bank supervision and short term money market monitoring applications. Also redeveloped the in-house library search engine and reservations/loan management.• Australian Gas Light – introduced electronic benchmarking of third party deliverables during system validation testing for a bespoke Billing and Accounts Receivable ERP. • JPMorgan Chase – analysis and re-engineering of a trading system for fixed interest securities in the secondary market from an Australian Treasury centric model to a multiple branch/dealer and currency platform deployed throughout the Asia Pacific region. Full front and back office functions for purchase, sale, buyback, sellback, loan, borrow, counterparty acceptance/return, swap and pledges of securities. • JPMorgan Chase - technical and functional production support of the banks European funds transfer and intra-day risk hub in the United Kingdom that had just been deployed to a scalable platform handling ₤2bn turnover a day and realising ₤20m per annum in operational savings. • Prudential Assurance - together with a team of actuaries and a mathematician, was the sole analyst building a cross platform life assurance and unit trust calculation engine. Deployed across 400 United Kingdom real estate offices on standalone machines and at the London head office on a mainframe, this application was imperative to the retention of their operating licence. • Hamersley Iron (now Rio Tinto Iron Ore) – in the graduate induction programme starting out in database administration and then working as an analyst/programmer. Prepared functional specifications for a bespoke rail rolling stock fleet maintenance management system. Also worked on supply cataloguing and various supply chain/operational optimisation applications such as Blending Material and Movement Control (mine to port logistics and capacity planning) and Hamersley Iron Railroad Operations Data (rail haulage tracking). Show less

B.Bus, Information Processing

Post Grad, Accounting