Delivering infrastructure projects as part of Virgin’s Australia’s post administration transformation strategy. Managing vendor delivery, complex stakeholder engagement and technical change, while minimising operational impact.Key Projects:• Uplift of Virgin Australia’s Datacentre Core Switching Network, Firewalls, Identity Access Management, and other related components• Uplift of Unified Communications and Contact Centre solutions, including virtualisation of telephony hardware and capability modernisation.• Upgrade of key SaaS solutions to meet evolving business needs.

Consulting to a large client in the Health, Hospital and Aged Care industries to manage the integration of acquired businesses into the corporate ICT environment.Key responsibilities • Assess the ICT environment of potential acquisitions and identify key risks.• Develop roadmaps for integration of acquired businesses. • Develop budgets and schedule integration. • Ensure compliance with relevant governance models.• Manage and deliver the integration roadmap end-to-end.• Manage stakeholder engagement and communications.Key achievements • Assessed a multi-site Hospital, Aged Care and Retirement Village business, which provided confidence for acquisition in December 2020.• Developed plans and budgets for integration during the 2021-2022 FY. • Managed and implemented integration to the client’s ICT environment (ongoing).

Manage and deliver a technical project to migrate 160 servers from Hyper-V to a new Nutanix VMWare stack. Key responsibilities • Scope, plan and deliver the project end-to-end. • Manage client and stakeholder engagement. • Manage and coordinate change impact.• Implement the project, including all technical implementation.Key achievements • Delivered the project on time and under budget for the client. • Consolidated 160 servers to 60 highly available servers, with updated capabilities.

Manage Artius’ ICT environment and deliver transformational change to support the organisation’s evolving needs.Key responsibilities • Develop an ICT Strategy to support the revised Corporate Strategy. • Manage stakeholder expectations of the ICT environment.• Manage outsourced vendors and service delivery partners. • Manage internal projects and change.• Develop budgets and ensure adherence to them.Key achievements • Developed a cloud-first ICT strategy and gained acceptance by the Board.• Managed the migration of Artius’ core ICT systems to Azure, realising significant OPEX savings. • Selected a Software and Data partner to support critical applications and data warehouse capabilities through a closed tender process. • Established and chaired the ICT Governance Committee

This short consultancy provided an opportunity to assess Bravehearts’ systems and develop a roadmap for the organisation’s future needs. Key achievements• Delivered a strategic technology review, including recommendations for assessment of replacement service providers and ERP system.

Manage relationships with Soma’s clients and ensure their ICT environments are stable, reliable, secure and supporting business requirements.Key responsibilities:• Provide strategic analysis and planning.• Manage accounts and relationships.• Manage vendors and partners delivering services to clients.• Scope, propose and manage client projects delivered by the Soma team.• Implement complex technical projects to empower clients’ businesses.• Lead the Systems Administrators team in delivering support excellence.

Leadership and management of a team of professionals delivering technical solutions to clients.

Manage a team of talented IT professionals providing PR Finance Group's IT infrastructure and systems across 35 Australian locations. Key responsibilities• Develop an IT strategy aligned with the organisational strategy.• Manage vendor relationships.• Manage project delivery by external providers and the internal team.• Recruit, manage and mentor the IT team including Help Desk, Network Engineering and Software Development professionals. Key achievements• Centralised and rationalised PRFG’s network, including a 35 site WAN.• Consolidated key stock control systems, saving $200K/year.• Assessed and selected replacement telephony provider, saving $300K/year.• Centralised all critical systems and servers to a private Data Centre.• Implemented a complete IT Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery) solution.

Manage Sirromet’s IT and communications needs, from front line restaurant management and POS software to Winery automation tools and network infrastructure. Key responsibilities• Manage Sirromet’s technology and telephony.• Research, recommend and manage implementation of CRM solution.• Develop an IT budget and ensure adherence to it.