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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for a superior quality Workplace Experience focusing on providing the platforms and tools for our Technical Delivery Teams, Data Scientists, and Security Engineers."Removing friction for NAB meant ... adopting a new way of working, developing and delivering with Macs." Building the NAB Engineering Foundation, Andrew Brydon, 2019.Managed platforms and developed capabilities across Apple macOS, Google ChromeBook and Microsoft Windows 10. Implemented an evergreen IT strategy including access to a Self Service Software Catalogue including complex development frameworks and toolsets. This dramatically decreased the time required for our delivery community to gain access to the tools they needed and allowed new starters to literally commit code within hours of activating their device.Using DevOps principles, automated the activation of these devices, packaging of applications in a pipeline and supporting cloud based infrastructure reducing the provisioning of a device down to approximately 5 minutes and introduced an industry leading management framework moving away from legacy Enterprise based solutions.Developed and led the adoption of Engineering Everywhere Experience, a vision for Self Service, Zero Trust model with access to the NAB’s private application stack, resulting in a significant decrease in managed network costs as well as providing a foundation empowering over 30,000 users to continue to execute their roles remotely during the recent Coronavirus outbreak.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Provided leadership with the provisioning, maintenance and support of the group's pre-production and production on-premise and AWS based environments. This included the support of legacy build, deployment, release processes and tooling as well as the provision and delivery of numerous development / testing environments.Successfully lead the implementation and transformation of automated build, package & deployment pipelines and associated processes using lean / industry best practises and tooling for all BAU and project application teams.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Worked closely with application teams & select vendors shaping the “Developer Experience” which included CYOD adoption of both macOS & Windows, as well as the ability to build a datacentre on a user’s device for dev test activities. This dramatically increased productivity removing the dependency on large monolithic shared environments and allowed developers to experiment with emerging technology stacks like Docker without breaching Group IT Guidelines.Continued to evangelise the advantages of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & DevOps as well as the technology shift across the Group through various Agile Working Groups, Guilds, Brown Bags, and Leadership Team meetings, as well as across the industry through various monthly meetups and recently, the inaugural 2014 and 2015 DevOps Enterprise Conference held in San Francisco.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Provided leadership of the Development Operations Team tasked with the provisioning, maintenance and support of the group’s pre-production and production environments. This included the support of legacy build, deployment, release processes and tooling as well as the provision and delivery of numerous development / testing environments.Successfully lead the implementation and transformation of automated build, package & deployment pipeline and associated processes using lean / industry best practises and tooling for all BAU and project application teams.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Successfully developed and implemented an automated build, package & deployment process for front, middle and back office application teams based in development centres throughout The Americas, EMEA & APAC.Provided leadership, management and approval on behalf of the application development community in the design, implementation and application migration of the organisations Secure Network Perimeter (SNP), as well as other major infrastructure related projects including data centre migrations, machine replacement programmes, server realignments, Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing & recently Windows Server 2008 upgrades.Provided leadership in the development, implementation, and maintenance of configuration management for automated build and deployment tools, branching, and development strategies and in the performance and automation of software configuration implementations, configuration identification and change controls.

Uk, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong Sar, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, The Us, Middle East, Ireland, Saudi Arabia And India., Gb

Successfully automated the build, deployment and configuration of daily builds across over a dozen different development & testing environments.Provided problem diagnosis and resolution support as well as training and knowledge transfer to Indian based development and support teams.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed, implemented and supported automated build, deployment and configuration processes & tools across non-production and production environments.Managed all configuration management, build and deployment requests form global development teams.

Barangaroo, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Canberra, Act, Au

Masters Of It, System & Application Design & Administration

Bachelors, Commerce / Information Systems