My role here is to establish the technology direction for numerous digital products, ranging from a cloud-based Telco billing solution to a cloud cost optimization tool able to cut 50% of most organizations spend. The role is a mix of technology strategy, architecture/design, prototyping and working with software engineers to ensure high quality delivery of key milestones:- Responsible for managing and optimizing over 500 AWS accounts with annual spend of >$15M USD- Deliver high quality technical prototypes, roadmaps and specifications to Engineering to implement new products, product changes and product rewrites.- Manage assembly lines of technical product management and software delivery to deliver products to market faster and more cost effectively than traditional agile methodologies.- Ensure the consistent adoption of best practices including test driven development, continuous delivery and ship new product features automatically every merge.Provide Engineering guidance and proof of concept implementation for key technology initiatives.

Key technical leadership role within the technology and product organisation of Yellow. At Yellow I have established a strategic product vision to help transform Yellow from a legacy directory business into a digital marketing solutions business.Key initiatives and responsibilities include:- Define product vision, strategy and roadmap- Define technology strategy and roadmap- Modernisation, simplification and transformation of legacy enterprise architecture and systems into a modern cohesive agile digital architecture that provides customers with outstanding experience, reduces cost to serve using self service and automation, and empowers staff to continuously innovate without system and technology constraints.- Brain child and creator of a new digital platform that enables customers to manage their digital presence centrally and market to various digital and traditional media channels.- Adoption of cutting edge cloud technologies powered by AWS and other providers to speed time to market, reduce development costs and increase operational efficiencies.- Responsible for all architectural facets of Yellow's digital platform including identity management, security, application architecture/design, database architecture/design, messaging architecture/design and data analytics/insights. - Advanced Infrastructure as Code techniques to promote reusable and consistent patterns and components across all application stacks- Provide day-to-day operational and architectural oversight of the digital platform and development teams- Mentor and promote adoption of advanced automation, tooling, patterns and practices within the digital platform and wider development teams

Part-time, remote engagement where I have successfully established a core continuous delivery workflow using Docker for automating the rapid build and test of a suite of Ruby-on-Rails, Scala and JavaScript applications, and also established core foundational patterns for deploying Docker-based applications to AWS.Deliverables:- Established a Docker workflow for testing, building and publishing Ruby applications, general infrastructure services (e.g. Squid Proxy) and AWS Lambda functions- Established a powerful generic methodology and tool chain for rapidly deploying infrastructure and applications to AWS using CloudFormation and Ansible. - Established continuous delivery workflows using CodePipeline and CodeBuild- Established ECS Fargate platform- Established EKS platform- Helped establish data analytics pipeline including Confluent Open Source platform (Kafka) and AWS RedShift

Established a centre of excellence for delivering continuous delivery and digital platform architectural patterns, tooling and on-boarding as part of a wider digital transformation initiative in the digital strategy business unit.Reporting directly to the General Manager of Digital Strategy and Enablement, this role included:- Interviewing and hiring a team of cloud/platform automation engineers, continuous delivery manager, API/web services manager and cloud technical manager- Establishing an initial operating and engagement model for enablement of digital products in the wider organisation- Providing a technology leadership role across microservices, cloud, API/web services and continuous delivery technologies- Established a foundational set of best practices, patterns and tooling for acceleration of digital products to the cloud- Established security, IAM and core services patterns for a complex multi-account AWS environment- Successfully introduced the use of Docker and containers all the way to production

Providing solutions governance, architecture and design for a number of technology initiatives including:- Disaster Recovery Project - architected and designed a solution for delivering a continuously "hot" disaster recovery environment with point-in-time restore capability- Public Cloud Project - developing architecture, policies, procedures and tooling for leveraging public cloud to deliver applications faster and with better quality, whilst significantly reducing OPEX costs. Accelerated adoption of AWS to deliver truly secure, dynamic and agile infrastructure, using many AWS services including CloudFormation, EC2 Container Service, Lambda, EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch, Elasticache, KMS, DynamoDB and CloudWatch.- Continuous Delivery - currently working with Vagrant, Docker, Salt, Ansible and other tools to deliver automation, increase reliability and reduce time to deploy and time to resolve

Technical lead role within a team of four developers and four infrastructure specialists responsible for delivering technical infrastructure and services required to support a new small business-focused service provider start-up with a Wi-Fi first strategy.This included:- Delivery of broadband, Internet and hosted/centrex VoIP products and services, bundled with digital advertising and public Wi-Fi services.- Building products and services, ensuring all aspects of product/service delivery (e.g. fulfil, assure, bill, analytics, reporting, lifecycle management, vendor engagement.- Delivering systems and application delivery infrastructure

Technical Lead working within a team of developers and network engineers to build Telecom Wi-Fi architecture. This metro Wi-Fi architecture connects hundreds of thousands of devices every month and scales to process millions of events every day.This architecture was built completely separate from the Telecom production network as a Greenfield's architecture and involved following key components:- 1000 x Wireless Access Points – Ruckus and Cisco- Wireless Transport Network – a wireless transport network hosting a diverse range of access technologies was required, including various xDSL and fibre products from Layer 2 providers such as Chorus, Enable, Vector and CityLink, and Layer 3 providers such as Gen-i WAN Services.- Session Management – a Cisco Service Provider Wi-Fi session management architecture was adopted, using Cisco ASR 1000 routers to provide session management for subscribers, and a high performance FreeRADIUS solution with dynamic, multi-tenant authorisation capabilities.- Subscriber Management – lead architect/developer for in-house multi-tenant solution that facilitated session management integration, subscriber registration using SMS, vouchers, OAuth and credit card payments- Significant development using .NET MVC, Web API, SQL Server 2012, RabbitMQ using a Reactive Microservices style architecture- Infrastructure hosted in Microsoft private cloud (Azure Pack)

Architected, designed and built Telecom Labs, a standalone ISP used for prototyping, proof of concept and early field trial deployments. Built on premise of cloud computing and virtualisation using best of breed technology (Cisco ASR1K, Cisco UCS, Netapp/Nimble Storage, VMWare/Azure Pack Private Cloud, RabbitMQ, Java, Node.js and .NET development), with a focus on rapid service delivery and deployment.Key projects included:- Next Generation Telecom (VoIP IP Multimedia System replacement for PSTN) - significant focus on creating the best user experience through robust engineering, attention to detail and - Ultra Fast Broadband (FTTH) product and service development - this project helped uncover the numerous challenges and issues associating with FTTH deployment, in a diverse environment with multiple Layer 2 wholesale providers, each with their own OSS/BSS systems and service delivery profiles. - Telecom Wi-Fi (see Wi-Fi Technical Lead description above)

Lead technical role in an IP Communications Practice responsible for evangelising Unified Communications and Collaboration to internal Telecom employees and to Telecom customers. Developed standard methodologies for entire sales, service design and service delivery cycle of Cisco IP Communications solutions which dramatically reduced cost and effort to deploy customer solutions.Helped define and build products and supporting services, including hosted PBX and Mobile IP Centrex products.

Technology leadership position providing consulting and architectural/design services for a team of engineers and architects to large US corporate and educational customers including: - Red Bull USA- Sony Pictures- Blizzard Games- Los Angeles Unified School District- Tracy Unified School District- Lionsgate- Philips Dental

Provided pre sales technical assistance, architecture and solution design for a number of medium to large corporate customers and government organizations. Some key customers included:- Vodafone NZ- Auckland University- ASB Bank- TVNZ- Auckland University of Technology

Provided pre sales technical assistance, network architecture and solution design for a number of medium to large corporate customers and government organizations.

Provided architecture, solution design and solution implementation for a number of medium to large corporate customers and government organisations.

Provided desktop and server design and implementation to support medical practice software developed by Medtech.

Provided first level and second level help desk support for application help desk.

Provided customer services and sales support in a large IT distributor