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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Enable icare schemes through innovation and technology modernisation; working closely with business stakeholders to understand and inform their business strategy, support and input to planning, and develop supporting technology architectures.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Develop and maintain icare's IT Strategy for platform architecture and roadmaps. Oversee the design and delivery of solutions to ensure alignment with the approved platform strategies and reference architectures. Platforms/domains directly or indirectly include cloud/Infrastructure , Integration, Security, Data & Analytics, Core Insurance/Guidewire and CRM domains. Chair icare Architecture review board.

Sydney, Australia

• Design and develop best practice standards and guidelines to support technical strategies, reference architectures, and roadmaps for the cloud/Infrastructure domain.• Chair Architecture review board• Manage agenda Artefact Design /Security Authority meeting as final endorsement gate • Undertake high-level research, horizon scanning and analysis to identify future cloud/Infrastructure trends, related strategies, policy priorities and issues to support future cloud/Infrastructure requirements for the enterprise, its customers and business partners.• Work proactively with internal and external providers to research, evaluate, select, test and implement hardware and software systems that provide appropriate cloud/Infrastructure services.• Ensure alignment of solutions delivered by providers and internal architects with published cloud/Infrastructure reference architectures and IT strategies.• Provide front end architectural direction to development teams, participate in project implementations and monitor and review progress on program and strategies against reference architecture and enterprise strategy.• Participate in internal architectural governance forums ensuring appropriate design decisions get made.• Lead, design and develop infrastructure/cloud solutions aligned with reference architectures and roadmaps.• Provide expert advice and guidance regarding the design and implementation of strategic cloud/Infrastructure platforms.• Provide technical cloud/Infrastructure leadership across multiple streams ensuring technical alignment and multi-vendor coordination.• Identify and analyse IT organisational and BU strategic issues/options; align technology vision with business strategy to guide IT strategies' implementation and governance.• Review, analyse and provide input for continuous improvement into IT strategies and systems to provide recommendations on the alignment, risk, financial value and contribution to organisational priorities.

Sydney, Australia

Investment Portfolio Planning & Prioritisation: Closely collaborating with Group Finance and ES Governance, provide an Enterprise Architecture view into the annual Investment Portfolio Prioritisation and Planning process. Business and Technology Platform Architecture: Working together with Platform (business and IT) Leadership and BU Strategy teams, we provide a structured means of planning investments that realise strategic objectives and outcomes.Business Analysis/ Business Solution/ Technology Architecture: As part of the Solution Delivery Lifecycle, we provide end to end technology solutions, options and recommendations by engaging with business and technology stakeholders. We are accountable for architecture governance across the whole solution lifecycle and the adherence of end to end solutions with group standards and the alignment to group strategic intents.Architecture Governance: Define and endorse group standards and strategic assets at architecture and engagement-driven review boards and govern project investments for adherence to those standards through Enterprise Architecture Metrics (EA Metrics). Engage and communicate technology directions, standards and best practices. Also, provide input to business-led governance forums.

George Street Sydney

Enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands with security and risk to meet the longer-term strategic vision of the organisation. • Demonstrating core cybersecurity products to senior executives,• Develop business case supporting proof of value by Identifying customer-relevant and key use cases,• Engineering: Deploy docker / Kubernetes based appliances and software development,• Integration of products compliance reporting with AWS and Azure cloud environment,• Provide feedback on product enhancements to Chief Product Officer,• Transition customers into support success framework post-sales,• Develop product sales assets identifying high-level value drivers,• Developing and Supporting Solution Architecture in-house for customers or directly with customers,• Communicate and Consulting with new and existing customers on latest Information security practices and operational model changes,• Engage and collaborate with partners developers, architects, hardware engineers and project managers,• Educate partners on UpGuard technology platforms and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment,• Capture and share best-practice knowledge for benefit of UpGuard and its partners,• Help UpGuard business development identify leads for new potential partnerships.

Bella Vista

• Define, Develop and manage the Woolworths IT Domain Architecture and Roadmap,• Drive IT strategies and product management in Infrastructure & Operations together with key stakeholders,• Consultation on Woolworths and BigW Enterprise Resource Planning SAP tools,• Consultation on Woolworths strategic POS replacement program,• Consultation and guidance to develop enterprise platform remediation,• Establish and enforce IT and IT Architecture Standards within the Domain (together with the IT Architecture community),• Provide Architectural governance and guidance to the portfolio planning & prioritisation processes (including dependencies),• Establish technology architecture practice. Develop processes and demonstrate value proposition to senior management. Mentor and guide Service Architects in the Domain,• Ensure alignment and integration of Technical Architectures and Service Roadmaps within and beyond Domain,• Champion the development and maintenance of a three year "rolling" plan, describing the future aspirational state of all divisions within the Infrastructure and Operations organisation, along with the enabling capabilities (key building blocks) and accompanying investment strategies,• Create tools and frameworks for the architecture team to leverage, e.g. reference architecture development framework templates.

Bella Vista

• Manage and document floor space rack elevations, • Power and cooling capacity of facilities, • Manage workflow of equipment provisioning and decommissioning, • Continual refinement and improvement of business process • Chair and participate in governance forums for network and data center operational production assurance, • Change management and operating incident war rooms, • Design authority governance, • Leverage strong problem solving skills to resolve high impact incidents and determine root cause to drive through problem management, • Assist technical teams with installation and uninstallation of IT equipment within the Data Centre • Patching and troubleshooting of copper and fiber cables • Power and cooling capacity planning and management - manage power consumption from critical consumption levels back to safe levels. • Work with Facilities Management team to ensure efficient use of power and cooling of the data centre • Consult on projects that require Datacentre space. • Day-to-day management of whitespace within the Woolworths Data centres (Eastern Creek, Norwest and a co-located site)• “Rack and Stack” Structured cable management. • Monitoring and Management of Wireless / RF networks. • Rotating after-hours on-call duties • Datacentre asset management. • Vendor Management.

Onepath 347 Kent St Sydney

Head of ANZ Wealth ICT and configuration management practice• Operational IT Management Desktop/Server/Voice and Data Infrastructure services,• ITIL champion Change, Incident and problem management,• Operational risk management,• IT Infrastructure program management and project governance,• Disaster recovery strategy and test annually,• Business continuity strategy and test annually,• Datacenter management,• Manage Service provider for Network LAN and WAN delivery and operations,• Manage Service provider for contact centre telecommunications delivery and operations,• Manage Service provider for Infrastructure delivery and operations,• Building and facilities management for ANZ Wealth sites, • Datacenter management,• Security assurance management,• OPEX/CAPEX Budget Management and forecasting,• IT project finance governance,• Manage 15+ direct reports in the department of over 100 staff,• Team building to improve teamwork and staff performance coaching,• Own/drive technology projects and business process improvement initiatives,• Develop and present technology initiatives to finance steering committee,• Key technology adviser to senior management,• Drive implementation and operation agile software development Life Cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies in engineering delivery practice,• Streamline workflow and reduce bureaucracy,• Review and improve infrastructure policies and standards,• Manage contract negotiations and chair contract governance,• Chair operational governance and steering committee meetings.

347 Kent St Sydney

Technology infrastructure and application platform roadmap development and maintenance,Create update security base line policy for server and network infrastructure, Implementation technology governance,Key IT technology adviser,Analyse new and emerging technologies and how they will play in future technology roadmap, Work with major outsource partners to implement new technologies,Streamline delivery and management processed, Develop annual technology management plan with outsource partners,preparation of RFI documents, evaluation of RFP documents, analyse business requirements document and develop solutions options, Project estimation and implementation plan,Solutions architecture and where applicable detailed designs.

Sydney, Australia

Technology infrastructure and application platform roadmap development and maintenance,Create update security base line policy for server and network infrastructure, Implementation technology governance,Key IT technology advisor,Analyse new and emerging technologies and how they will play in future technology roadmap, Work with major outsource partners to implement new technologies,Streamline delivery and management processed, Develop annual technology management plan with outsource partners,preparation of RFI documents, evaluation of RFP documents, analyse business requirements document and develop solutions options, Project estimation and implementation plan,Solutions architecture and where applicable detailed designs.

Practice lead St George UNIX platforms – pSeries midrange frames and LPARS on 575, 590, 690, iSeries. System AIX 4, 5L, 6.x, Solaris midrange 8,9,10, SCO Open server, BSD and RedHat Enterprise Linux – Benchmarked in 2002 exceeding world best practice.• Lead team of 4-5 UNIX administrators,• System Administration of Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2003/2008, Active directory 2000/2003 where supporting UNIX technical practice• Network provision and operations for midrange systems,• Enterprise backup platform support on NetBackup and StorageTek fibre drives,• System Administration, Web Applications on WebSphere 5.x, 6.x, Apache/PHP/LDAP ,• System Administration Middleware MQ/MQSI,• System Administration, SQL system – Oracle MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL,• System Administration core services back wide DNS and DHCP,• Technical contact for support/advice and estimation services supporting business engagement, ideation, discovery and project execution, • VMware Virtualisation for Linux systems,• Create hardware and review technology bill of materials, • Development/Test and Production equipment delivery and operations,• High availability design and implementation, • Proactive monitoring, Break Fix & Performance Tune systems, • Prepare standards guidelines for UNIX administration team, • Hardware and software Contract management, • Capacity planning midrange and UNIX platform, • Security harden and security monitor, • Infrastructure Life-cycle management and patching, • Pioneer, new Disaster process, to recover UNIX platforms in less than 4 hours• Technical DR Documentation and recovery rehearsals • Trouble Shoot hardware-software issues and support educate production and project teams, • Manage hardware support contracts with SUN and IBM and services providers, • install configure and manage servers, storage and backup technology, • Korn/ Bourne and some Perl Shell scripting.