Enterprise technology advisory and consulting.

I blog about IT and the management thereof, and other topics that take my fancy from time to time.

Successfully completed a major turnaround for the organisition.Set up and chaired the Finance and Audit Committee.Treasurer 2019-2021. Secretary 2021-2022. Chair 2022-2023.

I write on IT management and enterprise technology, particularly cloud, storage infrastructure, and IT marketing.

Member of the iTNews.com.au Editorial Advisory Board.

A corporate volunteering role, I helped the CEO to realise her vision for the organisation.

Assisting Associate Professor Kannan Sethuraman with his Operations Management class.Process analysis and design, Little's law, variability, queueing theory, six sigma, Toyota Production Systems.There's nothing like trying to teach other people something to make you really learn a topic.My computer models. Let me show you them.

I consulted with Unicity clients on how best to solve complex IT integration issues, particularly those involving Infrastructure as a Service.Highlights include:Australia Post: Lead a project to improve service delivery, stability and performance in infrastructure operations. Significant process improvements, reduced outages, reduced time to market. Project budget approx. $1.5mSuncorp: Oversaw the technology architecture of Suncorp's implementation of shared services, based on NetApp's Dynamic Data Centre model. Specific advice resulted in savings in excess of $5m.Press coverage:http://www.cio-asia.com/resource/storage/netapp-gives-a-competitive-advantage-to-suncorp/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m10RYAkhuosTelstra: Part of the team that implemented Telstra's OmniPresenceII shared storage infrastructure, and the Enterprise Backup and Recovery system. Particular focus was on process and documentation, which evolved into NetApp's Dynamic Data-Centre model.http://www.itnews.com.au/News/153938,netapp-points-to-telstra-for-cloud-credentials.aspx

Line management of 4 staff in an operational team.Approx. 1.5 petabytes of storage under management for mission critical systems.Lead a process improvement programme, approx. $1.5m budget.

Oversaw the technology architecture of Suncorp's implementation of storage shared services, based on NetApp's Dynamic Data Centre model.http://www.cio-asia.com/resource/storage/netapp-gives-a-competitive-advantage-to-suncorp/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m10RYAkhuos

Managed a team of storage technology specialists.Responsible for managing the strategic direction of storage and backup technology within Sensis.Senior technical specialist for IP-SAN technology.Senior technical specialist for Data Protection technology.

Part of the team that implemented Telstra's OmniPresenceII shared storage infrastructure, and the Enterprise Backup and Recovery system.http://www.itnews.com.au/News/153938,netapp-points-to-telstra-for-cloud-credentials.aspx

Consulting to Edion clients. Key engagements included:OpenTelecommunications/COMIndico: End to end design and implementation of a national scale, wholesale MPLS VPN design and associated provisioning system.Powercor: Implementation of a mission critical Outage Management System for monitoring the electricity grid.NAB: Setup of a 24x7 operations team for the ISI project, an international banking initiative using SAP.