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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Accountable for leading a strategic transformation program to modernise critical state capability through the identification, planning and coordination of a set of projects within a programme of business change in support of specific business strategies and objectives.

Geelong, Victoria, AU

• Successfully steered the development and delivery of the new insights driven WorkSafe 2030 business strategy along with board and ministerial approvals
• Key contributor to the overall business case to deliver the strategy through a multi-year three phased transformation program plan exceeding $850m
• Key member of strategic procurement team for all new technology platforms and services to enable business led transformation program
• Saved in excess of $15-20m over a 3-5 year period through procurement negotiation of all new technology platform license agreements and implementation partner contracts including Deloitte, KPMG, Accenture, DXC, IBM.
• Chief Architect for the program driving all aspects of design and delivery of the target state business & technology architectures across a complex multi-vendor landscape
• Key executive leadership role directing and assuring the successful delivery of 12 new cloud based technology platforms enabling new business capabilities & services of phase 1 of the program from June 2018 to Dec 2019.

Geelong, Victoria, AU

• Successful establishment and delivery of IT strategy & roadmaps for WorkSafe & TAC in multiple technology domains, underpinned by a business owned technology governance process.
• Strategic technology advisor into the TAC 2020 corporate strategy which began development early 2017
• Defined the TAC target state Data & Analytics capability framework along with technology overlays which formed the foundation for the claims business transformation program
• Developed and maintained an application portfolio management framework for WorkSafe & TAC enabling the businesses to quantify the enterprise value, fit, health & costs to ensure more informed business decisions
• Drove the transformation of IT into a more adaptive and agile capability anchored on business outcomes.
• Introduced business & architecture impact analysis assessment tools & techniques articulating impacts of diverging from target architecture.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Led the development of Architectural & Design engineering direction and strategy.
• Managed team of 12-16 solution architects, designers and business analysts delivering complex network integration solutions to large telecommunications and utilities organisations throughout APAC, including Telstra.
• Led delivery teams for multiple streams of the Telstra TITAN network transformation program for which Alcatel-Lucent were the primary SI
• Represented the end-to-end Design Authority and sign-off control point for all solution architectures
• Produced technology service/product roadmaps for key customers
• Delivered complete solutions from service provisioning, integration, billing, mediation, OSS & BSS through to migrations and operations.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Prime Technical Design Lead for key strategic projects and capabilities.
• Developed and delivered detailed technical requirements and complex telecommunications solution designs and functional specifications.
• Partnered with product management and engineering development teams to translate business requirements into product roadmaps, engineering and product deliverables.
• Represented ‘Capability Solutions’ division on the Design Authority for various voice/ data projects.
• Designed systems integration function for defining and implementing a complete solution delivery for Telstra through collaboration with key service & application providers and vendors.

Dublin 2, IE

• Drove the 2-3 year IP & Security technology strategy while serving as the primary technology liaison with the commercial division for shaping design and delivery of products and services.
• Consulted and had final approval for all IP related designs as well as processes, policies and guidelines for IP & Security network design.
• Developed IP technology strategy implementation, such as MPLS integration & convergence.
• Provided guidance to the business on new products, services and business initiatives as well as gave advice and recommendations to senior management on strategic matters.
• Facilitated research projects, feasibility studies, evaluations, product trials and proof of concepts.
• Mentored immediate colleagues and division members of other teams.

Sydney CBD, New South Wales, AU

• Designed and enhanced data products and services for the Telecom New Zealand consortium
• Consulting and professional services for complex network and service designs.
• Technical product owner for AAPT’s managed security services.
• Contributed to sales tenders & RFP responses for proposals and customer presentations.
• Developed product cost models for services such as LMDS, MPLS VPNS and Metro Ethernet.
• Defined technical capabilities to comply with the ‘Telecommunications Lawful Interception Act’.

Toowong, Queensland, AU

• Managed the technical aspects of projects for large corporate customers.
• Consulted on pre-sales communications and security technology client proposals and presentations.
• Performed risk assessments, security audits, penetration testing and policy assessments.
• Created VPN solutions, VoIP and Voice/Frame networks.
• Architected & designed NT and ATM networks, hosting mission critical applications
• Developed information systems security policies/procedures according to Australian Standards.

• Provided IT Consultancy services to a large client base, actively soliciting new business opportunities by responding to tenders and RFPs.
• Increased client base by approximately 70%, and company profits by 50%.

• Supplied professional services and technical support to private and corporate clients that included designing networks and general IT infrastructure projects for corporations.
• Performed H/W and S/W repair of all Macintosh products from laptops & desktops to printers & scanners; trained on Compaq, Toshiba, Fujitsu and IBM products.
• Maintained customer maintenance contracts, executing solutions quickly and efficiently.

Cupertino, California, US

• Created and supported diagnostics software and test procedures in Codewarrior C and C++.
• Trained new technicians and re-workers on new products, software, and test procedure changes.
• Key contributor to the 50 percent decrease in module fallout which occurred over 12 months.
• Improved yields on three different product lines by 10 percent, 18 percent and 35 percent respectively by tracking failure and yield trends & implementing process improvements.