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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Worked with various stakeholders, including the leadership team and board, to guide the product roadmap, resources and technical challenges.- Provided leadership and mentorship to the engineering team.- Introduced a development process that allowed the engineering team to focus on and deliver projects.- Rolled out a product development process that aligned all stakeholders and saw the business delivering on projects.- Hired a Head of Product to refine the product roadmap and align product strategy with the business goals. - Led a technical debt clean-up project that saw significant performance improvements for end-users and critical security controls introduced for the SaaS platform.- Led the removal of significant platform features that were seeing little usage to streamline the product.- Introduced automated testing tools to maintain and improve the quality of the SaaS product.- Introduced a technology budget and cleaned up various services, which halved the technology-related costs for the business.

Sydney, Australia

Led engineering and IT operations teams, including building the technology to support growth from a start-up to 140 employees. A large portion of my role was leading the team that created the customer facing platform to facilitate digital business lending.- Led, managed and mentored a team of up to eight software engineers and IT operations specialists.- Worked closely with the product team to break down business requirements into executable technical plans and manage projects to completion.- Regularly iterated on the software development process based on team feedback and performance.Implemented code review process, code standards, CI / CD pipelines, and minimum levels of test coverage to ensure projects met quality and security requirements.- Provided consistent communication and project status updates across the business, including founders, other directors and teams, and external partners.- Worked with several partners to push integrations live, including Westpac, Qantas, Equifax and Australia Post.- Led the rollout of policies, changes to processes and implementation of various services to allow the business to meet its ISO27001 security requirements.

Sydney

As a technology consultant for businesses in industries including: hospitality, retail, finance, medical, and professional services, I provide technology strategy and implementation services. Projects typically involve establishing business needs, system design, implementation, change management and ongoing support.

Sydney, Australia

As an implementation specialist, I was part of a team advising and implementing technology solutions for businesses and professional services.Key responsibilities included; working with clients to understand their technology needs, researching, designing and implementing solutions, internal change management and ongoing support. Another fundamental component of the role was generating business at networking and industry events.

Sydney, Australia

As the in-house technology manager for a growing small business, it was my responsibility to build and continually improve the e-commerce store, manage digital marketing campaigns, and optimise their cloud based technology suite.

Sydney, Australia

During the internship, I worked in a variety of teams focusing on IT disaster recovery, technology risk analysis and system controls testing for a number of multinational clients. This experience gave me a fantastic insight into how large organisations design and operate their technology to support business continuity.

Bachelor Of Science In Information Technology, Majors: Software Development & Business

Activities and Societies: Participated in the UTS Ski Club, Mixed Netball Club, University Games Team (Surfing)

Bachelor Of Business, Information Systems

Transferred to UTS.

Higher School Certificate