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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for technology program delivery, operations and full system life cycle for global corporate functions including Credit Risk; Market Risk; Operational Risk; Treasury; Finance; HR; Audit; Strategic Sourcing; Reconciliation and Value Control. Approximately 300 staff and $40M operating budget in addition to project investment.NAB has 38,000 employees, net income of over $7 billion and operates in Australia, New Zealand, US, UK, France, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India and Vietnam. It is the 21st largest bank in the world and the 4th biggest company in Australia measured by market capitalisation.Championed and delivered world class Credit Risk Weighted Asset and Loan Loss Forecasting and Provisioning engine. Enabled methodology changes to reduce Credit Risk Weighted Assets by several billion dollars. Massively improved cost of change and total cost of ownership. Implemented Australia’s most advanced new Economic Financial Statistics solution.Implemented new Operational and Third-Party Risk system, winning Archer Asia Pacific Award for best Operational Risk implementation. Designed and developed new Delegated Credit Risk Authority system following global search that determined no similar product existed in the market. Moved 95% of applications to Microsoft Azure, AWS or SaaS including the SAP ERP (Microsoft Azure) and Oracle FTP engine (AWS). Modernised application portfolio, significantly improving operational resilience through rebuilding, upgrading, decommissioning, and migrating to Cloud.Outperformed financial stretch targets every year.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for technology delivery and operations for corporate functions including: Credit Risk; Market Risk; Operational Risk; Treasury; Finance; HR; Legal; Audit.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for all aspects of technology delivery and operations across Markets. Decommissioned legacy loans and deposits platform and reorganised management team in Asia, saving $2.5M per year.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Managed technology teams responsible for: CVA; Collateral Management; Equities; Research Distribution; FX Currency Overlay; Market Data; Dealing Room Support.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Improved service quality, reliability, operational process, and system capacity across Markets technology. Significantly improved the technology operational risk profile in collaboration with investment projects, application teams and service providers.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Architected, designed and built a new market risk data and analytics solution on Microsoft SQL Server with tabular and multi-dimensional cubes, integration services and Power BI. Managed a team of developers, testers and analysts to successfully build and implement the system using agile practices. Led all aspects of the project including strategy, infrastructure architecture, development, requirement gathering, analysis, testing and delivery management. The system features continuous integration/deployment with Jenkins and PowerShell, data monitoring and data quality services, self-service analytics and reference data management, subscriptions, limit and breach management workflow, KPI reporting and SharePoint integration. The platform remains one of the most sophisticated Market Risk analytics solutions in the financial services industry and has been extended to support Treasury Risk, Finance flash P&L and Operational Control Room. As NAB's cloud journey matured the system was renovated and moved from on-premise to Microsoft Azure.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

End-to-end accountability for development, testing, change implementation and support of market risk and rates systems. Managed 45 staff, several tier one systems. Achieved significant capability improvements, strategic change delivery, staff morale uplift, system stability, operational risk reduction and improved customer satisfaction.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Managed a team of five project managers and managed several projects directly, implementing strategic and tactical software change in market risk and credit risk systems. Projects within the portfolio were consistently delivered successfully.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Formed a new software development team to centralise transaction accounting from wholesale banking trading systems to an accounting rules engine. Managed the project, team and production operations of the system. Successfully migrated core systems to accounting engine.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Implemented a new branch-staff optimisation software package into production. Designed integration and managed all technology teams’ delivery: infrastructure; automation; warehouse; integration; SAP; software vendor; testing and security.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Consulted in software design, development and implementation for NAB, Telstra, Trading Post, Australia Post and other clients. NAB: Developed rates system front-end prototype; Re-designed ETL packages for data warehouse; Designed, built and project-managed a sales performance reporting system.Telstra: Implemented database for Telstra/Foxtel integration; Developed proof-of-concept for new host-system data access layer for the sales transaction solution.Trading Post: Built new configurable ad-placement online system when Sydney and Melbourne online publications merged.Online Grocer (internal): Designed and led a team to build a prototype online marketplace for small businesses.Other: Technical architect for several request for proposal responses.

Norwood, South Australia, Au

Built a web portal and online chat room to market popular board games.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

(The organisation was known as "Colonial" before CBA acquisition.)Developed fringe benefits tax system for group taxation FBT liability reporting. Developed system to extract and archive legacy personnel system data prior to upgrading/replacing personnel system.Developed a web-based internal job advertisement and application system.Developed the user-administration interface for internet banking platform.

Plano, Texas (Tx), Us

Developed a Microsoft Access database for analysing employee and department time expenditure.Developed a Microsoft Access system for the scientific analysis of product samples (e.g. essences, water samples).

Wrote modification specifications and program specifications for small changes.Programmed, tested and wrote test reports.Piloted and installed programs.Supported software during pilot.