Senior Consultant at Nation Australia Bank, Financial Crimes DivisionOct 2022 – Sept 2024Key Achievements:• Led and managed a project team (up to 30 resources) including Architects, Business Analysts, Software Develops, Data Mining Engineers & Technical Testing, both on-shore and off-shore teams, for the System Integration Testing (SIT) phase of three phases of technically difficult and complex Fininancial Reporting Entitles (RE’s) within the Financial Crime Business Sector. This was to ensure these companies complied with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC).• Complete End to End management of multiple, complex Integrated Assets, tasks such as:• Organised and championed all kick-off meetings (and ongoing communication) to set up Asset Test Environments, Test Data Requirements with a Data Delivery Team to extract and mask existing Production Data suitable for testing, due to the RE data being too compleax to create manually by the test team.• Leading the SIT phase including creation of an Asset Data Batch Calendar for multiple projects to provide the Product Owners (PO’s) and the Releaser Train Engineer (RTE) of the potential risks to the testing schedule due to environment contention from other projects who required access to some of the same test asset end points during the same testing period. • Introduced a Daily Activity Run Sheet (DARS) to provide an insight to senior management, stakeholders and all project resources of what is happening and when the intended start and end dates for each task is to be performed, also highlighting what was delayed and the reason(s) why.• Conducted risk assessments to identify potential problems and delays using the DARS above.• Coordinated and constructed SIT Daily Status Reports to highlight progress, any potential clashes with other projects using the same test environments, delays, incidents, defects raised and next steps.• Incident (INC's) and SIT Defect Management.

Disaster Recovery Test Manager• Successfully Test Managed Critical Tier 1 application’s Data Centre Flip process for the client, who is the largest market leader in Australian gambling/entertainment group with a total revenue of 5.4 billion $AUD. This successful transformation has not been tried and tested for over ten years.• Led and managed a team of 2 testers, off-shore and on-shore, but also influenced Senior Management, Major Business Stakeholders, System Architects, System Technology Leads and Technical and Business End Users.• Technical systems included: Java, Middleware Technology IBM WebSphere and AWS).• Managed Application / web-based integration Disaster Recovery projects from initiation to completion.• Supported the client’s Disaster Recovery review, both technical, testable and sequencing of runbooks for the flip. which identified gaps in the current state and proposed solutions, then delivered solutions with the client’s approval.• Conducted risk assessments to identify potential problems.• Coordinated ongoing communication with stakeholders and clients.• Measured and analysed the impact of existing and future disaster-focused program initiatives, and effectively communicated to key decision-makers and leaders.

► Managed project teams of up to 15 to ensure end-to-end connectivity and perform functional tests on telecommunications network software and hardware, successfully managing the build, integration and testing of multiple technologies including Lawful Interception, Networks and IT platforms.► Project managed delivery of end-to-end solution capabilities using Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including successful integration with multiple internal and external platforms and multiple Network Cross Domain Technologies. ► Worked with senior management to understand business requirements then utilised the Rational suite of tools (RQM, DOORS, Remedy) and JIRA for complete end-to-end traceability of project artifacts.► Managed new and existing vendors including contract negotiations, service level agreements, purchase order management, and day to day management of onsite teams.

► Delivered software and hardware solutions for clients including Officeworks (2009-2010) and ConnectEast (2007-2008).► Managed the end-to-end testing of software, acting as Test Manager and overseeing project teams of 5 – 15 people.► Liaised with stakeholders to establish business requirements and project objectives, and engaged with vendors to ensure these were met.► Planned and prioritised roll out testing, ensuring integration testing was completed.► Managed risks associated with projects.