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Sydney, Australia

• Commonwealth Bank is Australia's leading provider of integrated financial services and its largest bank employing 55,000 staff with assets exceeding A$980 Billion.Responsibilities:
• Reporting to the Group Treasurer and Executive General Manager – Finance Systems and as a member of the Group Treasury Leadership Team, was responsible for managing ~70 staff. Serve as technology platform co-owner for.
• Led the Group Enterprise Services function to maintain group treasury, liquidity, long-term funding, interest rate risk management and balance sheet technology delivery functions.
• Managed the PMO to deliver risk management projects (Capex $30 Million) to upgrade balance sheet forecasting and capital stress-testing functions for group treasury.
• Member of transformation leadership team to achieve $1 Billion of efficiency savings by 2020.
• Maintained the “run” and “change” for Treasury platform for the Bank (Opex of $34 Million).

Abu Dhabi, UAE

• First Gulf Bank (FGB) merged with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi to form the First Abu Dhabi Bank, creating the largest bank by assets in the Middle East. Net profits of USD13 Billion, First Abu Dhabi Bank employ 3,500.
• Reported to the Group Treasurer and Group CIO and a member of the Technology Management Committee, responsible for managing15 staff and to lead the treasury and global markets division for all front, middle and back.
• As CIO for the treasury division, deployed Murex portfolio platform (capex budget $20 Million) and supported all FX, Market & Credit Risk, Money Market, Derivatives and Fixed-Income trading operations for.
• Co-developed group technology transformation strategy, reorganised technology operations and implemented revised target operating model to reduce intellectual property flight.
• Implemented broad-banding and Agile methodologies across the IT team.
• Grew onshore technology team from 50-150 FTE and implemented an India technology captive.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Responsibilities:
• Reported to the Group CIO, managed 10 staff and was a member of the Executive Management Committee Team and was responsible for divestments and IT service company start-ups.
• Corporate charter, regulatory compliance and development of technology roadmap.
• Management of commercial agreements and finance structure with a $40 Million operating budget.
• Contribution to company vision and strategy for the target operating model and sourcing policy and implement work programs to support the tactics of the corporate strategic vision.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Responsibilities:
• Reported to the Group CIO, managed 10 staff and was responsible for supplier management, technology governance, reporting, profit and loss, budgeting and reporting.
• Established and operated Vendor Management Office in an outsourced environment with Capex of $55 Million that integrated with the procurement and finance function.
• Technology risk and compliance including self-assessment risk frameworks for the UAE Central Bank and Singapore regulator (MAS).
• Revised Delegation of Authority matrix to empower improved lower-level decision making abilities.
• Implemented release and prioritisation programs for the IT delivery teams and rolled out a comprehensive SDLC program.

Auckland, New Zealand

• ASB Bank is a major New Zealand bank and wholly owned subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia with over 4,500 employees and an IT division of 500 professionals.Responsibilities:
• Reported to the General Manager for Enterprise Services; managed 40 staff and was responsible for an IT budget of $7 Million including testing, enterprise content management, internal distribution channels and SLDC.
• Supported all core banking, payments, commercial lending, retail banking, treasury data and intranet capabilities across New Zealand.
• Management of various strategic vendor relationships for ASB Bank and Commonwealth Bank.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
• Reported to the General Manager for Enterprise Services; managed 40 staff and was responsible for oversight of the group database technology operations including data design function, master data management function.
• Group Procurement Adviser and active stakeholder in commercial contract negotiations.
• Implemented smart-partner programs for strategic vendor management across the technology group.
• Developed continuous improvement programs and applied IT governance policies.
• Mitigated fraud risk, reduced loss by managing risk and applied compliance programs.

Sydney, Australia

• Suncorp Group is a major financial services company specializing in banking, and insurance products with an IT department of 1,200 supporting 13,000 users across New Zealand and Australia.Responsibilities:
• Reported to the General Manager - Technology Services; managed 20 staff and recruited as the Senior IT Manager for the Project Management Office - Life Risk across Wellington, Auckland, Brisbane and Sydney.
• Member of various business leadership committees as IT representative responsible for internal customer relationship development and management.
• Management of IT budget of $22 Million and supported 3 business lines (Wealth Management, Life and Advice) for New Zealand and Australia with combined revenues of $80 Million.
• Restructured the PMO, introduced SOA and established a multi-million-dollar portfolio to develop new IFA channels for retail business, to increase group risk white-labelling and policy administration business, and to.
• Increased capital IT investment by $14million to realize 3-year growth plan.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Theta Systems Ltd is a start-up ICT consulting firm servicing the utility, hospitality, transportation, manufacturing and retail industries.Responsibilities:
• Reported to the CEO and managed 3 staff, responsible for the Profit & Loss and growth of annual revenue from $150K to $1Million with aggressive business development plans achieving 90% billing rate utilization and.
• Increased net profit by 12% in 2008 and partnering with the CEO to eliminate underperforming cost centres and restructure of business.
• Developed a fledgling Business Services practice group with no internal processes and revenue <$100K p.a. Project managed key accounts and consulted executives on technology strategy needs and project planning.
• ICT Audit and Strategy alignment consulting engagements for local a hospitality group.
• Improved business intelligence capability QlikView, Oracle and COGNOS BI toolsets

San Francisco Bay Area

• Chief Information Officerwww.syllc.com Stone & Youngberg provides underwriting and investment services including tax-exempt and taxable securities for investment by individuals and institutions. Responsibilities:
• Reported to the Chief Financial Officer, managed 20 staff and responsible for directing ICT for 300+ investment bank and trading staff across 7 branches including to implement strategies, policies and programs and ICT.
• Managed hardware, software development, database administration and systems to provide secure, real-time trading from various national locations/
• Developed business continuity policies and procedures, help-desk function and large-scale technical initiatives. Implemented ICT helpdesk for extended hours support.
• Ensured compliance with NASD, SEC and other US government regulatory bodies.
• Deployed web-based fixed-income trading capability for Muni, CMO and Corporate desks

San Francisco Bay Area

• Bank of America is the largest U.S. bank (Net Profit $17.9 Billion) with more than 200,000 employees.Responsibilities:
• Reported to the General Manager / Executive Vice President for the Private Bank and managed 15 staff, responsible as Senior Technical Leader providing ICT strategy, program management and application development for.
• Private Banking Technology change agent to guide division through mergers and acquisitions.
• Directed vendor selection for $100 Million operating budget ensuring goals for $8 Million P&L.
• Deployed Sungard’s mutual fund management platform to support retail banks sweep product.
• Integrated private banking systems for 8,000 users across 3 newly acquired banks in 3 states.

Florida, USA

London, United Kingdom

Mba, International Business

Ba, Business Management

National Diploma, Information Systems

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