Focussed as a program stream delivery lead on CBA's flagship hybrid cloud transformation programme predominantly on AWS platform enablement, APRA compliant controls , cyber security compliance & end user consumption.

Responsibilities & Achievements“Cloud 9” Retail Broker Cloud Transformation• Development & execution $10M program to transform Australia’s largest retail broker from a legacy infrastructure platform onto a cloud platform hosted across AWS & MS Azure in an project amongst the first of its type in the world• Program encompassed application recoding, enforcement of cyber security standards, almost entire overhaul of ops procedures & training, functional, performance and pen testing… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements“Cloud 9” Retail Broker Cloud Transformation• Development & execution $10M program to transform Australia’s largest retail broker from a legacy infrastructure platform onto a cloud platform hosted across AWS & MS Azure in an project amongst the first of its type in the world• Program encompassed application recoding, enforcement of cyber security standards, almost entire overhaul of ops procedures & training, functional, performance and pen testing, complex risk & issue management• Establishment of strong governance mechanisms and deep trust with sponsors & stakeholders across the organisation• Risk and control uplift was conducted along with deep and lengthy engagement with regulatory entities over the use of shared computing services to host material assets and the effectiveness of risk controls• Program required the embrace of traditional project management techniques to ensure effective governance whilst embracing agile tools and techniques to allow the team to experiment, fail fast and adapt in an environment where many challenges did not have precedent and required flexibility using standups, Kan Ban, retros & Jira • Team size managed at peak of transformation was approx. 60 personnel including other project managers• The program was successfully delivered and realised approx. $700k PA in OPEX savings and significant technology enablersCounter DDoS Program• Crash convened a program team and cyber security squad over a matter of days to identify and rapidly reduce the risk exposure to DDoS attack with Akamai• Under intense pressure of DDoS threats, rapidly scoped and triage assets for crash on-boarding to DDoS protection, identify specific threat vectors & perform OCM with operations as their apps were transformed to be DDoS resistant • Achieved the milestone of on-boarding all critical bank online assets to a leading DDoS protection organisation without major incidents including payments, wealth & retail assets Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements• End to end management of projects (aligned to PMBOK methodology)• Development of strong, effective relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders to achieve project delivery objectives and positive customer / supplier experiences• Manage and influence dynamic, complex relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and vendors• Empower, lead and collaborate with geographically dispersed multidisciplinary project teams• Program stream… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements• End to end management of projects (aligned to PMBOK methodology)• Development of strong, effective relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders to achieve project delivery objectives and positive customer / supplier experiences• Manage and influence dynamic, complex relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and vendors• Empower, lead and collaborate with geographically dispersed multidisciplinary project teams• Program stream lead of high profile, time boxed technology program dealing with complex engineering problems, high impact org change in a demanding stakeholder environment• Development and application of project management, HR management, financial management, change management, quality management and benefits realisation plans• Definition of program business estimates for funding• Program stream lead responsible for plan and delivery of data centre build & deployment streams of a complex Oracle database platform program managing +$1M POPEX and +$5M CAPEX impacting core CBA banking systems including NetBank and branch systems• Lead project manager delivering construction of greenfield storage and database hosting engineering solutions for tier 1 high availability CBA applications managing +$0.5M POPEX and +$1M CAPEX• Lead project manager of complex project to migrate 40+ financial application databases to new database hosting solutions to realise business benefits of significant cost savings in a high change impact, multi-vendor sourced support environment• Develop +$6.5M program RFP for the realisation of financial savings benefits and application resiliency• Governance committee representative for identifying and implementing productivity initiatives across project delivery portfolios with portfolio leadership team• Pilot team member for bank wide feasibility study in conjunction with UTS into introducing Design Thinking principles to spur innovation and collaboration Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements• Lead business analyst on large financial advisor PID novation and CRM migration• Team leader for facilitation of project scoping, planning and execution• Act as scrum master on agile elements of the project with development and test teams• Act in a presales consulting capacity whereby CommSec would perform road shows for prospective wholesale trading clients to demonstrate platform trading and technical capabilities• Assist program manager in… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements• Lead business analyst on large financial advisor PID novation and CRM migration• Team leader for facilitation of project scoping, planning and execution• Act as scrum master on agile elements of the project with development and test teams• Act in a presales consulting capacity whereby CommSec would perform road shows for prospective wholesale trading clients to demonstrate platform trading and technical capabilities• Assist program manager in facilitation of risk and issue identification / mitigation workshops.• Liaise with and manage software development and architectural team members in Perth office• Train technical team members from acquired business in Perth for absorption into CommSec wholesale business• Liaise with business product management, back office and contact centres to plan, execute and integrate project activities• Produce use cases, functional specifications, website wireframes specification, user storyboards and quality plans for functional changes• Coach developers, testers and junior business analysts on project scope, design artefacts, and quality management• Successfully delivered program to on-board large private online advisory business to CommSec wholesale advisor trading platform from acquired business trading platform• Led difficult program by example with recognition resulting in being afforded opportunity to progress into project management within the bank Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements • Project stream business analyst for responsible for functional design of complex financial instrument trading for use by Macquarie Private Wealth Asia (Singapore) via the Triple A trading platform.• Scope document development• Liaison with product management team in Singapore• Workshop facilitation and requirements elicitation across multiple geographies and time zones. • Produce use cases, functional specifications, process… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements • Project stream business analyst for responsible for functional design of complex financial instrument trading for use by Macquarie Private Wealth Asia (Singapore) via the Triple A trading platform.• Scope document development• Liaison with product management team in Singapore• Workshop facilitation and requirements elicitation across multiple geographies and time zones. • Produce use cases, functional specifications, process design, and quality plans for functional points in scope• Coach developers and testers on project scope, design artefacts, and quality management• Successful delivery of scope in challenging conditions• Developed effective relationships with business stakeholders, project managers and development / test teams in an environment of high uncertainty and project contention with stakeholders Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements• Data management and compliance stream lead for the implementation of Charles River Investment Management System across global equities portfolios.• Project scoping, business requirements collection, business process documentation, and business liaison• Functional design, data consistency and integration analysis, system configuration and testing, GAP analysis• Business compliance testing and change management• Extensive dealings with business… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements• Data management and compliance stream lead for the implementation of Charles River Investment Management System across global equities portfolios.• Project scoping, business requirements collection, business process documentation, and business liaison• Functional design, data consistency and integration analysis, system configuration and testing, GAP analysis• Business compliance testing and change management• Extensive dealings with business sponsors and users with uncompromising expectations• Change management experience in the form of membership of several change forums to drive trading service transition to Charles River• Data management and compliance stream lead for the implementation of Charles River Investment Management System across global equities portfolios• Project scoping, business requirements collection, business process documentation, and business liaison• Functional design, data consistency and integration analysis, system configuration and testing, GAP analysis• Business compliance testing and change management• Extensive dealings with business sponsors and users with uncompromising expectations• Change management experience in the form of membership of several change forums to drive trading service transition to Charles River• Successful delivery of scope in a dynamic environment• Acted as a sitting member of the CFS GAM Staff Sustainability Committee. Responsible for devising strategy proposals for submission to executive steering committee of initiatives to drive sustainability in the business in line with corporate responsibility aspirations• Successful delivery of scope in a dynamic environment• Acted as a sitting member of the CFS GAM Staff Sustainability Committee. Responsible for devising strategy proposals for submission to executive steering committee of initiatives to drive sustainability in the business in line with corporate responsibility aspirations Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements• Trade support of equity, fixed interest, credit, cash trades into the enterprise database (Sybase)• Code bespoke SQL for the purpose of database trade support, ad-hoc reporting and project work• Design, development and support of business critical ETL (Informatica) data feeds into the enterprise database including portfolio trades, positions, benchmarks, pricing and analytics critical to ongoing business operations.• Conduct on call 24 hour… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements• Trade support of equity, fixed interest, credit, cash trades into the enterprise database (Sybase)• Code bespoke SQL for the purpose of database trade support, ad-hoc reporting and project work• Design, development and support of business critical ETL (Informatica) data feeds into the enterprise database including portfolio trades, positions, benchmarks, pricing and analytics critical to ongoing business operations.• Conduct on call 24 hour support for critical database investment feeds• Developed strong relationships across enterprise information technology and business / trading functions• Developed a well rounded understanding of enterprise IT environment, diligent change control and risk management Show less

Responsibilities & Achievements• Required liaising by phone with plant engineers in the field to locate and allocate available infrastructure for ADSL services to customers• Ability to understand telecommunications concepts and assist field technicians to solve problems on the fly• Required in depth knowledge of proprietary plant databases, strong customer service centric work ethic and time management skills.Achievements• Developed strong customer service and problem… Show more Responsibilities & Achievements• Required liaising by phone with plant engineers in the field to locate and allocate available infrastructure for ADSL services to customers• Ability to understand telecommunications concepts and assist field technicians to solve problems on the fly• Required in depth knowledge of proprietary plant databases, strong customer service centric work ethic and time management skills.Achievements• Developed strong customer service and problem solving acumen Show less