Associate Director Of Information Technology And Program Director
CurrentDelivered a $20 million state-wide medicines program, aligning with the enterprise's 10-year strategy. Launched three state-wide products that enhanced support model efficiency, reduced local variability, enabled innovation sharing across NSW health entities, and helped future-proof the business unit.Established and coached a team of product owners, providing comprehensive training in product management and agile methodologies. This initiative drove a cultural shift towards solving business problems, helping ensure positive returns on investment decisions.Led a start-up initiative to engineer an in-house, modern, commercial-grade cloud-native product. Built the software development team and capabilities from inception, combining design thinking with agile development methodologies to create a highly intuitive and secure solution featuring advanced AI search capabilities.Negotiated and influenced 18 separate health organisations to consolidate their pharmacy management products into one state-wide, centrally hosted solution. Achieved this without authoritative power, relying instead on strong engagement, influencing skills, and effective communication with senior leaders to convey the project's benefits.Managed a $40+ million annual budget, consistently achieving financial targets and exceeding savings goals in the most recent fiscal year.Consistently outperformed peers across the NSW public sector in annual employee opinion surveys, scoring an average of 21 points higher than the NSW public sector average, 18 points higher than the NSW Health cluster average, and 8 points higher than the eHealth NSW average (on a 100-point scale).
