Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS) is a division of Telstra that offers high-quality media and broadcast solutions for content creators, broadcasters, and media companies globally. A brief overview of Telstra's broadcast services include:- Global Media Network- Live Broadcast and Streaming- Managed Services- Cloud Media Processing- Remote Production- Media Delivery and Content Delivery Network (CDN)TBS service industries such as Sports Broadcasting (e.g. NHL, EPL, Fox Sports, FIFA, Olympics, International Rugby/IRB), Entertainment and News (e.g. Foxtel, Channel Nine, ABC, SBS) and Media and Production.The role of senior security consultant consists of:- Management of the cyber security practice.- Adherence to ISO27001 certification standards.- Alignment with Essential 8 guidelines.- Management and uplift in accordance with the ISO27001 certification roadmap.- Alignment with Telstra Enterprise cyber security governance and enablement teams- Supply chain audit and risk management- SIEM, SOAR and observability delivery and implemention.- Security Audits and Vulnerability assessments

Cyber security practice management includes:- Uplifted and obtained Dipole Group ISO27001 certification. - Strategy and Governance- Team Leadership and Development- Operational Management- Client and Stakeholder Engagement- Account and Project Management- Continuous Improvement- Security Audits and Assessments- Threat Intelligence and Trend Analysis- Certification alignment with: ISO27001, Essential 8, NIST, SOC2/3- ISMS enablement and maintenance- Security OperationsData and analytics practice management includes:- Strategy Development and Execution- Team Leadership and Development- Data Management and Technology Implementation- Account and Project Management- Innovation and Continuous Improvement- Risk Management and Compliance- Partner Alignment and Continuous Uplift- Research and Development- Artificial Intelligence (AI)- Machine Learning (ML)- Practice Systems, Processes and StandardsClients supported include:- Telstra Broadcast Services- Transport NSW- Dept of Education NSW- Optus- TPG- CiscoPartners Supported:- Splunk- Threat Intelligence- AlgoSec- Cisco- AWS- Microsoft

CTO responsibilities included:- Develop technology strategy.- Resource management.- Align strategy with the Starlink and Network offerings.- Establish network architecture roadmap- Delivery of the customer portal.- Delivery of enhanced network client application for desktop and smartphones- Delivery of high risk security remediation items identified from the security audit.- Delivery of partner priority features for user management, network monitoring, bandwidth shaping, multi-tenancy view. - Network operational monitoring- DevOps containerisation of network software stack for efficient and faster deployments.- Align software development and products with cyber security standards- Build and deployment of the Starlink customer portal for retail and partner based users.CISO responsibilities included:- Initiate roadmap for ISO27001 certification- Align Essential 8 guidelines with ISO27001. - Weekly and monthly management reporting.- Quarterly board reporting.- Supply chain audit.- Network and Starlink portal vulnerability scanning and remediation.- Establish and execute on ISMS policies, controls and procedures across global operations.- Establish a 3rd party ISO27001 certified auditor- Achieved ISO27001 certification as of December, 2023.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain is a major innovation in global technology markets. Crypto or blockchain isn’t just financial transactions linked to Bitcoin. There is an eco-system of application platforms, stablecoins, security and other uses for such technology. As an Board Advisor, I review the research arm of the education, investment decisions and forecasting where the market is directed. The insights from such data is quite innovative and creating new markets never seen before for their customers.

Federal Government Focus:* Services Australia: SAP BRF+, SAP CRM, benefit analysis through Aged Pension & Childcare Subsidy* Department of Defence* ACCC* Department of Foreign Affairs* CSIRO* CASA* Department of Health* ANSTO

As the digital data agenda is now in full swing globally. Data services in the form business intelligence, analytics, prediction modelling and machine learning are now a critical competitive advantage across all industries. Toyota Finance setup the data management program to uplift all usage of mission critical data across all business units, obtain efficiencies, scheduled/on-demand/real-time analytical reporting and to measure competitiveness with their industry peers. The program focused on an initial tactical approach followed by strategic implementation. By implementing an agile/waterfall hybrid delivery model leveraging my business intelligence, blockchain analysis and cloud visualisation technical experience I assisted with:• Program Delivery Model (Hybrid Waterfall/Agile)• Business Intelligence & Reporting Project: - Business Unit Focus: Operations, Finance & Fleet - ETL data source interfaces to the Data Warehouse - Establishing an Operations Datamart - KPI & Sales based pre-calculated reporting measures - Microsoft Power BI Dashboards & Reports• Data Science Project: - Business Unit Focus: Finance, Risk & Sales - Cloud data storage & security/compliance assessment - Cloud assessment for source data storage - SAS Viya product/commercial assessment for AWS Cloud & internal data center hosting - Open Source workbench assessment for Azure Cloud Hosting• Data Retention Project: - Assessment of historical legacy finance applications and financial platforms for regulatory compliance• Data Governance Stream: - Establishment of data quality forum and process• Data Strategy Stream (Partnership Ernst & Young) - Data lakes and factories vs traditional legacy data warehouse structure benefits - End to end data warehouse eco-system assessment for AWS, Azure & Google Cloud hosting - Internal data warehouse hosting for Interactive data center - Master Data Management tooling assessment (MDM) - Data warehouse remediation assessment

From the research capacity at Morpheus Asset Management. Thinqe has been identified as an innovative emerging company focusing on end to end software development automation & AI. It is a pleasure for Morpheus and Michael to support Thinqe as a key advisor in this important global space.

As the digital agenda is now in full swing globally. The move to the left with agile practices requires efficient enabling technology and the right skillsets. Leveraging my 15 years of technical experience within the software testing domain (Particularly with Automation, Virtualisation and Performance testing) I am assisting NAB Wealth with:• Develop strategy & uplifting the Quality Engineering practice to support the move to CI/CD/CT & DevOps• Setting the agile domain automation, virtualised and non-functional test strategy.• CI/CD enablement with artifactory, github, jenkins, qtest, virtual machines, sonarqub & ansible.• Jira & Confluence enablement with Zephyr reporting.• Heavy focus on unit testing with such tools as Test NG, Junit, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, JTest• End to end platform uplift of functional automation using tools such as Selenium, Protractor, Ranorex, LeanFT& UFT leveraging the Jenkins and Teamcity framework for execution/reporting.• Virtualise & stub integrated interfaces to find and isolate defects earlier in the development cycle. (Using tools such as soapUI, CA Lisa & Postman)• Enforce earlier performance testing and engineering practices within the development cycle. (Using toolsJMeter, Loadrunner, Neoload, Gatling, Dynatrace)• Enable automated progression execution and remove the need for manual testing. (BDD/Cucumber feature file strategy)• Virtual machine enablement of legacy based platform automation testing with IBM and Azure solutions.• Data security assessments in the cloud.• Enable nightly regression & CI/CD enabled automated execution for each platform.• Support and enable NAB Wealth’s move to Dev-Ops.• Version control supported by Github & SVN.• Security testing with web monitoring, network monitoring and associated penetration testing tools.

For the 2014-2015 strategic reoadmap, NAB/MLC Wealth Testing Services have been engaged to deliver the legislative initiatives of FoFA, SuperStream, ADA/GIA, APRA Fee Levies, & MySuper scope. The roadmap also includes internally supported strategic initiatives of data migrations/strategic upgrades for the the MLC product strategic platforms. These initatives will deliver significant value and transparency to end customers as a result of the government influenced changes. The engagement directly aligns with the testing partner of Infosys. Appointed as the Prime Test Architect for the portfolio of strategic projects. Taking responsibility of initial and ongoing testing estimations, authoring Test Solution/Strategy Documents, Vendor Test Governance, Regression, Migration, System Integration Testing, & Combined Acceptance Test, Performance Testing, Automation (Mobile & Desktop Browser) User Acceptance test phases. Ensure that planning and execution milestones are achieved. Communicate clear escalation to upper management that will place risk on the schedule.

Appointed as Test Manager for the portfolio of strategic projects and upstart of E2E Test Practice. Taking responsibility of Vendor Test Governence, Regression, Migration, SIT, & Combined Integration Test, & UAT test phases. • Key involvement with upstart of Business Intelligence Test Practice. • Leading project team of 20 staff. • Vendor relationship management with Capiotech, Teradata, Oracle, SAS, & PlanIT, • Manage execution with primary focus on E2E data reconciliation from BSS/IT/Networks, data staging, data model, TVA, Universal Layer, to SAP Business Objects reporting. (Each integration point utilising the use of the strategic SAS ETL process)• Manage Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), Technical Business Analysts, Design Leads, Developments, Test Leads, Test Analysts, Report Analysts & Project Management under agile/scrum methodology of Universal Reporting Layer.• Responsible for hiring & training of new staff for Test Practice. • Providing strategic improvement of test management standards and procedures.• Cross vendor management. (Capiotech & Teradata)• Chair Test Objective workshops with key stakeholders; Business, Project Management, Business Analysts, Solution Designers, & Development teams. • Review Data and Performance strategies to align with functional testing areas.• Ensure prioritised delivery of Finance services/key business requirements are aligned with the test schedule.

The merger of Vodafone and Hutchison Australia businesses created a state of the art Business Intelligence unit. The strategic framework required the utilisation of tools from Teradata, Oracle, Capiotech, & SAS data warehouse vendors. The framework was specifically designed to deliver a business capability to focus on customers that deliver true profitable benefits to VHA shareholders, while directly attacking Telstra/Optus market share. The Business Intelligence department directly aligned with the VHA Finance department.Appointed as Test Manager for the portfolio of strategic projects and upstart of E2E Test Practice. Taking responsibility of Vendor Test Governence, Regression, Migration, SIT, & Combined Integration Test, & UAT test phases. • Key involvement with upstart of Business Intelligence Test Practice. • Manage execution with primary focus on E2E data reconciliation from BSS/IT/Networks, data staging, data model, TVA, Universal Layer, to SAP Business Objects reporting. (Each integration point utilising the use of the strategic SAS ETL process)• Providing strategic improvement of test management standards and procedures.• Cross vendor management. (Capiotech & Teradata)• Review Data and Performance strategies to align with functional testing areas.• Ensure prioritised delivery of Finance services/key business requirements are aligned with the test schedule.

• Defect Management.• Review Data and Performance strategies to align with functional testing areas.• Review and approve test case scripting by test vendors.• Ensure prioritised delivery of SOA services/key business requirements are aligned with the test schedule.

Worked under Optus Department Independent Verification Services or IVS. Appointed as Test Manager to for IVS Strategic Projects.• Creating and maintaining the project management and control deliverables for the test component of the project activity including the writing of project plan, time lines, communication plan and budget. • Responsible for planning. SIT, UAT, Performance, Automation, Regression, & End to End test phases.• Controlling budget restraints (circa $1.2million) with a focus on reducing testing costs by upwards of 25%.• Providing strategic improvement of test management standards and procedures.• Conduct, workshops with IT Program Manager, Business Program Manager, Sales Management, Customer Services, Production Manager, Billing Manager etc.• Leading project teams with upwards of 40+ staff.

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