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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Dentons is the largest law firm in the world. As of February 2020 Dentons have 18500 staff in 185 locations worldwide and are growing rapidly. Reporting to the CEO I have full responsibility over all technology services across New Zealand. I contribute on a number of global initiatives delivering experience and strategic direction to the wider global firm.I am extremely proud of the team I lead and their ability to deliver a demanding digital transformation to make our ICT platform one of the best around. This achievement was demonstrated in being named one of the top 50 most innovative CIO's in New Zealand in 2019.https://www2.cio.co.nz/cio50/cio50-2019/

Auckland, New Zealand

Kensington Swan is one of New Zealand's prominent corporate law firms. With 200 staff and offices in Auckland and Wellington we provide quality legal services to thousands of businesses to help them grow of deal with challenges.My role was established as a member of the executive team with a clear need to remain relevant in a constantly changing technological world. And that's what we have done. The change was noticeable as the boxes of paper disappeared from the offices, replaced by efficient processes and technology.My role continued as CIO in the newly branded Dentons Kensington Swan.

Auckland, New Zealand

This role is responsible for developing the AUT Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy and actively support the implementation of that strategy. This includes engagement with the University community on strategic ICT requirements in order to collaborate, in partnership with the ICT Services Director, on the integration of the ICT Strategy with individual service strategies.The role is also responsible for oversight of the Enterprise Architecture.Strategic management of ICT resources, including staff and applied technology, will ensure AUT isready for the future, is well informed of the costs and is seen as a leader regarding technology within the tertiary sector.

Auckland

AUT has recently been listed as the 13th largest IT site in New Zealand by CIO magazine. Infrastructure Services, as a division of the university’s IT Services Directorate, provide ICT resources for approximately 2,500 staff - both academic and administrative, and some 27,000 students with an OPEX budget of $4.5M. Responsibilities• Establishing and fostering a positive, productive team culture to deliver value• Effectively leading people and getting results with a strong customer focus• Create a culture of shared accountability, and delegate to an appropriate level that leaves time to lead• Providing HR services to ensure a highly motivated team• Mentor and escalation point for all department functions• Alignment of resource and effort with business strategy & direction• Prioritization and focusing of resources• Guide the team to follow a road map that allows AUT to achieve maximum efficiency and return on investment.• Manage day-to-day operations of the department and staff• Manage the research, review and implementation of new technologies• Managing ICT assets to ensure they meet the current and future needs of the business• Ensuring the investment in IT infrastructure is leveraged and rationalized• Service awareness of all the organization’s key IT services for which support is being provided• Service level management, problem management and continual service improvement against agreed targets• Vendor relationship management• Negotiate and manage desired outcomes from suppliers• Provision, planning, and governance of IT operational processesPortfolio Overseen• Core business systems• Database solutions• Infrastructure and Solution Architecture• Virtualisation / hosted services• Storage solutions• Data centre services • Microsoft and other back office system / server technologies• Enterprise level data protection• Business continuity / disaster recovery• Policies, standards and guidelines related to Infrastructure

London, United Kingdom

NHS Professionals is a subsidiary of the National Health Service. Its primary function is as a recruitment agency supplying placement and payroll services for over 40,000 flexible workers distributed across various health trusts. This role provided operational management and direction of the IT Services Team as well as managing a complex programme of business and IT initiated projects. Reporting to the Director of IT I was responsible for maintaining the best organisation technology portfolio across all areas to meet the commercial and operational needs of the Special Health Authority. Responsibilities• Management of the IT Services Team (14), setting objectives and measuring performance against set objectives.• Delivering a commercially led strategy to IT and the business• Provide governance over technical architecture. • Budget management in excess of GBP 7M.• Identification and monitoring of service delivery KPI’s and SLA’s• Manage outsourced help desk services.• Vendor relationship for the delivery of services / solutions• Problem management • Continual Service Improvement• Manage change to reduce risk• Ensure that IT security policy and practice were carried out • Ensure sufficient capacity for existing and planned system requirements.• Manage a programme to deliver and support the agreed business initiatives in the most effective and cost efficient manner.• Provide overall authority and accountability for definition, planning and execution of projects. • Stakeholder management.• Ensure that all programme-level risks / issues were assessed and effectively mitigated / managedPortfolio Overseen• Infrastructure Services• Virtualisation / Citrix• Storage• Networks• Business Continuity• Out Sourcing• Governance• Security• Projects

London, United Kingdom

Reckitt Benckiser is a FTSE 100 manufacturing company; with 23K employees, operations in 60 countries, sales in 180 countries and net revenues in excess of £4billion. This role was a six month contract to provide enterprise wide infrastructure solution architecture and guidance to technical teams in a matrix management environment spread across 60 countries.Project Portfolio Overseen• Email and URL Security• Distributed File System for Application Deployment.

London, United Kingdom

CLS is a foreign exchange clearing house processing over USD 3 trillion per day. In this role I was responsible for the management of business and infrastructure related projects. It encompassed project management through the full project life cycle, taking a project mandate and converting it into a feasible business case and plan, gathering technical requirements, managing product procurement, design, implementation (managing internal and external resources) and documentation in accordance with a PRINCE2 structured PMO. Project Portfolio Overseen• Project Server 2003 / Windows SharePoint Services • Records Retention and Archiving Solution • Patch Management• Firewall Upgrade.

Dublin, Ireland

KBC Bank Ireland is an investment and mortgage bank. My main duties included ensuring development and adherence of best practices and security policies, Project Management for new ventures, provide escalated support to the business for all systems, the installation, administration and maintenance of IT systems within a 700 user financial organisation: Project Portfolio Overseen• Data Centre Migration• Building Moves• Network Security• MPLS Migration• Ethernet Migration• Network Management• Firewalls• Network Area Storage• VPN• System Security• Active Directory• MS Exchange Server Migration• Disaster Recovery• Enterprise Backup System

Auckland, New Zealand

Main duties included providing national support and for 300 users in an NT4 and Win 2000 Active Directory environment, purchasing of all IT related supplies, liaising with service providers and management of the following systems:Responsibilities• Windows server build, maintenance and recovery.• Administration of a Solaris 8 based Practice Management System.• Active Directory domain management and infrastructure support ( DNS, Wins and DHCP ).• Exchange Server configuration and maintenance across multiple sites.• Watchguard Firewall configuration, Anti Virus, Mailsweeper.• WAN configuration and on-going maintenance across 4 sites for Cisco IOS devices, VPN RAS solution.• Scripting, Logon / Logoff and application rollout scripts.• Internet proxy using MS Internet Security and Acceleration Server. • Intranet HTML content management.• SQL server and Lotus Domino Server database development and administration.• Server and desktop builds, including image creation and standardization.• Disaster recovery planning, documentation and implementation.Project Portfolio Overseen• Company Merger

Auckland, New Zealand

Main duties included providing level 2 computer support for the following in a 1500+ user organisation:Technical Responsibilities• Support for all Windows desktops and associated applications.• Developed and maintained a global desktop image for all hardware and business platforms. • Print services management for all branches. • Mitel phone system administration.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Operations And Human Resource Management, Distinction

Prince 2 Foundation And Practitioner, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Certified at the practitioner level of PRINCE2 (Projects In Controlled Environments) Completed re certification.

Ccna, Cisco Certified Network Associate

Activities and Societies: Certified as a Cisco Certified Network Associate

Mcse 2000, Micrososft Certified System Engine

Activities and Societies: Certified as a Micrososft Certified System Engine in Windows 2000

Nzce, Electronics And Computer Technology