Niranjan Prabhu Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Sippy Downs, Queensland, Au

Canberra, Au

https://www.caudit.edu.au/executive-committee

Brisbane, Qld, Au

https://aaf.edu.au/about/executive-committee.html

North Sydney, Au

**ROLE:**- Transformational leadership role, member of the VC’s Executive Board (VCEB), leading the digital master planning and digital innovation program, future-proofing the University in response to macros and micro forces and global trends.- Evaluating digital architecture and selecting technology to develop comprehensive services.- Leading a program of operational change, restructuring the organisation to support the new model in partnership with key stakeholders.- Engaging, consulting, advising, and building confidence, trust, relationships, and partnerships within the university community.**KEY PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS**- Provided a 30-year-old University with a technology plan and new operating model, building a competitive advantage in increasingly competitive funding and student expectations.- Developed a complete omni-channel strategy, including AI, online, smart campus, and traditional solutions, improving student and campus experience while maximising ROI.- Realised a 30% reduction in OPEX spending through business process redesign and automation, workforce change and enterprise architecture.- Safe, Secure Digital Workplace, supporting working from any time, anywhere and on any device, helped with business continuity and service delivery during the COVID-19 lockdown.- Established a foundation for open innovation for the organisation, supporting pilot programs and trialling experimental technologies critical to the organisation's future path.- 5 Vice Chancellor Awards for excellence and innovation in service

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

**Leadership:** - Member of the Chancellery team overseeing the University's strategic direction. - Accountable for University ICT, digital leadership, and capital program delivery. - Leading team of 6 direct reports and 350+ IT workforce. - Embedding a culture of change and best practices across the function. **Strategic Planning:** - Established and governed the business-IT roadmap. - Introduced new technologies to improve the student experience and international rankings. - Advised senior stakeholders on mega-trends and opportunities in digital and IT to inform universities' strategic investment.**Operational Management:** - Responsible for north of $65M CAPEX and OPEX budget. - Executive for PMO, IT security, and broader digital strategy. - Linked business strategy and enterprise transformation. **Innovation:** - Developed an ‘innovation hub’ to pilot new projects. - Implemented design thinking. - Developed a workforce culture and mindset for innovation.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- **IT Strategy** - Developed a fit-for-purpose IT strategy for the University to support digital strategies and future demands. - Developed roadmaps for the successful transition to proposed strategies. - Led the adoption of IT strategy and influenced implementation via formal and informal mechanisms.- **IT Capital Allocation** - Managed IT capital allocations to ensure they follow policy and align with strategy and business needs. - Supported IT investment prioritisation.- **IT Governance** - Ensured rigorous governance, decision-making processes, and effective decision-making outcomes for the IT infrastructure portfolio. - Provided enablers for capturing and characterizing demand and supply constraints for IT change. - Provided transparency of the University's IT-related capital spend.- **IT Architecture and Technology Roadmaps** - Oversaw development, management, and governance of the University's IT Architecture and Technology Roadmaps. - Ensured that these roadmaps sought to optimize return on IT investments, reduce risk, and build capacity and capability to meet future demands.- **Compliance and Quality Assurance** - Oversaw compliance and quality assurance management. - Ensured compliance with legislation, statutes, regulations, and policies.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

**Major Achievements:**- Established Enterprise Architecture practice with IT Governance Boards.- Achieved 140+ digital technology solution artefacts, with the majority in production/implemented.- Provided technical leadership in providing University Shared Services (Infrastructure, Platform & Software as a Service).- Established Project Management Office (agile project management and Prince2 methodologies) for Foundation Services Portfolio projects.- Identified and implemented multiple opportunities for process improvement and financial savings in technology investments.- Oversaw successful delivery of multiple major programs and projects.

Houston, Texas, Us

One of the largest multi-national IT companies in the world with over 317,500 staff and $112 billion revenue. It provides hardware, software and IT services to consumers, small, medium and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.**Major Achievements:**- Established outsourcing strategy and IT governance for engagement with other IT service providers and vendors as part of Tabcorp’s multi-sourcing strategy, leading to more structured delivery of solutions.- Developed and managed delivery of functional excellence for IT across many service areas, including: - Technology roadmaps for a unified view of future-state architecture in support of Tabcorp’s strategic vision, including IT governance, eliminating technological investment duplication, and enabling reusability. - Established commodity-based IT services through Enterprise Architecture deliverables for cost savings in operational areas and increased project delivery timelines. - Established prioritisation processes that drove delivery of projects and maximised benefits. - Consolidated data centre services from three to two locations, resulting in annual cost savings. - Assisted Tabcorp account leadership team to reduce complexity and drive efficiency through optimising capacity and asset portfolio as part of continuous service improvement.

Houston, Texas, Us

**Responsibilities:**- Delivered a centralised, standard managed work environment to improve process efficiencies and cost savings.- Managed teams (12 direct plus ten virtual global teams of 85+ members).- Member of the global architecture team, defining IT strategy, technology roadmaps, standards, and service delivery processes for APAC.- Key member of global SWAT team, overseeing contract deliverables on major international accounts.- Managed global accounts (Client EDS, General Motors, Singapore Government, Fonterra, Ericsson, etc.) and led Asia Pacific regional teams in ten countries to undertake a major transformation program, project and service improvement activities.**Major Achievements:**- Graduated from the EDS ‘Top Gun’ program (Asia Pacific), which only the top 1% of 130,000+ EDS employees are selected and graduate from.- Outsourced IT services for EDS Asia Pacific Service Desks, Level 2 & 3 operations (Malaysia, India, and China).- Received Personal Achievement Award from global EDS CIO for successful migration of Windows Active Directory / Exchange email deployment with minimal disruption (10 countries, 35,000+ users).- Managed several major global programs and projects.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

**Major Achievements:**- Led the development and execution of Colonial ICT strategic plan and architectural roadmaps.- Transformed silo IT systems to enterprise-grade system solutions through migrations and consolidations.- Deployed new ITIL services across different business units.- Managed the technical transition of Colonial/EDS staff services to CBA during the merger.- Managed the technical transition of Colonial Ltd.'s subsidiary JMIFA to become an independent entity.- Managed various teams that provided 3rd-level support and produced engineering solutions.

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