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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Led the creation of an innovative, secure, scalable and high-performance cloud platform that was critical in the transformation of IXUP from a startup, through IPO, to an ASX listed organisation and beyond into specific market verticals. Played a key role in evolving and formalising the company's development and business processes to obtain and maintain ISO 27001 certification as well as SOC 2 Type 2. Continued to lead the team and technology through several market specific products based on… Show more Led the creation of an innovative, secure, scalable and high-performance cloud platform that was critical in the transformation of IXUP from a startup, through IPO, to an ASX listed organisation and beyond into specific market verticals. Played a key role in evolving and formalising the company's development and business processes to obtain and maintain ISO 27001 certification as well as SOC 2 Type 2. Continued to lead the team and technology through several market specific products based on the core platform as well as the acquisition and integration of aligned technologies and business including DataPOWA, Data Republic and BetStop: The National Self Exclusion Register.▪ Developed and implemented a strategic product roadmap that transformed a unique idea from a pilot "on-premise" solution to a secure, scalable, market ready cloud platform to realise the founders vision.▪ Worked closely with technology partners, including Microsoft and Microsoft research to incorporate the latest encryption technologies, for example encrypted fuzzy matching and encrypted computations, to deliver an innovative and unique software platform.▪ Introduced new development and business processes to enable secure, cost efficient and fast delivery of software while maintaining a high level of quality.▪ Re-skill of existing team in new processes and technologies to enable delivery of cloud platform and continual improvements. Executive Management Results▪ Delivered multiple releases of core product as well as new market specific products on time and on budget.▪ Defined and delivered a cyber security strategy that ensured the business and platforms are resilient to the latest cyber threats.▪ Successfully managed the technology team through IPO, expansion, acquisitions and integrations.▪ Formalised internal process to successfully obtain and retain ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 and IRAP.▪ Created a strong team culture resulting in high staff engagement and staff retention rates. Show less

Hired at the start of the development of the new Hemisphere platform to provide recommendations to the founder/CEO on:▪ Key technical hires.▪ Implementing new development processes.▪ Aligning development and business processes to ISO standards.▪ Cyber security strategic roadmap and risk management.▪ Management of R&D tax incentive applications.

Hired to assist executive management oversea the offshore development of a new scalable cloud platform and ensure alignment to business requirements.▪ Ensure technical architecture, development and delivery meet the requirements▪ Advised on medium technology roadmap and cloud strategy▪ Advised on technical roles and hiring

Promoted to lead an innovative transformation of all Corum Group legacy applications into modern, reliable, low maintenance, high performance systems in response to declining customer confidence. Developed robust IT strategic plans, change agendas and business cases that delivered process improvement, security, availability and business alignment.Shaped strategic direction by developing a 5 year strategic IT and product roadmap to transform and evolve technology by replacing outdated… Show more Promoted to lead an innovative transformation of all Corum Group legacy applications into modern, reliable, low maintenance, high performance systems in response to declining customer confidence. Developed robust IT strategic plans, change agendas and business cases that delivered process improvement, security, availability and business alignment.Shaped strategic direction by developing a 5 year strategic IT and product roadmap to transform and evolve technology by replacing outdated platforms. Provided high level strategic advice to CEO and Board in relation to tender processes, business planning, operational services and support services.▪ Secured buy-in to lead project to transform Corum’s major product. Phase One completed in 9 months, with 2000 customers upgraded smoothly, with minimal impact to business and no loss of data. Product has been well received in the market, increasing customer satisfaction/confidence 30%.▪ Coordinated 20+ 3rd party vendors within the pharmacy industry to standardise and secure access to Corum data, resulting in a more stable operating environment and improved data security.▪ Built a culture of excellence, motivation and responsiveness during a period of extreme change and uncertainty by focusing on behaviours, cross skilling and a new development team structure. ▪ Reduced operating costs via an automated testing suite that reduced the testing process from 6 weeks to 1 day.▪ Led establishment of a PMO to increase structure around projects and drive improvements in project productivity, efficiency and performance. Executive Management Results:▪ Built an IT succession planning program aligning talent with future leadership needs, increasing staff retention.▪ Reduced inbound customer calls 25% and improved the customer experience by stabilising Corum’s core product.▪ Reduced testing lifecycle from 6 weeks to 1 day via an automated testing suite. Show less

Sydney

Headhunted by CIO to drive and rationalise the replacement of disparate legacy systems and deliver a high availability, high performance, multilingual, global web solution. This was achieved in a constantly changing environment with tight timeframes and moving deadlines / goal posts, with responsibility for building a team from ground up, and undertaking project management responsibilities in addition to technical role.Successfully held global development team together for 5 years to see… Show more Headhunted by CIO to drive and rationalise the replacement of disparate legacy systems and deliver a high availability, high performance, multilingual, global web solution. This was achieved in a constantly changing environment with tight timeframes and moving deadlines / goal posts, with responsibility for building a team from ground up, and undertaking project management responsibilities in addition to technical role.Successfully held global development team together for 5 years to see project StudyGlobal through to completion.Ongoing involvement in IT strategy planning process, working collaboratively with business units in delivering efficient business solutions in technically challenging and critical environments.Led change to more formal Agile development process to improve reporting and transparency and make development cycle more reliable, predictable and manageable.Enhanced finance system and improved performance, reporting and auditability.Assumed co-responsibility for review and work allocation of offshore development team.Built a high performance team via knowledge sharing, regular team meetings, and mentoring. Strong impact on team knowledge, performance and morale resulted in maintaining extremely low staff turnover for 4+ years of project delivery, in a high turnover field. Refined build process, reduced risk and improved transparency via a continuous integration process, best practice standards and methodology and improved stakeholder engagement. Developed coding standards and regularly reviewed developer work to ensure standards were maintained.Key project results:▪ Positioned Study Group as a global leader, with competitors unable to compete on services offered▪ Enabled online system access for a global network of agents and staff▪ Geographic expansion into more countries and centres▪ Efficient handling of large volumes of data, improved reporting,simplified communication and global management Show less

Sydney

Brought in as an external consultant before joining and leading internal teams in delivering SmartTrader and Oasis projects. As the technical and system expert for both projects, made a strong impact on team performance and morale in a highly sensitive business environment.SmartTrader:Led team in developing and delivering a cutting edge, state of the art solution for online ad design and magazine management / production, resulting in a significant reduction in operational costs… Show more Brought in as an external consultant before joining and leading internal teams in delivering SmartTrader and Oasis projects. As the technical and system expert for both projects, made a strong impact on team performance and morale in a highly sensitive business environment.SmartTrader:Led team in developing and delivering a cutting edge, state of the art solution for online ad design and magazine management / production, resulting in a significant reduction in operational costs. Managed solution architecture, technical design, implementation, support / maintenance, and staff recruitment.Improved the software development processes by using Agile methodologies, continuous integration and test-driven developmentUtilised innovative technologies to deliver a pioneering and market leading solutionEstablished traceability between requirements and application architecture/designPartnered with business units to define approach and address business needsDelivered significant costs reductions to the business on release of the systemImplemented a more efficient solution that allowed ads to be delivered in multiple formatsDrove change by identifying problems with pre-existing development processesOasis:Recruited and led team in the staged delivery of a new integrated system to replace a number of disparate legacy systems, facilitating efficient and streamlined management of all aspects of magazine production. Managed solution architecture, technical design and implementation of new solutions in conjunction with testing and deployment to test and live environments.Automated build and testing process by introducing continuous integration and unit testingCut development cycle down by adopting an Agile development process, with staged delivery of solutionPartnered with business analysts to ensure accurate/timely delivery of requirementsCreated a structured development framework enabling developers of varying levels of experience to contribute safely to the project Show less

Sydney

As subject matter expert for planned solutions, worked with C++ and .NET technologies to lead the successful execution and delivery of several large scale projects. Functioned as network and system administrator; maintained visual Source Safe and Microsoft Exchange Server; sole accountability for all technical systems; and operated as technical lead.Won 2002 Consensus Software Award for development of Omniscope, a project management and communication tool to streamline and reduce costs of… Show more As subject matter expert for planned solutions, worked with C++ and .NET technologies to lead the successful execution and delivery of several large scale projects. Functioned as network and system administrator; maintained visual Source Safe and Microsoft Exchange Server; sole accountability for all technical systems; and operated as technical lead.Won 2002 Consensus Software Award for development of Omniscope, a project management and communication tool to streamline and reduce costs of all project related activity. Sole accountability for all technical systems. Software subsequently sold to major corporations such as Commbank and Deloittes. Exceeded company brief in developing Omniscope, by creating a project/risk management solution that competed competitively with similar solutions from vendors such as Microsoft. Think Software since moved operations to the U.S. to expand on solution with support from Microsoft.Led teams through successful project management and changing technology platforms, significantly improving team performance and knowledge base via the introduction of new technologies, knowledge sharing and training. Managed full project lifecycle for key projects, namely Omniscope, Omniscope Online, Rocket and SmartTrader. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Simulation models of shared memory multiprocessor systems

Bachelor Of Science (Honours), Computer Science, 1St Class