I founded Emanda (Em-and-A) Group to provide services and products that de-mystify the M&A world for start-up businesses through to emerging enterprises.Emanda Grow - Built to assist pre-revenue startups and businesses get off the ground and start generating revenue and being in the best position they can be to raise money. Emanda Scale - built to assist post revenue companies scale up and get running like a gazelle. We help you establish or imagine your big hairy audatious goal, and actually start doing something about getting there. Emanda Exit - We prepare you for exit by helping you read the book backward. What would buyers want? What do you want? How do we make you a best seller. Emanda change - was developed to help businesses change after we help them realise they need to so as to achieve their goals. No big change is without management, and so we bring this to our clientsEmanda Design - After trying to get amazing design out of others, we realise time and time again we were just creating it ourselves. So, we wrapped a business and service around that and now our clients enjoy it as a core service from Emanda. Emanda Digital - developed with an understanding that today, all businesses ARE technology businesses in some way, and we can assist in reviewing or creating your technology pathways given our collectives 100's of years of stratup through enterprise experience in the technology space.

Having founded Hava in 2014, I'm now all about scaling Hava and ensuring everyone's architectural monitoring and diagraming is automated! I'm all about growth. The Pitch...Cloud visibility made simple, discover and monitor all of your cloud services with ease!With an infinite supply of services offered by cloud providers it's easy to end up with a sprawling architecture. If you're in charge of maintaining, securing or paying for these systems it's an even bigger headache. Hava helps to visualize your resources with beautiful diagrams, and best of all, with no effort. And when it changes... you know about it!Hava your environments today! - http://hava.io

My focus is on growing the Servian Cloud, Digital Transformation, Data, DevOps practices at Servian. I additionally regionally look after Operations and Clients in South East Asia, Queensland and Victoria.I lead a mixed team of talented consulting experts focused on building rich technology solutions that utilise the latest in Cloud, DevOps, Data and Analytics services being supplied by our partner vendors. We are recognised Microsoft, Google and AWS cloud Partners and drive innovation through the use of their platforms, products and services. I have a keen interest in always doing more and more with Hashicorp, Snowflake, Elastic and Talend and many more amazing technology providers.

In late 2014, I built Vibrato from ground up to deliver one of Australia's first consultancies dedicated to Cloud and DevOps. The Blurb about who we were before being acquired by Servian is below.Some of the key metrics that were achieved as a business were:- CRN Fast50 2 years in a row. - Experienced 80%+ revenue growth 5 years in a row. - Built to a Revenue of approximately $12M per year. - Achieved CRN Digital Transformation award in 2017, 3 years into operations. (https://www.crn.com.au/news/meet-the-winners-of-the-2017-crn-impact-awards-457248)- AWS, Microsoft and Google partners across enterprise, SMB, Start Up, DevOps, Cloud, Data and more.- First international partner for Hashicorp- Hosted too many events to even remember. - Became a beacon for T-shirts over Shirts and consultants that get things done. The pitch...Vibrato helps clients deliver exceptional projects within the DevOps, automation and delivery space. We are Australia's first partners to Chef Software and Hashicorp to help bring modern solutions to your application architecture. Please get in touch if you're an engineer looking to work on some cutting edge automation projects, or likewise if you're a business looking to drag your IT projects into the new era.We have skilled engineers that can help with any of the following:• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS, GCE, Azure, Heroku, Digital Ocean cloud providers• Experience with Chef, Puppet & Ansible. CloudFormation and infrastructure-as-code principles• Design of cloud architectures with regards to performance, scalability and costs• Migration, automation and management of application environments• Product and business development, tools to help simplify the DevOps workflow• Extensive experience with Hashicorp tools, e.g. Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault• Software deployment and automation across Linux, OS X and Windows environments

My role in building Sacon was to be working to build, grow and deliver the Sacon Group Brand. In this role I ... * Developed the Cloud and Solutions Consultancy Practise* Developed the Architecture and Framework for Sacon’s Hybrid Cloud Solutions* Developed standards and architecture for open source and proprietary monitoring, configuration management, middleware and cloud ready applications.* Managed Vendor Partnerships and develop company road maps on technology.* Application Development, Project Management and Technical Business Analysis

My role at Yarris (Product and Development house) was to initially work through and uplift the developer velocity and infrastructure footprint at Yarris to support the ecosystem. It involved a lot of open source platforms, DevOps and in that, the bringing together of 3 major software delivery teams and the operational teams as one. Over time, the role evolved to headin up the cloud migration initiative which saw the company reduce their spend in infrastructure by over 80% and move the company to be more profitable with a reduction on the TCO of Infra.Throughout the time at Yarris, I provided and completed the following: * Manage the IT budget and services for the Cloud, Infrastructure, Middleware and Development Teams.* Application Development and Agile Project Management and Technical Business Analysis* Develop and implement the “To The Cloud” Strategy and Vision resulting in 80% reduction of spend in IT.* Cross Skill and train the development and infrastructure teams on DevOps.* Design and implement the continuous delivery solution for new and existing products.* Develop standards and architecture for open source and proprietary monitoring, configuration management, middleware and cloud ready applications.* Manage Vendor Partnerships and develop company road maps on technology.

In early 2012, Telstra embarked on a journey to create a new offering called the DCCN, which was established to take the burden out of time to release at Telstra. I took on the role of leading the team to deliver the application architecture, and design of what became a XaaS platform. Throughout the role, I worked with vendors and over 50 contractors and employees to design and release the implementation of the XaaS platform. Some of the highlights from the program were:- Worked with Cisco to release the UCS clusters and networking stack. - Architected and then delivered the integrated platform on premises. - Worked with Juniper and Cisco to build automation for their service catalogue consuption, drastically uplifting API capability. - Build the provisioning construct of templates and blueprints for environments- Delivered with a team of over 50. - Stake holder management and member of the data, cloud, virtulization and many other groups at Telstra. Working on the DCCN internal cloud solution, and the leading the direction of the XaaS Program (Anything as a Service) at Telstra.

Having lived the life of modern design and processes, I moved to ANZ to explore whether or not the world of enterprise banking could adopt the same principals and practises. I worked as an Enterprise Architect and through this I worked on some interesting projects:- Provide low level Unix architecture and design on a variety of projects.- Developed the design, and matured the architecture for Retail Risk Modelling platform using SAS Analytics, AIX and IBM P Series. This was the first P Series implementation at ANZ.- Created the Solution Design for the Comprehensive Credit Reporting platform using MS SQL Cluster, Oracle 11g and Purpose Built Applications. First Agile project for ANZ.- Design and guide delivery on the Risk Engine Replacement. The project used Oracle Solaris, Oracle DB, Murex, Oracle M series infrastructure, and many more other components.- Design and guide delivery of the new Esanda and ANZ Collection Dialler. The is the implementation of Black Box Appliance solutions in the bank.- Design and help implement Agile development and automated deployments in E2E environments. Solution uses Windows, MS-SQL, SCM, SVN, etc.Surprise surprise, banking wasn't ready for advanced developer velocity as there were too many constraints around compliance and critical banking licenses mandates. That said, I was able to develope the "AAAAGH" (As Agile as Agile Gets Here) Principals for future projects at the bank. This saw the development and product teams at least have visibility into critical timings for environment spit up, and the ability to at least quickly manage environments once they were created. We didn't get to cattle over pets, but we got to as good as we could.

Sensis was an amazing place to work and a buzzing culture that saw the creation of many movements and advances in developer velocity in the Industry. Working predominantly in the Unix and Linux space initially, I went on to lead that team and work towards delivering one of Australia's first DevOps movements in collaboration with James Martelletti and many others. Some of the projects that stand out are: - Delivering the White Pages and Yellow pages environment deployments in under 24 hours, down from 4-12 weeks!- Working to deliver the first Puppet implementation in Australia- Delivering the first presentation to whole of business around the benefits of automation and DevOps to assist in Developer Velocity and autonomy.

Briefly Worked with Medibank Private contractually. Whilst there, my largest piece of work was developing and implementing the BSR Phase 1 DR Design.The role entailed Infrastructure Architecture, design, implementations and working with the business and risk departments to ensure compliance for Business Critical system BCP protocols.

Completed a 6 month contract working with Broadworks and Solaris at Dimension Data working to complete several projects for Telstra and Telstra clear. In particular, I worked to deliver the Telstra Clear Infrastructure Gateways for New Zealand and flew back and forward to Auckland to set these up and commission them.I managed to pick up skills in Telephony, and IP based Telecommunications as well as working with DC systems and data centres.

Initially starting out in the UK Office, I worked at Betfair to put together the Australia version of Betfair Unix, Linux and storage infrastructure and systems. Based in Hammersmith, I worked to deliver the core infrastructure and build up the data centres that were then relocated to Hobart, Australia.Once the systems were shipped to Australia, I worked to setup and go live with the Betfair in Tasmania setup and delivered the Australian hub of the business to Australia via these systems.

Ran all of the Unix Services for the State of Victoria in collaboration with 3 other managers. Worked to deliver the whole of government solution for IT Infrastructure, specifically in the Unix/Linux space.- Managed a team of 20+ architects, engineers and consultants including vendor management and maintenance. - Managed the ongoing operations of all unix services to keep critical system uptimes for the state's fire and sustainability response amongst other state initiatives. - Part of the steering and working committee to construct the whole of government IT departments. - Managed a Unix Services portfolio of over $20M in infrastucture.

I worked with the Department of Sustainability and Environment to centralise their architecture of linux and unix systems across the government, including with forestry, fishing, fire and others.The key project that was completed before moving into the management role was delivering the architecture and subsequent infrastructure project to support the Mapping Databases for fire response across the state. This involved participating in the fire season and being available on call to repair any systems that supported fire response.

Moving into Synergy and consulting more broadly over internal systems management. I consulted and delived a series of projects, training and certifications across a broad set of clients and projects:- Worked to deliver the Harvest and Clear Case automation platform for NAB as the first time all source code was centrally compiled and managed by delivery teams in the bank. Had the pleasure of compiling every single application across over 30 different development languages. - Consulted to Telstra to deliver the SMS gateway infrastructure and design. - Consulted to Telstra to deliver the TIM and TAM (access and identity) solutions for their internal processing systems. - Certified in Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle, Solaris, J2EE and many other languages. Trained courses in IBM WebSphere .

Initially cut my teeth in first role after working in RMIT for 2 years whilst studying. Managed all of the internal systems for Adaptive across 3 geographical locations and system setups. Became qualified J2EE developer and engineer, as well as certified Solaris engineer.