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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Responsible for the implementation (end to end) of the data management transformation program for the Telematics Analytics Platform at Austroads/TCA. • Transformation is technology based (IaaS to PaaS) with the implementation of a Datalake / Databricks solution to manage big data on Azure Cloud as well as related "run" processes needed to successfully transition and operate in production.

• Executed six medium to large Clearing and Settlement and Risk Management implementations across London Clearing House (LCH), Singapore Stock Exchange, Colombo Stock Exchange, and Ghana Stock Exchanges. • Turned around the Equities build and implementation, enabling LCH to successfully launch in March 2020 at the height of market volatility caused by COVID• Delivered 8 Continuous Improvement and Regulatory Change production upgrades in 2021/2022 with zero degradation of quality enabling the platform to clear 1.94B and 2B trade sides respectively in 2021 and 2022• Turned around the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) Equities program from red to green resulting in a successful launch enabling SGX to introduce key improvements to the market• Led the Fixed Income platform delivery to LCH (requirements to launch) in 9 months, doing so in a 100% working-from-home environment amid COVID-19 lockdowns• Successfully carried out 6 build streams and three go-live deployments in 2022 despite facing 25% staff turnover amidst crippling national challenges (fuel shortages, extended power cuts, high inflation).• Oversaw the growth of the Post Trade vertical from 25 staff (Mar 2015) to 120 (Dec 2016)• Spearheaded the creation of a "quality at source" delivery utilizing Agile, BDD, Test Automation, CI/CD, Automated Coverity, Blackduck, CAST, resulting in zero P1 or P2 incidents in live financial markets for all launched products.• Successfully transitioned the delivery model based on Agile Scrum and SAFe for 120-person Post Trade team, leading to quicker releases (reduced from 9 weeks to 3 weeks), improved release quality (with fewer than five defects per release compared to over 40 before), and reduced time to market• Migrated all “on-prem” development, build, test, and deployment environments (400+) to AWS Cloud enabling Market Services to achieve the run cost reduction target of 40%

Melbourne, Australia

Jan 2011 – Dec 2013, Project Manager on TAFE ICT SMS1. Systems Integrations stream • Responsible for managing the team for the requirements, design, development, and testing of 5 system interfaces to third-party products using T1’s ETL technology.• Third-party systems included the Library system, Time Table system, and Learning Management System, to name a few.2. Systems Enhancements stream • Responsible for leading the ground-up development of a number of complex enhancements to the TechnologyOne Student Management system. 3. Legacy Application Support Stream• Responsible for managing Level 2 and Level 3 support for the TAFE Sector for the existing QL-S system.4. Government Reporting and Reconciliation stream • Responsible for leading the team for managing the design, and development of the Skills Victoria Reconciliation tool for the TAFE sector on the legacy QL-S system.• Responsible for managing the porting of the Skills Victoria Reconciliation tool to work with the TechnologyOne Student Management system.5. Post Go Live Support Stream for TAFE Institutes• Responsible for developing a unified support model for 9 TAFEs and managing the process from service design to service transition September 2011 – to present, Project Manager on Swinburne University BI1. Government Reporting and Reconciliation stream • Responsible for managing the project for enhancing the Skills Victoria Reconciliation tool to meet a variety of business requirements of the client including the development of a number of complex BI reports to track and estimate government funding.September 2011 – to present, Project Manager on Tasmania Polytechnic ($ >200k )1. Legacy Application Support Stream• Responsible for managing Level 2 and Level 3 support for Tasmania Polytechnic for the existing QL-S system.

Melbourne, Australia

March 2009 – May 2010 - Program Manager I was promoted to the Program Manager position by VLA to guide the entire VLA BASE program to Go-Live. This included 3 application projects, 2 integration projects coupled with organization change and communication. The change resulting from this transformation will impact all staff across Victoria for both its internal and external stakeholder base.Duties and Responsibilities1. Established a program governance structure for the implementation of BASE.2. Development and tracking of an end-to-end project implementation plan to deliver BASE.3. Working with individual project managers to ascertain project health and provide guidance for the resolution of problems and resolving decisions at the board level.5. Managed resource management at a program level (staff, environments, system dependencies, etc).6. Reporting to the program board on the project risks/issues and how they in turn impact the implementation of the program.7. Tracking of costs, schedule, and scope and advice to the Program Board in decision making.8. Working closely with the Change Management group in defining communication strategies, application support strategies, and service desk strategies to support the transformation.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Duties and Responsibilities1. Planning and executing the TechnologyOne Financials upgrade into production.2. Analysis of the business requirements and extract the integration requirements.3. Documentation and review of integration solution options and presenting solution options to the project and program stakeholders4. Attending and conducting workshops and presentations to elicit and validate business requirements to derive integration requirements.5. Accountable and responsible for defining feasible integration solutions for the different applications based on architecture, cost, performance, and data availability constraints.6. Managing stakeholders which include board members, business users, program managers, project managers, and vendors.7. Setting up and initiating the integration projects to enable the business systems to be ready for implementation8. Involved in vendor selection and project brief development9. Development of the project plan and detailed project schedule for delivery of the projects.10. Initiating, managing, and tracking the projects from end to end for the ground-up development of the system integrations.11. Vendor ManagementOutcomes:1. Extracted and developed scope and technical integration definitions for 5 major intra-system interfaces for the following products.• ADERANT Expert (off the shelf CRM product)• ATLAS (custom software .NET 3.5 based on SOA)• Technology Financials (off the shelf Financials product)• Novel GroupWise (off the shelf Email Application)2. Working with the BA and PM for CPMS I was able to provide feedback on design flaws that could negatively impact performance in a live environment. This coupled with other points led the Program Board to follow an alternative solution for key scope in the contract to save additional cost/time and post-go-live impacts.3. Successfully re-aligned some integration to reduce cost/time.4. Successfully identified integration.

Project Manager – Advisor Central Support – PFPC Global Financials 1. Challenges with the provision of 24/7 support to key financial institutions such as Fidelity Investments, Putnam, in the USA.2. Managing of workload, team motivation, and regular planned staff transitions with no impacts to service delivery3. Managing conflicts with clients resulting from release and configuration management processes not being successfully executed.Project Manager – IBM (Ascential product range – Meta Stage, Data Stage, etc.)1. 1 of 2 PMs on PMO for IBM (total team size 30+)2. Managed 4 simultaneous projects for Ascential Software (acquired by IBM) with different stakeholders3. Planned and established frameworks to manage the growth of the program to 80+ staff4. Was offered onsite Program Manager to manage IBM in USAProject Manager – Vista International 1. Successfully delivered 3 projects for Vista (SDU, 8CCC, Re-Engineering)2. Was able to step in to 2 key projects that were behind in quality and delivery milestones and bring the projects to a successful completion.3. I was able to successfully manage a number of personality clashes / disagreements between technical team members and move the project to completion.4. Managed the software development of 8CCC and Re-Engineering projects using bleeding edge technologies and achieve successful delivery within minimal scope loss.5. Successfully ramped the project team to 40+ resources in a short period of time and introduced streamlined processes to significantly improve quality to achieve UAT acceptance by client.6. Introduced agile concepts of product backlogs, continuous daily integration, automated unit testing, daily builds, daily smoke tests, daily stand up meetings, collaborative problem solving within a semi iterative product for Re-Engineering project after experiencing issues following a semi iterative model of development.

Masters In Electronic Commerce

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Business

Certificate In Higher Education, Information Systems

Cambridge London Ordinary And Advanced Level, Biology, General

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