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I specialise in the innovation and application of new digital paradigms, technologies and patterns to provide revenue positive digital transformation solutions or solve business challenges. I have designed & built solutions to automate processes in the Cloud allowing a Mining & Construction company to reduce operating costs, used cloud technologies & patterns to provide automated solutions to front line health data insight challenges, doubled the active subscriber base for a telecoms online site to one of the busiest sites in the country, architected and led the delivery of a solution to facilitate trade between hundreds of trade partners enabling Billions in trade annually, enabled a mobile operator to reduce customer churn through an analytics solution that calculated churn probabilities, and led the integration of an international mobile operator with a global mobile operator in one of the shortest implementation timeframes globally. Recently, I have achieved successful business outcomes with:- the vision, design and leadership of the implementation of a Unified Integration and Data approach at a disability service provider, leading to increased data quality, manual process reduction and financial insights.- the vision, design and leadership of the implementation of a complex payroll integration enabling consistent staff pay for a large enterprise in the eduction sector.Some of my distinguishing characteristics include that I invent ways to automate nearly everything, evangelize API-led, use Event-driven Microservices and Serverless Cloud native solutions a lot, implement Data Quality patterns, practice Data Modelling, implement great visibility practices and Unify Data & Integration approaches. I'm a staunch believer that almost everything is a reusable pattern and I embrace the fourth industrial revolution.My current areas of focus are Cloud native Enterprise Application Integration patterns, AWS & Azure Serverless patterns, Evolving Architectures, Microservices patterns, DevOps and all things Big Data: Data Lakehouses, Data governance, Data Warehouses, Data Exploration, Data Insights, Data Catalogs, Data Virtualization, Data Analytics, Data Modelling, Data Visualization, Data Transformations and Data Integration.