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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Leading a small team diving into the opportunity and potential impact of AI, Machine Learning and Automation across our payroll business and working collaboratively with our wider SaaS portfolio as well as across our business more widely. AI for good.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Associate Director for all operational and engineering functions for the Datacom DataPay Product. Responsible for Platform Engineering, Product Engineering, Professional Services, Managed Services (Payroll Outsourcing) and Customer Success.The role supports the NZ and AU Sales teams and works hand in hand with the Product Teams ensuring we provide rewarding and fulling careers for our people and also deliver engineering and operational excellence for our customers, partners and stakeholders.The team is distributed across Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne and other regions.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Reporting to the Head of SaaS Engineering at Datacom the role is focused on taking a strategic and holistic view across the Datacom SaaS Product Suite emphasizing how people, process and architecture & technology contribute to the success of our products in the market.The role is focused on streamlining areas of commonality across the product in terms of career paths for our engineers, process and tooling to support our Agile delivery teams as well as delivering our product suite on best in class born in the cloud platforms combined with Devops practices.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Reports directly to the Managing Director of Datacom Solutions Ltd in Datacom's Stategic Product Development Division. The role includes delivering the following services on behalf of the Division and as part of the wider group.Product Management Practice Lead – drive and embed strong product management processes and practices across Datacom Solutions and the wider Group. Working with Datacom's team of Product Managers to identify optimal tools, practices, frameworks and processes across the Group. Guiding product strategy across different lines of business. Expert Facilitator - Situational and strategic management of complex projects/issues/initiatives, especially across diverse cross-functional stakeholder groups driving the delivery of step-change improvements in operational performance.Data Scientist - Applying quantitative risk management to enhance strategic decision making using Monte Carlo Simulation and other related scenario modelling methodologies.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Strategy and Execution for our SaaS Product Suite in our vertical markets and beyond.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Delivering a lifecycle centric view of Application Portfolio Management.

Wellington

Development of new product/service lines through a combination of product partnerships and the creation of Datacom Intellectual Property. The investment board at Datacom funded an innovation initiative in the area of Enterprise Information Management. The solution addressed the need for Central Government Agencies to 'Optimise Digital Assets'. The solution is delivered as part of the Datacom Cloud Services Catalogue.

Wellington

Executive Relationship Management and Solution Sales for Government and Commercial clients in New Zealand.

Manager of the Java Group for Datacom's Software and Integration Business. Key clients are in the government, telecommunications and finance sectors.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Supply Chain Manager for Sun's High End Server Business - $BN global supply chain. PO Management, Supply Planning and Master Scheduling for Manufacturing of Sun's High End product portfolio. Global supply chain distributed across Asia, Mexico, Eastern and North Europe and North America.

Product Engineering Manager, responsible for all supply chain engineering of Sun's High End server product lines, with annual revenue in excess of $3bn.Product Engineering Manager for New Product Introductions associated with the Sun/Fujitsu Alliance.Lead technical negotiator for Sun/Fujitsu alliance on supply chain engineering topics.

Test Automation Software and Manufacturing Network and Server Infrastructure manager for 200,000 sq feet of Data Center. Managed software developers and data center support staff, as well as networking and systems adminstration professionals.Developed robust, software development, test and release contol processes for software deployed globally across three manufacturing sites at Sun.Developed innovative automation toolkits capable of automating 100% of server test and delivering failure analysis instructions to factory technicians.Architected, Advocated for funding for and helped deploy a new test automation system that has since been deployed throughout Sun's supply chain, and not just Sun's internal manufacturing facilities.

Test Engineer and Software Developer for factory automation systems. NPI specialist.(Transitioned from Sun's Scotland Factory, to California in 2000)Developed automated test suites, tools and scripts for Sun's High End Server manufacturing, culminating in leading up the New Product Introduction for Sun's Ultrasparc III and IV generations of servers.Skills : Interactive system communications, System Administration Automation, Operating System installation and configuration (Solaris Expert), Network Management and Debug.System failure message analysis, classification and reporting.

Research Associate working on advanced and novel algorithms for complex multivariate data analysis funded by the biotechnology sector. Published two peer reviewed papers in leading european and inter national journals.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Master of Business Adminstration (Executive)

Post Graduate Research Towards Phd, Applied Statistics, Funded For 3.5 Years As A Post Graduate Researcher

Activities and Societies: Aplied Tecyhnology in Microbiology Seminars (Part Time), Student IT Technical Support, Squash Club, Music.

Msc, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Computer Lab Support Technician Specialised in Parallel Computation and Algorithmic Analysis for parallelisation.

Bsc, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Squash BSc in Psychology which introduced me to AI and programming.