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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

• Summary: Leading global provider of digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, workspaces for tomorrow and cybersecurity for government & enterprise clients. The company has over $US7.5 billion turnover in 58 countries. The.
• Serves as a corporate resource, providing upper management and executives with broad based technical direction and guidance on the entire quality assurance function
• Instigate and drive the adoption of R&D methodologies, tools and processes
• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders and vendors to identify strategic goals and business value solutions
• Define the test strategy and lead the QA team to identify and adopt changes, for both technology and business, to achieve the quality expected of a global cloud platform provider
• Provide mentoring and coaching to people across the development teamKey achievements:

Sydney Area, Australia

• Summary:Planit Software Testing Solutions is the 4th largest pure play test consultancy in the world.Key responsibilities:
• Provide analysis of current quality assurance, testing and delivery process for a range of clients. Covering test strategy creation, implementation plan, schedule and resourcing
• Perform all aspects of Test Team Management and Technical Leadership for Planit and on client sites.
• Perform scoping, proposals and proof-of-concept projects for clients investing in functional automation.
• Build high performing test (manual and automation) teams.
• Develop and deliver training courses, external and internal, for a number automation and test tools.Key achievements:

Sydney, Australia

• Summary: Symantec Corporation is the largest security software company and the 4th largest software company in the world, employing more than 18,000 fulltime staff. Symantec provides a broad range of products spanning.
• Management of concurrent agile testing projects (Hot fixes, Point fixes, Roll-ups, Service Packs & Major Releases) for on/off shore teams; including test strategy, test plans, resourcing, estimation, progress tracking.
• People management of 4 full time staff; including mentoring, performance appraisals, training and personal development planning.
• Drive automated test efforts using a variety of tools (open source, commercial and custom built).
• Liaise with key stake holders to scope product requirements, technical specifications, delivery schedules, and resourcing requirements.
• Review internal, partner and customer defect lists to control priority and workflow to development & test teams.

Sydney, Australia

Summary: During this time I was FOREX trading using a variety platforms, brokers and strategies. With a focus on researching technical indicators/signals and developing automated trading strategies

Sydney, Australia

• Summary: Altiris was a market leader in many aspects of enterprise systems management. In 2007 Altiris was acquired by Symantec. As a Development and Test Manager at Altiris I was responsible for all engineering.
• Ownership of all test activities for Patch Management Data project.
• Architect & implement tools needed to create, maintain and re-distribute Patch Management Data.
• End-to-end release management of Patch Management Data, for both development and test, on fortnightly schedule within agreed operational SLA’s
• Management and Technical Lead for distributed team of 35 staff (3 full time local resources, 32 contract offshore resources).
• Design and implement automated and manual test environments.

• Summary: S2 produces an open platform transaction processing software package that is used by banks, financial institutions & other companies worldwide. Key responsibilities:
• Management of the IT infrastructure, covering 7 countries within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
• Management and participation in all IT related global infrastructure projects. Such as AD Migration, Disaster Recovery, Corporate Security, Site Relocations, WAN upgrades
• Regional fiscal software, hardware and network IT budgeting.
• Application packaging and operating system roll-outs for desktop and server SOE’s
• Design and creation of Corporate Standards documentation and procedures.

• Summary: Fujitsu Australia is a systems, network & solutions outsourcing division of Fujitsu International/ICL Corporation.Key responsibilities:
• Provide 24x7 3rd Line Server support for 100+ servers in a technologically diverse environment.
• Supervise, manage and implement server builds, changes to standard configurations, upgrades, audits and software roll-outs.
• Systems monitoring and performance analysis.
• Participate in a wide range of project teams as a technical consultant, recommending system specifications.
• Test and manage hardware, software and large scale application roll-outs.

Education record

Computer Science (Deferred)

Electrical Engineering (Deferred)