I am part of the Group Business Enablement team within Group Enablement. We aspire to ideate and deliver business solutions that create better experiences together for a better tomorrow. We achieve this in partnership with our businesses, through alignment and prioritisation of strategic and complex initiatives to enable the Group strategy.In this role, I am accountable for developing new concepts and ideas leveraging data and systems to help make things simpler for our customers and team, including prioritisation of initiatives across the Core Systems aligned to Food Group Strategy.

Reporting to General Manager, Endeavour Technology- Developing effective business partnering and being the key liaison for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Pinnacle Drinks and Asset Protection & Safety for technology needs.- Participate in strategic planning sessions and being responsible for the development and implementation of technology solution roadmaps aligned to business strategic pillars.- Develop and manage the EDG IT Initiatives Portfolio ($10M to $15M) and oversee the launch of solutions/projects and help to maximise the positive impact on the organisation.- Creating and analysing relevant information and developing concept recommendations that are presented to relevant forums for decision making.- Staying connected - utilising my formal and informal network of technical and business resources to effectively coordinate virtual team members across Brands, Woolworths IT, Group Services and External Partners to deliver outcomes.- Collaborating within relevant forums to ensure solution compatibility with company standards.- Collaborating with the key stakeholders and partners (brand business partners, project management office, digital tribes, core and retail systems product owners (SAP, Retalix/NCR POS, SignIQ Ticketing and Infrastructure), cyber security, procurement and Brand finances) on the intake process and prioritisation of candidate projects across the company.- Creating consensus with other functions within and outside Brands as to the timing of solution/project implementations including sharing of cost where it is mutually beneficial.- Participating in strategic and budgetary planning processes with Senior Business Leaders.- Participating in field research in pursuit of new solutions & process improvements and evaluating the applicability and usefulness of current solutions across BWS and Dan Murphy’s.

Reported to IT Chief Technology Officer- Managed FY15 budget portfolio of $8M with all agreed projects delivered within 97% of the allocated budget- Accountable for being the "link" between the division and IT to drive successful outcomes.- Strategic and portfolio planning for division.- Driving and leading divisional requirements for new and changing services.- Developing Business Case and budgets for a portfolio.- Developing a "partnering" based relationship rather than being seen as technology provider.- Business development and analysis.- Managing project deliver via virtual teams across business and IT.- Vendor engagement for technology trends, concepts and roadmap development

Reported to Head of Infrastructure Services RunIT- Accountable for sourcing and delivery of infrastructure solutions that are required to fulfil and enable Stores current and future business needs for Supermarkets, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, BIGW, Petrol and Masters Hardware.- Stores Hardware Refresh across Supermarkets, Dan Murphy's, BWS, Petrol and BIG W (FY13 ~$5M, FY14 ~$6M).- Manage Stores Infrastructure Team Report (7 FTE + 2 C).- Established Cisco based Customer WiFi service as standard for new Supermarket and Dan Murphy's Stores and Norwest Support Office.

Reported to Head of Infrastructure Services- Establish and run a new End User Computing team to focus on end user experience (3 FTE + 2 C).- Establish and run a new Infrastructure Innovations team to focus on idea generation and concept works (3 FTE).- Run the stores infrastructure team providing required infrastructure services (9 FTEs).- Introduced iPAD and iPhone BYO service to replace BlackBerry service.- Established in-store technology standards for Masters Hardware business.- Introduce in-store server virtualisation to reduce cost of SOE development while increasing frequency of Store Releases.

Responsible for introducing security policies, control and automation capabilities across the newly deployed Windows NT environment.

7 years plus across software programming, VAX and Alpha mid range engineering, network engineering and consulting service for clients.