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Lower Hutt, Nz

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Leading the team building a stronger Aotearoa through fostering and growing careers with Māori & Pacific Island Peoples in New Zealand’s Technology Sector

New Zealand

Owned the remediation and alignment of the core 2023 Census systems for data processing, Insights and product dissemination. Returning failing programmes of work to green within 4 months.Successful delivery entailed delivering an integrated plan, across 7 teams (140 people), their re-organisation, reinvigoration and successful $MM budget uplifts. Key to the success was being able to unify the teams, right sizing system processes to uphold quality, whilst balancing time and cost.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Managed the enterprise Cloud Data & Analytics programme. 1 of 5 organisational pillar programmes, enabling a significant shift in enterprise cloud data capability. This included the design of a multi-year strategy to deliver a common cloud data platform, analytical tools, inter agency data exchange and enterprise support model. This included consolidating and improving capabilities in:- Data Management & Governance- Data Warehousing- Analytics and Intelligence

Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Senior specialist providing technology consulting services across private and public organisations- SME engagement director leading the delivery of a data and cloud platform strategy for Māori wellbeing- Enable major local authority to reach savings targets in excess of $90m with identification of new ongoing revenue of $12m/pa- MIQ Data system and finance integration, review and uplift. Enabling semi-automated debt recovery and ministerial reporting

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• A trusted leader in building high performing teams, owning the enterprise technology vision and its successful delivery. • Delivered hybrid cloud transformation business case o Approval $30m over 5-year. 3rd largest spend in RBNZ’s history o Uplifting security, re-platforming from on-premise to PaaS & IaaS, technology consolidation and modernisation. o Integrated new ways of working through Scaled Agile (SAFe) delivery methodology• Owned vision and delivery strategy… Show more • A trusted leader in building high performing teams, owning the enterprise technology vision and its successful delivery. • Delivered hybrid cloud transformation business case o Approval $30m over 5-year. 3rd largest spend in RBNZ’s history o Uplifting security, re-platforming from on-premise to PaaS & IaaS, technology consolidation and modernisation. o Integrated new ways of working through Scaled Agile (SAFe) delivery methodology• Owned vision and delivery strategy of AWS public cloud data and analytics platform. o World first delivery for Central Banking data use o Cross industry & vendor partnership ensuring re-useable technical model, to uplift Pacific Central Banks and NZ agencies o Reviewed as best practice, highest security controls, seen in NZ for delivery type• Instantiated and grew substantially, RBNZ’s first Enterprise Architecture practice o Built and directly lead team capability o Developed whole of enterprise technology vision and target architecture o Revived partner relationships, improving business and technology collaboration o Uplifted wider technology group practices with formalised multi-team TOGAF training • Resurrected failed ePMO and project management office o Positively transformed enterprise wide business initiative planning and management o Repeatedly identified and remedied early failing enterprise projects to success o Formalised P3M3 project process rigour • People uplift through growing Agile delivery capability and enabling cross functional devsecops teams. • Hail mary remediation of major supervision system, improving stability and producing 92% process time reduction. Show less

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Delivered technology strategy to consolidate multiple digital products with 1300 active developers onto simplified tech stack• Defined Cloud adoption technology uplift to reduce reliance on internally hosted solutions, enabling global delivery targets, by meeting international regulations.

London, United Kingdom

• Deliver mobile and browser based retail banking solutions within a $1.7bn Digital Transformation program, to enable drastic cost reductions by replacing high street branch services with digital offerings.• Designed and embedded a repeatable, auditable Agile delivery model for teams in both scrum and Kanban ways of working. • Provide leadership to 14 global teams in adopting a continuous integration and delivery model.• Own deep architectural and technical reviews over business… Show more • Deliver mobile and browser based retail banking solutions within a $1.7bn Digital Transformation program, to enable drastic cost reductions by replacing high street branch services with digital offerings.• Designed and embedded a repeatable, auditable Agile delivery model for teams in both scrum and Kanban ways of working. • Provide leadership to 14 global teams in adopting a continuous integration and delivery model.• Own deep architectural and technical reviews over business risk, security and internal compliance controls for dispersed teams.• Integration of Cloud based micro-service powered applications and services into standing infrastructure.• A forte being able to transpose regulatory and compliance responsibilities and assimilate them back into the working culture of the company without impeding velocity. Show less

London

Created the strategy and roadmap, then delivered a global trading User Interface migration for the Investment banks Global Markets (Derivatives / Rates / Swaps / Options ), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) and FX businesses over 5 years. - Led the transition of 12 globally dispersed trading desks, daily management of 100’s of books and thousands of types of risk reports, from a operating model of 65 excel spreadsheets and 2 desktop applications to single desktop application. -… Show more Created the strategy and roadmap, then delivered a global trading User Interface migration for the Investment banks Global Markets (Derivatives / Rates / Swaps / Options ), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) and FX businesses over 5 years. - Led the transition of 12 globally dispersed trading desks, daily management of 100’s of books and thousands of types of risk reports, from a operating model of 65 excel spreadsheets and 2 desktop applications to single desktop application. - Implemented automated testing frameworks covering 12 developers and 400k lines of code reducing Quality Assurance (QA) time from 3 weeks to 2 days - Successfully implemented the first internal Agile Delivery methodology. 2 week sprints, continuously pushing product live globally. - Delivered, a single source, risk management interface that serviced 1200 users on Trading, Product Control & Risk Management teams. - Reduced development costs by 40% replacing external consultant agencies, with in-house talent. - White labeled project components for other teams reducing new project startup times by 95%. - Line managed UX and development team of 16. Responsible for a $5m, 4 year project to migrate internal risk delivery processes in EMEA, Asia and the US to new strategic technologies, for 7 risk management systems - Negotiated pricing, for an Agile, IT build using offshore (India) vendors to meet 40% cost reduction targets - Worked with MD level stakeholders across the global businesses, successfully defining delivery strategy, roadmaps and budgets. - Successfully mobilized delivery team of 22, implementing weekly progress reporting and feedback cycles at all levels, that ensured all production delivery timelines and budget targets were met. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Built a multi-location BAU delivery and support team based in Poland, India and the UK for Global Markets Risk and Profit and Loss (PnL) Platform. - Implemented a new tracking queue for 24/5 BAU support. Improved incident resolution time by 70% and system uptime to 99.9% - Increased team size 4x without cost increase using offshore talent reallocation - Created a knowledge center and shaped and delivered the Run Book ensuring quality and consistency for global… Show more Built a multi-location BAU delivery and support team based in Poland, India and the UK for Global Markets Risk and Profit and Loss (PnL) Platform. - Implemented a new tracking queue for 24/5 BAU support. Improved incident resolution time by 70% and system uptime to 99.9% - Increased team size 4x without cost increase using offshore talent reallocation - Created a knowledge center and shaped and delivered the Run Book ensuring quality and consistency for global customersShaped and delivered the initiation of the regulatory Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) programme - Ran cross department workshops delivering architecture and dependency matrix for implementation across 3 major risk management platforms - Successfully delivered initial scenario framework modelLead the UI delivery for Initial Margin Calculation (IMC) regulatory project - Reinstated trading and business workshops identifying architecture and process differences reducing development effort required by 80%. - Instigated 1 week Agile sprints, increasing delivery transparency and stakeholder buy in. - Rebuilt technical dependency maps, identifying gaps that fed RAID management reportsSuccessfully embedded an improved capability model for the Investment Banks London based It group, using an onshore (London) / offshore (India) delivery model with external vendors to deliver on 5 projects simultaneously. - Increased PM, BA and development capacity of 21 reports. - Improved delivery times through strong programme management oversight and vigilant talent acquisition quality. - Kept to all high pressure regulatory milestone targets, ensuring spend remained in budget.Led the delivery of the first cloud-based UI trading technology implementation for the Repos and Govies trading desks. - Replaced existing application framework ensuring 50% reduction in TCO (Total cost of Ownership) - Instituted new global support model ensuring uptime and reliability of system Show less

London, United Kingdom

Implemented offshore model for testing of complex IT trading system. Reviewing 120 developers 1.5m+ lines of code on a single project. Provided Agile based retrospective bi-weekly testing cycles. Reduced QA time from 4 weeks to 4 days. Led a QA team of 12.

Created a premium mobile txt service and targeted advertising platform. Managed the business start-up, and growth strategy. Negotiated contracts, hiring and and profitable sale of the business.

Managed the redesign of AOL internet properties such as Yellowpages to highly monetizable user-friendly experiences. Through analyzing drop out points, user flows and the redevelopment of online advertising solution, we increased site revenue to over €1mil p/m

Headed the startup of a new creative agency department, for an existing tech company , expanding in a new city. I managed client side and in-house delivery of large websites, portals and CMS’. Recaptured $350k of corporate business from previously lost accounts. Worked directly with clients, delivering on time in budgets projects. Core skills included hands on usability analysis and design for banking, governmental, insurance and travel groups.

In this Silicon Valley start-up I successfully managed dispersed groups of developers and designers, revising system architectures and processes enabling successful deployment of a revamped service on time and budget.

Running a team of 6,in house developers and designers, I managed customer relationships and project delivery. Flagship product delivered was incorporated into Microsoft health vault.

Ran user workshops and redesigned the process flows for job seekers and advertisers for Australasia's largest job portal. Implementing the new designs saw a 35% immediate advertiser spend increase. User retention from referrals increased with 65% lower drop out rates on landing pages.

Master Of Art (Ma), Virtual Communication

Comprehensive study and application of the facilitation of communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing to enable internet.

New Media, New Media Design

Comprehensive full-time qualification in the design, production and implementation of web and multimedia communications

Education record