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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Australia

I lead DataOps at Resolution Life, an insurance company, managing a team responsible for advanced data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and large-scale data processing. I focus on system availability, scalability, data quality, and continuous improvement, driving modernization through Observability, AIOps, and machine learning. I manage cloud spending and vendor relationships and deploy real-time analytics through CI/CD pipelines. Collaborating with engineering, testing and architecture teams, I foster a SRE/DevOps culture for continuous operational improvements and set and achieve team OKRs to deliver data-driven business outcomes.

New South Wales, Australia

I led a multi-disciplinary engineering transformation team across multiple domains, including Public and Private Cloud (Azure, AWS), Database and Middleware, IAM and Cybersecurity, Digital Workplace Technologies, and Networks. The focus was on driving consistency through best practices, reporting, and automation. This involved embedding security controls, observability (metrics, alerts, traces), and developing architecture strategies and roadmaps to drive automation and achieve LEAN and Shift Left objectives. Additionally, I guided adopting SRE and DevOps operating models to embrace future working methods.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

An identity and access management (IAM) transformation role and reporting into the GM of Cloud & Infrastructure with a dotted line to the chief information security officer. The position is to accelerate shared services' transformation of IAM, Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Active Directory, Public key infrastructure (PKI) and Domain Names Services (DNS) to bring it in line with the cloud-first strategy with a cloud identity first strategy with zero trust access model, RBAC and Just in time access. The primary focus of this role being the laser-sharp drive to digital transformation and driving the future vision, strategy, and roadmap for cloud shared services model, enabling Origin to adapt to a rapidly altering technology and organizational change: SSO, password protection, data protection controls, multifactor authentication (MFA), self-service password reset (SSPR), role-based access controls, privileged access management, B2B and the clean up of identities, onboarding, offboarding and user acceptance reviews and entitlement.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A business and technology transformation role resulted from the divestiture of two lines of business, involving the technology separation & migration, service delivery and service transition of the lines of business for IPO/retail sales-readiness. The program included new tenancies for AWS, Azure, a different hybrid on-prem operational technology (OT) model for non-cloud applications and workplace technologies: O365 (Skype for business, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive for business), EUC and Identity Access Management (IAM) AD domains for each unit. Service management & delivery/service transition wrapper and SLI, SLO and SLA reporting to commence the separation through a legally binding transitional services agreement (TSA). Both business units successfully sold (1) $1.6 billion (2) $267 million and successfully integrated with their respective acquirers' FY Q3 2019.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for a program of works to design, develop and implement the Origin Energy cloud-first service strategy. Established and lead a team of cloud architects, PMs and DevOps digital experts – cloud services team - to interface with application developers and the business units. The cloud services team being the "front door" to infrastructure & operations (I&O) for digital business (migrations, DevOps, and CI/CD); also, taking on operational responsibilities or acting as a coordination function by shielding the business from navigating I&O silos. Fostered cultural change for cloud adoption including people, process and technology to support cloud service penetration; the principle being start off small, and become the eventual target model of choice. The role involved working in a tightly coupled operating model with a managed cloud service provider for a BAU run.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for leading a team of 20+ pre & post sales architects and professional services cloud consultants. All providing a range of billable and delivery services to existing and new customers to help transform their business towards Telstra partner Cloud Platforms; Azure, AWS, Softlayer and Cisco CCS; leveraging the latest advances in cloud platforms (public, private and hybrid clouds, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS service models that scale up and scale out). These consumption-based services included cloud readiness assessment, short and long range planning & design, workload assessment, migration & integration, strategy & roadmap, capacity & performance reviews and disaster recovery. All involved working closely with customers’ technical and architecture teams to translate business process design into full set of applications – functional, integration, data migration, quality and security – to mitigate risks and ensure alignment with defined goals. The role involved working closely with DevOps and agille operating model to drive benefits of using cloud.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Master Of Science, Information Systems

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)