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Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

We are the leading education and human transformation company for results driven individuals, we have impacted over 50 million people with our programs/products and events. We believe with the right structure and the right education every human can reach their full potential.Helping people become powerful creators by harnessing the power of their Superconscious to let go of resistance and move forward into where they are meant to be in their life

Melbourne, Australia

CXi Software is a fully AWS cloud based FinTech scaleup specialising in the SaaS provision of a one stop shop suite of products for Unit Registry covering Registry Administration, Investor Portal, Advisor Portal, Fund Manager Portal and Portfolio Manager Portal. - Elicited 5yr and 2 yr strategic roadmaps, decomposed into rolling 6month feature trains - Initiated, led and implemented a successful Agile Transformation- Uplifted entire Agile competency by coaching all staff in Agile Ways of Working focusing on SAFe, Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. - Initiated regular cadence of agile ceremonies- Established structure, stability, direction and focus for the company- Transformed culture through servant leadership model, fostering greater collaboration and communication resulting in 450% performance improvement, sustained for over 12 months - Engaged the team in the creation of a company and team charter which was reviewed quarterly and provided quarterly Personal Compass feedback reviews.- Established a dedicated Data Security Team- Oversaw establishment of quality control procedures

Melbourne

Modis was engaged by the Environmental Protection Agency Victoria for a short term, discovery phase to size and plan a program of work that encapsulated four primary use cases involving the migration of Air Pollution data from existing platforms to an Azure/Del Boomi cloud-based solution. Encompassed in the discovery brief was the provision of Agile training to EPA representatives

Melbourne, Australia

Australian Unity is a health, wealth and living company providing services to almost one million Australians, including 300,000 members nationwide. As a mutual, our wealth offering aims to enhance the financial wellbeing of our customers with a range of solutions including banking, funds management, property, mortgages and investment bonds. Team, Product Owner and PMO Agile mentoring, Agile champion as the group transitions to the agile methodologyMy walls became the de facto Agile 'Tourist' destinationCeremony facilitation, story elicitation, grooming, sprint planning, workshoppingBacklog prioritisation, Business value determinationPivoted several times to ensure backlog view reflected sometimes mismatched technical, business, user and product level prioritiesJIRA Trainer for EPMOUser Story Mapping

Melbourne, Australia

At Colonial First State, we have been helping Australians with their investment needs since 1988. In that time we have become one of Australia's leading wealth management groups, with more than A$145 billion under management.Key Responsibilities: Becoming subject matter expert as quickly as possible in order to verify business requirements and provide guidance, and clarity to the dev and test teams  Liaising closely with the Product Owner to groom and organise the backlog, ensuring that the dev team were working on the highest priority user stories to deliver maximum business value as quickly as possible Development of business workflow processes (BPMN) for new product features, enhancement of existing SOP’s, socialisation and acceptance by the business delivery stream and operations teams. In the absence of a full time scrum master, facilitated daily stand ups, retro’s, showcases, team story refinement and sprint planning ceremonies, creation of innovative ‘wall’ that became a company-wide reference standard. Represented the team at Scrum of Scrums Exposure to SAFe environment and delivery train processesTechnology HighlightsAgile, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, User Story Refinement, JIRA, BPMN

Melbourne Cbd

User Story elicitation, grooming, analysis, prioritization (with PO)Retro/Stand Up/Inception facilitationWall WranglingIteration management

Richmond, Melbourne, Australia

Provided strategic vision and direction for Online Health Web Portal.Organised, Prioritized User Story Backlog to provide ongoing delivery of maximum business value.Analysed User stories to identify and clarify business requirements, conditions of satisfactionLiaised extensively with Customer Service Managers, Content Team, Infrastructure, Ops, and Development team to ensure business stakeholder and technical buy in to strategic roadmap.Use of Rally Software for User Story managementKey Achievements Represent the product to the customer, track business priorities, guide product direction and feature market viability. Liaising with Business stakeholders, facilitating workshops and conducting interviews with key technical personnel to identify, document and manage business and client needs or issues Manage product backlog, define sprint and iteration objectives, scheduling of development effort in order to deliver updates that contained the highest level of business value. Negotiate and break down business driven stories into tasks with the team, facilitating User Story grooming sessions Define acceptance criteria while following BDD/TDD with responsibility for technical acceptance and showcases to the customer/business stakeholders Successfully completed 2-day Agile Product Owner training course Project initiation brainstorming, epic elicitation and breakdown for project estimation and costingTechnology HighlightsStrategy planning, product direction, delivery and business value prioritisation, Rally

Melbourne, Vic

Seconded on site at CGU Insurance at the start of a business critical phase to implement Flood Cover legislation throughout the company product range. With four priority projects running to exactly the same delivery date and to a degree dependant upon each other, it was essential to gain project and industry background knowledge as soon as possible in order to be able to progress the project as well as avoiding impact on the other project schedules.Business & Technology Highlights Rapidly gaining and utilising industry knowledge in order to elicit business and system requirements that meet and fulfil the business need Successfully completed 2 day Agile Business Analyst trianing workshop (Software Education) Liaising with Business stakeholders, facilitating workshops and conducting interviews with key technical personnel to identify and document business needs and system requirements Liaising with Solution Architects and development team to validate system requirements Stepping into the critical path across a second of the top four projects when a colleague took extended leave of absence for health reasons Mentoring junior business and technical BA’s and working within a team of BA’s Providing functional specifications, requirements traceability, test case coverage, SIT, UAT support, data conversion gap analysis,  Data modelling, mapping and extraction for data conversion project. Extraction scripts written in SQL for DB2 database

Development of new gaming technology: C#/WCFTechnology HighlightsC#.NET (v3.5), SQL Server (v2005, 2008), Visual Studio 2008, nUnit (v2.5), WCF, WAS, Agile, Scrum, nHibernate, SVN

 Became business liaison, agile mentor and business stakeholder point of contact during development of new flagship mobile phone product Coached Business stakeholders and techinical staff in Agile Methodology processes, uses, applications and benefits – became Agile ‘Champion’ Took on the role of development team mentor when agile methodology was introduced, identified, scoped project user stories, managed product backlog and planned interations, directed daily scrums, burn down and sprint retro’s for Online betting,tipping and mobile phone application projects Motivated and led a diverse team of developers, business experts and infrastructure colleagues to migrate legacy systems during company integration

Designed and developed core backend business services for the firm's flagship free standing kiosk mounted touch screen betting system and mobile phone application ensuring the services were tightly specified, carefully planned and rigorously tested and met all coding practices and quality standards. Refined and upgraded existing legacy VB.NET systems to utilise the new business application interface services.Key AchievementsRapidly assimilated WCF concepts to implement a business wide service oriented API in C#.NET for both new and existing systems, utilised nUnit to apply TDD practices to maximise productivityMigration of VB.NET WCF services to C#, ASP.NET v2.0 project to ASP.NET 3.5 and enhancements to data feeds systems written in Delphi v2007Designed and implemented database schema and stored procedures for both Kiosk and mobile phone applicationsTook on the role of business liaison when agile methodology was introduced, to determine 'User Stories' for scrums, managed daily scrums, burn down and sprint retro's.Became business liaison and stakeholder point of contact during development of new flagship mobile phone productLed a diverse team of developers, business experts and infrastructure colleagues to migrate legacy systems during company integrationTechnology HighlightsC#.NET (v3.5), VB.Net (v2.0, v3.5), IIS (v6.0,7.0), SQL Server (v2005, 2008), ASP.NET (v2.0, v3.5, Classic), Delphi (v2007), Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, nUnit (v2.5), WCF, WAS, Agile, Scrum, XP, TDD, SVN

MJB Data services is a small business that provides intricate data modelling and forecasting services to the hotel industry. Responsibilities included the overall improvement of the product, addition of Account, Budgeting and User Management modules, complete rebuilding of the back office data management system that transforms a single flat file of Hotel reservation data into 97 different views, which subsequently allow a hotel to identify trends and predict future business volumes as well as target their marketing and sales efforts with much greater efficiency.Key AchievementsProvided guidance and direction to small business owner to improve consistency, accuracy and appearance of a Hotel reporting systemData manipulation and mining to improve range, and strategic importance of reporting. Added Forecasting, trend analysis reportsGuided technology direction within business requirements, migrated system from MS Access to VB.NET, XML and XSLProduct utilisation has grown from 1 hotel to over 100 hotels in Asia Pacific region, including all the Hilton, Langham, Sheraton and Shangri-La hotel chainsTechnology HighlightsVB.NET, XML, XSL, MS Access

The Thin Blue Line was an IT group within Victoria Police tasked with the overhaul of paper based police station incident notification processes and the implementation of an intranet solution. Responsibilites included designing and building middle tier C# components, utilisation of LINQ, nHibernate, Windsor to map C# architecture to database objects.Key AchievementsRapidly learnt and understood complex design patterns, architecture and new technologiesDeveloped core components in C# with an ASP.NET front endAgile methodology utilised for development cyclesPracticed automated testing and TDD facilitated by use of nUnitGained exposure to Ajax, nHibernate, LINQ and ResharperTechnology HighlightsC#.NET (v3.0),IIS (v6.0), SQL Server (v2005), ASP.NET (v3.0), Visual Studio 2005, nUnit (v2.5), Agile, Scrum, Design Patterns, SVN

Conceptualised, scoped and designed key elements of the third phase of a Sharepoint based Global Tax Compliance System. Focused on refining processes and aligning the solution to PwC Technology policies. Business & Technology Highlights RUP methodology, UML and Use Cases utilised to elicit and document business, system requirements and business processes, ERWIN case tool used for relational database design. Co Hosted key global stakeholder review and business sign off forum in Paris. Performed extensive Data Mapping and Gap analysis and redisigned the database in accordance with Relational Database Design methodology Oversaw testing phase, managed requirements traceability and test case coverage

Validated the design and evaluated architecture for scalability, availability and performance for an 'In-car' PDA/Wireless Warrant retrieval system for Victoria Police.VB.Net Software Engineer

Waterfall, UML, Use Cases, ERWIN, Workshops

Enhancement of OSS applicationsDelphi, VB, Winforms, Informaix, OOd/OOP, Cryhstasl Reports

VB, XML, Oracle Spatial, PL/SQL, GIS, Javascript, Rational Tools, UML, RUPPlanIt GIS application

Master Of Science, Information Technology

Bsc (Hons), Geography