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Petersham, New South Wales, Au

Girraween, Nsw, Au

Develop and maintain the bespoke laboratory information management system (LIMS) and provide general IT consulting services.

Seven Hills, Nsw, Au

Overall responsibility for Kennards business systems from point of sale through to back-office supporting a network of over 180 branches across Australia and New Zealand.Lead a team providing application development and support for internally and externally developed applications. Manage relationship with ERP provider and other providers of software services. In this role I have * reduced "time to business value" of enterprise applications through CI/CD using Azure DevOps* reduced cycle time for ERP updates through implementation of a formal test management process using VSTS/Azure DevOps* increased transparency of application development and support tasks through championing the use of Jira Service Desk* implemented a suite of tools to empower the business and reduce dependency on IT for business BAU tasks such as bulk load of data to the ERP

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Managing a subsidiary company of 26 employees operating the NLIS, a national biosecurity system, including software development, help desk and industry engagement. Full responsibility for the operation of the business unit, including strategic planning, workload management, financial management and employee performance. Report directly to the Board and responsible for facilitating the operation of the Board.High level of stakeholder engagement with industry and government executives and end-user groups to identify and deliver a program of work to improve Australia's ability to trace livestock.International engagement on livestock traceability and identification technologies - Hosting numerous delegations from overseas, engagement with international peers, participation in international conferences.Managed and participated in a series of national advisory committees representing all sectors of the supply chain to develop and enhance the livestock identification program.Represented NLIS Ltd on State Ministerial Committees and at SAFEMEAT, the Commonwealth red meat industry/government partnership.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Responsible for the development of the National Livestock Identification System, Australia's livestock traceability system. Manage a development team across the full SDLC, including BAs, team lead, architect, developers and testers.Engage with key industry and government stakeholders to identify and prioritise bug fixes and enhancements to the system.Manage the performance of the third party hosting provider through the monitoring of KPIs and ongoing engagement.

Denver, Co, Us

Manage the enhancement and implementation of integration software for Western Union agents.Requirements analysis, estimating, design, scheduling, project management and unit test.Built relationships with business and technical colleagues and agents in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed a team of developers developing high availability, high security, public facing websites, and high use call centre applications for consumer loyalty and employee recognition.Provided technical leadership to business and IT teams. Designed solutions to support current and future program requirements.Client facing from pre-sales through to support. Worked closely with client technical teams to define integration points.Developed relationships with business and technical colleagues in the US and Asia.

Au

Created and led a team of developers and architects.Developed technology and application strategy in conjunction with business experts. Designed application architecture. Created development methodology and achieved ISO9001 certification.Developed a portfolio of applications integrated with ERP to support infrastructure asset management.Upgraded development environment from VB6/MSAccess to ASP.Net on SQL Server. Implemented MSMQ for ERP integration.Managed a set of web and database servers for development, QA and production, including sizing, procurement and patch management.

Identified and developed technical solutions to improve business processes, such as* provided internet access and implemented internet email for 400 users* implemented McAfee Help Desk for the IT Support group* created a hands off install to upgrade 400 workstations from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95/Office 97 while users were being trainedTechnical lead in a GIS specification project for another utility. Provided technical expertise, evaluated tender responses and tenderer presentations, visited reference sites.

Implemented Works Management module of tier 1 ERP (Mincom MIMS/Ellipse).Project managed development of handheld solution integrated with ERP. Managed vendor, faciltated requirements gathering workshops, created and executed acceptance tests, trained over 200 users.

I undertook my degree in "sandwich" format, studying full time one semester and working full time the other semester each year. During my working semester I worked in various parts of the railways and on various projects including* Overhead wiring and high voltage transmission line construction and maintenance* Substation maintenance* Maintenance and operation of the SCADA used in the electrical system* Rollout and maintenance of the automatic ticketing machines on stations

Graduate

Mba, Technology Management

Be, Electrical

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