Stuart W. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Led four cross-functional development and support teams totaling up to 20 developers, analysts, and team leads.
• Accountable for a portfolio of 100+ diverse applications including large-scale critical financial applications such as General Insurance Claims, CTP Claims, Salesforce and BPM.
• Developed a high-performance team culture through mentorship, structured performance reviews, and career progression planning. This significantly reduced turnover and elevated employee satisfaction.
• Forged and maintained strategic partnerships with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Solution Architects, and cross-functional teams (Cyber, Infrastructure, DBAs) to ensure cohesive project.
• Managed vendor partnerships and professional services. Costs centre owner requiring budget setting and monitoring.Key Achievements

Sydney CBD

• Key Responsibilities
• Led and mentored a team of 10 developers and business analysts across the BPM and Data Warehouse teams. Manage development and support for projects, small enhancements and bug fixes.
• Allocated resources effectively, tracked project progress, and delivered clear, actionable updates to senior management and business stakeholders.
• Actively contributed to coding, performed comprehensive code reviews, and provided technical guidance to ensure project alignment with architectural standards and coding best practices.
• Overnight support escalation point.
• Collaborated closely with business stakeholders, Project Managers, and architects to strategically plan, prioritize, and resource upcoming initiatives.

Edinburgh, Scotland

• On-site support for BoS Credit Card application.
• Contact point for business to prioritise tasks in relation to production problems, enhancements and maintenance.
• Analysis and design of small projects. Perform code reviews and oversee the implementation of changes.

Sydney

• Ensure that Westpac’s Front Office Banking system is Y2K compliant.
• Design and implement processes to synchronise Passbooks with Front Office Banking system.

Sydney

• On-call and on-site 2nd level production support of five IBM Finance applications.
• Maintaining mainframe applications on a day-to-day basis. Including production problems, user queries, pro-active maintenance, and code enhancements.