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Glen Waverley, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Manage applications portfolio of 60+applications / 10+ vendors / 4 Value Streams / 60+ team size• Accountable for reliability, availability, and security of customer, market, and business-critical platforms • Plan, schedule, execute, and report on key BAU activities across the portfolio (planned maintenance, vendor patching, DB backups, security updates, disaster recovery)• Streamline value stream reporting (per team/application) into a single enterprise reporting for senior leadership (GM and above)• Drive improvements/step changes to the platforms with a high degree of predictability• Vendor partnerships & engagement with global leaders, local corporates, and boutique solution providers• Drive procurement, contract negotiations, and license renewals• Delivery Leadership – Idea, Business Case, Team mobilization, Delivery, Cost Management, • Governance, Reporting, Cutover, Transition to BAU, Hyper care, and Closure• Adept with Agile (Scrum & Kanban) and Waterfall methodologies• Visualisation – Create product roadmaps, project schedules, dependencies, and benefits• Cross collaboration across the enterprise to achieve digital and business outcomes• Remediate customer and employee pain points to improve CSAT and EE• People Leadership to lead 60+ team members (mix of permanent, contractors, and vendor specialists)• Cost center management and optimization (software subscriptions, non-production environment availability, data retention periods, de-commissioning, labor recovery)• Continuous Improvement across people, processes, and systems• Role model organization values• Communication and storytelling of compelling narratives/outcomes to senior leadership and wider technology teams (townhalls, virtual meetings, executive offsite)• Coaching and mentoring• Champion new ways of working and uplift people to develop the capability for tomorrow• Promote a diverse, inclusive, and a safe workplace

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Portfolio and lifecycle management of 10+ business and market critical applications• Provide five critical services to aligned Business Units – Keep the Lights On (BAU), Business Support, Project Support, Small / Medium enhancements, Niche consulting, and Continuous Improvement• People Leadership – Lead, develop, coach, and mentor 15+ individuals (permanent and contract personnel)• Business Partnering, Planning, and Engagement across business units & product owners• Cross-functional collaboration across a number of digital teams to deliver outcomes• Vendor liaison, relationship management, contract negotiations, and procurement• Industry liaison to connect, collaborate, partner, and lead joint submissions to change the regulatory landscape

Melbourne, Australia

Industry engagement, impact assessment, domain architecture, delivery leadership for regulatory and compliance projects - Distributed Energy Resources Register (DERR) & Five Minute Settlement (5MS) and Global Settlement (GS) (~25M POW)• Pre-Delivery - Problem Definition, Pain Points, Idea Brief, Options Analysis,• Mandate submission• Lean Business Case, Cost Model, Investment framework, and funding release• Delivery – Team mobilization, requirements, solution design, development,• testing,, UAT, defect management• Change Management – people, process, systems• Go Live – Change Advisory Board (CAB), cutover, hyper care, and transition to BAU• Post Delivery - Benefits realization, post-implementation review, and closure

Melbourne, Australia

1. Led and strategized the SIQ roll out from 15,000 meters (pilot) to 350,000 meters2. Achieved key project objectives i.e. no impact to meter to cash process, no impact to database and VM servers performance3. Implemented auto alerts and self-serve health check dashboards4. Managed vendor partner relationship to fast track issues resolution & accommodate WAN data usage for forecasted growth5. Business value realization – 310M data points collected and analysed on a daily basis to enhance public safety in relation to broken neutral lines, reduce maintenance costs, deferment of service line replacement capex and reduction in electricity theft

Melbourne, Australia

Lead cross functional, geographically dispersed teams in the process of successful integrated delivery of business, regulatory, compliance and technical scope items. Functions included – • Directly reporting to Head of Technology (Technology & Operations)• Stakeholder management (business, risk, external vendors)• Forward planning and pipeline prioritization• Implement Agile practices (e.g. Kanban and Scrum)• Administer visual dashboards for all in flight projects (JIRA boards)• Manage processes and retrospective meeting outcomes (Trello boards)• Deliver Minimum Viable product (MVP) & manage release communications• Continuous Improvement (e.g. ongoing test automation, automated IVP, requirements trace-ability, environment virtualization, API testing, knowledge base, on boarding and more)• Manage resourcing across multiple projects for different stakeholders (i.e. parallel delivery streams)• Develop the schedule / project plan• Allocate / delegate tasks based on will/skill and individual’s expertise and development plan• Hands on integration and end to end testing• Manage automation footprint across progression and regression cycles through the use of Continuous Integration, maintenance of frameworks (BDD/TDD), automation backlog and refactoring acceptance suite as required• Communicate QA metrics like no of defects found per release, automation coverage, automation maturity index, risk weightage change score, etc.• Status reporting to Portfolio Manager and all peers and stakeholders• Acquire sign off for release features and changes• Manage production incidents through to closure (hyper care and BAU)• Post implementation review • Collaborate and network with Delivery Managers from different divisions to connect, share and expand boundaries• Performance management • Applications used: Austin, Sales tool, Loan Pricing Model, Reuters, Calypso, Infinity, RRT, CASB, TBL UK, Bills White Board, Confirmation Server, RDM, Pricing Engine

Melbourne, Australia

• Served as a lead integration tester, developed integration test plans, test cases & test reporting using organisation’s standard tools and processes.• Worked closely with business stakeholders and Project Manager to determine scope for various releases.• Story reviews and test estimation (estimation in terms of story points & planning poker) for each test cycle.• Identified test scripts for automation and mapped ALM scripts into Specflow framework.• Managed testing resources i.e. provide direction, guidance and assistance to other team members, identify and mitigate potential risks and issues to ensure that work is delivered on time and meets the required SLA’s.• ALM management (i.e. incorporate new projects and defect management process in ALM, assigning users to projects and managing their permission levels, migrating existing collateral from one to project/domain to other as required, etc)• Defect management and co-coordinating triage meetings with external parties.• Environment Management for various test cycles (i.e. data refresh, upgrades to the database server, middleware infrastructure, booking of virtual environments, etc).• Prepared Test Summary Reports and obtained sign off from UAT teams.• Maintained repository of test deliverable's and release management notes for all the releases.• Acted as a secondary support for PVT for major releases.• Tools used: SQL Server, VS 2015, HP ALM, Xml Spy, Beyond Compare, Specflow, NUnit, Resharper, Jenkins, Outlook, Lotus Notes and Selenium

Melbourne, Australia

At Planit, I worked in varying capacities with following clients1. KPMG - Test Analyst2. FOXTEL - Test Lead and Environment Co-ordinator3. SEEK - Senior Test Analyst4. FOSTERS GROUP - Senior Test Analyst and Defect Co-ordinator5. MEDIBANK - Integration Test Lead