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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

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

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.
• 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

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.

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)

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.

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