Tom Sekulic Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities:As an Agile Delivery, Release and implementation manager I was responsible for leading cross functional teams who are accountable for analysis, development, testing, operational support and release deployment on Plum Super platforms such as Bravura ePASS and SuperB.I was also responsible for the development of release strategy, implementation and change (transition) planning.Achievements:• Delivered a new build of Bravura ePASS application and infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, firewalls) end-to-end, in ten Development, Staging and the Production environments for Plum Super business. Integrated new ePASS platform with existing Applications: SuperB (Bravura), PCS (file transfers, Red Hat Linux) and AWD (process automation) solutions (core Superannuation platforms).• Successfully migrated all Production data of all of our corporate customers and cut-over to new primary target platform for all employers.• Transitioned new Application and infrastructure to Production support teams.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities:Planned, managed, coordinated release & implementation activities across business and technology streams within NPP (New Payments Platform - Osko) programme in a complex multi-vendor environment using Agile methodology to successfully launch new platform.Achievements:• Created a plan and execution schedule for deployment of multiple NPP releases. This also involved managing stakeholders and vendors: Technology (Digital, Mobile & Internet Banking), bankers and vendors (IBM, Accenture, Oracle, Infosys and Tech Mahindra) to develop detailed deployment and implementation activities.• Developed and successfully executed detailed implementation plans. This was achieved by creating application deployment dynamics (Plan On a Page), N2K (Need to know) packs for Business Stakeholders, Vendor and NAB Support teams, Service Delivery Managers and hosting PIR (Post Implementation Review) with business and technology teams and creating post-implementation reports all stakeholders.• Managed hypercare (warranty) activities period tasks: Triage defects, coordinate Changes, Incidents and Problems until successful closure of each release.

Melbourne, Australia

I Managed transformation of company’s IT technology, delivery and support using Agile methodology.Key Achievements:- Migrated all physical and virtual IT infrastructure to new Data Centre. - Implemented and consolidated CVS and SVN software repositories onto a single platform - Git.- Implemented and migrated Java application servers - GlassFish to Oracle Weblogic.- Implemented new Application and Infrastructure alerting, reporting and performance management platform based on Oracle OEM.

Melbourne, Australia

As a part of the NAB NextGen/PBOB transformation program command centre I managed build and support of complex private cloud environments running large Enterprise deployments of Oracle banking application stack in DEV/TEST/PROD environments.Key Achievements:- Developed high-level implementation plan and detailed run-sheets for technology teams for implementation of complex changes across multiple technology teams.- Conducted Requirement analysis and produced Environment Requirements Plan.- Successfully delivered multiple Enterprise Releases into PROD. Worked closely with developers and vendors to ensure software updates and fixes were developed and applied within tight time frame while maintaining the integrity of environments.- Managed bank’s vendors (Oracle, IBM, Accenture, Tech Mahindra) offshore & onshore providing directions, triaging, troubleshooting and resolving complex problems to meet stringent release cycle timelines.

Melbourne, Australia

Successfully delivered DEV, TEST and PROD environments for two projects:- As a software integration engineer - DevOps I built and integrated new Oracle Financial platform (OFSSAI) on a new private cloud platform.- Replatformed a large ETL environment built on IBM's InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)Key Achievements:- Built and integrated core business analysis tools based on Oracle’s Fusion Financials platform (OFSSAI) suite of applications: OFSAAI, OBIEE, ALM, WebLogic, OHS, APEX in DEV/TEST/PROD environments.- DevOps - continuous code deployment to prod utilising IBM Rational Asset Manager.- Managed virtual project team (multiple vendors) and integrated middleware: Control-M, Connect:Direct, MQ and Teradata into BIH environment.- Tracked, managed and resolved 70+ defects in HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) ensuring a delivery of defect free releases into PROD. Supported development, test, and code migration teams to analyse and resolve defects.- Developed, implemented and tested DR (Disaster Recovery) process for OFSAAI application- Software code maintenance in Rational Team Concert.- Developed Control-M batch schedules, and shell and SQL scripts.- Migrated supporting shell scripts from Solaris to AIX platform.- Performed data loads and resolved data consistency issues with TOAD and SQLPlus.- Integrated software components with corporate Active Directory (AD).- Produced and maintained project plans and status reports.- Solaris, AIX.- Oracle M5000, T series blades, and Power7 LPARs.

Melbourne, Australia

Successfully delivered new midrange compute environments within budget and timeline. Enhanced and optimized existing environments using the latest technologies while delivering value to the business owners.- Successfully built and migrated PeopleSoft environment to a new Oracle virtual private cloud platform using Veritas Cluster for high availability. Designed, built and documented a fully replicated DR environment which ensured business continuity plan for Bupa’s core systems.- Migrated multiple highly available Oracle databases from Sydney to Melbourne Data Centre.- Successfully implemented and tested a new DR infrastructure on Oracle Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Linux. Delivered DR test plans.- Delivered new web servers on Oracle virtual cloud platform and performed security hardening to meet stringent PCI compliance standards.- Reviewed and improved existing and design new processes and procedures on an ongoing basis to deliver improved team productivity and efficiency.- Facilitated identification and mitigation of service risks.

Melbourne, Australia

By utilizing VMware and Oracle virtualization technologies for Linux and Solaris I have cut running costs, server footprint and centralized server management.Key Achievements:- Successfully completed legacy remediation project: Linux P2V (Physical to Virtual), P2P (Physical to Physical), and V2V (Virtual to Virtual) migrations. This saved the customer over $1mil by reducing power consumption in Data Centre and server footprint. - Consolidate legacy SUN platforms by migrating them onto Oracle Virtual Private Cloud.

Melbourne, Australia

As a DevOps engineer, I successfully designed, planned, built, delivered and documented new business critical UNIX operating platforms. The business has realized significant cost savings and mitigated risks of running unsupported platforms.Key Achievements:- Build and delivery of new Virtual VMware infrastructure running Red Hat Linux using Puppet Automation.- Provision and test new SAN Storage on EMC arrays- Virtualized bank’s physical Linux servers using VMware technologies. Business has achieved significant cost savings by slashing server and power costs, rack space and simplifying server management and support.

Melbourne, Australia

I successfully delivered in a wide range of work streams including architecture, design, analysis and implementation for Telstra Enterprise IT transformation project, one of the largest IT projects in Australia.Key Achievements:- Designed and built Management solution for all Telstra’s Veritas High Availability environments - Veritas Cluster Management Console. This solution has simplified management, enabled pro-active monitoring and reporting for the whole Telstra transformation environment- Integrated Veritas Operational Service (VOS) tools in customer HA (High Availability) environments. VOS tools perform proactive audits of Veritas HA products to ensure their integrity and indicate any potential issues that may affect HA- Designed and implemented Highly Available infrastructure for Telstra billing platform.

Melbourne, Australia

As a network and UNIX IT administrator I was working with vendors and internal IT teams delivering and supporting top-quality solutions.Key Achievements:- Delivered XDM (Cross Domain Manager) - Telstra’s ADSL management platform built on HP-UX and HP MC/Serviceguard High Availability metro cluster.- Delivered an Oracle HR solution and an interstate Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery site.