More than 18 years experience in planning, developing, and implementing state of art information solution facilitating corporate growth. Lead cross-functional teams with diverse technical backgrounds. Designed budget controls. Adept at consensus building, crisis management, problem-solving and negotiating. Well-rounded IT background of infrastructure management, system analyst, ERP implementation, and IT project management.•Developing and communicating an IT Strategy that is aligned to the business strategy of the company.•Maintaining close relationships with Department Managers and understanding their roles and responsibilities and how information technology could assist them.•Identifying opportunities for the company to more effectively use information technology and lead the introduction of systems, as required.•Managing relationships with external IT Service providers to ensure service level expectations are being met.•Oversee IT Projects to ensure that they are delivered in full on time and within budget•Ensuring information systems security and risk is appropriately addressed and managed.•Preparing and owning the IT budget.•Providing leadership and developing an IT Team that is business focused and responsive•Steward technology innovation and use of emerging technologies to drive business value•Ensure IT infrastructure and operations effectiveness is maximised with a pragmatic approach to price/performance trade off.•Bring fresh insights to business improvement projects and be an active contributor to Business Management Team.Specialties: IT Manager; IT technical specialist; Oracle and SQL Server DBA; HP UNIX;