Vinod Ralh Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

Led an engagement to produce a data modernisation strategy for a major Sydney university, interviewing over 70 staff and producing a well-received report. Included elements such as AI, data mesh and data fabric approaches. Led digital and technology streams to establish a microfinance charity in Australia, to help women escape poverty, to build small businesses that generate incomes.All things technical in establishing an upcoming charity focusing on biodiversity.National survey and data visualisations of the state of Australian sustainability education in schools.Digital transformation roadmap using SAFe Agile principles for a state education department implement digital transformation to teaching and learning practices, improving digital teacher agency and efficiency with a personalised learning experience for students. Led facilitation workshops and SAFe (agile) Program Increment Planning distributed workshops for a large federal government department at the beginning of their digital transformation.Helping climate change scientists and advocates tell their story through animation to support the releases of the books.Designing augmented reality solutions to deal with social impact issues.Helped a boutique global training company articulate their value proposition to organisations. Helped a NFP visualise their research findings.Supported a science education NFP improve their course materials. Bringing alive the case for digital humans and healthcare which could have global impact.Helping a NFP pitch a radical digital solution to scale their organisation and write their grant application.Designing consent based open data products to market.

A founding member of theBEATS.org, an organisation committed to informing 1,000,000 minds about the threats to Australia’s Biodiversity, Endangered And Threatened Species.

Australia

Led Engagement for Data Modernisation StrategyI led the development of a forward-thinking Data Modernisation Strategy for a major university, focusing on advanced data architectures, including data mesh and data fabric, alongside AI-driven initiatives to improve decision-making and data governance. Through over 70 interviews and workshops, we engaged stakeholders to co-design innovative data solutions.Key achievements included:• Data Mesh & Data Fabric: Developed strategies incorporating data mesh, which decentralizes data ownership across domains, and data fabric, which enables seamless, real-time integration and governance of data across the entire organization. Together, these architectures support scalability, flexibility, and enhanced data accessibility.• Storyboards & Project Descriptions: Created storyboards to communicate the strategic vision, detailing potential projects to explore and adopt these advanced technologies.• Stepwise Roadmap: Delivered a detailed stepwise roadmap, outlining how these technologies could be gradually implemented to drive long-term innovation and data management efficiency.• Client Presentations: Led presentations to key stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and clarity around the strategic initiatives.The strategy was very well received by the client, who appreciated the scale, thoroughness, and clarity of the approach.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Lead for the NSWEduChat AI program, I am responsible for representing the program through architecture governance processes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. Key responsibilities include: - AI Initiatives: Act as the EA lead on AI initiatives, driving the architectural vision, ensuring compliance with governance frameworks, and supporting the integration of AI technologies into core business functions. - Governance and Strategy: Represent the program in architecture governance forums, ensuring AI solutions align with organizational strategy and enterprise architecture standards. - Enterprise & Solution Architecture: In addition I support various enterprise architecture projects, contributing to strategy development, roadmap creation, and providing advisory services on demand management and solution design. - Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across the organization to ensure the successful implementation of architecture solutions, from high-level strategy down to detailed design.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Solution and enterprise architect for an innovative generative AI platform for NSW Public schools, for both students and staff. It is currently in a trial phase deployed in schools with an intention to be deployed across the state. Help define and document the solution architecture and ongoing enhancements Participate in architectural governance forums Assess and improve OpenAI LLM and Azure based implementation Harvest AI patterns from real-world learnings across layers of the architecture Develop reference architectures Collaborate with data scientists and engineers

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Program Architect for the Education Wallet Program – a multi-agency initiative to support lifelong learning for all NSW students using innovative verifiable credentials standards and technologies. Providing technology vision, architecture, requirements, and stewardship to stakeholder groups for a complex project to deliver business outcomes. Led proof of concepts, including programming to successfully test verifiable credential platform APIs. Standards included W3C-Verifiable-Credentials and Open Badges.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lead digital and technology transformation efforts for Grameen Australia as it aspires to become the leading microenterprise development organisation in Australia.

Sydney, Australia

Product Manager for Skills Accelerator, successfully delivering a transformative solution MVP for the education and skills ecosystem. This included responsibility for vision, roadmap and architecture, skills passports, evidence capture and validation, micro-credentials, lifelong learning, progression plans, standardised ontologies and taxonomies, support for university, vocational education and secondary schools, user stories, UX/CX, support. Advised a state education department on modernization, open education, integration, marketplaces, initial digital strategy disability platforms and was acting PM for a troubled project, rescoping and improving their delivery practices. Designed mobile apps showcasing advantage of using of open data concepts. Ran hackathons and large-scale innovation workshops using design thinking and lean start-up techniques for a number NFP’s across social impact areas such as mental health, youth early intervention, homelessness, financial inclusion and domestic violence. Open Data leader providing advice to clients across multiple sectors and presenting at industry conferences on open data use cases that could help some of the most invisible and vulnerable people in society.

Sydney, Australia

Founded a start-up focusing on AI and youth mental health and also disrupting online shopping and supporting and improving the regional shopping experienceDesign and development on a youth mental health app beta that used AI, gamified experiences, anime style animations to help connects kids in trouble with national and local service providers. Also carried out playbacks with schools and a Local Health District.Disrupting Internet Shopping and supporting local shopping concept which I still continue as a side project with a colleague.Design and build of an emergency app (First Contact) which was on Apple Store for several years to help children connect either with family or emergency services in times of need.

Sydney, Australia

Provided detailed hybrid cloud PoV’s and roadmaps to enterprise clients; lead key presentations; devops practices review for airline; whole of government cloud strategy Supported successful major contract renewal for major bank by demonstrating IBM thought leadership in cloud and innovation Led IBM team responsible for major bank’s blockchain business pilot using Ripple on IBM Bluemix Led team to create a remittance PoC shown at Sibos at IBM, Ripple Labs and banks stalls at Sibos Supported global team on blockchain opportunities in Canada and Philippines Led creation and execution of corporate payments hackathon for major bank involving team of 40 people and 100 participants using IBM Bluemix. lean startup and design thinking. Helped setup subsequent Blockchain hackathon for major bank GovHack 2016 Mentor. Mentor at several bank hackathons; advised insurance and banking clients globally on hackathon best-practices

Helped build SOA business in Australia and New Zealand from ground up to 10’s millions of revenue; devising SOA strategy, enablement, go-to-market model and its execution Ran training courses for IBM, business partners and clients on SOA Worked closely with business partners on client strategy and opportunities Built trusted relationships with clients looking to adopt SOA technologies and methods Created enterprise architecture roadmaps, solution architect artifacts to support their transformation journey; client delivery support, working with global teams to help ensure its success Trusted advisor to multiple banks and telcos on their SOA journey Jointly presented at international conference on one banks SOA led transformation; presented at local technology conference i.e. Gartner, IBM Created detailed integration solution designs for real-time payments solution for major bank using IBM SOA technology and Fundtech GPP Worked with 2IC of payment operations at major bank to transform international payment processes Led team to create an innovative Asia-Pacific wide payment business activity monitoring prototype that was used as a global IBM asset across multiple opportunities Led an extended team to create an innovative telco order-to-activate BPM prototype using telco industry models that was shown at global tmforum conference by IBM Championed use of IBM industry models (IFW, IAA, TMF) within IBM; produced assets to simplify their use with IBM tooling that were used globally - including Dublin Lab Services teams

Client advisor to major enterprises on entire IBM middleware portfolio Worked cross-industry support retail, insurance, banking, telco, government clients

Technical lead for implementation of B2B Commerce implementation for telco Technical lead for implementation ADSL ordering system for telco E-business infrastructure review for major airline

Technical lead for multiple teams for a PeopleSoft HR implementation at an insurance company Technical lead for a SAP BASIS team for a implementation to a utility company in South Australia. Technical lead for infrastructure build and test for aircraft logistics system for ADF used during remote deployments

Development of testing tools for UNIX and Embedded system testing – including the creation of an embedded OS simulator Designed and developed embedded X.25 message switches

Client-server development for automobile manufacturer Mainframe and PC development work