Wayne Nelson Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Trusted advisor and customer liaison, building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key CxO stakeholders• Working closely with senior management across various organisations developing and building digital transformation strategies• Creating a culture of disruption through design led thinking• Assisting customers and partners across the Mining industry to digitally transform and embrace AI to solve challenging problems• Assessing organisations to determine digital maturity capabilities and define digital maturity models• Supply and value chain digitisation activities to enable process efficiencies and business benefits• Monitoring and reporting on industry trends and technology advancements and the benefits for organisations • Demonstrating a solid understand of cloud services and the utilisation of new digital architecture• Liaising with various account aligned teams to drive and influence a #OneMicrosoft strategy and align to customer outcomes• Lead envisioning sessions to analyse customers business objectives and challenges• Business roadmap development covering an end-to-end journey to deliver on the north start vision• Ideating, prototype definition and minimal viable product vision to deliver incremental value• Change and adoption management practitioner assisting customers achieve success

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Trusted advisor and customer liaison, building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key CxO stakeholders• Working closely with senior management across various organisations developing and building digital transformation strategies• Creating a culture of disruption through design led thinking• Assisting customers and partners across the Mining industry to digitally transform and embrace AI to solve challenging problems• Assessing organisations to determine digital maturity capabilities and define digital maturity models• Supply and value chain digitisation activities to enable process efficiencies and business benefits• Monitoring and reporting on industry trends and technology advancements and the benefits for organisations • Demonstrating a solid understand of cloud services and the utilisation of new digital architecture• Liaising with various account aligned teams to drive and influence a #OneMicrosoft strategy and align to customer outcomes• Lead envisioning sessions to analyse customers business objectives and challenges• Business roadmap development covering an end-to-end journey to deliver on the north start vision• Ideating, prototype definition and minimal viable product vision to deliver incremental value• Change and adoption management practitioner assisting customers achieve success

Sydney, Australia

• Trusted advisor and customer liaison, building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key CxO stakeholders• Working closely with senior management across various organisations developing and building digital transformation strategies• Creating a culture of disruption through design led thinking• Assisting customers across Mining, Manufacturing, Telco and Financial services industries digitally transform• Assessing organisations to determine digital maturity capabilities and define digital maturity models• Supply and value chain digitisation activities to enable process efficiencies and business benefits• Monitoring and reporting on industry trends and technology advancements and the benefits for organisations • Demonstrating a solid understand of cloud services and the utilisation of new digital architecture• Liaising with various account aligned teams to drive and influence a #OneMicrosoft strategy and align to customer outcomes• Led envisioning sessions to analyse customers business objectives and challenges• Business roadmap development covering an end-to-end journey to deliver on the north start vision• Ideating, prototype definition and minimal viable product vision to deliver incremental value• Change and adoption management practitioner assisting customers achieve success• Initiator / chair of the ‘’Technology and Consulting Forum’’ for South Africa advisory practice

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Trusted advisor and customer liaison, building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key CxO stakeholders• Working closely with senior management across various organisations developing and building digital transformation strategies• Creating a culture of disruption through design led thinking• Assisting customers across Mining, Manufacturing, Telco and Financial services industries digitally transform• Assessing organisations to determine digital maturity capabilities and define digital maturity models• Supply and value chain digitisation activities to enable process efficiencies and business benefits• Monitoring and reporting on industry trends and technology advancements and the benefits for organisations • Demonstrating a solid understand of cloud services and the utilisation of new digital architecture• Liaising with various account aligned teams to drive and influence a #OneMicrosoft strategy and align to customer outcomes• Led envisioning sessions to analyse customers business objectives and challenges• Business roadmap development covering an end-to-end journey to deliver on the north start vision• Ideating, prototype definition and minimal viable product vision to deliver incremental value• Change and adoption management practitioner assisting customers achieve success• Initiator / chair of the ‘’Technology and Consulting Forum’’ for South Africa advisory practice

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Embracing a ‘Jack of all trades’ approach to product marketing management• Enabling the Office business to progress and grow in all areas of the organisation through various initiatives including the partner eco-system• Implementing and overseeing joint go to market strategies with selected new age partners• Defining and creating partner solution offerings for accounts teams to use as value differentiators• Providing exemplary partner support throughout sales, consulting and implementation processes• Organising and delivering technical product training, sales readiness workshops, demonstrations, product launches and marketing events• Responsible for revenue and budget management of the Office 365 local business• Creating awareness, demand, consumption and readiness marketing campaigns

Fourways, South Africa

• Building and growing new software business reseller sales channel creation• Solutions architecture guidance on product features definition and agile product delivery• Designing and managing development of a real-time monitoring tool, targeted to large IBM mainframe system administrators• Consulting to various organisations on technology architecture and strategy• Managing and developing a global reseller channel and defining joint marketing campaign• Defining company operating model and ensuring all organisational requirements are in place

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Managing resellers and suppliers through joint venture engagements• Financial management of the division including revenue and profit and loss (P&L)• Assisting clients with Merger and Acquisitions programs• Regularly engaging with customers to define strategy and create roadmaps to enable technology• Creating and building solution offerings across the product portfolio• Establishing a go to market strategy with international sales team, focused on delivering solutions• Marketing new products within the Gijima Business and Microsoft division• Delivering customer management and value profitability workshops on solution catalogue• Establishing and defining a customer ‘journey to the cloud’ blueprint• Mentoring and managing a multidisciplined team of consultants• Third party vendor management for hardware supplies, ISV's and OEM's

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Performing a multi-faceted role with functions including solution architecture, technical pre-sales management and team leadership• Overseeing, coaching and mentoring .Net developers • Solutions architecture, assisting various clients such as AngloGold Ashanti with email archiving and flexible workstyle• Trusted advisor and technical specialist to Rio Tinto Mining on a new head-office development including everything from application integration, network datacenter, virtualisation, desktop, voice and video conferencing• Vendor and supplier management on behalf of customers, guaranteeing the delivery of proposed technology• Application design and integration• Conducting technical pre-sales workshops with clients

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Establishing, implementing and overseeing effective systems, processes and controls• Application channel architect, overseeing retail branch channel • Platform architect responsible for distributed environment for the group• Customer service and liaison, building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key stakeholders and leadership• Monitoring network capacity and security• Managing vendors and licences including Microsoft EA negotiation and scoping• Designing and building IT solutions including a group initiative ‘Branch of the Future’• Defining and implementing new application strategy, enterprise architecture blueprints and principles• Leading and managing the branch channel development team of twenty-three (23) talented business analysts, application developers and testers• Performing as a strong leader of a cohesive team with strict adherence to statutory regulations and compliance requirements

London, United Kingdom

• Designed a new wholesale billing and reporting system that enabled financial reconciliation across telco’s• Technical evaluation and recommendation of a new UK billing and settlement system for planned acquisitions

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Developed boiler defect reporting and visual positioning application for Eskom• Developed and designed a web-based application for the cross-sectional view of South African national roads, mapped against special data

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Developed a new authentication application on Windows NT with full integration with OS GINA application (Graphical Identification and Authentication)• Designed and developed IMS COBOL applications for the General Ledger department for posting online transitions