Key achievements

• Trusted technology advisor | Built long-term relationships with key clients, most notably being Simply Energy, helping them to innovate with Australian-market firsts and deliver customer experience differentiators.
  
• folio1 | Built a successful consulting business employing 12 staff and 20 contractors. Secured key partnerships, built sales and delivery capabilities, and delivered innovative products and solutions to build a reputation. Specialise in Accelerating Cloud Innovation Through Microsoft Azure Consulting Services, Application Modernization, Data Analytics AI & DevOps Automation
  
• High-performing tech teams | Developed an exceptional technology consulting team, achieved by building competencies in recruitment, candidate assessment, performance management and talent retention.
  
• Strategic partnerships | Became the #1 solutions partner in the region for US-vendor Progress Software.
  
• Culture | Carefully nurtured a high-performance team culture taking exceptional care with new hires. Created a work environment to encourage innovation and career development. Mentored and developed several engineers who won job offers from Silicon Valley. Sponsored a Ukrainian engineer and his family to migrate to Australia.
  
• Strategic advisor | Built a deep understanding of client problems, objectives, and existing/legacy tech stacks through careful listening and thorough research, providing well though-through proposals with compelling ROI numbers.

Leading product development teams

• Product development | Developed 50+ products ranging from enterprise to startup concepts, working from inception to commercialisation, defining product/market fit, prototyping, MVP and UX design.
  
• Product R&D | Leads R&D for product concepts including deep-dives and technical analysis of competitors, markets, opportunities, trends, privacy and regulatory compliance, capturing high level requirements and features.
  
• Start-up incubation & funding | 5 years managing early-stage investment for 4 start-ups and 10+ years providing technology and product advice, assisting with pre-seed funding and collaborating with equity share agreements. Estimates development costs and identifies investment strategies to create a path to market launch. 

Building successful organisations and teams

• Delivery partners | Built strategic relationships with technology partners including Atlassian, Microsoft, AWS, SnapLogic, DocuSign and Rhipe. Key partnership with Sitefinity as their recognised ‘go-to’ delivery partner.
  
• Service delivery transitions | Led outsourcing of managed services for Simply Energy, Guild Group, and Wood.
  
• Change & transformation | 7 years leading enterprise change and transformation projects at Simply Energy and Guild Group, on initiatives such as online payment processes and security identity management.
  
• People leader | 10+ years managing high performing tech teams with up to 12 direct and 20 functional reports in multiple locations. Developed expertise in technical recruiting, talent retention and performance management.

Technology consulting and solution delivery

• Technology advisor | Consults with client C-suite and board leaders to understand strategic objectives, pain points and market opportunities, presenting roadmaps, strategies, and proposals.
  
• Delivery leadership | Directed delivery of 50+ technology projects and 20+ programs, leading engineering and development teams of up to 20 people and working on up to 5 concurrent projects.
  
• Service delivery | Built solutions and services used by over 1m end-users and 750 clients. Built a 24/7 service desk capability for application and cloud infrastructure support underpinned with SLAs and an ITSM process framework.
  
• Delivery partners | Built relationships and distribution channels with companies including Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google, Progress Software, SnapLogic, Rhipe, okta, CoreLogic and DocuSign.
  
• Growth | Met scaling challenges by building sales, business operations and project management capabilities. Uplifted governance, compliance, and risk management to target larger deals. Hired to fill skills-gaps.

Worked for

• Simply Energy, Engie, Wood, Guild Group, Vision Australia, BlackDog Institute, Timelio, Raw Materials, Global Supply Line & RCI