Experience

DIVVY Parking

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  - Developed a cost effective operating structure by building a new internal Technology team whose talent capabilities supported the business’ strategic and operational vision - Reduced Technology OPEX spend with positive impacts to the delivery function of the business - Scaled engineering capabilities by adding offshore development capabilities - Leveraged key partnerships with Samsung and Microsoft to develop a strategy for building a new generation of IoT-based Access Control hardware built upon the Azure IoT network. Delivery of this resulted in reduced operating cost and new revenue opportunities as a direct result of the new platform - Responsible for the documentation of the ATO R&D Tax Incentive Claim - Experience with PCI-DSS compliance and payment processing (Card-Present and Ecomm) - Implemented a new Azure Data Lake and introduced Tableau Server. Built custom dashboards and actively sought to collect insightful data that could feed into the product and sales teams - Organised external security audits, penetration testing and the implementation of ongoing security best practices (ISO 27001). Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans created anew for DIVVY (AS/NZS 5050) - Negotiated commercial contracts and worked directly with our legal team as needed for review - Delivered bi-monthly Board presentations and regular strategy updates to our Board of Directors - Drove a culture of sharing through Lunch&Learns and our Innovation Program Show less



Asset.Guru

• Sydney, Australia

• Head of Product and Technology (contract)

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2018

  - Hired for an initial 3 month contract to build the internal technical function of the business, hiring key delivery team members and migrating from offshore technology suppliers - As the role progressed I collaborated with founder to further develop the business model, market positioning, competitive evaluation, and product approach. Developed full product roadmap, delivery planning, user experience, and functional specifications; hired key members of engineering team and executed training and handoff - Collaborated with founder to ensure tight alignment to strategic objectives and organisational and financial capabilities for product development - Developed, tested and built new products to hypotheses based on analytics and insights tools. Created cost-benefit analysis to help determine viability and translated the insights in to actionable build tasks for the development teams. - Digitised and automated manual processes. This not only functioned as a cost-saving process but improved the reliability of business operational processes, lowered response time to customers, improved conversions and most importantly set the foundation to help the business scale. Show less



M&C Saatchi Group AUNZ

• Australia
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head Of Technology

  • Oct 2016 - Jan 2018

  - Provide Technical leadership across M&C Saatchi’s ten group businesses ranging from a CRM business to a digital agency - Technical consultancy in the space of digital solutions, CMS systems, app development, technology strategy and enterprise architecture - Assistance with growing and diversifying the company’s portfolio by actively seeking new clients and growing existing clients by thought leadership on all things technology - Foster innovation within the culture (not only within the remit of technology) through a programme of presentations from partners like Snapchat and Google but also through organising hosted sessions internally around various technologies and topics to engage and educate - Champion and drive modern processes and delivery models by introducing agile techniques and applying lean product development principles - Give the technology team a direction for them to gravitate towards, mentoring, performance management and support to grow themselves personally and professionally Show less



Network 10

• Australia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Digital Technology

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2016

  - Liaised with CDO to define product strategy and roadmap for Network Tens digital initiatives - Lead planning and development of new products from conception through launch - Managed budgets (Capex and Opex), resource requirements and delivery schedules for all projects developed - Collaborated with partners (both internal teams and vendors) to define, design and develop new product features - Interfaced with Marketing to help acquire new audiences and initiate consumer outreach efforts - Worked with Business Intelligence to develop reports for internal auditing and monitoring of services - Informed and communicated progress of strategic decisions and product developments to executive team and other major stakeholders on a regular basis - Migration of existing hosting infrastructure to Amazon AWS - Introduced Continuous Integration with TeamCity - Introduced Automated Testing via Selenium Show less



Holler Australia

• Redfern, Sydney

• Technical Director

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2015

  - Providing leadership and direction to the business to develop high quality technical solutions on time and to budget - Management of technology budgets across the business - Solutions Architecture design for enterprise level builds and e-commerce solutions - Technical team leadership; hiring, performance management and reviews and PDP development - Sitecore, Umbraco, Ektron and Magento experience - Continuous Integration, Automated UI Testing and AWS Deployment strategies - Creative Technology concepts and prototype development of innovative solutions to help the business meet client requirements and exceed their expectations Show less



Isobar

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Interactive Lead

  • Oct 2010 - Mar 2014

  - Lead a team of 8 FE, 4 Flash, 4 iOS, 3 Android, 7 BE (.NET, Sitecore and Umbraco) and 4 QA Analysts - Ran the Sydney arm of NowLabs (Isobars Innovation incubation hub) - Drove the rapid-prototyping initiative which introduced a new service that defined the future of projects through rapid-prototyping and helped deepen the relationship between UX and Development disciplines internally - Sitecore experience - Experience with Selenium and CasperJS for QA testing - Confluence and Jira for project management and IP recording - Innovative solutions for Beacons, Pathfinding and Touchscreen interfaces - Thought leadership, brown-bag discussions around NFC/RFID, Mobile and Three.js - Leadership training (2 day), HBDI assessed Show less



University of Glamorgan

• Wales, UK

• Lecturer

  • Sep 2009 - Jul 2010

  As part of being a lecturer on the first year BA Interactive Media course I was exposed to my first real opportunity to speaking and engaging with an audience. This involved discussions of highly technical subject matters, while being able to break the subject down in to easy to digest modules for the non-technical. Covered interactive elements including: - Basic website builds, HTML, CSS - Introduction to JavaScript - Introduction to Flash - Development of iOS and Android applications using Titanium and JavaScript - Video streaming solutions - iOS development basics Show less



Closs Holdings

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interactive Developer

  • Aug 2009 - Jun 2010

  Developing Interactive applications and games, using the iPhone and Flash Platforms. Specialising in game development using Objective-C with Cocos2D and ActionScript 3. Developing Interactive applications and games, using the iPhone and Flash Platforms. Specialising in game development using Objective-C with Cocos2D and ActionScript 3.



Sequence Agency

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interactive Developer

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2009

  Interactive Developer working primarily with Actionscript 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0 projects. Some iPhone development (native using Objective-C) Interactive Developer working primarily with Actionscript 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0 projects. Some iPhone development (native using Objective-C)



Crumble Creative

• Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Flash Developer

  • Jan 2007 - Jul 2008

  A small digital agency on the outskirts of Cardiff. At the peak of the years of Flash, Crumble Creative gave me the ideal platform to create fantastic interactive experiences from online games, website builds while also studying in University. A small digital agency on the outskirts of Cardiff. At the peak of the years of Flash, Crumble Creative gave me the ideal platform to create fantastic interactive experiences from online games, website builds while also studying in University.



Oakwood DC

• Bristol, United Kingdom

• Developer

  • Feb 2005 - Jan 2007

  Frontend Development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). Some C development on their clients retail systems and also some Windows CE later in the role, creating an application that salesman could use in-store that would link in to the retail systems. Frontend Development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). Some C development on their clients retail systems and also some Windows CE later in the role, creating an application that salesman could use in-store that would link in to the retail systems.