Paul Starkie
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Helen Robinson
I've had the pleasure of working with Paul over the past 18 months on a number of key projects at Synergy, including Business Intelligence and Digital. With a strong bias to action, Paul's expertise in business analytics has materialised in both operational improvement and bottom line savings. I was particularly impressed with Paul's ability to translate complex data into the business story, succinctly and convincingly. His enthusiastic scepticism and analytical mindset positively impacted the productivity of our team, with no stone left unturned. Paul has been the secret weapon for many a project at Synergy, and would be a tremendous asset to an organisation who wants to see real change occur. I'd hire him again in a heartbeat!
Helen Robinson
I've had the pleasure of working with Paul over the past 18 months on a number of key projects at Synergy, including Business Intelligence and Digital. With a strong bias to action, Paul's expertise in business analytics has materialised in both operational improvement and bottom line savings. I was particularly impressed with Paul's ability to translate complex data into the business story, succinctly and convincingly. His enthusiastic scepticism and analytical mindset positively impacted the productivity of our team, with no stone left unturned. Paul has been the secret weapon for many a project at Synergy, and would be a tremendous asset to an organisation who wants to see real change occur. I'd hire him again in a heartbeat!
Helen Robinson
I've had the pleasure of working with Paul over the past 18 months on a number of key projects at Synergy, including Business Intelligence and Digital. With a strong bias to action, Paul's expertise in business analytics has materialised in both operational improvement and bottom line savings. I was particularly impressed with Paul's ability to translate complex data into the business story, succinctly and convincingly. His enthusiastic scepticism and analytical mindset positively impacted the productivity of our team, with no stone left unturned. Paul has been the secret weapon for many a project at Synergy, and would be a tremendous asset to an organisation who wants to see real change occur. I'd hire him again in a heartbeat!
Helen Robinson
I've had the pleasure of working with Paul over the past 18 months on a number of key projects at Synergy, including Business Intelligence and Digital. With a strong bias to action, Paul's expertise in business analytics has materialised in both operational improvement and bottom line savings. I was particularly impressed with Paul's ability to translate complex data into the business story, succinctly and convincingly. His enthusiastic scepticism and analytical mindset positively impacted the productivity of our team, with no stone left unturned. Paul has been the secret weapon for many a project at Synergy, and would be a tremendous asset to an organisation who wants to see real change occur. I'd hire him again in a heartbeat!
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified Power Platform Developer
MicrosoftMay, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified Power Platform Functional Consultant
MicrosoftMay, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
MicrosoftMay, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Vaddis
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Australia
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal
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Apr 2022 - Present
Vaddis is focused on supporting select entrepreneurial ventures and targeted consulting and CTO-as-a-Service engagements, working with leadership teams to shape strategy, launch start-ups and drive the successful Digital Transformation of traditional businesses – from initial concept to full delivery. Vaddis was founded in direct response to the challenge of finding the right people to deliver on the promise of Digital Transformation across all business sizes and sectors in WA, not just the big end of town. Our vision is to use our years of experience in corporate technology teams to "right size" digital approaches to allow them to be accessible and cost effective for all types of sectors and business sizes. We have a proven track record of right sizing and delivering solutions across diverse sectors including education, NFPs, healthcare, manufacturing and utilities.
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Amana Living
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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300 - 400 Employee
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Business Improvement and IT Manager
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Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer I lead a 15 person IT, Analytics and Business Improvement team that is responsible for initiating, implementing, and maintaining transformational system and analytic projects across Amana Living. This wide remit requires a breadth of knowledge across project management, process optimization, architecture and analytics. In addition I have more traditional IT skills in relation to managing IT infrastructure and security teams, managing IT service desk and managing external contractors and vendors. In addition to managing the team I also continued my technical development in the Power Platform, personally delivering Power BI dashboards, flows and RPA solutions using the Microsoft AI Builder.
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Synergy (Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation)
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Australia
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Analytics & Revenue Assurance Manager
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Jul 2014 - Jun 2019
Reporting to the CFO, I was responsible for executing on process improvement opportunities leveraging analytics. I sustained these improvements by embedding data insights into operational reporting within the corporate BI platform I actively developed in SQL, Power BI and SAP Business Objects to build robust operational reports using an agile project delivery approach to ensure product delivery met expectations. I have also taken an active lead role in embedding self-service of data discovery capability across Synergy through training sessions and 1 on 1 coaching with stakeholders (including board members).
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Account Director - Deloitte Analytics Consulting
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Jul 2010 - Jul 2014
With domain expertise in analytics and business consulting , I was responsible for end to end client experience including engagement, governance, solutions and execution of analytics programs of work using a variety of tool sets including Tableau and SAP Business Objects. Leading concurrent project teams across multiple clients I accelerated the delivery of better business decision making by applying and embedding data analytics and root cause analysis techniques across diverse data domains including asset management monitoring, facilities management, metering, billing, finance, internal audit and payroll. Major clients served include Western Power, Synergy, Horizon Power, iiNet, Water Corporation, FMG, BHP Billiton Iron Ore, Rio Tinto, Woodside and Curtin University.
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Telstra
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Australia
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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WA Mobile Engineering Optimisation Manager
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Jan 2000 - Jul 2010
• RF optimisation and design of 3G and GSM networks using data analysis, RF design tools and optimisation post processors • Created and executed dynamic national exception analytics on large volumes of daily data from multiple data sources to identify root causes of billing errors, configuration issues and hardware faults • RF optimisation and design of 3G and GSM networks using data analysis, RF design tools and optimisation post processors • Created and executed dynamic national exception analytics on large volumes of daily data from multiple data sources to identify root causes of billing errors, configuration issues and hardware faults
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Education
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The University of Western Australia
MBA -
The University of Western Australia
Science/Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physiology