Experience

Fortifyedge

• Australia
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Feb 2019 - 4 years 11 months

  Australia Zero Trust Authentication Solutions for the Edge utilising TinyMLOps for over 280 Billion embedded devices



University of Tasmania

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Dec 2019 - 4 years 1 month

  Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia Working with UTAS, Australian Defence Science and Technology Group to bring industry 4.0 Innovation to defend the nation and our allies



Bitwoke

• Co-Founder & CEO

  • Nov 2017 - Dec 2018

  Australia Smart cities/agriculture with LoRaWAN Solutions. Cicada Innovations DeepTech Accelerator Alumni '18



Department of Premier and Cabinet (Tas)

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Manager Progam Group/Director Whole-of-Government Digital Transformation

  • Apr 2014 - Mar 2017

  Hobart Tasmania Executive responsible for the Tasmanian Whole of Government Programme Group in leading Service Delivery digital transformation programmes and projects. Successfully delivered Unified Communications-as-a-Service across all areas of government via strategic alliances with Cisco and Telstra. Established an innovation pipeline to introduce new service capabilities covering authentication, telepresence and workflow collaboration as-a-service.



National E-Health Transition Authority

• Programme Manager / Design Authority Product and Solution Development

  • Sep 2007 - Aug 2013

  Sydney, Australia Led the programme delivery organisation responsible for the Council of Australian Governments National e-Health Strategy in areas of: • The National Healthcare Identifier Programme for consumers, healthcare providers and healthcare organizations • The National Authentication Services for Health • E-Health Solutions including Medication Management, Discharge and Referral • Secure Messaging and Directory Services

• Programme Manager - National Infrastructure Services

  • Sep 2007 - Aug 2010

  Sydney, Australia Successfully delivered the Healthcare Identifier Service and supporting legislation on July 1, 2010 enabling allocation of over 22 million identifiers to all Australian citizens, residents, healthcare providers and healthcare organisations. Successfully designed and delivered the industry partner programme for independent software vendors (ISV’s) to integrate and deploy their software compliant to the eHealth products and services. Introduced and applied best practices methodologies to… Show more Successfully delivered the Healthcare Identifier Service and supporting legislation on July 1, 2010 enabling allocation of over 22 million identifiers to all Australian citizens, residents, healthcare providers and healthcare organisations. Successfully designed and delivered the industry partner programme for independent software vendors (ISV’s) to integrate and deploy their software compliant to the eHealth products and services. Introduced and applied best practices methodologies to ensure NEHTA products and solutions are fit for purpose, safe and secure for deployment in the health sector. This included CMMi, Lean-Sigma, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Prince2/PMBOK, Safety Engineering and Agile Project Management (SCRUM)



McGraw Hill

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Technology

  • 2004 - Dec 2006

  Monterey, California Executive leader of the technology organization that provided the following services: Scanning, image processing, digital and hand scoring mix mode testing (paper, online, etc.), derived score processing, enterprise data management, data cleansing, and reporting. successful management and launch of Web 2.0 commercial online testing and reporting product using technologies such BEA WLS, Oracle, Informatica and outsourced vendors (TCS, Wipro) design and Deployment of lean/six sigma… Show more Executive leader of the technology organization that provided the following services: Scanning, image processing, digital and hand scoring mix mode testing (paper, online, etc.), derived score processing, enterprise data management, data cleansing, and reporting. successful management and launch of Web 2.0 commercial online testing and reporting product using technologies such BEA WLS, Oracle, Informatica and outsourced vendors (TCS, Wipro) design and Deployment of lean/six sigma practices to improve operational efficiencies and lower operating costs. Show less



Prelytic Software

• Chief Technology Officer/ Co-Founder

  • 2003 - 2004

  Silicon Valley, California Co-founder of analytic software company that developed advanced capacity planning and forecasting commercial products based on algorithms derived from Stanford University Operations Research Department. Successfully released 1.0 product and deployed to the first Fortune 500 customer Gap, Inc.



APL

• United States
• Maritime Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

  • 2001 - 2003

  Oakland, California Executive leader reporting to the CEO and was responsible for the delivery of supply chain management & analytics products and services throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas markets. SeeChange Inc. went through M&A to be part of NOL Group. Successfully managed and implemented the market leading supply chain management software as a service in support of APL’s business process outsourcing services



Appareon

• Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Apr 2000 - 2001

  Redwood City, California Co-founder of a General Atlantic funded start-up that provided software as a service capability for supply chain management to fortune 500 manufacturing organisations and their international trading partners throughout Asia.



Jamcracker

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Architect

  • Jan 2000 - Apr 2000

  Sunnyvale CA, USA Managed architecture team in US and India that designed and developed multi-tenant cloud aggregator for Enterprise Customers. Scaled up team, processes and cloud application partners.



SkyMall

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Architect

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Greater New York City Area Lead the delivery of the $20M eCommerce investment for online storefront web infrastructure and back office integration with call center, supply chain management and payment service systems. This also included operational transition to a tier 3 data center. Successfully launched skymall.com for the 1999 holiday season and enabled significant increase in ability to process order volumes that lead to year to year sales growth of 365%. Skymall, Inc. was also able to sell the eCommerce… Show more Lead the delivery of the $20M eCommerce investment for online storefront web infrastructure and back office integration with call center, supply chain management and payment service systems. This also included operational transition to a tier 3 data center. Successfully launched skymall.com for the 1999 holiday season and enabled significant increase in ability to process order volumes that lead to year to year sales growth of 365%. Skymall, Inc. was also able to sell the eCommerce platform as a rebranded service to US Airlines as their own online storefronts for frequent flier programs. Show less



Levi Strauss & Co.

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Architecture Consultant

  • Dec 1995 - Jan 1999

  San Francisco, California Led the development & delivery of the strategy and global deployment of Levi’s B2B platform that enabled the organization to integrate the company’s international supply chain and customers securely via the internet. Led the infrastructure initiatives to integrate and extend distribution centers via the use of enterprise messaging, data replication and public key infrastructure from IBM, Microsoft, Entrust and Oracle.



CSX

• United States
• Rail Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Architecture Consultant

  • Jan 1995 - Nov 1996

  Jacksonville, Florida Area Introduced the Java platform and lead the development of the first commercial Java application globally to provide track and trace monitoring of the transportation network over the internet in real time. The system delivered a next generation Rich UI as well as integration into diverse legacy and operational systems ranging from Mainframes, and midrange servers.



Edward H. O'Brien

• Software Engineer - R&D

  • 1990 - Dec 1994

  Sydney, Australia Edward H O’Brien was the founder of the directory industry in Australia and was in a joint venture from 1991 with Telstra for end-to-end directory services. Lead the team to transition the directory platform from Mainframe COBOL to C++, advanced graphics processing and middleware technologies so as to enable the directory sales force to transition from paper based processes to the use of mobile technologies for publishing and advertising sales. I also performed executive sales support with… Show more Edward H O’Brien was the founder of the directory industry in Australia and was in a joint venture from 1991 with Telstra for end-to-end directory services. Lead the team to transition the directory platform from Mainframe COBOL to C++, advanced graphics processing and middleware technologies so as to enable the directory sales force to transition from paper based processes to the use of mobile technologies for publishing and advertising sales. I also performed executive sales support with customers in Australia, Canada and the United States. Show less



GIO Australia

• Software Engineer

  • 1988 - 1990

  Sydney, Australia GIO’s investment was the largest deployment of client/server technology in the Southern Hemisphere. Developed API’s to connect to multiple proprietary databases and applications so as to provide a consolidated customer interface for the insurance portfolio.