Experience

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  Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Risk and Cyber Security Advisory

    • Aug 2023 - Present
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Providing Risk Governance and Management advice to CEO and Board. Provided feedback on existing Risk Management Framework, Risk Appetite Statement and Risk Register. Built pragmatic plan for risk maturity improvement.Guiding Management along journey of understanding current cyber capability, threats and weaknesses. Established high level framework for mapping security posture. Advised on security review approach and engagement with security review company

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  Capital Consult (Australia)

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Principal Consultant

    • Jan 2016 - Present
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Robin is working closely with Capital Consult which provides specialist advice and services in IT and Business Consulting. Our specialist capability lies in Cloud Migrations, IT operating model maturity and Security Governance - assisting organisation's compliance with standards from APRA , the financial services prudential regulator.Capital Consult has over 10 years experience in delivering successful regulatory and compliance reviews with financial services organisations. We have the skills and knowledge required to understand the relationship between your operating environment, strategy or project and APRA's acceptable risk tolerance.Robin's areas of expertise are in assessing/uplifting cloud program, solution, security and data framework maturity and capability against the APRA compliance standards. This includes cloud, outsource readiness and IT operational risk.Recent Projects have included- defining the core business process for gaining approval to go to cloud covering cloud specification, design, assurance, internal governance / approvals and regulator engagement across 15+ enablers in a big 4 bank- building successful approaches to regulator engagement, preparing consult packs, assuring all artefacts covering Material workloads, both Heightened and Extreme Inherent Risk- guiding CISOs to achieve compliance with cyber security standards (NIST, CSA, etc). This included APRA cloud computing guidelines and then CSP234- assessing Risk Management Frameworks for cloud readiness, developing risks assessments suitable for regulator and board approval, oversighting control effectiveness testing- built 7 domain approach to guiding clients through the APRA CPS230 standards uplift. Developed core uplift changes (ie the difference between previous and current standards), designed uplift programs, developed gap analysis assessments, built out core documentation set and template

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  BeyondIT Business Development Services

  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Lead Consultant

    • 2012 - Present

    Recent IM consulting projects include:• Utility client: Development of IM Framework, Enterprise Information Model and Information Governance system. Driven by business leads, built on BeyondIT models, moving forward previous Enterprise architecture work, identified core information owners. Roadmap showing 3 year approach to establishing governance and delivering IM improvements• Utility client: Refined IM framework, focusing more on Information than Records. Gained business approval for refined Business Information Model. Define Information Governance approach• Global Real Estate company: developed improvement roadmap for SharePoint • Government department managing road construction: Business improvement in the use of the document management system (Objective). Scope included Corporate division, Motorways and Operational/Asset Management. Identified current issues, workshopped new designs (process enhancement / information architect rework) with business leads, established revised information governance approach, implemented technical changes, drove change management • Central Government department: defined new process / IA for core processes. Enhanced the designs available from recent outsource. Identified improved designs/usage for document management (Trim)

  • Lead Consultant for Mergers and Acquistions

    • 2014 - Present

    Recent Merger and Acquisition consulting projects include:• Corporate Acquisition: Developed integration approach for acquisition. Facilitated first joint meeting of business leaders to define new corporate visions/design and agreed program plan. Program managed the integration covering Finance, HR, ICT, Offices. Facilitated initial collaboration for Sales, Marketing, Professional Services• Office Closure: managed the close down of a regional office, defined the overall plan, coordinated the personnel release approach, ran lifecycle of re-leasing the office space to a new tenant (including managing contracts)• Office move: coordinated search for new offices, conducted assessment of locations, proposed options• Corporate divestment: lead the technical/information stream in the divestment of a popular manufacturing company to the Japanese purchaser. Developed new cloud based infrastructure architecture. Managed the redesign/move of the MRP solution into the cloud form on premise in original company. Managed the information collation/migration ot the new environment. Drove the formal acceptance by the joint divestment/acquisition company

  • Director

    • Feb 2012 - Present

    Delivering business value through: Strategy Improvement : Business Benefit Realisation : Better use of Information and TechnologyWe offer high quality, pragmatic consultancy services, focussed on business outcomes. Core services include Information Management (Consultancy and Implementation Management), Business Transformation and Change Management.Current hot spots include: - IM strategy - how should you company deal with the explosion in information. There is a massive growth in information risk as departments retreat into silos, and the executives are unclear how to reduce the overall risk to the business and deliver the needed efficiency and effectiveness improvements. Our strategies provide practical roadmaps, and show you how to get IM considered as a corporate priority - Information Governance. Most businesses do not know who owns information (IT does that?), nor how to manage information collections across the business (we create, but don't know who consumes it). BeyondIT can help you turn theory into practice, by applying modern governance approaches in a manner that your business can adopt - aligning your online channel with your business goals. Too many businesses take a narrow improvement approach (eg highly developing a web channel for a single business service). We have developed modern methods, using the KCS ideas, to enable you to significantly improve the customer experience and the efficiency of your operations Recent projects include - working with MergeCo on a divestment project - program management of a large EDM implementation - IM Strategy for a not-for-profit, building the case to organise their information and gain better collaboration. Implementing on SharePoint - Development of a corporate information governance approach, to ensure the ownership, responsibility and measures were in place to allow the effective use of a modern EDRMS.

  • Program / Implementation Manager

    • May 2012 - Jul 2013

    The client initiated a project to: - Replace an obsolete records management tool - Start the business on the journey towards achieving a mature level of Information Management, by achieving a Level 2 maturity.The project involved multiple streams of work, working to a Project Director: - Implementation management and business engagement - Change management and comms - Training - Functional analysis, support and provisioning - PMO - BAU supportDrove a 6 week project realignment service. The project had run into problems with the initial branch rollout. Implementation management. Responsibility for managing the delivery rollout model outcomes to the agreed timescales – managing the 7 streams was a Program Management role. Key Activities included: - Planning the rollout, for 5000 staff - Managing the branch managers through the series of 5 gates to a successful project disengagement - Driving a benefits realisation framework and approach - Managing the PMO (dates, key documents, plans, resourcing)

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  Institute for Information Management (Australia)

  • Sydney

  • NSW Director

    • 2008 - 2015
    • Sydney

    NSW Director for IIM. Involved in driving strategic directions in the institute, delivering relevant services to NSW members, maintaining current knowledge about local and international IM initiatives, liaising with associated groups and supporting the National initiatives (including the national conference)

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  BeyondIT

  • Sydney

  • Information Govenance lead

    • Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
    • Sydney

    Development of a corporate information governance approach, to ensure the ownership, business accountability and measures were in place to allow the effective use of a modern EDRMS.Activities: - created an operating model for EDM - established an executive steering committee to direct the program - established an information governance group, charged with establishing information collection owners and setting in place the mechanics to allow cross branch collaboration - setting up an operational management structure to ensure the enhancement and support teams were effective

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  UXC Consulting

  • NSW

  • IM (Information Management) Practice Lead

    • Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
    • NSW

    As the IM Practice Lead, I drove the national growth of the IM business within UXC Consulting by developing IM services, driving their development, building the organisatiron capability around these services and delivering this to the market through a sales and marketing program.Key achievements included * developing a significant new IM framework covering IM maturity, IM Strategy Development, IM Planning and Design and Solution Delivery* delivering major new business deals* leading innovative IM projects

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  Opticon - a UXC company

  • Business Manager

    • Feb 2006 - Jul 2011

    Managing the NSW region for an Information Management Consultancy. Opticon is part of the UXC Ltd group of companies - Australia's leading IT services organisation.Opticon is recognised both within Australia and internationally as a market leader in the provision of a wide range of consulting services in complex information management. Opticon provides business focussed consulting services to assist our clients solve information management problems, manage complexity, provide clarity and reduce the risk associated with Information & Communication Technology (ICT).We use a strong blend of business and technical consulting experience as part of our Strategic Services. Our Implementation Services focus on the delivery of solutions. We assist implementations with practical project management, technical know-how, organisational change capabilities, and business process reengineering which allow knowledge to be transformed into value.

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  TranzformGroup

  • Business Manager

    • May 2005 - Jan 2006

    Tranzform manages a powerful network of independent consultants, delivering business change initiatives. We specilise in program management, organisational design, process change and technology change. I work with clients to find new business

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  BeyondIT business Development Services

  • Business Owner

    • Jul 2002 - Apr 2005

    Outsourced Business Development Services

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  Electronic Trading Concepts

  • National BD Manager

    • Nov 2000 - Jun 2002

    Ecommerce consultancy services

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  Admiral Australia

  • Business Group Manager

    • Jan 1998 - Sep 2000

    Led the group in the sydney office, providing consultancy and software development services

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  Admiral Computing

  • group manager

    • 1996 - 1998

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  Admiral (UK)

  • Business Group Manager

    • Jun 1989 - Dec 1997

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  Logica

  • Technical Manager

    • Sep 1982 - Sep 1988