Experience

Zurich Australia

• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Technology & Business Project Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Project managing multiple concurrent data migration and business support projects for the Zurich Swift Program (OnePath Life Integration). Key Projects include: * Business Records Data Migration Project - Migration of unstructured business records (Email, File Share, Sharepoint). * Digitization of Claims Files - Develop strategy for digitizing paper based claims files including the engagement of external delivery partners (RFP, SOW etc) * Transfer of Accounts for Off-site Physical File Storage - Liaise with both ANZ and Iron Mountain in transferring file storage accounts. * Documentum data migration project - Migration of legal, contracts and related data from ANZ to Zurich Content Management Systems * Business Engagement Partner for development and implementation of inter company access regime for ongoing access to co-mingled business data in ANZ. Show less



NAB

• Australia
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Test Director, NAB Wealth Testing Services

  • Nov 2016 - Sep 2019

  Accountable for the delivery and uplift of testing capability across multiple projects, including the implementation of a new test automation framework using Jira, Github, UFT/LeanFT and Selenium * Financial management of test budget for multiple projects (circa $10m in testing) * Business, Technology and Project Stakeholder Management * Vendor Relationship Management (Infosys) inc On and Off-Shore capability * Project Hypercare / War room management * Risk and Issues Management * Centralising previously federated test team * People Management activities including resource planning, aligning responsibilities with skill sets, performance appraisals, skills assessments, development planning, training, coaching and mentoring * Team Size – approx 50 FTE (People Leader for 10 Permanent staff) Show less



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• Career Break

  • Feb 2016 - Nov 2016

  Extensive travel throughout Australia with Family, Travel writing and gear reviews Extensive travel throughout Australia with Family, Travel writing and gear reviews



MLC Australia

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Manager, MLC & NAB Wealth Testing Services

  • Dec 2011 - Feb 2016

  Responsible for all MLC technology and project application and infrastructure testing capability and delivery. Core role included the overall management and governance of the core test competency for MLC technology, with a team of up to 300 test resources and an annual budget of approx $27M. Key deliverables included: Moving from In-source to Out-source model via test delivery partner (Infosys) and implementation of off-shore test capability and end to end Testing processes, delivery and governance via implementation of full Managed Service delivery model. Show less

• Application Development and Support Manager

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2011

  Management of a team of 40 Developers, Business Analysts and technology support staff, responsible for the end to end development and support of Workflow and Data Warehouse systems. Key responsibilities included: management of staff (people leader to perm staff), project delivery, budget management ($3.5M), Management of 24x7 on-call, Incident/Problem Management.



Logica

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Applications Services Manager

  • Feb 2005 - Jul 2007

  Service Manager for the Development and Support of applications for Logica's (now CGI) largest Australian client (Integral Energy). Managing the entire applications portfolio and reporting to the CTO for the delivery of applications services, with a team of 65 IT staff to support Integral's Customer, Billing, Sales, Distribution, Operations and related applications supporting the National Electricity Market Service Manager for the Development and Support of applications for Logica's (now CGI) largest Australian client (Integral Energy). Managing the entire applications portfolio and reporting to the CTO for the delivery of applications services, with a team of 65 IT staff to support Integral's Customer, Billing, Sales, Distribution, Operations and related applications supporting the National Electricity Market



MLC Australia

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Project Mgr / Integration Lead

  • 2002 - 2005

  Project Managed the upgrade of Siebel CRM and Integration with legacy systems Project Managed the upgrade of Siebel CRM and Integration with legacy systems



Bank of Ireland

• Ireland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Siebel Team Lead

  • 2001 - 2002



Westpac

• Australia
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Lead / Developer

  • 1995 - 2001

  Siebel CRM team lead and developer / Base24 atm developer / Mainframe Cobol/PL1 ATM developer Siebel CRM team lead and developer / Base24 atm developer / Mainframe Cobol/PL1 ATM developer



AC Nielsen

• Developer

  • 1994 - 1995