Experience

Cardijn College

• Australia
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of IT Services Cardijn College

  • Jan 2016 - Present

• IT Manager

  • Mar 2012 - Jan 2016

  Transformed the College by leading the implementation of major change, including Complete replacement of the Student Management system. Implemented “Bring Your Own Device” for Students & Teachers. Implemented administrator access for all student and teacher laptops, and addressed security implications for this Implement a wireless network capable of supporting over 4,000 concurrent devices.Managed acquisition, tendering and negotiation of software and hardware for the College in excess of $3 Million.Managed and supported a BYOD (Bring your own anything) environment with over 1,000 students. Show less



St Columba college

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair of the finance board

  • Nov 2017 - May 2020

• Board of Directors Member

  • 2011 - May 2020

  St Columba College Council is the governing body of the College comprising nearly 1600 students. They have the important responsibility of setting strategic directions of the College, policy development and together with College Executive staff promote the academic and spiritual goals of the College.

• Finance Board Member

  • Jul 2015 - Oct 2017



Australia Post

• Australia
• Consumer Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager Technology

  • 2007 - 2011

  Led the tender for Postage Stamp printing in Australia (in excess of $20Million) and led contract negotiations with tenderers.Successfully managed the merger of two separate departments within Australia Post comprised of approximately 250 staff and contractors and a combined budget of over $75 million.Managed the first ever offshore printing venture for Australia Post and successfully produced 2 million Olympic Gold Medallist postage stamps in Beijing during the 2008 Beijing Olympics games. Successfully managed the development of the first online sales site for Australia Post, requiring the negotiation with internal and external customers and senior stakeholders.Led the RFI and RFP for development of the first Online Sales site, and led the contract negotiations, vendor engagement and ongoing vendor management.Led the re-engineering of the Australian postage stamp to gain maximum product yield and efficiency. Successfully reduced manufacturing costs by over 20%.Successfully gained the support of team resources, local and international suppliers, inter-departmental customers and key stakeholders. Show less

• Commercial Portfolio Delivery Manager, Information Technology

  • 2006 - 2007

  Successfully managed a crisis meeting with a large external customer, and persuaded them to maintain their contract with Australia Post. Managed significant projects to Australia Posts retail area including the Point of Sale upgrade to 12,000 terminals, Point of Sale future direction, retail point of sale peripherals replacement program, developed the Post Office Booking System and was extensively involved in Commonwealth Government Access Card initiative.



Commonwealth Games Corporation

• Australia
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venue Technology Manager

  • 2005 - 2006

  I was selected as the IT representative from Australia Post to work at the Commonwealth Games. I was seconded to the Commonwealth Games for 4 months. During this time I successfully managed more than 650 staff and volunteers and liaised with external vendors, government departments and other sections within the Commonwealth Games. It was an extremely fast paced environment necessary to achieve the project outcomes on time and within budget. Meeting a non-movable project deadline. Making critical decisions "on the spot" due to insufficient time and information to fully evaluate the options available. The rapid pace of change required, and continually struggling with competing priorities through out the day, and trying to ensure minimal impact to the project schedule Managed highly stressed & over worked staff Managed the deployment of 30,000 technology items, predominantly in the final two weeks leading up to the start of the games. Commonwealth Games requested to extend my secondment in order to manage project closure. I was the only seconded IT person to be extended past their original tenure. Show less

• Manager, IT Delivery

  • 2004 - 2005

  I was seconded to this role after the department had suffered a major unplanned outage. My brief was to turn around the business confidence in the department and return the department to SLA compliance. I was also encouraged to move to Melbourne to take over the role, but family commitments in Adelaide prevented this from happening.Lead and managed a team of 114 staff and numerous contractors ($33 Million operational budget) in providing computer data facilities and services for the whole of Australia Post. The Computer facility supported over 40,000 staff and 12,000+ point of sale terminals in more than 4,600 retail outlets.Significant upgrades of major systems were undertaken (SAP, Microsoft exchange) and a complete shutdown of the primary computer facility and fail over to the backup site was undertaken for Business Continuity testing. The upgrades and primary facility shutdown was performed with no unplanned system outages, and Service availability was maintained at 99.9% for the business critical systems. Show less

• State IT Manager SA/NT

  • 2000 - 2005

  Negotiated and managed the transition of remote regional desktop & server support to an external vendor within SA/NT. The success of this transition enabled remote regional external support to be instigated on a national level. Project managed the successful replacement of all backbone infrastructure within the major facilities of SA/NT with minimal disruption to the business. This required the co-ordination of a number of project teams and external resources within the server, desktop and communications space. A high level of consultation with business representatives was required to ensure minimal disruption to the business. Show less

• Manager, Technical Support , IT Services SA/NT

  • 1998 - 2000

  Implemented Microsoft Exchange as the corporate messaging systemImplementation and support of FuturePost equipmentImplemented a high speed network circuit between the two main sites Facilitated the migration of Retail Maintenance Staff into IT PositionsImplemented DECT phone technology into the Adelaide Mail Centre



Camtech (SA) Pty Ltd

• Project Manager / Senior Consultant

  • 1997 - 1998

  Project managed the separation of an entire enterprise network and the recreation into multiple separate computer systems with different network architectures dependant upon the 5 separate organisations requirements. Extensive alterations to the LAN and WAN environments required complete network redesign. The project was completed within the timeframe constraints negotiated and under the forecast budget. Project Managed the implementation of Citrix WinFrame into the Australian Defence Department at the DSTO. Show less



Australian National Railways

• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager Operations InfoTech

  • 1984 - 1997

  Designed and implemented a Windows NT server based network with Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 clients for Australian National's Tasmanian division's requirements. Project managed the implementation of a Novell network at Pt Lincoln. Project managed the hardware implementation of a Windows 95 based system, with a client server financial application for the Passenger Branch of Australian National. Provided the technical expertise required to understand the issues involved in an enterprise network, comprising of almost a thousand users and varied open systems hardware. Show less