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Business Solution Consultant at ANZ
Computer Software | Melbourne Area, Australia, AU
Summary
Business and technology consulting and strategy development in the financial industry. Extensive experience managing large on and offshore development teams.
Specialties: Business consulting, agile development, solution architecture, TOGAF Certified, patterns and practices, team leadership, geographically distributed teams, web technology, information management, search and discovery, internet and mobile banking, intranets, object oriented development.
Experience
- Feb 2010 - PresentBusiness Solution Consultant / ANZPartnering with teams within the Retail Distribution division, such as Group Online Banking and Specialist Businesses, to define and develop technology initiatives in support of business strategy.
- May 2008 - Feb 2010Intranet Technologies Manager / ANZDeveloped five year technical strategy for ANZ’s intranet based productivity systems
Research and production of business and technical recommendations within the Content and Document Management, Online Collaboration, Search and Enterprise 2.0 domains
Own and manage a set of quick win deliverables that advance the overall strategy
Business consulting, supporting internal customers to deliver productivity solutions targeted to individual and team teams - Jan 2005 - Nov 2008Consultant / Madhouse DevelopmentProvide technology advice appropriate to small business client’s individual needs
Develop ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 and WinForm .NET 2.0 applications
Managed off shore development of ASP.NET 2.0 project management portal for small retail startup
Developed ASP.NET SaaS application for leading Australian energy consultant using C# and Fortran.NET
Managed off shore development of mobile retail audit tool using .NET Compact Framework for a worldwide, market leading retail marketing information company - Jan 2007 - May 2008Technical Design Manager / ANZLead a team of technology platform specialists covering content management, collaboration, search, document management, imaging, workflow and .NET solutions
Resource management, career development, forward planning
Own and improve patterns and practices employed by software delivery teams
Manage the direction and roadmap for enterprise search across the organisation
Technical consulting with senior business customers, assisting in development of technical roadmaps that support business direction and growth. - Jul 2006 - Jan 2007Delivery Manager, Intranet Solutions / ANZLead, motivate and develop a team of talented software professionals - business analysts, project managers, designers, developers.
Ensure delivery of intranet based applications for the Enterprise Content Management department.
Technical consulting to business areas, assisting in development of business cases that support business direction. - Sept 2005 - Jun 2006Manager, Design and Development / ANZManage a geographically distributed development team of 17 people
Resource management, career development, forward planning, project estimation
Drive innovation and continuous improvement - Oct 2004 - Aug 2005Lead Engineer, Intranet / ANZOverall responsibility for design quality of n-tier intranet applications and content management
Support key technology tenants of supportability, maintainability, extendibility and scalability across all intranet applications
Foster communities of practice across all technology areas
Define standards, architecture and implementation strategy for .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0
Define infrastructure architecture for development and production environments
Evaluate, architech and implement new productivity solutions using Sharepoint 2003/2007, FAST Enterprise Search, and Desktop Search. - Jun 2003 - Sept 2004Lead Developer / ANZResponsible for quoting for, managing and delivering Melbourne-based development projects.
Manage a small development team to deliver web-based applications covering core day-to-day banking processes, productivity solutions and business process automation..
Development in ASP / JavaScript / IIS / COM / MS SQL Server / XML / Java 2 applets
Technical lead in the rollout of .NET within ANZ, encompassing ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WinForms. - Jun 2002 - Sept 2004Lead Developer / ANZResponsible for quoting for, managing and delivering on- and off-shore based development projects.
Manage a small development team to deliver web-based applications covering core day-to-day banking processes, productivity solutions and business process automation.
Development in ASP / JavaScript / IIS / COM / MS SQL Server / XML / Java 2 applets
Involved in the pilot rollout of .NET within ANZ, encompassing ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WinForms. - Feb 2000 - May 2002Developer / Australia and New Zealand Banking Group LimitedWorking as part of a team to develop web based application solutions.
Development in ASP / JavaScript / IIS / COM / MS SQL Server
Work individually to develop web-based analytical reporting applications using multi-dimensional databases
Development in Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 & OLAP Services, ASP, advanced JavaScript, Alphablox 3
Assist in the development and support of points-of-representation Profit and Loss, Sales/Service/Retention and HR reporting systems.
Development in Oracle Express Server 6.3, Oracle Financial Analyser 6.3, Oracle Express Objects 6.3
Developed a framework to allow new OLAP cubes to be defined and populated quickly and cheaply. - Jan 1998 - Dec 1999Platform Support Analyst / Worley ABB
Education
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2001 - 2001Swinburne UniversityGraduate Certificate in IT in Web Technologies
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1997 - 1999Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyApplied Science in Computer Science
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