Greater Sydney Area
Every technology system has ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐. What is inside is rarely what it appears to be. The gap between appearance and reality carries real financial, operational, and legal consequences. It will not surface internally. ๐๐ฎ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ. ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐. 25 years building, breaking, inheriting, and rescuing technology across startups, enterprises, financial services firms, and governments gives Ken an engineer's eye for what is real and what is dressed up. ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ. ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ณ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐-๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ. ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐: ๐ธ The Redline Sniff Assessment, pre-LOI screening ๐ธ The Deep-Dive Audit, forensic examination at final valuation ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐: ๐ธ The Structured Assessment ๐ธ The Directed Assessment ๐ธ The Standing Assessment ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ณ๐: ๐ธ General: lahav-advisory.com/brief ๐ธ Investors: lahav-advisory.com/investors ๐ธ Businesses: lahav-advisory.com/businesses
Independent technical delivery consultancy specialising in complex technology programmes across financial services, government, and enterprise software.
Directed the delivery of the organisationโs technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and long-term business goals. * Advised the CIO and senior leadership on enterprise architecture, processes, and tooling to shape future-state capabilities. * Championed improvements to ways of working across teams, fostering transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making. * Oversaw multiple strategic work streams, providing governance and executive-level reporting to maintain focus on outcomes. * Managed external vendors at a strategic level, ensuring delivery performance, value realisation, and alignment with organisational objectives.
Led cross-region technical delivery of a transformation program enabling cashless Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs/pokies) to strengthen AML controls and regulatory compliance. * Directed end-to-end delivery across multiple Scrum teams, ensuring timely implementation of new capabilities under strict regulatory timelines. * Defined and implemented engineering, DevOps, and technical standards, improving delivery consistency and operational reliability. * Established a Quality Engineering strategy aligned with internal, industry-specific, and regulator frameworks, leveraging tools and vendor partnerships to ensure compliance. * Collaborated with enterprise architecture and senior technical leadership to shape technical roadmaps and contribute to long-term strategic planning. * Oversaw vendor and partner integrations, providing technical guidance, risk management, and issue resolution. * Managed procurement and maintenance of engineering resources, ensuring teams had the required tools and infrastructure to deliver at scale.
Directed the delivery of a program of Agile and Waterfall projects, both greenfield and in-flight, across banking and payments domains. * Led a cross-country terminal migration program for a Big 4 Australian bank, ensuring successful rollout across regions. * Oversaw remediation of Priority 1 issues and critical non-functional requirements (NFRs), balancing technical debt reduction with product delivery needs. * Directed cross-functional, cross-region squads (frontend, backend, payments switch, QA) to meet project requirements on time and at the highest quality. * Established and led Tier 3 technical support processes, improving resolution times and operational reliability. * Monitored delivery progress, managed risks, and ensured rapid resolution of complex technical issues.