Greater Sydney Area
I am an innovative strategic thinker, experienced at developing and delivering unique business solutions. I've repositioned businesses for success achieving increased revenue, reduced costs and delivered product innovation through the engagement of stakeholders and team members to understand key opportunities and aligning agendas towards a common vision. Initiatives have spanned business strategy and growth; organic capability development; product development coupled with go to market strategies; and building high performance teams. I have worked directly for and as a consultant across various industries, supporting international businesses and a large numbers of Australian SME, including: Woolworths, Cochlear, Vodafone, Vivant Digital, Oxygen Interactive, FiNAO, Master Card, McDonalds, Coca Cola Amatil, Fremantle Media, Channel 10,9,7, Fairfax and the Bureau of Meteorology. I have co-owned a restaurant, the Cook's Table, as a side venture to learn more about small business and explore my passion in wine. I also continue to consult to start-ups and entrepreneurial businesses.
The threat landscape and modern operational challenges create a complex environment for organisations to stay on top of. Simplification through the adoption of key platforms and services aid in operational resilience. I this role, I provide industry guidance on cyber security and lead a team of Security Engineers, who scale to support out extended community to mitigate current risks, and prepare for those risks yet to materialise.
Facilitator and Founder of Silicon Highlands, the networking organisation for technologists in the NSW Southern Highlands. The purpose of this group is to provide networking opportunities with a focus on knowledge sharing, collaboration, and a sense of community.
AI has brought profound opportunity to the market, with many challenges in adoption, and at a time when cybersecurity is at an all time height of concern (and growing). Bringing various industry experience, I lead a team of specialised solution design cloud architects to solve unique problems and develop brand differentiaion and elevated customer experiences.
Leading a team of specialised solution design cloud architects, our team works with FSI organisations across Australia and New Zealand to solve unique business challenges and deliver key customer outcomes. I also sponsor key cybersecurity initiatives to guide strategies that enhance cyber resilience and protect sensitive information, enable competitive differentiation, and help organisations maintain regulatory compliance.
VMware continues to be a driving force for digital transformation. Partnering with our customers and industry, we understand contemporary business opportunities and challenges and work with our customers to modernise their business. Leading the pre-sales engineering capabilities for ANZ, my role is to work with senior business and technology executives to define strategies that drive business innovation and agility, enable the modern workforce and protect brand and customer trust. Together with the CTO for APJ, my team and I also work with customer engineering and operations teams to act as a conduit for feedback on product features and capabilities. Ultimately, it’s less about selling products and more about solving unique problems. I look forward to bringing my experience in digital transformation, providing guidance on emerging technologies and the adoption of new industry capabilities, including: product innovation and development, always-on operations, DevOps, data analytics, IoT and Cloud adoption.