Greater Sydney Area
• Constant learner, always searching for inspiration (technical and people leadership) • 20 years of software and solution development experience, including 15+ years in architect roles (always hands on) and 6+ years as a development manager • Experienced in building As A Service cloud offerings including operations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code • Excellent problem solver that understands deadlines and business needs • Expertise in architecting, developing, and supporting distributed high-performance applications for networking in a cloud environment • Experienced in participating in standards bodies (Broadband Forum, NTAF) • Hands on experience in all areas of product and solution development including pre-sales, requirement gathering, planning, development, training, support, and documentation • Excellent grasp of technical issues and their business outcomes • Strong people skills with the ability to find comprise to move issues forward
Running a team of 45 engineers delivering Cloud based solutions for Cisco's Enterprise Networking customers.
• Co-Architect for the DNAC Cloud for Enterprise solution that is targeting Cisco’s Enterprise customers and their legacy devices • Development manager for the network controller service • Working with UX and product management in a trifecta system to deliver the required features in the most efficient order • Developed operational and support practices • Led a virtual team of 40+ people • Collaborated with over 10 teams to deliver solution to market including product management, UX, documentation, sales, support, and go to market
• Started as a junior consultant, ended project as a team leader • Wrote design specifications • Represented middleware team in project meetings • Programmed in COBOL using MDp in an MVS/CICS mainframe environment