Greater Canberra Area
• Former AWS cloud & privacy architect/engineer with 15 years of presales, delivery, operations, governance and quality & project leadership experience across cloud, enterprise SaaS, and NLP/LLM for strategic, highly-regulated, enterprise and government customers in APAC & NA. • Lead delivery & operations engineer for the web platforms of Citibank, The Government of Canada, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Export Development Canada, HCF Australia, CBUS Super, et Al. • Fluent in AWS & Azure clouds and Windows & Linux ecosystems. • Ex-Adobe, ex-government, ex-network engineer, ex-aerospace & mechanical engineer.
** Owner of multiple cost optimisation projects for several mid-market AWS & Azure customers, achieving sustained cost savings of 27-91% in each of the 100+ AWS accounts and Azure subscriptions I’ve been tasked with. ** • Responsible for cultivating FinOps cultures, including: ‣ Creating landing zone structure and chargeback & cost-splitting mechanisms. ‣ Training Dev, Ops, and Finance teams on AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and Cost Explorer. ‣ Creating, automating, and training ops staff on right-sizing procedures and SP & RI forecasting. ‣ Creating IaC-defined cost alerting, dashboards, and automated reporting for each service. • Responsible for identifying & delivering cost savings, including: o End-to-end AWS Control Tower rollouts, including enrolment of existing accounts, design of SCPs, tag policies, AWS Config rules, and building corrective, right-sizing controls (using AWS Config, Budgets & CloudWatch Alarms, Event Bridge and Lambda functions). o Rightsizing of: EC2 & RDS instances; caching clusters; ECS/EKS clusters, nodes, services and containers; EBS volume size & throughput; S3 storage tiers; and integrating tools like Infracost into CI/CD pipelines. o Optimisation of: ‣ Caching configuration, including Edge/CDN, API Gateway, Application & In-Memory, DB queries and semantic caching (in NLP/LLM apps) ‣ Storage tiers (EBS/S3/Glacier) and backup schedules & retention. ‣ CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs, and Security Hub checks. ‣ Multi-AZ/region/account resilience; cross-zone/region data transfers; and autoscaling algorithms. ** Owner of multiple DevSecOps maturity and cloud security posture uplifts, including presales, discovery, SoW generation and delivery & implementation. ** ** Responsible for multi-vendor/SP management in the context of mission-critical, enterprise applications, including tendering, EA and contract management, and ops & helpdesk process integration. **
Enabling APAC's and North America's largest banks & governments to move their critical, sensitive workloads & processes to public cloud; helping friends & colleagues do the same; assiduously cracking the most inexplicable bugs of highly-integrated, enterprise systems, and getting people sleep; unblocking enterprise SaaS deals high-centred on network integration and regulatory compliance; lots of meetings with customer folks on every floor; lots of drawings; simplifying & automating anything, anywhere; teaching, demystifying, sharing and bartering what I can with my spare time; wowing my highly-regulated fellows with my latest feats of NLP-powered laziness or Splunk-powered proctology.
As IT & Records Manager for two Northern Territory Government agencies — Tourism NT and its government business division, Territory Discoveries — I held dual responsibility for all ICT, Records Management, and Privacy functions across both organisations. I managed a team of ICT and Records Management staff, led a full portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned to the COBIT IT governance framework, and served as the principal point of accountability for information governance, regulatory compliance, and technology strategy. The role spanned strategic IT planning, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, project and service delivery, procurement, vendor management, records and information management, risk and security governance, and people leadership — across organisations with offices in Darwin, Alice Springs, and Sydney.