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Managing Technology Consultant
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+61 (401) 717368
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I am a successful Senior Technology Manager & Architect, with broad experience in all aspects of leading complex ICT architectures & managing a high-‐calibre team of technologists, including: pre-‐sales engineers, consultants, technical account managers, & evangelists in both infrastructure and development domains. This results from a 23+ year career in Information Technology that includes experience from Mainframe Programming in the late 80’s; Infrastructure support and consulting in the 90’s; Architecture and Strategy Consulting in the earlier part of this decade; Consulting Practice Management & Group Management of Technologists, Start-‐up experience and most recently Product Marketing. I have held senior roles in world-‐class organisations across numerous countries including South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Leading projects and teams across 4 continents including: Africa, Europe, America, & Asia-‐Pacific. My passion is to enable people and organisations to achieve their best. I excel at co-‐ordinating high performance teams to achieve outstanding results. I’m comfortable in all aspects of this role, including: advocating for resources at senior levels; managing team performance; implementing effective change and communication strategies; as well as recruiting and developing professional and technical talent. My achievements include: • Delivering the Asia-‐Pacific portion of a global 40k seat messaging system • Leading the team for the first ever ASP datacentre build in Australia (C&W Optus a-‐Services). We defined the architecture and completed the build in 3 months, from September to December 2000; • Participation at HP TechCon 2002 + 2003. This is an invitation only Technical Conference, awarded to authors of the top 500 Innovative Architecture Whitepaper Submissions within HP; • The Microsoft Quarterly Excellence award (Sep 2007) for Manager feedback and team results; • The Microsoft Management Excellence Award (Feb 2008); • Consistently delivering outstanding utilisation results for 3 years managing MS NSW Consulting Practice; • Successful recruitment of over 25 Consultants and TAM’s, many of whom have progressed rapidly within Microsoft; • As an independent consultant, successfully co-‐ordinating Judges from 36 countries for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competitions in Cairo (Jul 2009); and Warsaw (Jul 2010)
Skills Professional:
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Team Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship IT Strategy, Enterprise & Solution Architecture Workshop Facilitation & Negotiation Presentations from senior executive through technical conference Education & Technical Training System Integration & IT Consulting
Professional Experience Senior Manager
http://www.readify.net Suite 401, Lifelabs Building, 198 Docklands Highway, Docklands, Vic, 3000
Mar 2010 – Present
Readify is an incredibly dynamic organisation, with a very high profile in the Microsoft Developer community. Over the last year whilst reporting to the CEO, I led the development of our Go to Market Strategy. This included developing an strategic framework & creating new channels in Mobile & Cloud computing, as well as offerings across the Consulting, Managed Services & Training Service Lines. Achievements: • Developed Go To Market Strategy for FY11 • Created new offerings maintaining Readify’s profile as “go to partner” for new technologies, viz. Mobile (WP7) and Cloud (Azure)
Roger Lawrence Scan my contact details to your phone. Download the reader for any smartphone
http://gettag.mobi
Managing Technology Consultant
[email protected]
http:// twitter.com/Rog42
+61 (401) 717368
http://au.linkedin.com/in/rog42
Professional Experience continued Founder and CEO http://channel42.com.au
Jun 2009 – Present
Achievements: • Faarms: MEGA (Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance) 2 Judges Awards, Peer Award, Audience Award. • Channel42: Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 & 2010 Software Competition Judging
http://www.faarms.com
http://www.microsoft.com.au 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, 2113, NSW, Australia
http://www.hp.com.au
Group Mgr Developer & Platform Evangelism Jan 2005 – Jun 2009 Professional Development Manager Enterprise Strategy Consultant Senior Consultant Achievements: • Coached Australian Student Team SOAK to Imagine Cup 08 Global Win • Management Excellence Award (Feb 2008) • Microsoft Health Index (Management Health Metric) >90% FY06,07,08 • NSW Consulting Utilisation above target (67%) FY06, 07, 08 • Quarterly Excellence Award (Sep 2007) Regional Architecture Lead – Security Jul 2000 – Jan 2005 Consultant Manager Senior Solution Architect Achievements: • HP TechCon 2003, 2004 (Invitation only ww conference) • NSW Consulting Practice Utilisation above target (70%) FY04 • Successful launch C&W Optus a-Services ASP Data Centre Dec 2000 • Successfully trained over 60 consultants in Architecture Methodology Project Manager
Jul 1999 – Jul 2000
Senior IT Consultant Australia
Lead Technical Architect
Dec 1996 – Jun 1999
Senior IT Consultant United Kingdom
Project Manager
Jan 1995 – Nov 1996
IT Engineer
Rep. Of South Africa
Technical Support Specialist
Jul 1994 – Dec 1994
IT Support
Oct 1991 – Apr 1993
Roger Lawrence Scan my contact details to your phone. Download the reader for any smartphone
Managing Technology Consultant
http://gettag.mobi
[email protected]
http:// twitter.com/Rog42
+61 (401) 717368
http://au.linkedin.com/in/rog42
Summary of Qualifications & Education Entrepreneurial Masterclass MEGA
Entrepreneurial Masterclass
NSW, Australia
4 Awards incl. Syd & Mel Honourable Mention, Syd: Audience & Peer
Master System & NW Admin Charles Sturt University
Master Degree
NSW, Australia
Systems & NW Administration
Nov 2009
With Distinction
Apr 2004
with Distinction
HP Global Method for ITSA
HP Senior Solution Architect Instructor
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Mar 2003
Compaq CSAM
Compaq Solution Architect Methodology
Mar 2001
MCSE + I
MCSE in NT3.5, 4, 2000, 2003, 2007 24 MCP Certifications
Mar 1995 - Jul 2007
CCA
Certified Citrix Associate
Sep 2000
GCA
Gartner Institute IT Project Managers Certificate
May 2000
MCT
Microsoft Trainer Certification
Dec 1996
Crawley College
City & Guilds 7307 Education Diploma
Jun 1996
SA Computer Users Council
Certificate in COBOL Programming
Nov 1988
Van Zyl & Pritchard Computing
Certificate in Programming (Design, Language, Analysis)
Nov 1987
Grey Boys High School
South African Matriculation Certificate
Dec 1984
Professional Memberships ACS #3015248
• Australian Computer Society – Professional Member since 2004
CISSP #43791
• Certified Information System Security Professional since 2003
Microsoft #32030
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1996 • Microsoft Certified System Engineer + Internet (MCSE+I) since 1995
NAUI #14126
• Divemaster since 1991 • Openwater Instructor since 1992
Personal Referees Graeme Strange CEO Readify
+61 (419) 320 899
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Catherine Summers National Recruitment & Contractor Management Microsoft Australia
+61 (411) 884661
[email protected]
David McGhee National Technical Specialist – Windows Azure Microsoft Australia
+61 (413) 746120
[email protected]
Jul 2004