Skills Professional Experience

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Managing Technology Consultant

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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)


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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

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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



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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 [email protected]

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