My professional career and work experience over the years.
I have a background in business and technology strategy, enterprise architecture, technical leadership, consulting and financial analysis. Here is a summary of my professional journey.
Capabilities, domains and technologies across this work history, sized by the number of roles each one appears in. Each one leads to the roles that involved it, and to anything written on the subject.
Cochlear
Enterprise architecture within Technology and Data Solutions: an architecture service model, EA metrics and LeanIX executive reporting, an AI reference architecture, and federated repository-centric governance.
Torrens University Australia
Lecturer in Information Systems teaching undergraduate and masters students, twice awarded the Learning and Teaching Merit Award.
Hello Tham
Boutique strategy consultancy, publishing AI-dō, a book on working with AI in practice, and two native Apple applications released as free software.
Transport for NSW
An enterprise applications business case, proofs of concept, and machine learning for incident routing.
Broadspectrum
IT strategy, interim architecture leadership, a data analytics capability, and APQC’s process framework.
Thorogood & Associates
Developed social media workshop material and consulted on the business case for an online campus and a Western Sydney campus for the University of New England.
ING Australia
Established the IT Strategy and Architecture function of around twenty people, its governance and roadmaps.
NAB Group
Head of Architecture for Distribution, then for Retail Banking, then Strategy Consultant for the Australian region.
MLC
Established the architecture function and its governance over a fully outsourced IT operation.
Hewlett Packard
Consulted to organisations including Boral on technology infrastructure strategy, server upgrades and data centre consolidation.
AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR)
Consulted to organisations including St. George Bank, Franklins, Rockmans and Telstra.
State Bank Victoria
Pricing exotic options as a Treasury analyst, and maintaining the Treasury management system.
Optech International
Option pricing and distributed risk management for Tesla, a foreign exchange options trading system built at Optech.
University of Sydney
Casual tutor in the Basser Department of Computer Science, and earlier a programmer for the Department of Chemistry.
Bain & Company
Administered one of Australia's first commercial UNIX systems, and in 1986 connected the firm to ACSnet, making it one of the earliest non-academic organisations in the country online.
Rational Research
Door access and lift security control programs, and a diagnostic interface and machine language monitor for an in-house embedded operating system.