My Journey

As a business focused and results-driven leader, my strengths include: • Strategic leadership • Stakeholder Engagement and sustainable Relationship Building, and focus on continuous improvement • Change Management, Digital Transformation • Portfolio management and delivery across software system development, system Integration and Infrastructure programs I have a strong technology and management experience within Professional Services, Telecomms, Insurance and Retail industries enabling me to communicate well from business strategy with senior executives through to implementation and operational teams. I am skilled in working with and partnering alongside business stakeholders to understand their business strategies as well as problems and propose the IT solutions that are aligned to support them delivery successful outcomes. I am passionate about the benefits of deploying Lean and Agile principles, frameworks and tools across teams and with a focus on simplification, streamlined delivery and reducing waste, delivery to customers value with speed and quality. I actively support and drive diversity initiatives through sponsorship, mentoring and coaching individuals from diverse business, technical and cultural backgrounds and motivate them to achieve both person and professional outcomes. Key Achievements • Restructured my department resulting in a high performing team focused on business outcomes and return on investments and well as extending their own skills and capabilities. • Established an optimised operating model with the IT department incorporating moves to DevOps for accelerated development, automation and deployment of functionality to support business demand. • Lead multiple and concurrent projects delivered within aggressive timelines to meet the business strategies • Navigated my teams through change, incrementally adjusting how we deliver to our user base, empowering teams to be more self-sufficient and take on more responsibility for their outcomes. • Building sustainable relationships with my key stakeholders resulting in stronger buy in from our end user base.