Executive Career Overview

Professional Portfolio & CV

Detailed technical leadership history, accredited accreditations, sector experience, and high-impact anonymized enterprise case studies.

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Strategic Customer Portfolio

Executive advisory and architecture engagement across global regulated and commercial sectors.

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Financial Services

Tier-1 Central Banks, European Retail & Investment Banks, Multi-Cloud Banking Platforms, APRA & BaFin Compliance.

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Regulated & Critical Systems

Greenfield International Airports, Global Shipping & Logistics, Defense Systems, Energy & Utilities Grid Operations.

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Global Enterprises

Telecommunication Multinationals, Automotive Leaders, International Aviation, Industrial Conglomerates.

Key Technical Case Studies

High-impact architecture solutions delivered across complex enterprise environments.

Supply Chain & Manufacturing

Interconnected Data Mesh & AI Enablement

Challenge: Disparate data sources created heavy ELT/ETL churn, slowing down AI adoption and real-time visibility.

Action: Architected an interconnected Data Mesh with custom connectors aggregating data points directly into BigQuery without complex transformation layers.

Result: Accelerated MLOps workflows by reducing ETL overhead, enabling product teams to deploy predictive models faster.

BigQueryData MeshMLOpsVertex AI

National Banking Provider

Cross-Cloud Event-Driven Migration Platform

Challenge: Needed to move massive datasets between cloud providers without vendor lock-in or compromising strict APRA regulatory compliance.

Action: Designed an Event-Driven bi-directional data migration platform using TypeScript allowing portability across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Result: Met strict regulatory CPS requirements while retaining flexibility to use best-of-breed hyperscaler services.

Event-Driven ArchTypeScriptGCPAWSAzure

Automotive & Enterprise Sector

GenAI Innovation Hubs & Aftermarket Automation

Challenge: Clients struggled to identify commercial GenAI use cases beyond basic chat widgets.

Action: Established dedicated Innovation Hubs prototyping rapidly with Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise CX, Claude, and OpenAI GPT models integrated with contact center infrastructure.

Result: Successfully deployed production-ready pilots that improved customer service metrics and closed major renewal contracts.

Vertex AIGemini EnterpriseClaudeOpenAI

Telecommunications Provider

Customer Experience GenAI Transformation

Challenge: High call volume burdening human support agents across English and multi-language operations.

Action: Deployed Generative AI architecture integrating Google Gemini CX multi-modal LLMs with customer portal & Genesys contact center.

Result: Automated key customer journeys, directly reducing call volumes and elevating automated resolution rates.

Google Gemini CXMulti-modal LLMGenesys Cloud

Tier-1 Global Bank

Mainframe-to-Cloud Modernisation

Challenge: Escalating legacy licensing costs and mainframe latency hindering new feature releases.

Action: Led strategy for a complete modernisation program, restructuring licensing and migrating workloads to cloud-native platforms.

Result: Delivered $80M in annual savings and reduced SDLC deployment cycles by 40%.

Mainframe ModernisationGCPAzureSDLC

Regulated Infrastructure & Aviation

Greenfield Airport Infrastructure Master Plan

Challenge: Greenfield airport project required a cohesive end-to-end data and platform strategy for 20M annual travellers.

Action: Orchestrated the technical pre-sales strategy for a $90M Master Systems Integrator bid focused on real-time data handling.

Result: Won the international contract against global competition, defining the digital backbone for the facility.

Platform EngineeringReal-Time DataPre-Sales

Career Progression Timeline

From Level 1 Support Engineer to Field Chief Technologist & Google Cloud Fellow.

Advisor Board Member

April 2026 – Present

KVRAI (US Real Estate Tech Startup) • Remote

Serving as Chief Technical Advisor setting technical strategy and scaling vision for the CEO and founder.

Field Chief Technologist & Chief Architect

March 2022 – Present

DXC Technology • Frankfurt, Germany

Technical authority for Global Enterprise accounts. Defining Cloud & AI strategies, leading pursuing pursuits generating €600M+ revenue, and managing hyperscaler vendor alliances.

Lead Architect & Senior Engineering Manager

September 2018 – February 2022

DXC Technology • Sydney, Australia

Led Platform Engineering practice with direct management of 30 staff across APAC. Spearheaded the DXC One Cloud Guild upskilling 10,000+ staff across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Assistant Lecturer

April 2019 – May 2021

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) • Sydney, Australia

Lectured postgraduate students on Agile & Waterfall engineering management, bridging academic theory with enterprise realities.

Cloud Solution Architect

September 2013 – September 2018

Travelport (Galileo) • Sydney, Australia

Architected high-scale transactional flight ticketing handling $2BN annual value with 99.999% availability and PCI-DSS compliance.

Lead Systems Engineer & Support Team Lead

October 2007 – September 2013

Travelport & Microsoft Technical Support • Sydney, Australia

Advanced rapidly from Level 1 Support Engineer to Team Lead overseeing 30 Microsoft engineers handling L4 technical escalations.

Education & Accreditations

Master of Information Technology

Cyber Security & Cloud Architecture • UTS (2017)

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

University of Sydney (USYD) (2001)

Google Developer Expert (GDE) Cloud & AI (2025)
Google Cloud Certified Fellow (Hybrid Multi-Cloud)
Google Certified Generative AI Leader (2025)
Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
DXC Distinguished Technologist

Official Resume PDF

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