Program Solution Architect (Contract) — Imdex

Architecture of a Global Agentic Data Mesh Platform. Multi-cloud design, Snowflake-based with AKS AI/ML workloads. Data Platform Lead establishing the platform, team and operating model; overseeing architecture and delivery across Kubernetes, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow and DBT.

Program Solution Architect (Contract) — WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Architecture leadership across multiple squads delivering digital services and integrations on Microsoft cloud platforms (Environment Online program). Owned solution architecture across CRM (Dynamics 365/Power Platform), integration and data workstreams. Led discovery and design workshops; translated complex requirements into target-state designs, integration patterns and transition roadmaps. Established architecture guardrails, patterns and decision records (ADRs).

Cloud Data / Solution Architect (Contract) — Synergy

Solution and data technical architecture for a Virtual Power Plant platform ingesting rooftop solar inverter data from residential customers. Designed cloud-native architecture for large-volume inverter telemetry ingestion. Oversaw the London XTDB team implementing a HTAP bitemporal datastore for CSIP inverter records. Incorporated OT cloud hosting, PKI/ security design, DAPR microservices and Azure Databricks forecasting into the target architecture.

Solution Architect — FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimisation (Contract) — Department of Education WA

Architecture and advisory engagement focused on multi-cloud FinOps cost optimisation and governance uplift. Led reconciliation and optimisation activities across Azure/AWS/Oracle resulting in ~75% reduction in billed costs. Designed FinOps processes, controls and reporting to sustain cost outcomes and improve forecasting/accountability.

Principal Solution Architect — Versent

Architecture leadership across cloud migration and integration modernisation engagements during Telstra buyout. Architecture review and recommendations for an ASX-listed mortgage broking aggregator across AWS landing zones. Program design to migrate from MuleSoft to AWS cloud-native services for Curtin University. Facilitated discovery workshops and presented architecture decisions to senior stakeholders and governance forums.

Practice Lead — Applications, Integration & Infrastructure — Insight (APAC)

Led architecture and delivery across cloud and integration programs, combining technical leadership with commercial accountability. Principal Integration Architect for Club Assist APAC IT Modernization: D365 CE/FO implementation, 20+ supply-chain integrations, BizTalk to Azure Integration Services migration, and integration-stream leadership across a five-person team.

Cloud Solutions Architect — Velrada

Solution architecture and technical leadership across pre-sales, design and delivery. Designed and delivered Azure IoT Edge data pipelines and MLOps patterns for industrial/mining contexts. Cloud Architect for South32 initiatives including capital portfolio cloud re-architecture and IoT Edge reporting for SCADA/OT sensor data.

Engineering Manager / Product Owner / Scrum Master — Bankwest

Delivery leadership across customer and internal platforms during agile transformation. Led multi-disciplinary squads delivering payments, digital account tools, online lending, and CRM/branch operations. Balanced regulatory remediation (Royal Commission) with forward delivery.

Head of Information Technology — Fair Go Finance (FinTech Services Australia)

Established and led the IT function covering architecture, delivery and operations. Owned technology strategy and delivery; secured cloud sponsorship funding and drove cloud adoption. Delivered Fasti online credit decisioning, customer portal, Viso Azure SQL data warehouse, Annie credit-risk analytics and reusable scorecard/email services.

Earlier Career

Challenger (Sydney) — Technology Lead for challenger.com.au and fidante.com.au online annuity/adviser channels.
Beazley (London) — Senior Developer on underwriting platform writing over $1B policies/year.
ITV (London) — Technical Architect for ITV.com, third largest website in the UK.
Reuters (London) — Software Engineer for Reuters 3000 Xtra hosted trading/Citrix platform.
Transperth (WA) — Software Engineer for transperth.wa.gov.au and transwa.wa.gov.au.

Bachelor of Commerce — Information Systems and Marketing (Double Major)

Data Science Specialization (Certificate)

Ongoing Professional Development