Work History
My professional career and work experience over the years.
I have a background in software engineering, solution architecture, and technical leadership. Here is a summary of my professional journey.
Junior Janitor
Hello Tham
I am a Junior Janitor. My job is to sweep and mop the floors, clean the bathroom, sanitise the phones, and generally keep this place clean and welcoming to clients.
Senior Consultant
HP
My speciality was providing architecture consulting services to a number of clients within HP's Professional Services Division. Clients included ANZ, Telstra, and Boral. Key achievement included developing a technology infrastructure strategy, a server upgrade business case that was approved by the Board, and contrubuted to the development of a data centre consolidation business case for Boral.
Head of Strategy and Architecture
ING
Successfully established IT Strategy and Architecture Function (team size: approximately 20) for ING Australia (against a prior history of several failed attempts to create an organisation wide architecture team).
Head of Architecture
MLC
Established the architecture function at MLC in a background of MLC re-establishing strategic control over technology from a fully outsourced IT operation (managed by IBM GSA).
Senior Consultant
NCR
Consulted to various organisations, including St. George Bank, Franklins, Rockmans, Telstra, focusing on architecture, UNIX Server and RDBMS pre- and post-sales activities.
Project Lead
Transport for NSW
I led the development of the Transport EQUIP Roadmap to realise desired business outcomes relating to a multi-year corporate shared services reform program at Transport for NSW. The roadmap impacts the entire cluster of operating agencies that together deliver transport services to NSW.