Deloitte

The Deloitte Software Group scales and productize assets within the firm, including priority products which are chosen for additional resourcing due to their potential in the firm. 

In a captain/coach role I manage a product while also leading the product management practice, mentoring PMs and evolving the product function across the portfolio
•	Lead the discovery and development for my own product team
•	Developed outcome-based product strategy that empowered the team to achieve business outcomes
•	Defined product OKRs and align these with the product strategy and initiatives across the portfolio
•	Coach junior product managers and manage their growth within the product management practice
•	Ran the PM Guild to promote good practices and knowledge sharing across product teams
•	Engaged business stakeholders and built product-oriented approaches across Finance, Legal, Marketing and other functions.
•	Standardized and enhanced the Product Management practice at the individual PM and Product Team level

Group Product Manager

•	Define and implement product vision, strategy and roadmap 
•	Define and execute the discovery backlog through building and testing hypothesis experiments in desirability, viability and feasibility
•	Work with the development team to implement the product roadmap as well as balance customer requests and support issues 
•	Develop product OKRs and financial management of the product

Product Manager

BlockTrust

BlockTrust works with major brands in retail, sports, entertainment and gaming helping them make sense of web3. BlockTrust develops B2C web3 products to engage brand communities, reward loyalty and generate new revenue streams through the digitisation of assets on the blockchain.

•	Define and implement product vision, strategy and roadmap 
•	Define and measure product OKRs and link to business objectives 
•	Create product process and implement throughout the product development community 
•	Build and test product hypothesis to validate proposed feature requests and align with business goals and user needs 
•	Work with UX to design and conduct user research to validate product assumptions and drive the product roadmap 
•	Work with product design on UX, personas and user Journeys and overall flows 
•	Work with engineering to define product metrics to measure product performance against business goals 
•	Drive Initiatives and features by working closely with Engineering on schedules, feature designs and release plans

Product and Experience Leader

Plutora

Plutora is a market leader in value stream management.

As a senior product manager I provide vision, strategy and execution of the value stream product in the emerging market of value stream management platforms

Activities include
• Define and implement product vision and strategy
• Partner with Marketing and Sales to validate requirements and align with go-to-market plans and
product launch
• Work with product design on UX, usability and overall flows
• Drive Initiatives and features by working closely with Engineering on schedules, feature designs
and release plans
• Measure and analyse performance data, including product adoption and customer satisfaction
• Participate in Agile teams as the product owner
• Provide product expertise and training to field staff
• Directly contribute to revenue growth by assisting the Sales team
• Drive new product adoption by focusing on customer awareness and satisfaction

Senior Product Manager

KJR Australia

KJR is a technology-focused strategic advisory firm that delivers consulting and technical solutions across industry sectors in the areas of Advisory and Assurance, DevOps and Cyber Security.  
Activities include

- Provide consulting and advisory services to C-level stakeholders in the areas of product strategy, cyber security and IT infrastructure
- Design and implementation of machine learning, security and DevOps (test automation) solutions for clients
- Stakeholder and account management
- Develop and refine the company’s internal services offering
- Manage a team of consultants including mentoring and assisting in their growth as consultants
- Presales consulting and client demos
- Assist in talent acquisition from a technical and consulting perspective

Principal Consultant

Solentive

Leading a team of business, UX and technical consultants to design and implement custom software and product based solutions. Including the below activities

- Managed the backlog and developed the product roadmap for several greenfield custom product development projects
- Facilitate client workshops to explore innovative solutions including Cloud infrastructure, custom software development, and product customisation. 
- Provided presales consulting services including customised product demonstrations to C-level executives
- Provide a Design Thinking methodology-based engagement to help clients with Digital Transformation. Including customer interviews, observations, ideation sessions, rapid prototyping and user testing
- Provided onsite consulting services in Australia and NZ in the implementation of solutions working closely with client resources 
- Develop custom software functional documentation including user stories, entity diagrams, process flow diagrams
- Develop business cases for customers for custom development projects including business and cost benefits 
- Oversee agile development teams and owning the customer relationship during delivery
- Business Analytics and business intelligence design to help with managerial decision making

Principal Consultant (Product)

•	Developed product road maps for customers. Demonstrating business objectives met through staged feature releases starting with the MVP release
•	Provided end to end delivery of several product consulting engagements in the areas of Customer Relationship Management and Business Rules Engine
•	Account mined several high value clients including providing advice to the executive team on how current clients can utilise Machine Learning and AI to increase efficiency and revenue generation
•	Worked collaboratively with client stakeholders in both presales and solution delivery including C-Suite, Solutions Architects, Business Analysts, Developers and frontline staff
•	Facilitating client workshops to explore innovative solutions including Cloud infrastructure, custom software development, and product customisation. 
•	Developed custom software functional documentation including user stories, entity diagrams, process flow diagrams
•	Led presales engagements including product demonstrations

Business Solutions Consultant (Product)

Xcellerate IT

- Provide IT solution consulting services to end customers both remote and onsite
- Facilitate client workshops for requirements gathering
- Development of high level requirements and technical design documents
- Design of complex capture solutions for both private business and non-government organisations using the Kofax suite of products
- Document and deliver end user training and support both onsite and remotely including interstate
- Designed and delivered automated document capture solutions that integrated with several leading workflow and accounting systems
- Experience in developing and supporting solutions on different operating system and architectures – including Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012; and Windows 7 and 10
- Provide solution support and case resolution for existing clients

Technical Consultant

Computershare

- Senior developer in the implementation of major capture projects for several large companies including major banks and company IPOs.
- Project lead on large scale projects requiring multiple stakeholder management and coordination
- Provide guidance to developers on process and professional development
- Help with the process and technical direction of the implementations team
- Designed and implemented automated capture solutions

Senior Developer

- Design and creation of .Net libraries to integrate with Kofax KTM projects to reduce development, testing and maintenance of Kofax implementations
- Design and implementation of complex capture solutions using, C#, JavaScript and XSLT
- Created and implemented several proofs of concept projects to help win high value contracts
- SME for document capture and storage

Implementations Developer

Pillar Administration

- Lead developer in BPM development projects. Improving the indexing and processing of cases and KPI measurement
- Created and maintained the UAT environment for the company’s entire image capture and business processing system.
- C# development
- Implemented and tested the disaster recovery plan for workflow and image storage. 
- Successfully managed and lead the resolution of several business-critical systems outages.

Analyst programmer

As a Group Product Manager I have been able to pursue my passion for bringing to life products that solve real customer needs and help improve their lives.

Moving from product consulting into end to end ownership of products I have been able to focus on building products early in the product life cycle with a focus on product vision, strategy and product market fit validation

I am also an advocate of leveraging AI and machine learning to drive customer personalisation, operational efficiency and make better decisions in business.

Always happy to chat anything product so feel free to reach out!

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