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Interim Associate Director Digital Solutions and Innovation

Appen Pty Ltd is an information technology services company which specializes in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Annotation.

A career IT professional with over 20 years experience holding senior roles (Program Manager / Director, Project Manager, Executive Manager, CIO) across large (Commonwealth Bank) and medium (Colonial First State, Rothschild Australia and Coffey International) enterprises I am an experienced advisor to executive management and boards on technology strategies with strong business partnering and influencing skills in executive leadership roles. My extensive program and change management experience in both large and small environments enabled me to successfully manage the transition and transformation program for CBA workplace technologies ($22m over 2 years) I bring pragmatic IT service management (ITIL) implementation experience on a global scale across a number of organisations in different industries. Extensive experience managing multi-discipline and multi-national technology teams. My commercial and IT sourcing experience covers both in-sourced and out-sourced environments and dealing with HP/EDS, IBM, TCS and HCL. In 2007, as General Manager Workplace Technologies, where I led the sourcing team for CBA for workplace technologies ultimately awarded the contract to HP. Specialties: Business Partnership, Global Service Management, Technology Strategy & Execution, Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Architecture, Program Management, Financial Services, Professional Services