Half Cooked Solutions

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Andrew John Todd

Email

andy47@halfcooked.com

URL

http://www.halfcooked.com

Professional Objective

Andrew is an experienced IT professional who specialises in architecting, designing and delivering technology solutions to address business needs.

He is an accomplished IT executive. His key strengths are his detailed understanding of technology, knowledge of the full software project lifecycle and extensive management experience.

Andrew operates at his best in a challenging role for an organisation that knows the value of technology and has an appreciation of where it should be applied. He enjoys working with teams of people who are passionate about the change they can bring about through implementing great technology solutions.

Employment History

General Manager, IT
Integrity Life (Sydney, NSW, Australia) November 2016 - Present

I am responsible for IT Strategy, Architecture, Delivery and Operations for Australia's newest APRA licensed Life Insurer. I'm the executive responsible for all IT systems and services at Integrity. I defined the architecture and strategy, recruited the team and have led the establishment and operation of our IT function since the inception of the company.

IT Project Manager
AXIS Specialty Australia (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
January 2010 - October 2016

I am the primary liaison between the Australian business units of this multi-national property and casualty insurer and the IT organisation that is spread between the USA, Europe and Asia. I am responsible for managing and delivering the portfolio of IT projects selected by business management teams to support the operation and growth of the company.

The primary goal of this role is to deliver the most value to various business units for the available technology budget. I was able to deliver projects and solutions to a challenging budget each year. I lead the small team in the local office and leverage offshore and vendor teams to deliver services and projects.

Consultant
SMS Management and Technology (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
February 2009 - December 2010

I was a principal consultant responsible for delivering major projects to key clients

Achievements:

• I led a team that developed an IT strategy roadmap for Choice. As a result of the successful delivery of a complex technical solution for the GROCERYchoice project Choice asked SMS to review their technology delivery capability, technical architecture and project roadmap. Reporting to the CEO the team that I led determined a new, pragmatic and business focused approach to allow Choice to mature their technology capability to better serve the organisational strategy. I then went on to establish and lead the team to deliver this new IT strategy in a programme lasting approximately 18 months.
• I managed a project to define the information management requirements, processes, organisational structure, technology roadmap and governance for a state government department.
• I managed the delivery of the GROCERYchoice project for Choice. The system had to accept, store and present prices for up to 20,000 different grocery products in 2,500 stores across Australia. This required a complex public e-commerce web site and an associated data warehouse. The system was hosted using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and was developed by teams in two continents.

Practice Manager
SMS Management and Technology (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
November 2007 - February 2009

As the Practice Manager for Information Management, I was responsible for the definition and delivery of consulting services in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Management and Data Quality.

My main focus in this role was to establish this capability in the NSW region based on success in other parts of Australia, recruit the consulting team, sell solutions to customers and then ensure the quality of the delivery of those services. As an expert in the field I also directly contributed to projects where necessary.

Achievements:

• I designed, planned and architected the complex data migration and quality improvement component of a large agile business change programme for a major Insurance company. I selected and managed the team of consultants that developed the solution using Data Stage targeting an Oracle database.
• I led a team that implemented Oracle Warehouse Builder and then defined the best practice architecture and standards for the Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) of data between operational systems for an Energy generator and retailer.
• I designed a technical solution architecture and incremental project approach to introduce structured data storage and reporting to an internal reporting team at an investment bank.

Software Services Manager
CommSecure (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
March 2007 - October 2007

I was the software engineering manager for the core Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment systems offered by the company as Software as a Service (SaaS). This role encompassed product management, product development, support and implementation.

As well as managing the team of software engineers I co-ordinated the development programme and project managed significant packages of work. Due to market conditions and the cancellation of a key contract the company was force to reduce operations and seek a new supplier to take over its service and products.

Achievements:

• Managed the implementation of key EBPP systems for a major media company.
• Initiated a programme of producing structured product and functional documentation.
• Reviewed and revised development procedures and standards
• Carried out a comprehensive employee review and appraisal process for the Software Services team.
• Introduced a product management lifecycle process.

Principal Consultant
Oakton Services (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
October 2004 - March 2007

I was a principal technical consultant in the Packaged Services practice. This position required me to deliver services to clients as well as managing the careers of a team of consultants and contributing to service definition and development.

Projects:

• Programme Manager: I managed a programme of hardware, operating system, database and application system software upgrades for a number of applications used throughout the Asia Pacific region. The project was complicated by key hardware components being shared by business units in Europe and being hosted in the United States.
• Oracle Technical Manager: I was engaged to manage the Oracle technology team in the IT division of a major Australian company. This was a long term role whilst the full time employee was away on extended sick leave. It involved the day to day management of a team of programmers as well as managing their schedules and maintaining a high level of quality in team deliverables.
• Oracle Applications implementation: I managed the team that delivered complex management reporting from an Oracle Applications implementation for a major construction company using Hyperion running off a data mart populated using Oracle Warehouse Builder.

Consultant
Javelin Group (London, United Kingdom)
October 2002 - March 2004

Technical Design Authority on a number of projects for clients in the retail sector.

Projects:

• Query Handling and Web Self Service: I worked with a team who built new customer query handling and self service web application for a catalogue retailer.
• Customer Activity Analysis: I managed the team that analysed customer activity, profiles and segmentation for a multi channel retailer.
• Data Model and Migration: I designed a corporate customer data model for a multi channel DIY retailer. This involved defining a migration strategy from their in house developed system to a packaged e-Commerce system.

Consultant
MPower Systems (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
January 2000 - June 2002

Lead consultant in the custom development and data warehousing team.

Projects:

• Oracle Applications Migration: I managed the team of consultants and IT team members who migrated over 100 customisations from Oracle 10.7 to 11i. The focus was on replacing custom code with standard functionality wherever possible whilst working to an aggressive project schedule.
• Telecoms Data Warehouse: I developed the customer service component of the data warehouse for a mobile telephony start up in Australia. They recognised the value of business intelligence and built it into the corporate infrastructure from the first day of operation.

Research and Development Manager
OzEmail Interline (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
September 1998 - December 1999

OzEmail Interline was the first commercial provider of voice over the internet (VoIP) telephony. They had a worldwide IP network providing calls to customers in approximately seventy countries and termination in many more.

I managed the team that developed and maintained the systems that ran the business. I was responsible for setting objectives and defining project plans according to management, client and team priorities, as well as monitoring progress and co-ordinating development processes.

Consultant
Oracle Corporation (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
June 1996 - August 1998

I was the service leader for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for Australia and New Zealand. In this role I was responsible for overseeing the delivery of all Data Warehousing and OLAP projects undertaken by Oracle in the region. I also contributed my expertise as a designer and systems architect.

Consultant
Oracle Corporation (London, United Kingdom)
March 1993 - May 1996

Senior Consultant in the Finance practice of Oracle UK. In this role I helped clients to develop systems using the Oracle database and tools, acting as a developer, team leader and mentor.

Projects:

• Project manager for a global risk analysis project for an insurance company. The project delivered a risk index to the global commercial section of a tier one insurance company. This project used agile methodologies to deliver the maximum appropriate functionality in an aggressive timescale.
• Insurance policy administration for a high street bank.
• Re-possessed property administration system for a leading building society.

Consultant
Hoskyns Group (London, United Kingdom)
January 1992 - March 1993

I joined Hoskyns after university as a graduate trainee in the Oracle group.

Projects:

• Chemical Formulations. Lead developer on a system to record and manage recipes for industrial chemicals.
• Maintenance and support of the project management application for an agricultural chemical company.

Junior Analyst/Programmer
3i PLC (Solihull, United Kingdom)
June 1989 - September 1990

Industrial placement as part of my degree. I was a member of the team that developed and maintained the company's core portfolio management system.

Information Technology

Oracle Database and Tools: Oracle Database, Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Warehouse Builder, PL/SQL, SQL, Development DBA.

Other Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 UDB, Alterian.

Programming Languages: Python, PHP, Java, XML, XSLT, XPath, Shell scripts (bsh, ksh, bash).

Applications and Software Suites: Oracle E-Business Applications Suite, IBM Websphere, Hyperion Intelligence, Business Objects, Cognos.

Methodologies: Prince2, PMBOK, Structured Systems Analysis and Design, Agile Methods including DSDM, Oracle Method (including CDM, AIM, DWM and Project Management), Extreme Programming.

Education

• B Sc (Joint Honours) in Management and Computer Science, October 1987-June 1991. 2:1 Aston University

Miscellany

I took a break from work for six months in 2004 to take care of my son.

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