Stephen Malins

Experience

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  British Army

  Jan 1990 - Aug 1998

  Operational Analyst

  Providing operational analysis support (strategic/tactical) in a high-level, multi-national environment for military operations. Briefing, planning, advising and leading small teams.

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  Landair Interntional

  Apr 1996 - Aug 1996

  Consultant

  Salisbury, UKDatabase ConsultantOffered support to a report which identified reasons for the failure of export sales of a British Aerospace Air Defence system.

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  Deutsche Börse

  Nov 1998 - Jan 2002

  Consultant Developer

  Development, Testing, Project Assistance on Automated Settlements Lending System a mission-critical system which allowed clients to automaticallly borrow securities against collateral to fulfill trade settlement in a pan-European equity market.

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  Jackeroo & Off-side driller

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2002

  12 month Sabbatical

  Jackeroo - cattle and sheep farmsOff-side driller, Goldfields, WAIT consultant - Sydney

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  Options Technology Solutions Pty. Ltd.

  Apr 2004 - Aug 2005

  Senior Developer / DBA

  Client-side project for Adjutant General’s Department. Development and maintenance of National Handgun Buyback System to support a national initiative. A federal distributed laptop system with a central, test and training server. • SQL server DB Administrator• Using T-SQL, transformed, analysed data and produced reports to analyse scope of AUS$90M budget to allow commonwealth financial reconciliation.

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  Australian Unity

  Aug 2005 - May 2009

  Technical Team Leader

  Engaged to assist with updating enterprise IT across organization, production and projects. ITIL certification.• AGILE team structure using SCRUM and SPRINTS, led key deliverables.• Enabling core development library, B2B webservices, portals, Straight-Through Processing systems across organization.• Helped refine software development process, environments, version control and release strategy.Included pioneering use of UML, Enterprise Domain Patterns, SVN source control, Test Driven Design, NUnit and Object-Relational (NHibernate) mapping techniques• Redevelopment of Website from classic ASP to ASP.NET MVP (Web 2.0). Lead on SEO and Analytics. Show less

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  ANZ

  Jun 2009 - Dec 2009

  Technical Team Leader /Dev Manager

  • Led team of 20+ developers for ANZ.com, based onshore (Melbourne) and offshore (Bangalore). • High-volume, multi-discipline role including dealing with business unit stakeholders, infrastructure, Project Managers, business analysts, and Product, competing for web ‘space’ and resources. Working with vendors.• Focus on Security, infrastructure, and network.• Owner of QC, standards, analytics and SEO. Change control: Refined ANZ.com release matrix which tabled web change against controls and level of risk to ensure 24/7 availability of ANZ.com.• Ownership of various tasks to support higher reports including project-managing a critical auditing programme using off-shore resources.• Taking delivery of Content Management System (IBM Websphere) capability from Project Team to BAU : including pre-rendering, authoring, maintenance and software upgrades on Web Application Server. Show less

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  Intergraph

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Consultant

  Left ANZ to broaden delivery and project experience in the enterprise for South Australia Emergency Services (Police, Fire and Ambulance). Reported to Programme Management in a timely fashion and dealt with stakeholders, vendors and business analysts. Worked client-side customizing the Intergraph Core Calltaker and Dispatcher/ORACLE product. Environment was continuous integration with SVN, CruiseControl and NUnit. Included lead on:•Xml webservice data exchange interface between core CalltakerDispatch system and external resource system for personnel, shift and units.•Server-based detect module and multi-threaded custom skinned WPF desktop messaging alert system•Pioneered ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, JSON architecture architecture for web booking and scheduling system for Non-Emergency Patient Transportation. Show less

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  Repco

  Sept 2010 - Feb 2011

  Consultant

  Supported IT manager and helped to roll out AGILE methology to team using SCRUM and Sprints. Worked on a front-house automotive parts and servicing package rolled out to Repco retail and service locations Australia and New Zealand wide using Citrux. Problem-solving troubleshooter. Instrumental in developing innovative solutions to problems. System enhancement.

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  Bureau Veritas Group

  Feb 2011 - Feb 2015

  Implementation Lead, Technical Project Manager

  Program to roll-out Microsoft stack-based platform to wholly-owned network of Coal and Minerals analysis laboratories Australia-wide with a focus on integration, straight-through processing and data migration.Architecting, planning and migrating a legacy Laboratory Information Management System to a .NET WinForm (WPF) WebForm/WCF/Sql Server/Reporting Services platform for a Perth-based lab. The lab is one of the largest world-wide and handles mineral samples sent by clients world-wide 24/7. The new system was phased-in with integration back to legacy system over 18 months. The role expanded to customize, integrate and deliver the product to other labs in WA, South Australia and then support the application.• Managing implementation and delivery of phased modules in multiple locations. Onsite visits to remote locations, consulting with technical directors, operations managers, and lab staff across lab operations: sample preparation, processing, instrumentation, reporting and invoicing. Led B2C integration with customer systems. • Controlling Project scope and Requirements, CAPEX, reporting, status and tracking• Solved issues across database, infrastructure, server and network teams• Lead / SME for instrumentation integration (eg. Analysis machines and robotics), Straight Through Processing and WCF communication.• Lead / SME for data migration (legacy CCLASS and SampleManager) Show less

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  Bravura Solutions

  Mar 2015 - Jan 2017

  Software Development Manager

  Managing Development, Test and Business Analysis project streams working in a Melbourne-based programme to deliver Bravura’s customised Web and Rich Desktop Life and Superannuation platform to blue-chip clients in Europe and Asia-Pacific, London-based and Brisbane-based, owning multi-million dollar development budget. Using AGILE-Waterfall, working with Project Managers and consultants onshore and offshore: planning and managing phased development deliveries into Acceptance Test and UAT, and then transitioning them to maintenance. Resourcing and engaging build, infrastructure, database and server teams and architects across 5 time zones in London, Warsaw, India, Sydney and Auckland. A line manager to direct reports with a mentoring and leadership responsibility Show less

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  Genuine Parts Company

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Infrastructure Project Manager

  Managing a number of infrastructure and security projects in a challenging business environment to support AU and NZ retail. Included critical changes to primary and secondary Data Centre Core and Wide Area Network, rollout of Telstra TIPT Telephony/Voice Australia wide and managing a problematic multi-stream Identity Management project. This had stalled for several months under different PMs but I was able to drive teams and align stakeholders and get sign-off on a key phase and get it vendor build-ready.• Vendor management: Engagement, Statement of Work, Scope and Solution Design deliverables.• Managing organisational change : Architecture, Business Analysis, Service Desk, Finance, HR, Payroll and Training Show less

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  Leecare

  Jul 2017 - now

  Program Manager

  Planning, reporting, delivery, coaching (process improvement) : organising AGILE development streams in a program for AU/NZ and Singapore, for Aged-Care clinical, executive and Finance software across Desktop and Mobile app. Working with chief executive, stakeholders, product, sales, country GMs and technology on Senior Leadership team. • Forecasting, interpreting Product roadmap and Delivery/ release management• Scoping, commercials and engineering - (Agile modeling) - architecture• Change management and Delivery (Ops) Show less