Warren Morrell

Experience

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  Royal Australian Air Force

  Jun 1988 - Jun 1998

  Advanced Avionics Technician & Systems Specialist
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  British AeroSpace

  Aug 1998 - Apr 2001

  IT/Network Manager
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  DynCorp International

  Apr 2001 - Jun 2005

  Senior Network Manager
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  Bold Technology Pty Ltd

  Jun 2005 - Apr 2008

  Projects and Technology Manager

  Telecommunications services provider to businesses for Fixed Wire, Mobiles, Internet, VoIP Solutions, Private VPN’s, Domain and Website Hosting, and Website design. They operate as a telecommunications services broker and sources services from Telstra, Vodafone, AAPT, PowerTel, Optus, Netregistry, and others in order to provide a single billing solution to its customers. Responsibilities:• Develop the Business Alliances & client relationships in order to succeed in a very competitive market;• Manage the internal IT & communications systems;• Liaise with other Managers to deploy and manage projects;• Assess and communicate risks associated with projects;• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services to end users by monitoring carrier services;• Monitor service level agreements with service providers to ensure proper fault prevention and recovery resolutions in event of service outages;• Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures;• Manage the installation and implementation of service provider services and infrastructure including fixed wire services, mobile, VoIP and other data services;• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives;• Approve, prioritize, and control projects and the project portfolio of major information systems;• Manage contractors and service provider technicians on site when managing a client’s installation; Show less

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  Spotcam Australia Limited

  Apr 2008 - Sept 2010

  ICT Operations Manager

  Spotcam Australia operates an exclusive license to distribute and manage a surveillance system that operates entirely on the mobile data network. My role as the ICT Operations Manager was to ensure that all IT and communications procedures were within the compliance guidelines laid down by ASIC and the ASX, as well as direct the operations of the ICT department.Other responsibilities were to:• Participate in strategic and operational governance processes of the business organization as a member of the senior management team;• Define and communicate corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating ICT systems;• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan;• Approve, prioritize, and control projects and the project portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems;• Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal IT resources and external entities, including government, vendors, and partner organizations;• Produce the Technology based policies, procedures and processes;• Identify opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development;• Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures;• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for ICT spending and initiatives Show less

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  Department of Transport and Main Roads

  Oct 2009 - Sept 2012

  Enterprise / Solution Architect

  Working as a Contractor with Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) to provide Enterprise and Solutions Architecture in the Governance, Strategy & Planning branch.Responsibilities:• Undertaking enterprise architecture activities such as framework development, framework integration with related disciplines (such as portfolio planning and solution architecture), current and future state modelling and development of strategies and roadmaps across the business, information, application and technology functional layers.• Assessing, and as required, refining the Business Requirements Specification for information systems within the Information Division and TMR.• Analysing the Business Requirements Specification to derive solution architectural requirements.• Analysing & comparing technical solutions and recommending a preferred business solution architecture.• Specifying the agreed business solution architecture as a high-level end-to-end technical design.• Cascading high level end to end design into implementable detailed designs.• Providing oversight of the solution design from specification, through construction of the ICT solution to final delivery within Transport and Main Roads.• Representing Transport and Main Roads interests, as required, in technical solution discussions across TMR and with other agencies. Show less

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  Fujitsu Australia Limited

  Oct 2012 - Jun 2018

  Account Lead Architect

  Account Architecture Lead for major Queensland accounts such as Aurizon and TAFE Queensland. Part of the Account Management team to provide architecture governance, strategic guidance, roadmaps, and solution architecture for these accounts.

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  DXC Technology Australia and New Zealand

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2024

  DXC Connect has structured it’s technology portfolio into three core Practices being Network, Data Centre, and Edge, managed by a Practice Lead reporting directly the DXC Connect Managing Director, and is part of the company's Senior Leadership Team. Primary duties include: aligning the targeted growth initiatives, developing go-to-market strategies with vendor partners, resource alignment and training programmes, working with Customer senior and executive management to define and achieve business outcomes.To assist with the increased concern over the hypervisor market, We built a comprehensive Demo Lab to demonstrate capability across multiple hypervisors and hybrid cloud platforms. These include VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat OpenShift, ProxMox, Dell PowerFlex and VxRail, Cisco/Pure FlashStack solutions. This enabled our internal teams and Customers to test real-life workload migration and application testing without having to expend the effort to build it themselves. Show less

  • Data Centre Practice Manager

    Oct 2020 - Aug 2024

  • Principal Architect

    Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
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  Insight

  Oct 2024 - now

  Principal Consultant