Stuart Bean

Experience

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  UK Ministry of Defence

  Aug 1986 - Aug 1989

  Contract Software Engineer and systems support.

  Contract software engineer, part time while at University.

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  Data Sciences Corporation

  Sept 1989 - May 1992

  Software Engineer

  Software and Database systems support engineer - Humberside and Kent Police systems.

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  Immigration to Australia

  Jun 1992 - Jun 1992

  Moved to Australia
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  AIDC Technology (S) Pte Ltd

  Aug 1992 - Aug 1994

  Systems Administrator

  The Australian Industrial Development Corporation - quasi government banking organisation, IT programmer and then network systems administrator implementing first PC based, Novel Server integrated corporate network and multi site WAN.

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  Kimberly-Clark

  Sept 1994 - Aug 1995

  Project Manager

  Project Delivery Team Lead, PM mentor and business engagement manager. Multiple projects delivered covering Office rollout, Ingleburn Mill CAD network, Novel Network and LAN expansion, Albury/Wodonga Paper Mill site LAN and inclusion into the Australian WAN, Perth sales office relocation, Melbourne and Brisbane office server upgrades, and more.

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  OSI Group

  Aug 1995 - Dec 1997

  Project Manager and Technical Lead

  Project manager and lead technical engineer in a medium sized systems integrator, working at multiple businesses in Sydney - implementing Novel Networks servers, cisco LAN's and WAN's, Microsoft Application servers and many network and business applications and management tools. Clients worked at were Macquarie Bank, Ord-Minnette, Pizza Hut, KFC, Pfizer, Rentworks, and more - implementing technologies such as Novel network, Microsoft Server, Windows desktop rollouts, ArcServer back environments, Data Archiving tape libraries and disk media environments, Outlook and GroupWise mail systems, and multiple LAN and WAN implementations. Show less

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  P&O Maritime Logistics

  Jan 1998 - Dec 2003

  International Project and Program Manager and Team Leader

  IT Strategy and standardization lead, mentor and adviser to regional and country IT Managers. Also the International Project Manger and team lead for 5 project managers, supporting IT projects into port business environments all around the work ( Newark Port system Navis implementation, Cagliari terminal implementation, Southampton system upgrade, Cosmos system implementation in Antwerp Belgium), as well as the project manager role for the new Qingdao port terminal in China.Prior to this role, I was the IT Manager Server, Systems and Network for ANZ region, with a team of 25 IT support engineers. Show less

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  IBM

  Apr 2004 - Dec 2007

  Contract Project Manager

  Project Delivery for several major IBM clients - including Westpac, Energy Australia and Network 10. All infrastructure ( hardware, software, systems upgrades or new implementations ), mainframe, networking, large storage and server virtualisation based. Highlights included Westpac to Coles banking transaction link, Westpac to 3rd party Card Services and credit services vendor, Oracle SAP infrastructure migration and upgrade requiring in one go live a 109hr continuous change window. Also the implementation of a fully digital media server and storage farm to facilitate digital content to 'Air' functional at Network 10. Show less

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  Broadspectrum

  Dec 2007 - Apr 2011

  Infrastructure Program and Project Manager

  Global Infrastructure Program and Projects Manager, using SAP to manage project financials, and Primavera to manage project resourcing and timesheets. Manager of a team of contract project managers to support the portfolio of internal infrastructure and new client integration projects. Resource manager for Infrastructure team, as well as PMO governance and mentor to my PM team. Over 70 projects delivered in period of 3 years.

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  Bean Solutions

  May 2011 - Dec 2011

  Contract IT Project Manager

  Contract Project Manager working for ThePMO Group - delivering infrastructure projects as well as project office consulting to small and medium sized businesses in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane including new server SAN and server centralisation project into Sony DADC, Origin Energy 4 separate Brisbane business groups office consolidation into ( and including the scope ) of new office refurbishment project, managing all the 3rd party vendors of builders, electricians, Telstra, UPS and Air con services and removalists. Other project leadership and management carried out within Harbour IT and Oriel Integrators - both systems integrators in Sydney. Show less

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  IBM

  Feb 2012 - Mar 2014

  Senior Virtualisation Transformation Project Manager

  Engaged on the National Australian Bank account to deliver multiple projects, including production mainframe storage migration with active failover DR mirroring, as well as 5,000+ server and application infrastructure refresh transition into an internal virtual cloud and on demand storage environment. A further project included the office relocation, local computer room exit and full business system transformation into new virtualised cloud servers for the NAB Superannuation business. All located in Melbourne, requiring regular travel, to achieve a highly client facing role, focal engagement lead across IBM delivery teams and NAB delivery teams and the 3rd party vendors supporting the project delivery objectives. Highly technical role, business application and owner engagement, as well as capacity planning and scheduling of the new virtual server farm and large SAN storage server environment to support all the transformation and transition pipeline. Show less

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  David Jones

  Jun 2014 - Jan 2015

  Delivery Project Manager - Infrastructure & Applications

  Project Manager - Infrastructure refresh, and Applications development - projects within David Jones IT division Retail Services. Multiple projects and role responsibilities, including team technical lead for network implementation team and multiple vendor liaison, to achieve full Network Refresh of all stores and datacentre onto new Motorola / Juniper network with Wifi, and the Empower Human Resources SaaS system upgrade and integration with PageUp People role recruitment system.

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  Oracle

  Jan 2015 - Sept 2016

  Director - Operations Systems Support Delivery ANZO

  Reporting to the Senior Director Systems Support Delivery, and responsible for the oversight governance and reporting for the ANZO regional team, covering all aspects of strategic planning, coordinated execution, and ongoing measurement of business, partner and field operations across the key services growth areas, achieving and supporting regional team in identifying support opportunities for customer experience improvement, and resolution of issues that may impact operational performance within ANZ, Oceania and JAPAC region. Recent assignment to special projects, JAPAC wide hardware support and asset management, across all direct and partner indirect customer business, acting as overall governance, reporting, management and guidance to regional leads. Show less

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  Nbn® Australia

  Oct 2016 - Jul 2024

  Focused on Public Cloud FinOps in AWS and Azure - presenting cloud consumption to Application DevOps teams in easy granular detail, identifying optimization and savings, guiding on best practice, and executing all reservation and discount opportunities. Corporate IT Infrastructure Operations Executive Manager, remit over two datacentres, three private cloud DC’s and two public cloud consumption areas ( AWS & Azure ). Responsibility for all assets, governance, optimisation, automation and orchestration, consumption cost show-back and charge-back, capacity forecasting and Opex budget management.

  • Executive Manager - Public Cloud FinOps

    Nov 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Executive Manager - Operations, Governance, Optimisation & Orchestration - IT Infrastructure

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2024

  • Executive Manager Infrastructure Operations Governance & Optimisation

    Apr 2018 - Sept 2018

  • Operations Manager - IT Infrastructure

    Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
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  Endeavour Group

  Jul 2024 - now

  Head Of Technology Transformation - Infrastructure & Services

  Leading the Network & Infrastructure pillar, aligned with the Stores & Apps, Program Delivery and Business Engagement streams, on a large-scale multi million program of works, end to end technology transformation, to achieve the Endeavour Group brands of BWS and Dan Murphy’s separation from Woolworths Ltd.