Enterprise Data & AI Leader
I turn 20+ years of enterprise architecture experience into AI and data platforms that actually ship — helping regulated organisations adopt GenAI, agentic AI and modern lakehouse platforms safely, with the governance and executive buy-in to make it stick.
Why hire me
A target-state architecture, governance model and platform roadmap your executives will approve — and your engineers can actually build against.
Working GenAI patterns, agentic AI architecture, self-service ML platforms and AI-ready lakehouses — not proofs of concept that stall after the demo.
Guardrails, RACI models and review boards that satisfy regulators and risk teams while letting engineering move faster, not slower.
Someone who secures funding, builds and leads delivery teams, and stays with a program through to production — not just the strategy deck.
Selected work
Australian Unity · 2025–Present
Authored the enterprise AI/data strategy, semantic model and ontology foundations guiding a multi-year AI-ready platform investment; shipped GitHub Copilot review guardrails and a Data Modeller AI agent as reusable engineering capabilities.
ANZ Bank · 2021–2024
Led one of the first Generative AI productivity experiments among Australia's big-four banks, evaluating GitHub Copilot at enterprise scale. Published research acknowledged by the ANZ CTO and picked up by media.
ANZ Bank · 2021–2024
Owned design and build of ANZ's Data Mesh, including the Data Product Catalogue and Data Mesh Control Plane — establishing federated ownership and self-serve analytics across engineering domains.
Australian Unity · 2025
Led the RFP and vendor evaluation that selected OpenText Information Archive, then designed an AWS-based archival architecture and reusable ETL framework — saving $250K+ every year.
Wipro Limited · Client: ANZ Bank
Led solution design on a multi-million-dollar Internet Banking (AU) modernisation program impacting every ANZ customer — recognised internally for outstanding design leadership.
Wipro Limited · Client: ANZ Bank
Led 11 senior architects modernising 100+ legacy systems and created a Migration-as-a-Service model that cut design effort by 40%, while chairing design governance forums.
Expertise
Data & AI strategy, reference architectures, architecture principles and standards, guardrails, patterns, and enterprise architecture governance.
Machine learning platforms, Generative AI, agentic AI architecture, LLM-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, responsible AI controls and governance patterns.
Lakehouse & medallion architectures, data mesh, semantic layers, ontology, knowledge graphs, metadata intelligence, lineage, data quality, privacy-by-design.
AI portfolio visibility, technology rationalisation, architecture review boards, business cases, value realisation, RFP leadership and vendor evaluation.
AWS, GCP, Azure, multi-cloud data architecture, secure cloud patterns, IAM, encryption, streaming & batch integration, CI/CD, regulatory-aligned controls.
Architecture leadership, team leadership, stakeholder influence, governance forums, capability uplift and senior technology advisory.
Experience
Australian Unity — Data Analytics & AI
Enterprise AI & data strategy, lakehouse architecture, GenAI/agentic patterns, Salesforce Data 360 direction.
Tech M
Client: Australian Unity
Built and led a 24-member Data & Analytics delivery team across onsite and offshore; drove enterprise GitHub Copilot rollout.
ANZ Bank
GenAI productivity research, GCP Data Mesh ownership, self-service ML platform design for enterprise analytics and AI workloads.
Wipro Limited
Client: ANZ Bank
Cloud hosting & migration architecture across AWS/GCP for payments, card tokenisation and ATM platforms; APRA/PCI-DSS compliance.
Wipro Limited
Client: ANZ Bank
Established an Asset Lifecycle Management operating framework, delivering $9M in annual savings.
Wipro Limited
Client: ANZ Bank
Led 11 architects modernising 100+ legacy systems; created a Migration-as-a-Service model cutting design effort by 40%.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Client: University of Cambridge
Led a 12-member team delivering a greenfield Transport & Messaging system — one of the client's first fully agile programs.
PwC
Built SMART, PwC's global reporting tool, and grew the team behind it from 2 to 12 engineers.
Recognition
About
I'm an Enterprise Data & AI Leader based in Melbourne, Australia. Over 20+ years I've moved from hands-on software engineering to shaping enterprise technology strategy — always staying close enough to delivery that my strategies survive contact with real engineering teams, real regulators, and real budgets.
I care about architecture that ships: platforms that get adopted, governance that speeds teams up instead of slowing them down, and AI investment that's aligned to outcomes an executive can defend to their board. That's what I bring to every organisation I work with.
Master, Data Science — University of Melbourne (2021)
B.Eng, Information Technology — IIEST, Shibpur (2005)
Melbourne, Australia
Australian Citizen — available for local & remote engagements
Beyond the work
Contact
Whether it's enterprise AI strategy, a lakehouse rebuild, agentic AI adoption, or an architecture review your organisation needs — I'd like to hear about it.