Alex Matthews

Senior Enterprise Architect at Queensland Government Chief Information Office

Sydney Area, Australia

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  • M Sc [IT] @ University of New South Wales
  • Grad Dip IT @ University of Technology Sydney
  • Grad Cert Sc [IT] @ University of New South Wales
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Alex Matthews’s Summary

Alex has over 14 years of experience in Information and Communications Technology [ICT] and in business, working in a diverse range of countries around the world and in a variety of large multi-national enterprises.

Alex has a professional history of award winning performance in positions ranging from Information and Communications Technology technical expert to strategic business leader.

Alex has an outstanding record as an enterprise architect, strategic planner, operational manager, including staff of 50+.

Alex has formal training and wide-ranging experience in enterprise architecture, strategic planning, human resource management, budget / resource / logistic control, training / competency / performance management and planning, fleet / facility management and business continuity planning.

As a project manager Alex has a strong track record of excellence in delivering multi-million dollar, high-complexity projects on time, on scope and within quality and resource constraints.

Alex’s distinguished record has been achieved through a sharp focus on business need and a careful attention to creating value. This, combined with an extremely diverse grounding in technical appointments, positions Alex uniquely to devise and evaluate solutions from both business and technical perspective.

Alex Matthews’s Specialties:

Now primarily an enterprise architect, management consultant, strategic planner and complex technical project management advisor.

Alex Matthews’s Experience

  • Senior Enterprise Architect

    Queensland Government Chief Information Office

    (Government Administration industry)

    December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

    Working on the Government Enterprise Architecture Framework and Freedom of Information legislation

  • Founder / Principal

    Needy Children and Orphans Foundation

    (Philanthropy industry)

    January 2008 — Present (2 years )

    Whilst travelling in Mwendo, Uganda, the "Mwendo Needy Children and Orphans Project" [MNCOP] was found to be recieving no support from any agency [government or philanthropic].

    I founded the Needy Children and Orphans Foundation [NCOF] with intent to provide support to the 100 orphans and 400 needy children in need nutrition, clothing, shelter and education.

    NCOF is being registered as a legal entity [expected completion end Mar 08] and will first provide a web presence and e-donation facility to MNCOP.

    The nominated board lead by myself is now working to establish the NCOF organisational, operating models and core values. Activities in progress include stakeholder analysis, market analysis and major organisational liaison.

    Strategic policy currently under consideration includes investment, sustainability, fund raising, volunteer engagement, marketing, PR, communication, community engagement, benefit distribution, anti-corruption and institutional lobbying.

  • Principal Advisor ICT Planning

    Department of Natural Resources and Water

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Working in the Program Management Office, primarily focussed on development of portfolio, program and project management accross agency. Focus is on ICT governance but recently begun to include major scientific, construction, infrastructure and business programs & projects.

    Manage $75M application portfolio for NRW and oversee the project assurance activities for NRW. Provide advice and review for key projects, documentation, technical plans and project governance. Currently working on the development of a project assurance framwework and developing a complementary software QA framework to guide, streamline and integrate software intensive projects.

    Leading establishment of an Enterprise Architecture at NRW as De facto Enterprise Architect. This integrates with whole-of-government ICT strategy while contextualised for the special nature of NRW which leads QLD's spatial community and so has a huge usage of GIS systems and so a v. challenging need for quality metadata regimes.

  • Postgraduate [Masters]

    University of New South Wales

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)

    Graduated the Masters Science [Information Technology] with Distinction

    Masters degree including:

    Enterprise Architecture,
    Systems Planning,
    E-business and
    Systems Engineering Practice.

  • Project Manager Information Systems Design & Deployment

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2006 — June 2007 (11 months)

    Brisbane, Australia.

    A diverse role including project and operations management as well as a strategic planning and policy function. Managing large teams and multi-million dollar projects.

    Successfully managed projects to achieve on-time, on-scope delivery within resource constraints and exceeding customer quality criteria.

    Projects were typically about the design, configuration and deployment of multi-million dollar Defence communication systems.

    Also acted as operations manager of a team of over 40 Information Systems staff and in a strategic planning and policy making capacity specialising in Information systems provision, professional development, logistic support, systems procurement, development and testing.

  • Manager Information Systems

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

    Kandahar, Afghanistan.

    Project manager for development & deployment of a multi-million dollar suite of Defence classified, life-critical information systems & associated infrastructure.

    Systems were deployed to Afghanistan and a major logistic support planning process was a key delivery success factor.

    Interface to other international Defence information systems required the development of a comprehensive security framework, another key success factor.

    The project was delivered using just six telecommunications specialists. The technologies installed and administered included:

    C / X / Ku band satellite,
    L band satellite telephony [INMARSAT],
    Radio networks [UHF, VHF, HF],
    secure, encrypted, Government classified voice, data and
    video-teleconferencing,
    PABX telephony,
    Nortel Passport ATM,
    Cisco internetworking,
    xADSL,
    V100 Multiplexors,
    HP blade servers with RAID,
    Gigabit optical fibre LAN backbone and
    commercial satellite TV.

  • Postgraduate

    University of Technology, Sydney

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

    February 2005 — November 2005 (10 months)

    Graduated the Diploma in Information Technology with Distinction

    Graduate Diploma including:

    Database Management Systems,
    Information Systems
    Data Communications (OSI model & Cisco),
    Mobile Networking,
    Systems Development,
    Project Management & Proffessional Ethics and
    Programming in:

    VB .Net 2003,
    PHP,
    XML,
    Optimal J,
    Javascript and
    C#

  • Program Manager - Rapid Deployable Systems Development

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)

    Sydney. Australia.


    Leading a major initiative to develop lightweight, rapidly deployable Information and Communication Systems for a senior Defence headquarters.

    Beginning with a major stakeholder engagement and requirements elicitation project the program identified a number of related and interdependent projects to collectively bring about change to capability and culture.

    Specific project deliverables included the design, procurement, testing and construction of a number of small deployable information and communication systems capable of deploying at short notice and handling Defence classified analogue and digital traffic and data. All associated procedural, security, goernance and policy methodologies, frameworks and documentation were also produced. All projects were delivered on time, on scope, within resource constraints and met quality benchmarks. The program in turn exceeded epectations for benefits realisation.

  • Communications and Information Systems Supervisor

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2003 — May 2004 (7 months)

    Baghdad, Iraq.

    I lead a team of nine telecommunications specialists. The technologies installed and administered by my team include C / X / Ku band satellite, L band satellite telephony [INMARSAT], handheld satellite [Iridium, Sectera], Radio networks [UHF, VHF, HF], secure, encrypted, Government classified voice, data and video-teleconferencing, PABX telephony, GSM and CDMA mobile telephony, Nortel Passport ATM, Cisco internetworking, xADSL, HP blade servers with RAID, Gigabit optical fibre LAN backbone, commercial satellite TV and RFID access control.

  • Manager Information Systems

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 8 months)

    Sydney. Australia.

    I was responsible for designing, purchasing, installing, documenting and operating a short-notice globally deployable telecommunications system capable of providing secure, encrypted, Government classified voice, data and video-teleconferencing.

    I was awarded a commendation for exemplary service by the Australian Army for my work developing this system.

  • Senior Information Systems Installation Technician

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2002 — April 2002 (3 months)

    Timor L'este [East Timor].

    The Australian Defence Force built a $15M military base for the Timorese military in preparation for the handover of border security from United Nations' forces to the Timorese. My role was to manage the information systems installation and included the management of all security aspects of installing government classified systems overseas, the production of system operating procedures and training of site administration staff.

  • Lead System Administrator

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2001 — December 2001 (5 months)

    International Peace Monitoring Group [PMG], Bougainville.

    The role of PMG was to facilitate peace negotiations after the conclusion of the Bougainville Conflict. My role was to provide Information Systems support to facilitate PMG operations.
    I was awarded the Australian Service Medal for my work with PMG.

    I was also awarded a commendation for excellence by the Land Commander of the Australian Army.

  • Information Systems Manager

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 2 months)

    Darwin, Australia.

    Received formal leadership training courses including Frontline Management and trade technical courses in Cisco routers, Lotus Notes [Group Ware and Email] and Microsoft Windows NT4. Managed a team of 20 staff, coordinated technical training and managed IT equipment.

  • Systems Administrator / Technician

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 1998 — January 2001 (3 years 1 month)

    System administrator of IT systems including government classified. Provide technical support to networks of up to 500 users including networking, intertnetworking, email, encryption and other application support.

    Q - Whats the difference between a system administrator and God?

    A - God doesn't think he's a system administrator

  • Senior Network Engineer

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2000 — July 2000 (6 months)

    Timor L'este. [East Timor]

    Senior Network Engineer for the Commercial Communications Management Team [CCMT]. CCMT's role was to install backbone communications for the United Nations Transitional Administration [UNTAET]. My role was to conduct the installation of a nation-wide Cisco router based IP backbone to provide a backbone router system [BRS] for UNTAET operations. This network, including the VoIP component is still in use today by the United Nations in East Timor.

    I was awarded the Australian Active Service Medal and the United Nations Service Medal for my role with CCMT.

  • IT service desk manager

    Department of Defence

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 1999 — February 2000 (1 year )

    Darwin, Australia.

    Provided first line support to 300 staff for two Government classified networks. One Novell IPX network supporting a repair workshop and one Microsoft Windows NT4 network facilitating the organisational unit's office automation, email, groupware and data storage requirement

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    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1900 — 1900 (less than a year)

Alex Matthews’s Education

  • M Sc [IT] @ University of New South Wales

    Masters of Science [Information Technology] , Majors in ICT Management and Information Technology Systems Planning , 2006 — 2007

    Masters degree including Enterprise Architecture, Systems Planning, E-business and Systems Engineering Practice.

  • Grad Dip IT @ University of Technology Sydney

    Graduate Diploma , Information Technology , 2005 — 2005

    Graduate Diploma including Programming in VB .Net 2003, PHP, XML, Optimal J, Javascript & C#, Database Management Systems, Information Systems and Data Communications (Cisco), Mobile Networking, Systems Development, Project Management & Proffessional Ethics

  • Grad Cert Sc [IT] @ University of New South Wales

    graduate Certificate , Information Technology , 2003 — 2004

    Completed Grad Cert including Computer Security, Telecommunications, System Development and Integrating Infomation Systems Technology

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Alex Matthews’s Interests:

Search Engine optimisation, Enterprise Architecture, Eco-tourism, Philanthropy.

Alex Matthews’s Groups:

Founder / Principal of the Needy Children and Orphan Foundation

Member - Web Standards Group since 2005
Member - Open Source Industry Australia since 2006
Member - Queensland Enterprise Architecture Council since 2007

  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    Systems Thinking
  •    International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs
  •    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
  •    The Enterprise Architecture Network
  •    CIO Forum
  •    Friends of Australia
  •    WSG
  •    Positive Thinkers
  •    1 Australia - Australian ICT Professional Network
  •    PeaF - Pragmatic enterprise architecture Framework
  •    Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession
  •    Australian Green ICT
  •    Australasian Architecture Network

Alex Matthews’s Honors:

Australian Active Service Medal - East Timor
Australian Active Service Medal - Iraq
Australian Active Service Medal - ICAT [Afghanistan]
INTERFET Campaign Medal - (Pending)
Iraq Cmapaign Medal
Afghanistan Campaign Medal
Australian Service Medal - Bouganville
United Nations Service Medal - East Timor
Soldier's Medallion
Commendation - Land Commander Australia

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