Daniel Lane

Current

Consultant (IT Stream Lead). Engineering & Sustainability, Technology at Westpac
Managing Director at Positronic Pty Limited & Voom Pty Limited

Past

Senior IT Project Manager at Optus
Senior IT Project Manager at SingTel - Optus
Disaster Recovery Project Manager at Chubb Security

Northern Area Technical Manager/Senior Engineer at Impaq Australia Pty Ltd
ADTEC Rollout Team/Technical Consultant at AMP Financial Services
Managing Director at Positronic Pty Limited
Digital Product Manager at Australis Music Group Pty Ltd

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Education

Macquarie University
University of Sydney
The Illawarra Grammar School

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Industry

Telecommunications

Daniel Lane’s Summary

Experienced IT Manager, Senior IT Programme Manager/Director, Enterprise Architect and consultant across multiple sectors including telecommunications, financial services, banking and security, education and property development. Certified Practicing Program Director/Master Program Director.
Broadly experienced across multiple platforms and technologies. Specialist experience includes: Telco Billing Systems, Web Applications and Portals, Business Intelligence Systems, Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, Mail Systems, Thin Client Computing, Consolidation, Security, Telecommunications Technologies, IT Strategy, Planning and Process, Contract Negotiation and Vendor Management (on and off shore).
Extremely technical yet personable. Strong conceptually, delivering intuitive solutions to complex issues and tasks.
Seeking an opportunity with scope to extend knowledge in a positive environment that encourages lateral solutions. Ideally within a progressive technology-focused and driven organisation, in a hands-on, challenging, senior role.

Daniel Lane’s Specialties:

IT and business management - project/program management - senior architect/technical lead - disaster recovery/continuity planning - pre-sales technical - product development – business intelligence/data warehousing – security - thin client and remote access - email systems and migration - web and hosting systems - research/special projects lead - top tier technical support/trouble-shooting - CRM - rollout management – systems administration - product management – custom electronic solutions

Daniel Lane’s Experience

Consultant (IT Stream Lead). Engineering & Sustainability, Technology

Westpac

(Public Company; WBC; Banking industry)

November 2009 — Present (2 months)

IT Stream Lead - (Consultant Auditor/Architect) on the Test Transformation Programme.

Engaged through TestLogistics. TestLogistics (TL) is a Technically Focussed Professional Services organisation that services Tier-1 Financial, Telecom & Global Services Organisations. TL specialises in Test Environments Management, Test Data Management, Test Architecture, Technical Testing & Programme Level Classical Testing.
Managing Director

Positronic Pty Limited & Voom Pty Limited

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — Present (11 years 11 months)

IT Manager – Project Manager – Architect - Senior Engineer – Consultant - Contractor

As owner and Managing Director - Contracting and consulting under the business names of Positronic Pty Limited and Voom Pty Limited at the enterprise and SME levels. Provided complete IT services including consultation, project management, systems management, design/architecture, hardware and software supply, hosting services and technical support to various organisations. Managed a team of full time and contract consultants, technicians and supporting personnel.
Senior IT Project Manager

Optus

(Public Company; SGT; Telecommunications industry)

April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Managed the end to end delivery of multiple concurrent programmes. Responsibilities included scoping, requirements gathering, estimation, budgeting/forecasting, resourcing, vendor engagement & management, development of project plans, project briefs/presentations, capital submissions to board, reporting, quality assurance, governance & delivery methodology, controlled sign off & change management, testing scope & scheduling, implementation planning, communications plans, release and migration planning, inter-programme coordination, stakeholder management, Project Manager/Project Coordinator management.
• Senior IT Project Manager and Optus technical lead on the large business division’s strategic online operational bill and traffic reporting web application replacement program. End to end strategy, delivery and management of a team of over 93 program resources and 6 reporting project mangers. Extensive vendor engagement and management both on and offshore (multiple teams local, interstate, UK, Singapore and India). SDLC management across multiple platforms. Budget in excess of $5M.
o Key Technologies: Infrastructure, Windows Server, Linux, UNIX (AIX), VMware, SAN, Business Objects, WebLogic, J2EE/AJAX and Oracle.
o Savings realised in excess of $1.1M through innovative delivery and lateral solutions.
o Designed efficient/low cost DR architecture in coordination with the Infrastructure team.
o Initiated and performed a vendor assessment resulting in the replacement of the primary incumbent. Delivered significant cost savings while increasing quality and improving time to benefit realisation.
• Successfully migrated, relocated and remediated the Optus Business operational reporting data warehouse from end of life infrastructure.
Senior IT Project Manager

SingTel - Optus

(Telecommunications industry)

April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Part 2
• Senior IT Project Manager on Optus Business Ethernet VPN product development project.
• Senior IT Project Manager - Relocation of mission critical TOPS international operator services call switching system. Involved relocating end of life terminal based switching system to an alternate data centre. Project was extremely time sensitive and technically challenging due to the age of the hardware.
o Personally developed/designed an interim international operator information database as a BCP risk mitigation solution, this was subsequently developed into an ongoing intranet based application saving the company upwards of $500K on the existing market alternatives.
o Designed, developed and delivered a custom engineered video interfacing solution to replace the ageing/failing terminal “green screen” displays with an LCD based solution as new replacement units were no longer available. Advised by vendor that this was technically “impossible”. This innovation combined with the successful, on budget and ahead of schedule, project delivery saved in excess of $2.5M on the purchase of a replacement system.
• Senior IT Project Manager Optus “Zoo” web portal platform get well program.
• Senior IT Project Manager - Establishment of IT services for outsourced call centre (SMB business unit).
• Total savings realised to date: upwards of $5.3M. Total program exposure circa $18M
Disaster Recovery Project Manager

Chubb Security

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Security and Investigations industry)

March 2005 — August 2005 (6 months)

Contracted to design and manage Chubb’s disaster recovery strategy covering the Australian and New Zealand business. Completed a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), investigated and reviewed the technical infrastructure to develop accurate Return to Operation (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Investigated and reported on existing Business Continuity procedures. Architected a hot site disaster recovery framework, based around consolidation principles, blade server technology and advanced replication techniques and software. The plan covered over 72 applications and systems, involving over 300 Wintel and 20 UNIX servers of various operating systems and data base flavours across geographically dispersed data centres.

Designed and outlined the project for the upgrade of the existing ATM and safe code management system.

Outlined a consolidation path for the existing infrastructure directly resulting in a company wide IT consolidation project. I declined the project lead role.
Northern Area Technical Manager/Senior Engineer

Impaq Australia Pty Ltd

(Telecommunications industry)

February 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 8 months)

Responsible for all technology around the NSW and QLD business. This included the 24-7 uptime of the Sydney data centre, systems architecture and design, build/integration and implementation of complex solutions involving bandwidth, security/firewall, Citrix remote access and Domino based intranet products, (mostly delivered to schools). Program/project management, presales support, product demonstration, troubleshooting and client liaison. Management of technical staff. Designed, scripted and implemented web interfaces delivering remote access, multi-platform, browser embedded thin client applications. Hosted/ASP product development and research.
ADTEC Rollout Team/Technical Consultant

AMP Financial Services

(Public Company; AMP; Financial Services industry)

July 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Initially contracted as a senior rollout team member of the Adviser Workbench (AWB) custom application to approximately 4000 systems (1300 financial planners and advisers) across Australia. On completion assigned to the AMP/GIO Adviser Technology support team as the top tier trouble-shooter and helpdesk system co-administrator. Responsibilities included: administration of the NT Server based domain, special projects including investigation of new procedures/techniques for use by the help desk and support team, third level support ticket resolution including on-site support of “sensitive” customers, help desk staff training, technical support and advice to the field support team and help desk, product testing and technical documentation. Also involved in special project development and research. Tactfully pushed the company towards a web portal based solution.
Managing Director

Positronic Pty Limited

(Music industry)

March 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 8 months)

Start-up and management of professional audio services, hire, retail and production facility. Including in-house MIDI production, editing, programming and mastering, selling professional audio products and comprehensive technical support. Achievements include top Akai Professional sales for Australia, releasing compositions and working with a number of high profile music identities. A highlight being my contribution to the year 2000 NYE music and countdown for the City of Sydney broadcast to a live audience of 3 billion people. By 1998 the business had diversified to include IT support services and upon realising my real strengths in this area, I closed the retail outlet to concentrate on the next stage of my career.
Digital Product Manager

Australis Music Group Pty Ltd

(Music industry)

January 1992 — February 1995 (3 years 2 months)

Building on an underlying passion for audio and technology – developed abilities in sales and product support and was primary Akai contact between Japan and Australia. Achievements include increasing Akai sales by 150% in the first year and doubling the Akai Professional dealer distribution network in two years. The role involved a large amount of travel (both local and global), and responsibility for the company’s presence and delivery of presentations at trade shows, seminars and exhibitions. Initiated the re-establishment of the Akai users group and reestablishment of the (previously closed) service department. Additionally performed service work on a number of products. The service department developed into a major revenue stream.

Daniel Lane’s Education

Macquarie University

MSc , Chiropractic , 1988 — 1992

Enrolled in Master of Science Chiropractic post graduate degree. Completed four years.
University of Sydney

BSc , Anatomy, Histology , 1988 — 1991

Activities and Societies:

Prosectors Certificate: - Awarded the John Irvine Hunter Memorial Prize. 1992, Sydney University, Sydney NSW Australia.
The Illawarra Grammar School

HSC , 1985 — 1987

Additional Information

Daniel Lane’s Interests:

Family - technology and computing - reading – fishing - music and electronic music production – martial arts (karate - achieved black-belt 1987) – fixing things…