Stories by Byron Connolly

CIO50 2021 #26-50 Claudio Salinas, Blackwoods

Blackwoods’ chief information officer, Claudio Salinas and his team embarked on a transformation program to replace a 35-year old COBOL-based ERP and 16 core business applications and consolidate five middleware platforms into a single cloud instance.

Written by Byron Connolly18 Nov. 21 19:30

CIO50 #26-50 Mike Brett, Hearing Australia

CIO Mike Brett joined Hearing Australia in April 2019 to drive radical change in the use of technology across the organisation.

Written by Byron Connolly18 Nov. 21 19:30

CIO50 2021 #26-50 Adam Heilbron, Max Solutions

Max Solutions operates under a large government contract with the Department of Education, Skills and Employment with a key focus on helping Australians that are receiving welfare get back to work.

Written by Byron Connolly18 Nov. 21 19:30

CIO50 2021 #26-50 Rob James, TPG Telecom

In July last year, Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) and TPG Telecom merged to create TPG Telecom Ltd, a top 30 ASX company.

Written by Byron Connolly18 Nov. 21 19:30

CIO50 2021 #7 John Vohradsky, IRT Group

Early in his career in financial services, John Vohradsky believed that being perfect and always being right was a good thing. He would always try to hide things that didn’t go to plan and ‘over-publicise’ the good stuff.

Written by Byron Connolly18 Nov. 21 19:30

CIO50 2020 #26-50 Ben Waterhouse, Coates Hire

Coates Hire’s chief information officer, Ben Waterhouse, led his IT team’s move from a traditional waterfall project delivery model to an agile (scrum) framework when it created a new service management application.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #18 Michael Fagan, Kmart Group

Between July 2019 and January 2020, every person in Kmart’s technology group across five countries were certified in cloud technologies. In fact, Kmart was the first organisation in the world to be 100 per cent AWS certified, says chief technology officer, Michael Fagan.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #26-50 Jennifer Rebeiro, City West Water

Over the past two years, City West Water (CWW) has been moving to a ‘best of breed’ technology architecture. A key foundation to this has been the deployment of a strategic integration and automation capability (SIA), consisting of an integration platform, business process management, robotic process automation, and data and analytics technologies.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #26-50 Grant Sayer, Healthdirect Australia

In January, Healthdirect Australia was asked by the Australian government to set up a helpline as part of its early response to COVID-19 to ensure the public had access to trusted information about the emerging pandemic.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #26-50 Bernard Wansink, Schiavello

Over the past two years, property development, furniture, construction and consulting firm, Schiavello Group, has transformed its culture and thinking to become a data-driven organisation.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #16 Rowan Dollar, South Australia Department of Human Services

When asked about his biggest career lesson, the former chief information officer at the South Australia Department of Human Services, Rohan Dollar doesn’t mince his words: “The business does not understand how technology can help them. Neither do ICT teams. Both make too many assumptions.”

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #26-50 Kerrie Campbell, Flinders University

Kerrie Campbell joined Flinders University in 2017 when it was going through what she describes as a "traumatic" restructure, driven in part by the inability of the vice chancellor to access reliable data about people from existing HR systems.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00

CIO50 2020 #26-50 John Vohradksy, IRT

As an aged care provider, IRT has a primary focus on better service delivery and customer experience, says executive general manager of IT, John Vohradsky.

Written by Byron Connolly12 Nov. 20 19:00
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