Dez Blanchfield

{ email } dez@blanchfield.com.au
{ phone } 0414 464 356
{ address } Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Personal Statement

A strategic leader with 25 years experience in the IT industry developing strategy and implementing business initiatives.

• Strong business acumen gained through working with a variety of senior executives and aligning Information Technology activities to meet business objectives.
• Extensive strategy and planning skills, analytical and problem solving skills and ability to ‘think outside the box’
• Excellent leadership, evangelism, communication and interpersonal skills, able to innovate and deliver successful outcomes
• Exceptional facilitation and presentation skills with a knack for simplifying complex and technical information for intended and diverse audience groups
• Expertise in motivating global teams across organizations to achieve common goals
• Ability to quickly build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience managing multimillion dollar projects & business budgets

 

Specialties:

• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
• Distributed Computing
• Big Data & Analytics
• Infrastructure & Architecture
• Data Centres / Telecoms / Networks
• IT Accommodation / Hosting / Outsourcing
• Security & Regulatory Compliance
• Systems, Application & Services Audit / Discovery

OEM’s of note:

• Hewlett Packard
• Sun Microsystems
• Pyramid
• Fujitsu

Commercial Organisations of note:

• News Corporation
• Woolworths
• Ergon Energy
• Telstra
• QANTAS
• IBM
• Dimension Data / NTT
• Westpac Banking Corporation
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Downer EDi
• OneSteel
• CSC
• Westfield
• AMP
• MLC

Federal & State Government agencies of note:

• Department of Defense
• Department of Finance
• Australian Taxation Office
• Department of Immigration
• Australian Electoral Commission
• National Disability Insurance Agency
• Australian Federal Police
• NSW Roads & Traffic Authority
• NSW Office of State Revenue
• NSW State Transit Authority
• NSW Police
• Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)