iProperty Group is the ASX-listed owner of Asia's No.
1 network of property portal sites under the iProperty umbrella brand
(www.iproperty.com).
Key executive role bringing a wealth of IT experience
to the boardroom table
Responsible for the group's IT portfolio including
market-leading consumer websites, innovative b2b tools and internal IT
assets
Leading a team of 50 IT staff located in four
countries (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia)
Transformation to Agile software development
approaches and practices including continuous integration, automated
testing, continuous improvement, limited work-in-progress and Kanban.
Working with the IT community in the APAC region to
showcase the innovative and exciting approaches taken to running an IT
business
Datacentre consolidation and deployment of website
acceleration solution
Moving from a physical hosting environment to a
virtualised datacentre and cloud hosting
Negotiating contracts and managing performance with
multiple vendors
Implementing metrics, policies and processes to
increase mean time between failure and reduce mean time to respond
Introducing elements of the ITIL suite to add
structure to web operations
Key member of the IT leadership team, responsible for
delivering new features and maintaining code on the group's
customer-facing tools
Developing and implementing IT strategic direction
and vision with other senior IT managers
Management of existing vendors, development of new
partnerships
Member of the REA Group Senior Leadership Team, a key
part of the business structure, liaising regularly with members of the
Executive Leadership Team from IT, consumer marketing, customer
marketing, sales & operations
Budgetary responsibility for major strategic projects
Focusing on delivering value to the rest of the
business, our customers, consumers and shareholders
Managing an internal software development team
through a major transition to Agile practices
Setting principles, guidelines and standards for the
development team to ensure quality, repeatable practice
Driving technical, product and process innovation
within the IT team. For example:
Rapid prototyping of new product features around
map-based searching, content syndication and advanced user interactions
Implementing Kanban practices for the product
maintenance and support team
Deploying visual build status indicators to
highlight code quality
Regularly presenting new ideas, updates and
developments to the IT team and wider organisation through town hall
meetings and blog posts
Founding member of the Venda technical team, building
the company from a start-up to a global business with over 250 staff
and operating more than 100 websites
Leading a team of developers to integrate the Venda SaaS
eCommerce platform with client systems;
Pioneering the opening of Venda's wholly owned,
offshore development facility in Thailand.
Leading a team of local developers in Thailand to
create sites and integration modules using the Venda eCommerce platform.
Defining and implementing internal business processes
to ensure quality and robustness of code
Interviewing and hiring new staff to join the growing
Venda team
Development using Object Oriented Perl, SQL
Databases, using Linux and Microsoft platforms
Defining and finding solutions to integration
requirements
Developing standard interfaces for all data updates
to Venda sites
Key member of the initial UK business start-up team;
part of a focused group responsible for building the search database
for the site's successful March 2000 launch
Providing business intelligence to identify
weaknesses in the core search offering
Scoping and building tools to improve operational
efficiency; working closely with product managers to develop and
implement best practices for developing the search database
Instigating and building a high-volume, scalable
reporting solution to maximise relevancy and monetisation of the search
database
Maintaining and optimising all databases within the
company using Microsoft SQL Server
Interviewing and hiring new staff to continue
developing the organisation