Architecting enterprise workforce systems for the AI era.

I own Kiwibank's Digital & Technology workforce strategy, turning enterprise strategy into capacity, capability, and confident executive decisions.

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About

Digital & Technology Strategic Workforce Manager with experience spanning banking, consulting, healthcare, aviation and government. Currently responsible for strategic workforce planning across Kiwibank's Digital & Technology function, partnering with senior leaders to align workforce capability, capacity, organisational design and workforce investment decisions with business and technology strategy.

Experienced in workforce planning, workforce analytics, operating models, portfolio governance, business transformation and executive reporting.

Signature Impact

Visible outcomes delivered across strategy, planning, and enterprise transformation: the moves that shape investment, governance, and delivery.

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People onboarded to enterprise workforce platform

Led adoption from fragmented planning into a single enterprise planning and governance system.

Enterprise

D&T workforce strategy end-to-end

Built Kiwibank's enterprise Digital & Technology workforce strategy, embedded in Board reporting.

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Customer-product capacity plan

Designed and delivered Kiwibank’s first customer-product capacity plan for Core Transformation.

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COVID lab backlog eliminated

Major operational uplift through structured delivery coordination under crisis pressure.

Board

Executive decision support

Scenario-based insights on capacity, contention, and workforce trade-offs shaping investment decisions.

$bn

Core Transformation portfolio

Informed by workforce sequencing and prioritisation across Digital, Technology, and Architecture.

Experience Snapshot

Digital & Technology Strategic Workforce Manager

Kiwibank • Sep 2024 – Present (formerly Senior Transformation Strategy & Planning Analyst, Oct 2023 – Sep 2024)

Own the enterprise Digital & Technology workforce strategy (capacity, capability, sourcing, governance) for Kiwibank's Core Transformation.

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  • Own Kiwibank’s enterprise D&T workforce strategy: capacity planning, resource governance, and demand prioritisation across a multi-hundred-million-dollar portfolio.
  • Led the transition from fragmented Excel models to a single enterprise workforce planning platform, onboarding ~200 D&T Kiwibankers.
  • Designed and delivered Kiwibank’s first customer-product capacity plan for Core Transformation.
  • Provide the ELT with scenario-based insights on capacity, contention, and workforce trade-offs shaping funding, roadmap sequencing, and Board-level assurance.
  • Established the Azure DevOps enterprise demand process for real-time prioritisation visibility across quarterly planning.

Assistant Manager, Digital Advisory

KPMG • 2022 – 2023

Delivered digital transformation, operating model and workforce consulting across financial services, aviation, healthcare and government sectors.

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  • Partnered with executives and senior stakeholders to assess current-state capability, governance and operating model effectiveness.
  • Developed strategic recommendations, governance frameworks and transformation roadmaps aligned with organisational objectives.
  • Acted as the interface between delivery teams and executive stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategy and execution.

Technology Graduate (Multiple Rotations)

ANZ • 2019 – 2022

Completed rotations across Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Technology Business Management, Data and Technology functions.

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  • Supported product development, prioritisation and delivery activities within digital squads.
  • Performed sourcing and vendor analysis across major technology partners including HCL, Capgemini, IBM and Fuji Xerox.
  • Built dashboards and analytics supporting vendor governance and contract management.

Signature Outcomes I’ve Led

Six named initiatives that translated enterprise strategy into workforce reality.

Workforce Systems

Enterprise Resourcing Model

Engineered Kiwibank’s transformation resourcing model from concept to execution, evolving from manual Excel tracking to an enterprise planning engine.

Governance

Capacity & Contention Reporting

Built executive-level capacity and contention reporting that improved prioritisation and sequencing across competing transformation demands.

Enterprise Change

Enterprise View of Change

Designed and implemented an enterprise-wide change visibility process to manage impact, adoption capacity, and delivery risk.

Automation

Roadmap Automation

Shifted integrated planning from static PowerPoint to dynamic, data-driven roadmaps for better collaboration and real-time decision making.

Platform Adoption

Workforce Platform Uplift

Led transition from fragmented workforce spreadsheets to one enterprise platform, onboarding ~200 people and supporting quarterly planning cycles.

Crisis Delivery

Delivery Under Pressure

Reduced COVID-19 laboratory ticket backlogs by 85% through process leadership and cross-team coordination.

AI in the Workforce

Architecting the workforce for the AI era.

AI is redefining every role, team, and operating model. I help enterprises turn AI ambition into workforce reality: role redesign, capability uplift, governance, and measurable adoption.

Role & Team Redesign

Reshape roles for human-AI collaboration, mapping which activities move to AI, which stay human, and which are net new.

Capability & Skill Uplift

Build the future skill mix through targeted capability programmes, adjacency mapping, and career pathway redesign.

AI Governance & Operating Model

Design the operating model, governance rhythms, and Board reporting that make AI adoption safe, measurable, and accountable.

Workforce Analytics & Forecasting

Forecast the shape of the AI-era workforce through scenario modelling for capacity, sourcing, and long-range investment.

Strategic work I’ve led

Workforce Strategy & Capability Mapping

Built enterprise workforce strategy that linked future demand, role design, and critical capability pathways across Digital & Technology.

Operating Model & Governance Design

Defined governance and planning rhythms for quarterly prioritisation, funding trade-offs, and portfolio sequencing at executive level.

Long-range Skill & Investment Planning

Provided scenario-based workforce insights to support training decisions, sourcing strategy, and long-term transformation outcomes.

How I can help you

Who I help

Enterprise Digital & Technology Leaders

CIOs, GMs, transformation heads, and strategy leaders who need confidence in workforce and capacity decisions.

Large Organisations in Transformation

Banking, public sector, healthcare, and complex enterprises where portfolio demand and capability planning must stay aligned.

Boards and Executive Governance Groups

Decision-makers seeking clear, data-led reporting on trade-offs, delivery risk, and workforce investment outcomes.

Organisations implementing AI in the workforce

Teams adopting AI who need practical workforce strategy across role redesign, capability uplift, operating model change, and governance.

Organisations turning strategy into execution

Leaders who want stronger alignment between enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, and delivery execution.

PMO and delivery leaders

Teams looking to strengthen PMO governance, prioritisation, planning rhythms, and reporting across complex portfolios.

Organisations I’ve worked with

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Education & Certifications

Certified Practising Strategic Workforce Planner

Workforce Planning Institute • Globally recognised

The pinnacle credential in strategic workforce planning, awarded by the WPI Global Certification Committee to a small international cohort of experienced practitioners and leaders.

Bachelor of Commerce

University of Auckland • 2016 – 2019

Majored in Information Systems and Operations Management, building strong foundations in strategy, systems thinking, and operational execution.

Additional Certifications

• Certified Business Analyst, International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

• ARIS Certified, Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (Software AG)

Core Strengths

Strategic Workforce Planning Workforce Analytics & Modelling Capacity & Demand Planning Organisational Design Capability Mapping & Skills Planning Technology Operating Models Workforce Governance Resource & Portfolio Planning Vendor & Sourcing Strategy Executive & Board Reporting Business Transformation Business Analysis Change Management

Let’s talk

Open to senior strategic workforce, transformation, and D&T leadership opportunities globally, including AI-era workforce architecture and executive advisory roles.