With 25 years experience delivering ICT solutions and support, Benjamin has worked across a range of industries. Benjamin’s experience involves reviewing existing operations, establishing start-ups, providing digital strategy consultancies, assessing and implementing new technologies, migrating and consolidating disparate IT infrastructures, and developing digital solutions from either the combination of existing off-the-shelf products or development from the ground up.
Personal strengths include leadership and management of personnel, high-level attention to detail and a strong ability to solve and overcome complex problems.
Benjamin is an ICT certified professional as recognised by the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
Key competencies and skills
- Business development
- Project management
- Business requirement analysis
- Digital solution development and management
- Strategic planning
- Talent identification acquisition
- Proposal development and tender responses
- Account management
- Financial management
- Ease of collaboration with operational staff through to the executive.
Industry awards
- 2021 - Good Design Award Australia - NightKey Biometric Identity Management
- 2018 - South Australia (SA) / Northern Territory (NT) iAward - Public Sector and Government Project of the Year, Research and Development Project of the Year (Music Solution)
- 2017 - NT Chief Minister’s Award - Innovation (Police Watchhouse)
- 2017 - ACS Digital Disruptor - Gold Award (Police Watchhouse)
- 2016 - National iAward Winner - Public Sector and Government Project of the Year, Infrastructure Platform of the Year (Police Watchhouse)
- 2014 - AIPM ICT Project of the Year - NT Government Windows 7 Desktop Upgrade
Key achievements
Solution development and management of the following:
- NightKey - biometric identity management solution for the licenced hospitality sector
- Forensic Face - use of facial recognition algorithms to identify decomposing or bare skulls against photographs
- Police Watchhouse - identity management solution to quickly identify persons of interest, upon arrest, using facial recognition rather than fingerprinting
- NeoFusion - the ability for law enforcement to identify a person of interest, in the field, by using either finger or face.
- Music Solution - the provision of a secure content delivery platform for Correctional Services to allow prisoners to purchase music
- increased business activity over three years by $30 million by securing managed services, biometric and panel contracts for delivery to NT Government.
Successful planning, coordination and on-time delivery of the following projects for the establishment of IT services at the brand-new ASC Shipyard complex and MSC Training Facility in Osborne, SA:
- office services (multifunction printing devices, facsimile, scan to email / workflow)
- audio visual (tele and video conferencing, presentations, executive board room fit out)
- shipyard mobilisation (relocation of services, assets and staff to new shipyard facility)
- network services (wired and wireless networking and related configuration requirements)
- telephony (Cisco VoIP, digital radios)
- standard operating environment (SOE for the ASC Shipyard and configuration of software)
- miscellaneous facilities requirements (fibre reticulation, security systems, building management system, server room and communication room requirements).