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).

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