SIMONE DE KRETSER
Kew,Victoria
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Digital Product Owner
Computershare
08.2022 - Current
- As a Digital Product Owner, I work across prioritised enterprise projects with a close connected tie to other Products Owners, Product Managers and LOB CIO Groups critical stakeholders. This is to ensure the value of the product or application being developed is maximised to deliver into agreed project goals and business cases. Reporting to the Senior Product Strategist of Computershare, I am responsible for developing and explicitly communicating the product goals on prioritised projects; creating and clearly communicating product backlog items and ensuring it is transparent, visible & understood. I am accountable to stakeholders for the product success, a single point of focus for the product features, & am the voice of the product between stakeholders and delivery teams.
Delivery Lead
Computershare
Melbourne, Australia
05.2019 - 08.2022
- Currently a Delivery Lead in an innovative Agile Team, creating global products which specialise in delivering high value to our stakeholders with speed to market, using lowcode development tools, traditional full stack development, and the latest Serverless Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies using Scrum methodologies.
Solutions Architect
Computershare
Melbourne, Australia
12.2002 - 05.2019
- Further expanding my skills and experience, I was a Lead Solutions Architect in the Global Team, heading several high-profile projects for AUS, UK and North America.
Senior Systems Analyst
Computershare
Scotland, USA and Canada
11.1998 - 12.2002
- Computershare branched out to become a global enterprise. I was expatriated to Edinburgh, Scotland to lead the design and build of an Employee Share Purchase Plan system, compliant with Inland Revenue's Employee Share and Option plans. Responsibilities included business analysis, systems analysis & design, programming, testing, documentation, building migration software and migrating the Royal Bank of Scotland's clients onto Computershare's new system. From there I moved to New Jersey, USA with the same mission and goal...to design, develop and deliver the equivalent product for the US market including the migration of the Merrill Lynch book of business onto our new system. Montreal, Canada followed with new requirements, new Employee Share Plans, and challenges, resulting in a successful design, build, implementation, and migration of the Bank of Montreal's stock transfer business.
Systems Analyst & Programmer
Computershare
Melbourne, Australia
05.1994 - 11.1998
- Developed my skills as a Programmer and promoted to Systems Analyst where I worked on many projects from Employee Plans, Initial Public Offerings, and Corporate Actions.
Timeline
Digital Product Owner
Computershare
08.2022 - Current
Delivery Lead
Computershare
05.2019 - 08.2022
Solutions Architect
Computershare
12.2002 - 05.2019
Senior Systems Analyst
Computershare
11.1998 - 12.2002
Systems Analyst & Programmer
Computershare
05.1994 - 11.1998