Tim Bull

Tim Bull

Eclectic Architect, Enterprise Technologist, Coffee Addict and Social Media Junkie

Melbourne Area, Australia

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Tim Bull’s Summary

Since joining PwC in 1995, I have always worked in the field of Emerging Technologies, in particular adapting these to meet the requirements of the business.

Areas of current interest are Social Software, Web 2.0 technologies and their application to business and large enterprise, crowd sourcing and anything else that has potential to be a disruptive technology for business innovation.

Based out of PwC Australia, I am part of the global technology group working on platform interoperability, application guidance and influencing vendor product road-maps and strategy.

Tim Bull’s Specialties:

Social Media, IT strategy, IT architecture, Integration, Consulting, Strategic Planning, Interoperability, Application Architecture

Tim Bull’s Experience

  • Director, Platform Coordination Architect

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; Accounting industry)

    July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

    Currently on secondment from PwC Australia to PwC Global working in the Platform Coordination team as an integration architect and working on IT strategy and road-maps.

  • Director, Lead Integration Architect

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; Accounting industry)

    September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)

    • Lead integration architect for Platform of the Future, a large global initiative within PwC to redevelop the global information and collaboration systems into a coherent platform with the latest vendor offerings from IBM and Microsoft
    • Manage the integration and high level design of the different components, considering the requirements of the global business working groups, stakeholders, vendor information and territory considerations and constraints
    • Australian representative to the Global PwC Architecture Review Board, signing of on architectural proposals of global significance and impact

  • Director, IT Architect

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; Accounting industry)

    January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

    • IT Architect for PwC Australia developing Information Technology (IT) Architecture and strategy for PwC Australia.
    • Sub-stream leader and Australian representative for Platform of the Future project, redesigning the IT platform and systems for PwC globally
    • Author of chapter “Retailing on the Web” in PwC’s Retail and Consumer Outlook publication for clients included presenting at client functions
    • Member of Australian IT Leadership team
    • Consult with PwC clients on technical IT issues as expert resource
    • Liaise with vendors on upcoming products and roadmaps to ensure we map our systems to key future directions
    • Review projects for compliance with Enterprise Architecture and strategic directions.

  • Senior Manager, National Development

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; Accounting industry)

    January 2002 — December 2006 (5 years )

    • Reporting directly to the CIO, in a team of 4, responsible for the day to day operation of the IT department.
    • Built a firm-wide project office integrating multiple IT groups into one.
    • Responsible for management of National Development group with a team of 3 direct reports and 29 indirect reports. Included recruitment, staff development and performance appraisals and reviewing market data to set salaries in line with market performance and that of the firm
    • Developed strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiencies within National Development group, implemented policy and procedures as required
    • Facilitated the creation of strategy plans for other groups within IT department
    • Consulted with senior staff and partners requiring IT services to understand requirements, estimate costs and initiate projects to solve various business problems
    • Provided expert technical advice and comment to clients as required as well as presenting to clients

  • Senior Manager, Emerging Technologies

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; Accounting industry)

    September 1997 — June 2002 (4 years 10 months)

    • Member of, then leader of the “Emerging Technologies” group established during the dotcom boom to evaluate, understand and implement appropriate new technologies for PwC Australia
    • Successfully built an operational web hosting centre and developed several web enabled business offerings in conjunction with the firm for the firm to deliver to the market
    • Promoted several times from Senior Technical Analyst to Manager to Senior Manager
    • Lead a team of 6 direct reports
    • Built and implemented “pay for use” hosting service, the first within the IT department.
    • Managed the ongoing operations of the extranet services at a strategic level
    • Joint winner of a PwC Global Innovation award for developing Tax News Network website
    • Project managed successful implementation of Asia Pacific hub of PwCs internal intranet system which involved dealing with up to 20 stakeholders and a team of 10 technical people

  • Senior Analyst Programer

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; PwC; Accounting industry)

    June 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 3 months)

    • Involved in 2 year implementation of what was the largest SQL Server 6.5 implementation in the world as at July 1997.
    • Member of a small team of Programmers employed to design and develop the early versions of what is now PwC’s most widely distributed Practise Management System globally.
    • Extensive design and development of core architectural system elements in VB and SQL server

  • Analyst / Programmer

    WMC

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WMC; Mining & Metals industry)

    July 1994 — May 1995 (11 months)

    • Promoted from Hi-Fert Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of WMC to the central Management Information Systems (MIS) department
    • Worked on 2-tier client-server program connecting to DEC RMS, DEC RdB and DEC Oracle systems
    • Managed the implementation and development maintenance of a custom reporting solution which combined various data sources.
    • Designed training materials and conducted training courses at remote mining sites.

  • Programmer, PC-Support

    Hi-Fert

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    December 1989 — June 1994 (4 years 7 months)

    • Member of small 3 person team providing technical support and internal development for small 40 person Fertiliser Company. Developed many small database systems and spreadsheet models in support of business.

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Microsoft Interoperability Executive Council (lEC), Lotus Customer Advisory Council (CAC)

  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Lotus Connections User Group
  •    Melbourne KMLF

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