Scott Symmons

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SCOTT SYMMONS

Engineering & Technology Manager with 20+ years in IT and 15 years leading delivery teams to 500+. Agile product development and program delivery expert, who defines delivery practices, product strategy and roadmaps and provides architectural and delivery ACHIEVEMENTS Multiple awards and nominations for C-suite / exec awards as one of Telstra’s best performing and most innovative engineering leaders Delivered profit and growth in Telstra’s SaaS portfolio- Drove growth from 0 to 80k customers, 850k subscriptions,$75M p.a. revenue, 40+ vendors - Reduced onboarding costs by 50%, reduced roadmap evaluation times by 30%- Reduced development costs by 70% through API enablement - Led a ground-breaking SaaS partnership with Microsoft who adopted the model globally Designed an org change impacting 300+ staff Worked with Telstra’s CIO to mobilise a new IaaS product strategy with AWS, IBM and PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 15 years in program and portfolio management - delivered 5 portfolios worth up to $15M with 12 concurrent project streams Defined the way Telstra uses Agile for cloud engineering – built and evolved an exceptional Agile delivery capability at scale, applying UX, Design Thinking, Customer Journey Mapping and scaled Agile (SAFe) frameworks and methods Developed 100+ cloud products working from inception to ENGINEERING TEAMS Led 200+ staff and program teams of 500+ in 6 locations (Australia, India, US) 7 years in financial management, budgets to $10M OPEX /$30M CAPEX 7 years in management reporting up to Executive Director and C-suite 20 years in architecture and design includes B2C, BSS, OSS, Cloud 20 years in change management 15 years in GRC as a member and chair of steering committees and councils