Darren Muller
Freiberuflich, Solution Architect, BHP
Zurich, Schweiz
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Darren is a highly accomplished and versatile technology leader with over 20 years of experience, including significant contributions to greenfield development projects and business transformation programs. Throughout his career, he has excelled as a Senior Consultant and Solution Architect, providing strategic guidance and expertise in driving successful business transformations. Darren's expertise in cloud and data centre technologies, coupled with his deep industry knowledge, enables him to analyse complex organisational environments and identify opportunities for improvement. With his strong technical acumen and ability to deliver impactful solutions, Darren is an asset in any transformation initiative or business environment. His track record of success and leadership in significant projects highlights his ability to drive innovation and deliver results.
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Berufserfahrung von Darren Muller
Bis heute 1 Jahr und 5 Monate, seit Jan. 2023
Solution Architect
BHP
Bis heute 1 Jahr und 11 Monate, seit Juli 2022
Technical Architect
Flight Centre Travel Group
Darren engaged with four stakeholder groups to understand their perspectives on issues with Flight Centre's product and booking management platform. Darren led investigations and performed application testing to provide a deeper understanding of the underlying issues. As the issues were understood he made recommendations which were pursued in collaboration with Flight Centre’s delivery partner and any other parties to initiate improvements.
10 Monate, Okt. 2021 - Juli 2022
Senior Solution Architect
yourtown
Darren has led the evaluation of suitable Technology Platforms for enterprise-wide adoption with the capability to support the yourtown strategy through Digital Transformation. Darren has performed Market Scans, Options Analysis and organised Product Demonstrations and Proof of Concepts to evaluate suitable Technology Platforms to provide an omni-channel capability to engage with young people in a meaningful and relevant way.
3 Monate, Aug. 2021 - Okt. 2021
Senior Solution Architect
Uniting Care Queensland
Darren was engaged as the Solution Architect to lead a team to develop a data (and application) retention and restoration strategy, implementation plan, and business case that considers the business and legislative requirements and addresses the functional and technical solution options, with a recommended path forward.
2 Jahre und 11 Monate, Dez. 2018 - Okt. 2021
Senior Consultant
Glass and Co
Darren was a Senior Consultant for Glass & Co in the Technology Enablement Practice. Darren was responsible for undertaking a variety of client engagements across the Queensland public and private sectors.
2 Monate, Aug. 2021 - Sep. 2021
Senior Solution Architect
Craveable Brands
Darren led an engagement with Craveable Brands to demonstrate the feasibility and extent to which the supply chain processes could be automated for the franchise network. It was determined where automation could be applied to the Account Receivable and Accounts Payable processes with a key supplier. Darren produced the Future State Architecture while also performing the technical activities to deliver a POC which would define and prove the automation capability.
5 Monate, Feb. 2021 - Juni 2021
Senior Solution Architect
National Seniors Australia
Darren was engaged to lead the delivery a Common Data Platform (CDP) foundation for National Seniors to provide a single point of truth for Customer data. Darren also provided architectural services throughout delivery to introduce best practices and recommendations to ensure the client is supported in their Azure Cloud journey and to ensure the security of workloads, data and services.
7 Monate, Mai 2020 - Nov. 2020
Senior Solution Architect
yourtown
Darren completed a range of discovery and design activities to support yourtown’s Transformation and Modernisation ambitions. Darren completed a document baseline for yourtown describing their business and technology landscape to improve knowledge and awareness. This greatly improved contextual information about yourtown’s applications, and the supporting technologies used at yourtown.
8 Monate, Mai 2019 - Dez. 2019
Solution Architect
Flight Centre
Flight Centre Travel Group introduced a new product and booking management platform to transform and streamline many aspects of the Retail and Wholesale consultant’s ability to deliver inspired travel experiences with unique package content to Flight Centre Travel Groups global network of stores, websites and external clients. Darren was engaged as a Solution Architect to focus on several technical capabilities required for the Copernicus Program.
6 Monate, Dez. 2018 - Mai 2019
Senior Solution Architect
Uniting Care Queensland
As a Solution Architect, Darren was engaged to assess the stability of 5 Blue Care mission-critical applications to provide technical recommendations to improve the user experience for frontline staff. Darren produced an Application Assessments on each application which included Business and Technology Context, Key Technology Reports, Application Assessments and Remediation Plans.
4 Monate, Aug. 2018 - Nov. 2018
Solution Architect
Qsuper
QSuper’s Contact Centre was a technology transformation to enable the delivery of a seamless Omni-channel service experience to customers through the adoption of an industry leading Contact Centre solution. Darren was engaged as the Solution Architect to deliver Conceptual Architecture and Target State Architecture during the Planning Phase of the Program.
10 Monate, Nov. 2017 - Aug. 2018
Infrastructure Architect
Suncorp
Darren performed the role of Infrastructure Architect at Suncorp with responsibilities across the Infrastructure Engineering and Delivery teams for all areas of Suncorp. Darren has produced a range of work products and project artefacts to support the planning and delivery of several initiatives. Darren was engaged to work on a range of projects including PCI DSS Program Stream 3: CDE Foundation, PCI DSS Program Stream 4: CDE Applications, Fraud Program and two Marketplace enabler projects.
1 Jahr und 1 Monat, Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2018
Consultant
ASG Group
10 Monate, Dez. 2016 - Sep. 2017
Solution Architect
Flight Centre
Darren worked on several large Integration projects as part of the Sabre Program. Flight Centre is migrating from the Travelport GDS of around 27 years to the Sabre GDS. Darren produced high-quality work products including Solution Overview Documents, a Solution Overview Template, Logical Solution Architecture Documents and Physical Solution Architecture Documents, Option Papers, Reference Architecture (Event Driven Architecture) and Logical Security Diagrams.
1 Jahr und 7 Monate, Feb. 2016 - Aug. 2017
Consultant
SMS Management & Technology
9 Monate, Feb. 2016 - Okt. 2016
Solution Architect
Queensland Police Service
Darren fulfilled the role of Solution Architect on the Platinum Infrastructure Upgrade Project and the Gold, Silver, Bronze Server Upgrade Project producing high-quality work products within agreed timeframes. He provided advice, technical assistance and leadership in improving business outcomes.
1 Monat, Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2016
Technical Architect
Abt Associates
Darren was engaged to conduct a discovery exercise with the Technology Team at Abt Associates to bring to attention areas for Technology improvement. He subsequently prepared an Infrastructure Assessment for presentation to the IT Leadership calling out areas for immediate investment along with focus areas for long-term growth. Each recommendation was grouped under People, Process, or Technology with an assessment of the critically and potential benefits to Abt Associates.
7 Monate, Juli 2015 - Jan. 2016
Solution Architect
Department of Science, IT and Innovation
At the Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation (DSITI) Darren was a Solution Architect, having deep involvement in the technical/solution architecture for several Proof of Concepts and Pilots for Joined-up Service projects such as Moving to Queensland, Seniors Entitlements, My Account / Customer Experience Platform and Whole of Government capability projects including Intelligent Forms, Case Management and Enterprise Service Bus for agency integration.
3 Jahre und 1 Monat, Juli 2012 - Juli 2015
Solution Architect
Bank of Queensland
Darren worked on solutions that were multi-brand and multi-channel, as BOQ Group includes brands (mainly from acquisitions) such as BOQ, Virgin Money (Australia), BOQ Finance, St Andrews and BOQ Specialist. The role required extensive involvement with BOQ's strategic partners, vendors offering managed services, service providers, cloud providers, business stakeholders and internal delivery teams.
8 Monate, Dez. 2011 - Juli 2012
IT Project Manager
Origin Energy
Darren undertook planning for the transfer of the services and systems used by the Subsurface Community (Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering) to an alternate facility. The project satisfied the unique requirements and dependencies of these systems arranging for the provisioning and relocation of infrastructure and services out of the existing data centre and into new facilities.
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Englisch
Muttersprache
Deutsch
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