Trace McQuaig
Technology Leader
What I
love to do
People Leader
Enable team success and develop high performers
Technology
Customer Focus while positioning for the future.
Relationships
Foster relationships and explore the future we are living in now
Mentor
Mentoring others, learning through sharing knowledge
My
education
Charles Sturt University
Master of Management Information Technology
Charles Sturt University
Management Information Technology
My
experence
Senior Manager, Cloud Solution Architecture
Invesco
- Leading Agile Architecture team with 3 responsibilities: Technical Domain Architecture, Cloud & Infrastructure Solution Architecture, and Cloud Application Advisory.
- Aligned Cloud vision and goals with app/dev leaders.
- Reimagined Architecture and relaunched Architecture Review, implemented metrics for Architectural Maturity/Health
- Fostered relationships with senior directors/VPs for customer experience, engagement, and alignment.
Founder & President VUCATech
- Established a boutique Management and Technology Consulting firm.
Consulting Solution Architect
NTT
- Developed relationships with clients striving to quickly identify their business needs, desired outcomes, and propose solutions that address their unique business challenges. Truly customer focused in every action.
Senior Manager, Infrastructure Architecture
BHP
- Delivered designs for global technology portfolio by creating a global team of 12 employees and 35 contractors and establishing a collaborative and focused culture.
- Established a collection of design patterns and standards to be used globally enabling the delivery of projects at velocity.
- Led a global panel in the Architecture Review Board to ensure solution architecture in projects maintain velocity and remained aligned to the strategy.
- Developed Architecture capability in team following TOGAF and Kanban simplifying terminology and improving velocity of desired outcomes.
- Provided strategy and vision for high performance, network, identity & access management, hosting, cloud, end user compute, unified communications, and subsurface computing strategies.
- Brokered relationships between architecture teams globally to share thinking and practices.
Manager Network
BHP
- Managed Network services globally.
- Solution Architecture, Engineering/Build, Operations
- Enterprise, Production, Critical Infrastructure
- Lead a people leadership team of 5 direct reports and over 30 indirect reports with over 100 contractors. $55 MM Budget
Manager Governance
BHP - Singapore
- Enabled and guided a team to ensure initiatives were focused and in alignment with strategy.
Enterprise Architect
BHP
- Created and maintain the Information Technology 5 year strategy.
- Accountable for taking company from private cloud to hybrid cloud and adopting a public cloud first posture.
Chief Architect
BHP Petroleum
- Managed a team of domain and solution architects. Provided architecture direction and governance for $40 Million Cloud Program
Manager of Systems Engineering
BHP Petroleum
- Led a team of infrastructure and security professionals.
- Responsible for team providing engineering, operational, and project support for North American Shale and Petroleum systems.
Manager of Systems Engineering
Petrohawk Energy
- Spearheaded a team of Systems Engineers providing server and network services to the enterprise.
- Provided overall technology vision, strategy and execution.
Systems Engineer
US Unwired / Sprint Nextel
- Build out of US Unwired Technology
- Corporate Infrastructure Architecture
- Consolidated data centers
- Integrated technology US Unwired into Sprint PCS,