David Stanton

Background

About David Stanton

David Stanton has extensive experience in program recovery and complex portfolio management (exceeding m$20 annually). Experienced practitioner in data and digital environments, that leads by example to run project office, portfolio foundations and coach. A seasoned finance manager and system thinker who eliminates waste, by embedding lean techniques to drive continuous improvement. Creates a highly productive working environment through strong leadership, collaboration and proactive risk management. Key Achievements 1. Successfully moved a FinTech startup pilot entirely onto an AWS environment, reducing monthly costs by 80% and improving their Security posture for Pilot. Pivoting and rebuilding an enhanced React website with a CI/CD pipeline, within AWS 2. Managed m$120 program financials (90 projects) to within 5% of forecast; created & used Data Visualisations techniques to drive better decision making to improve portfolio health 3. Transformed three ~m$10 Red programs to Green, and delivered business case benefits, by applying pragmatic lean principles to reduce delivery process waste 4. Successfully recovered Australia posts Test Data Management Program, poorly planned and with incorrectly chosen software, to cyclically privatise 20 billion rows of data and make available to teams driving customer experience uplift 5. Accelerated the maturity of NAB’s new core-banking applications. This initiative significantly de-risk the core services’ resilience from Initial to Managed 6. Successfully delivered National Australia Bank’s #1 most critical project Batch Hardening to remediate a significant customer issue whilst also delivering an innovative intraday processing solution to improve the customer experience