User:Grant.Stephens

Summary
A highly experienced and outcome focused technologist with over 16 years of experience working for organisations in the Government, Health, Education and Not for Profit sectors. I am a passionate facilitator of business strategy, system implementation and process improvement, with knowledge and experience in managing 50+ staff in an in-sourced / outsourced multi-discipline model, geographically dispersed across the country and spanning varied technology skill sets.

Current Role
IT Project Officer

Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

May 2015 – Present

Principle Role - Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) Program:

● Oversee the technical aspects of the implementation of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) program, involving specialist technology embedded throughout 16 rural hospitals in Victoria.

● Forge and manage stakeholder and vendor relationships

● Provide SME input on current and emerging technologies and processes to various technical / non-technical governance groups, mid- and senior-level management and internal committees

● Manage continual process improvement across all technical areas of the project

Concurrent roles::

● National Systems Administrator – Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR)

● National Systems Administrator – Australian Stroke Data Tool (AuSDaT)

● Chief Software Developer, T3 Stroke Trial

Cumulative Project Size (AUD): ~$17.5m

Personal
Born in Melboune, Victoria, Australia in 1980, Grant has two younger brothers of the same parents, an older brother and sister to the same father and two younger sisters to the same mother. In 1996 he commenced study in a Diploma of Information Technolgy (Software Development) and shortly after completing this in 1999 he enlisted in the Australian Army as an Operator Specialist Communications.

During his 16 years in the ICT industry, Grant has obtained a raft of qualifications including a Graduate Certificate in Science - IT (Enterprise Architecture), and is an Associate member of the Australian Computer Society. Grant actively contributes to the Microsoft Online Community and is both a current financial and content contributor to Wikipedia. Grant is in the top 25% of computational contributors in the world to the SETI@Home project, and ranked in the top 55,000 of over 3.3 million registered BOINC users worldwide across it and 4 other distributed computing projects combined.

Grant has worked and lived in every state and territory in Australia, and has a broad skill-set spanning almost all areas of communications technologies with a strong grounding in software development as well as learning and knowledge management. His hobbies include travel, cooking martial arts and keeping fit.

Grant has one daughter, 3 years old, and lives in the North-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Grant dedicates his spare time to the advocacy of Men's issues and the vision of the provision of free services to isolated fathers through his own non-profit organisation, helping maintain paternal relationships and child literacy through reading.

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