About Me
Benjamin is a Director in Accenture's Tech Strategy & Advisory Practice, within Strategy & Consulting, with an unparalleled passion for technology. His journey started when he was 12 and constructed a computer from parts he collected from the local dump to circumvent his parents' prohibition against video games. His entrepreneurial spirit and strong leadership presence fused with this passion to create the foundation for everything he has done, from successfully running his high school "smart home" implementation company to managing some of his practice's most demanding large-scale technology transformations, the latter which led to his rapid ascension to a manager.
Benjamin has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales with majors in Finance and Business Information Systems. He holds a number of certifications ranging from Certified Technology Business Management Executive to a private pilot's license.
Benjamin was born in Sydney, NSW, Australia and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, USA.Experience
Director | Tech Strategy & Advisory | Strategy & Consulting
Accenture
Oct 2019-Present
Manager | Digital Technology & Innovation | Advisory
PwC Advisory LLC
July 2017-Oct 2019
Promoted to Senior Associate in 1.5 years (generally three-year timeline), promoted to Manager in two years (generally five-to-seven-year timeline).
Acted as sales team member, contributing to proposal, conducting major speaking parts in orals on $3.5M+ of work.
Sold work for PwC as a Senior Associate: unearthed opportunities, led proposal creation and orals delivery on $1.5M+ of work.
Managed $5M ITSM Data Quality Project, assisted in sale and oversaw $3.2M data center migration project for large retirement services firm, sold and successfully led $1.5M complete upgrade of business-critical shared database platform for top-five global hedge fund, and spearheaded the consolidation of business applications across the United Kingdom, Spain, and France for a top-five global reinsurance firm.Led teams from 1-10 for 5+ years.
Architected standardized approach to large-scale digital transformation programs, from planning through to execution, implementing and overseeing across aforementioned programs.
Helped define sub-practice’s (Cloud Computing and Networking) service offerings standardizing how PwC goes to market and as a result earned the opportunity to represent the firm at AWS Re:Invent in 2017.
Regarded as one of Advisory’s “Excel Gurus”, is one of two content managers Advisory-wide for Excel courses, and has spent approximately 100 hours teaching classes and mentoring individuals.
Conceptualized and led a development team to create PwC’s proprietary migration discovery and execution tool, Enterprise Transformation Orchestrator (ETO), establishing an entirely new service offering for the firm.
Assisted in sale of $1M project through marketing of ETO, subsequently implemented the tool and earned opportunity to market tool at HP Discovery in 2015 (ran booth, unearthing over $1M of additional opportunities for tool).
Leading creation of platform (ETO successor) to revolutionize delivery of PwC’s Advisory work, used in $3m+ of sales to date.
Senior Associate | Digital Technology & Innovation | Advisory
PwC Advisory LLC
July 2015-June 2017
Experienced Associate | Digital Technology & Innovation | Advisory
PwC Advisory LLC
February 2015-June 2015
Associate | Digital Technology & Innovation | Advisory
PwC Advisory LLC
February 2014-January 2015
Analyst | Information Systems
Brady Corporation
July 2012-January 2013
- Awarded university-run and highly-competitive work experience through high marks in business information courses.
- Automated company’s electric tag printing process using VBA, doubling manufacturing speed and resulting in fulfillment process being shortened from a week to less than a day.
Analyst | Special Projects
L.E.K. Consulting LLC
February 2011-June 2012
- Analyzed need, chose solution for, piloted and deployed both MDM and self-service directory update tool, significantly increasing employee productivity by enabling them to keep information up-to-date and allowing them to access email on phone.
- Ran Sydney office migration to new Windows version and email solution, saving the firm a costly purchase of migration via third-party.
Founder
Home Technology Integration (HTI)
September 2005-June 2009
- Founded a business in high school offering smart-home implementations. Built trusted customer base and gained early exposure to an array of technologies from networking to home audio.
Education
University of New South Wales
Bachelor of Commerce (2010-2013)
- Double Major: Finance, Business Information Systems
- Treasurer of Entrepreneurship Society: Managed club’s finances and made money allocation decisions, successfully funding events while remaining under budget.
- Ace Leadership Program : Participated in a competitive leadership program, which culminated in a case study challenge, run by University.
