IT Director
Sydney Airport
Australia
About Shailendra
Shailendra is an experienced and accomplished global technology team leader, senior manager and consultant specialising in technology infrastructure, project leadership and delivery. He has successfully led enterprise technology initiatives throughout Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA, managed multi-million dollar operational budgets and consistently exceeded deliverable outcomes and targets.
He has been responsible for building and managing teams of fellow professionals, project managers and consultants, and has delivered complex mission-critical technology infrastructure for major corporations including ANZ, Westfield and Scentre Group.
In-depth management and hands-on experience at all levels from business analysis and systems design to architecture and product design, development and installation. Leadership of diverse and geographically dispersed delivery and support teams.
He has a track record of proven outcomes from digital and cloud transformation to program delivery, ongoing incremental changes, budget / cost control, service delivery / operations management, cyber security, partner / vendor / stakeholder management, contract management and change management.
He has deep technical understanding of technologies, combined with a thorough understanding of business requirements in Finance, Customer Experience, Leasing, Insurance, Building Services, Real Estate Design & Construction, Aeronautical and Transformation (Airport)
About Sydney Airport
Sydney Airport is Australia’s gateway airport, serving more than 44.4 million passengers a year and connecting Sydney to a network of over 100 international, domestic and regional destinations.
Located just eight kilometres from the city centre, Sydney Airport contributes $38 billion in economic activity a year, equivalent to 6.8 per cent of the NSW economy. Sydney Airport is a major employer in NSW, generating more than 338,500 direct and indirect jobs, equivalent to 10.1 per cent of NSW employment. 30,900 of these jobs are at the airport itself across 800 different businesses