Starting her career as a Desktop C++ Software developer in the late 1990s Kate developed Debenture Management Software for a number of merchant banks in New Zealand and Australia. She was Architect, Analyst, Developer, Project Manager and Support Engineer on this project which ran successfully for ten years.

During this time she also founded Deep Fried Productions Ltd with Chris Brown, and wrote bespoke CMS web applications for a range of customers in New Zealand and overseas. She was contracted by design agencies and NZ government departments to develop web applications, marketing sites and visually interactive data displays.

Seeing how poorly some of the digital work she was contracted to work on was being set up, Kate shifted her focus to pre-development setup for digital delivery teams. She took on technical and delivery leadership roles, working on delivery process and growing digital teams.

As Technical Director at Clemenger BBDO, Kate established a suite of delivery processes to enable support and development for a suite of customer projects.

Kate’s pragmatic and logical approach to technical challenges, her dedication to best practice and her ability to clarify complicated technical challenges to non-technical audiences make her a strong ally to any business navigating digital challenges.

Notable projects

NZEHA : Procurement

NZEHA approached Kate for support in establishing a nationwide Equine Tracability and Identification database for the express purpose of assisting MPI reponse teams in the event of an equine disease outbreak in New Zealand.

Kate worked with subject matter experts within NZEHA and MPI to develop business and functional requirements for the project. Using these as a base, Kate lead an RFI procurement process to review available solutions and enable selection of a technical partner for the project.

Education NZ : Digital delivery

Education New Zealand were running a project which was behind schedule and over budget with little progress being made. ENZ brought Kate in to get the project delivery back on track. Kate reviewed the current state of the project, proposed an effective delivery plan, finalised project requirements and scope and successfully ran project delivery through to completion as Scrum Master coordinating multiple supplier delivery teams.

ESNZ : Product evaluation

Kate worked with Equestrian Sports NZ to evaluate their existing software which was under-performing and negatively impacting productivity and data quality. Kate worked with ESNZ to

• Analyse the current situation and establish next steps
• Perform a discovery phase with internal stakeholders to establish what an improved solution should do
• Deliver an RFI process to evaluate the solutions currently available in the market as well as a bespoke approach
• Assess RFI finalists against project requirements
• Negotiate contract with finalist supplier
• Migrate over a million+ data records
• Document API integration requirements
• Deliver the project working with international supplier teams to configure systems and build new software additions
• Perform testing and quality control