FEDERATION UNIVERSITY
Andrew Tully
Executive Director of ITS and Business Solutions ( CIO )
With over 20 years of leadership experience in a variety of Board , C level and Senior Management roles , Andrew has the ability to successfully transform under performing and sub optimised IS operating environments within a vast array of organisations ranging from large multinationals to ISP IPO start-ups and SME organisations . His engaging & empowering leadership style has been the key to uplift organisations into functionally efficient , streamlined operating units .
He ’ s currently CIO at Federation
University . Preceding this , he oversaw the IT Operations nationally with an annual MOP budget in excess of $ 35m for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service . His strong bias towards good practice frameworks like Prince2 , MSP / P3O for Portfolio , Program & Project Management , TOGAF for Enterprise Architecture , ITIL for Service Management & ISO 27001 / 2 for IT Security assists him in providing form and structure across immature environments .
Every business has been disrupted by technology , and the higher education sector is no exception . Even at long established universities , the days when students were content to devote three or four years of their lives and engage in a highly limited number of courses , mainly unrelated to real world issues and employer expectations , are firmly in the past . In any case the sheer numbers of students aspiring to higher education and degree level technical programmes have stressed the old model to breaking point .
Federation University Australia ( universally known as FedUni ) traces its origins back to the former Ballarat School of Mines , founded in 1870 and later transformed into the University of Ballarat . In 2014 the University amalgamated with the Gippsland Campus of Monash University , and FedUni was born . It is one of a small group of universities in Australia that embrace both traditional higher education and the more directly vocational TAFE ( Technical And Further Education ) strata of education . It was constituted as predominantly
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