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James Bennett-Ackland

James Bennett-Ackland

Founder/Principal Consultant in Melbourne VIC, Australia

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About James

Melbourne VIC, Australia
Founder/Principal Consultant
Forefront IT Executive Solutions

Commitment Experience

50% Employee
50% Fractional Executive

Accomplishments

Secure Billion Dollar Group

fCIO/CISO
Gurner Group
December 2024 - March 2026

Summary

Billion dollar group with the security and mindset of a startup. Implemented central authentication through Entra, implemented InTune for device management, rolled out Checkpoint AI Spam filter which blocked over 15k phishing emails each month. Got the group DMARC and PCI-DSS compliant. Rolled out Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT to the Group

Created SQL Scripts to import 20,000 SKUs in 5 mins instead of 2 weeks

Head of IT
Busbrand
April 2009 - May 2013

Summary

The tool to import new fashion SKUs into the RMS would crash and take weeks to load so I spent weeks learning how MS RMS updates it's SQL tables and once I mapped it out, I wrote scripts and created templates for the team so they could load all 20k SKUs in the one CSV template and then I manually would import it and push it down to all 62 stores across ANZ.

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Experience

Gurner Group

Corporate Strategy

Billion dollar group with the security and mindset of a startup. Implemented central authentication through Entra, implemented InTune for device management, rolled out Checkpoint AI Spam filter which blocked over 15k phishing emails each month. Got the group DMARC and PCI-DSS compliant. Rolled out Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT to the Group

Busbrand

data_analysis

The tool to import new fashion SKUs into the RMS would crash and take weeks to load so I spent weeks learning how MS RMS updates it's SQL tables and once I mapped it out, I wrote scripts and created templates for the team so they could load all 20k SKUs in the one CSV template and then I manually would import it and push it down to all 62 stores across ANZ.

Skills

SQL BI RMS ERP CRM AI DR/BC DMARC Microsoft 365 Claude ChatGPT