Philip Starkey
Program Delivery Director For QAS.QFD at Queensland Fire Department
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPhilip Starkey is a seasoned program and delivery leader with 14+ years of experience orchestrating large-scale IT transformations across public safety, government and enterprise sectors. He has repeatedly driven complex programs—technical refreshes, ERP and enterprise dispatch modernizations, cyber tool rollouts and cloud/on‑prem infrastructure projects—delivering steady, month‑over‑month business outcomes for multi-agency teams. Philip blends deep delivery discipline (Prince2, program/portfolio structuring) with hands‑on software and data governance experience, having led cross-functional teams of 40–50+ across both technical and business domains. His background as a physicist and education technologist informs a pragmatic, analytical approach to problem solving and to translating strategy into cost‑effective ICT outcomes. Notably, he has built a track record of rescuing or preventing failed transformations by applying agile, lean and service‑oriented practices within constrained public sector environments. Based in Melbourne, he pairs executive leadership with a willingness to stay close to technical detail, mentoring teams to sustain continual service improvement.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Science, Computing, Applied Science, Computing at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Masters, Information Science, Masters, Information Science at University of CanberraPrince2 Practitioner, Project Management, Prince2 Practitioner, Project Management at PlanPower, TPG Academy
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Github Skills (192)
python10
image-processing10
low-level10
pyside10
language-server-protocol10
visual-studio10
makecode10
extensible10
modular10
architecture10
django-rest10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
labscript-suite/runmanager
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 28 branches in 1 day
labscript-suite/PrawnBlaster
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico to turn it into a labscript-suite pseudoclock device
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 55 commits in 4 months
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