Gus Higgins
Process & Operations Consultant

Gus Higgins

Helping teams deliver results

Change Management Process Improvement Operations Agentic AI SaaS

15+ years helping teams in fast-moving tech carve out a clear path and deliver sustained change, without the chaos.

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About

Operational clarity, delivered.

I'm a process improvement and operations consultant with 15+ years driving customer experience operations, change management, and service delivery excellence in fast-moving tech environments.

Over the last year I've moved beyond advising into building, operationalising agentic AI tooling, custom workflows, and automation pipelines that have identified many productivity gains.

With experience across multiple global NASDAQ listed companies, spanning customer experience, operations, cloud delivery, change management, and service excellence. Bilingual in English and Spanish, based in APAC and available globally.

15+
Years experience
1,000+
Global team members supported
20+
Senior regional leaders partnered
5
Multi-region companies

What I help with

Clear offering. Real results.

Process Improvement

I work with your teams to map, redesign and streamline operations, removing friction from workflow audits to governed pipelines so results are consistent and low-chaos.

Workflow designChange managementRisk mitigation

AI Workflow Automation

I partner with your teams to identify, build and operationalise AI use cases that deliver real hours back, from agent engineering and MCP integrations to Python pipelines with clear metrics.

Agentic AIMCP serversPrompt engineeringPython

Change & Stakeholder Management

I bridge the gap with your stakeholders to drive adoption across complex, multi-region teams, building trust, managing resistance and embedding change that actually sticks.

Stakeholder alignmentAdoption strategyAPAC & global

Atlassian Suite

I bring deep Jira/Confluence/Rovo admin and API expertise to build tooling that fits exactly how your team works, not the other way around.

Jira adminConfluenceRovo agentsREST APIs

What working with me looks like

A clear, low-friction path.

1
Discovery & framing
We turn the mess into a crisp problem statement
2
Quick audit
Data, workflows, stakeholders, quick wins
3
Plan & team
Lightweight roadmap + who does what
4
Build & embed
We build together, inside your flow
5
Measure & hand over
Quantified gains + enablement so it sticks

Skills

Deep expertise. Broad reach.

Process & Change
  • Change Management
  • Process Improvement
  • ITIL Foundations
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Adoption Strategy
AI & Automation
  • Agentic AI Engineering
  • MCP Server Development
  • Prompt & Context Engineering
  • Python Automation
  • REST API Integration
  • AI Productivity Delivery
Leadership & Delivery
  • Programme Management
  • Global Team Leadership
  • CX Operations
  • Cloud Delivery
  • Client Onboarding
  • Bilingual (ES / EN)
Atlassian Suite
  • Jira Administration
  • Jira Service Management
  • Confluence
  • Rovo Agent Development
  • Atlassian REST APIs
  • Workflow Design

Certifications & Training

2025AI For Everyone
2025Data Literacy Green Belt
2025Generative AI Green & Blue Belts
2021Splunk Fundamentals
2018APMG Change Management
2017ITIL Level 1 Foundations
2010BCom Finance · UNSW
2010BSc Mathematics · UNSW

Experience

15 years. Outcomes first.

Cisco
Splunk
Temenos
Rubik
Macquarie
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Senior Change & Operations Manager
Cisco
Aug 2025 – Present · APAC
  • Delivered 11% team productivity uplift through 10+ operationalised AI use cases
  • Built and deployed a Jira Rovo conversational agent for CX release management
  • Authored a shared library of reusable AI agents, slash commands, and instruction templates
  • Deployed a multi-language enablement site (11 languages) for AI role playbooks
  • Designed a 5-stage governed Jira workflow replacing a fragmented manual process
  • Sole APAC representative for change across Customer Success, Professional Services & Support
Process & Change Manager
Splunk
Aug 2021 – Jul 2025 · Global
  • Transitioned and grew global Change team to 1,000+ employee CSX organisation
  • Built trusted relationships with 20 CSX regional leaders across APAC and global
  • Led comprehensive change strategies across CS, PS, Support, and Education
  • Promoted to Senior Change Manager following Cisco acquisition in 2024
Cloud Delivery Manager
Temenos
Sep 2017 – Aug 2021 · Australia / Philippines
  • Spearheaded cloud service delivery for a leading banking software provider
  • Led client onboarding and systems training for Core Banking solutions in APAC
  • Authored strategic project frameworks aligned to client goals
Service Delivery Manager
Rubik
Jul 2013 – Sep 2017 · Australia / Asia / Middle East
  • Led a multi-location team supporting banking, wealth management, and mortgage software
  • Refined ITIL processes for incident management and client onboarding
  • Maintained production issue resolution within SLAs across three regions
Support Analyst
Macquarie Group
Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · Sydney
  • 1st level operations support for Coin financial planning software

Let's work together

Ready to get started?

Whether it's fixing a process, shipping a Jira workflow, or building your first AI agent, reach out.

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