Aoife Ahern Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

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Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

I led the establishment of this function focused on control, reliability, effectiveness and ultimately building excellence in to the management and delivery of products, programs or projects. As a delivery excellence capability we embed best practice, provided simplification and drove enhanced automation in order to achieve the goals and objectives of.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Spearheaded Product aligned approach to enterprise portfolio products. Providing insights into IT portfolio of >100mUSD
• Developed and implemented a product roadmap that aligned with company strategy and customer needs, resulting in a 40% increase in product adoption and a 35% increase in customer satisfaction.
• Set organization direction and developed strategies and tactics for performance and portfolio management to fulfill mission of 52mUSD cost savings in IT Operations
• Reduced costs for programs by 15mUSD by accurately managing budget, value management and alignment to OKRs.
• Provided organizational leadership and collaborated with executive partners to establish long-term goals, strategies and company policies around product adoption and data management.

Dublin, Ireland

• Contract role with remit to carry out assessment and make recommendation to improve visibility and governance of the IT Portfolio
• Consolidated business data into actionable metrics to simplify and highlight areas of concern and opportunity.
• Reduced IT operating expenses by 20% through targeted cost optimization initiatives
• Established a PMO within 90 days and consolidated the number of projects under management from 100 to over 60, resulting in improved project visibility, resource allocation, and overall portfolio performance.
• Facilitated organizational change management activities to ensure adoption and buy-in for new processes and tools, resulting in increased stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Working with the SLT to ensure the transformation portfolio is understood, transparent, measurable, and strategically aligned.

Blackrock, Dublin

• Overall programme and strategic initiative governance responsibilities for the Global and Technical leadership teams.
• Recruited and developed a global team of PMs with 20-30 large scale concurrent projects, I implemented a green field PMO in 8 months resulting in the reduction of project delivery timelines (12 to 9 months) and.
• As a member of the SLT, I had overall responsibility for delivery & budget management of customer projects, enabling recognition of all recurring and non-recurring revenue.
• Implemented real time operational reporting across the business eliminating 10 working days per week on manual reporting and enabling more informed decision making.
• Developed and rolled out the company wide Operational Key Results (OKRs) ensuring C-Suite and Functional alignment to strategy.
• Increased professional services revenue by 30% year on year.

Dublin

• Managed a team of Technology Business partners to deliver all IT initiatives and products utilizing lean and agile project management methods.
• Refined and organized delivery processes for all incoming projects and products.
• Translated business objectives to align technology and business strategy.
• Transition manager for migration to new Managed service provider for $50m contract.

Dublin

• Working with outside advisors on managing business impact.
• Management of a multiple cross functional technology and change programmes.
• Delivered and launched new services and managed outgoing services and products.

HSQ

Established a delivery team and PMO functionManaged the 4G LTE product development and launch, which was first to market, at the time, in Ireland.Overall governance and reporting responsibility.Management of budget (~50m) with less than 1% variance.Managed relationship with service delivery partners.

Dublin

My remit was to work as part of the company wide team to launch the Video on Demand service to the Irish market. Within 6 months of joining I was awarded the directors award for outstanding contribution.

I was responsible for design, acquisition, build and budget management of the Imagine network across Ireland.

Sandyford, Dublin

Responsible for coordinating and managing all commercial projects. This included but was not limited to, the WiMax product launch, managing development and deployment of websites / online ordering and customer provisioning tools.

Sandyford, Ireland

Maternity Cover - Manager for IT Systems involving management of offsite 3rd party teams as well as internal resources including, systems administration, development, database administration and web development. Responsibility for making recommendations to the senior management team on which projects should be progressed based on available resources and.

- Business Project Manager- Process Re-engineering- Process improvment Initiatives- Business Process Development for new products

DSFA - Ballsbridge

I was responsible for the backend and front-end delivery of an integrated government portal for public services and associated support processes in partnership with Bearing Point and Cap Gemini. This required stakeholder management of several government services.

Melbourne, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Finance For Non-Financial Managers

Fundamentals of management and business accounting

Prince 2 Practitioner, Qualified

PRINCE2 Practitioner certification is the highest level of PRINCE2 qualification.

Merit In Operations Management

Merit achieved in Operations Management

Supervisory Management, Merit

Merit achieved in Supervisory Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems And Services, Higher Level Honors Degree

MIS prepares you to make better decisions by applying information technologies to solve business problems and transform enterprise.

On-Going, Accounting And Business/Management