Brad Pearce Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Part of the Policy, Planning and Investment branch's ICT PMO supporting project boards and managers.Evolving and maintaining the 5-year ICT Roadmap.Facilitating improvements to project, program, and portfolio management systems.

Brisbane, Australia

Part of the DCDSS Human Rights Act Implementation Project.• Revised work-in-progress first draft Project Plan; developed project approach and governance; helped define scope; and gained project board approval.• Developed high-level schedule; project risk & issues registers; and templates for work package definition, highlight report, and board-level work package tracker & dashboard.• Supported ED in key internal stakeholder engagement (ADGs, EDs, and Directors), gap & risk analysis, and issues resolution.• Reviewed draft work packages and provided advice and guidance to work package leads.• Prepared monthly Project Board, DCDSS Board of Management, and whole-of-Government reporting.• Secretariat for the DCDSS Human Rights Act Implementation project board.• Additionally, asked by our DG to develop a set of to-be process models to remedy a control weakness; led workshops with the CFO, CPO & their direct reports, and developed agreed to-be models.

Part of the Whole-of-government NDIS Transition Program Management Office.• Developed the Summary of Agency Closure Reports report for Queensland’s governance committee (the Reform Leaders Group) providing assurance that Queensland's nine NDIS-affected agencies had completed their transition projects;• Surveyed NDIS-affected agencies, and compiled an assurance report to the RLG confirming Queensland's readiness to operate in the NDIS full scheme post-transition;• Compiled evidence that Queensland had implemented the recommendations of the two Queensland Audit Office reports on NDIS Transition and prepared a briefing to the RLG;• Compiled evidence that Queensland had met all of its obligations under the key national-state bilateral NDIS Transition agreement and prepared a briefing to the ADG;• Drafted 2 major revisions of the Enterprise Risk covering DCDSS’ transition to the NDIS;• Coordinated and monitored the closure of the PMO’s own internal Program of Work.

Part of the Whole-of-government NDIS Transition Program Management Office.• Led a team of five in an expanded and refocused PMO to meet the needs of Qld government, governance bodies, and people with disability to help achieve Queensland's successful transition to the NDIS. Our services included: whole of government reporting from nine affected agencies; managing risks and issues; data analyses and reporting; secretariat for the two governance boards; and project and program management support;• Jointly re-established the core PMO functions lost through previous downsizing; recruited key people, and reshaped the team's role and goals for the rest of transition;• Engaged with the representatives of the NDIA and the federal DSS to revise the Queensland risk register for Queensland's peak governance board (the TSC);• Jointly led the development of the PMO's own Program of Work to 30 June 2019;• Jointly planned and contributed to the development of Program Closure products including Program Closure Report; and a health check of each Queensland agency's NDIS transition projects; and personally designed and coordinated a report on the status of Qld's commitments; and an assessment of each affected agency's (and Qld's) preparedness to operate in the full NDIS from 1 July 2019.

Part of the Whole-of-government NDIS Transition Program Management Office.Assisted the Director of a transformational reform of a $137 m funding program that was facing significant time pressures, risks, and issues. Engaged with the project team, performed a Health Check, identified the critical path, investigated the current state of the project, and wrote a briefing & recommendations paper to the Governance committee.Coordinated NDIS PMO’s Estimates Briefing process, coordinated reviews and responses to questions from within and outside the PMO; established version control and a tracker.

Brisbane, Australia

A short secondment to:"• Build capability across the branch and provide support to project managers and teams to ensure successful delivery of project outcomes within time and cost limitations• Prepare submissions, briefs, reports and correspondence of a complex nature relating to the planning coordination and implementation of the projects• Provide project management support in the development, implementation, maintenance and review of systems and procedures to support the roll out of the HR Operational Plan and Project Management Office processes• Perform project risk analysis to identify trends requiring corrective action and manage project risks as required and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, corporate policies, standards and systems."

Brisbane

• Developed and now maintain the PMO's tools and processes for Board and Portfolio including DCCSDS' NDIS Transition Project Schedule (900 lines), reporting, change control, actions & decisions, and (in partnership) risk & issue management.  Successfully mentored project managers, work package leads, reporting coordinators and the PMO Team in these tools and processes  Inducted and trained two Senior Project Officers to work with me  Other business units & secretariats have adopted NDIS PMO tools and processes.• Effective Secretariat for DCCSDS’ NDIS Transition Project Board & the Change Authority• Active member of Secretariat, Portfolio, and Governance Communities of Practice• Contributed to DCCSDS' Portfolio Office's Change Management and Risk workshops• Nominated to represent PMO as a member of the ICT Impact Assessment Workshop team• Supported Manager to design the roles and functions of the Project Management Team• Contributed to the design, testing, and implementation of the DCCSDS’ Governance Hub (an Office 365 site used to publish meeting papers, actions, decisions, and calendars)• Responsible for user access administration of GovHub (Office 365) and provide training and support.

Brisbane

• Process design/modelling of the end-to-end business process for a major reform to funding disability services (the Your Life Your Choice model of self-direction).• Led a team of four to facilitate the introduction of self-directed support in Queensland:  Developed and maintained manuals, fact sheets & forms for clients, providers, & staff  Provided statistical and performance reporting  Ran an ongoing EOI process to endorse service providers under Your Life Your Choice  Supported regional staff and funded service providers re complex process/policy issues  Presented at training days, ran regional teleconferences, and represented YLYC at Service Provider forums• Established and ran the Your Life Your Choice Business Process Working Group:  Brought multiple disparate stakeholders together and facilitated a shared understanding of both the project and the processes that that they all contribute to  Fostered a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving by the working group  Achieved shared cooperative ownership of both new processes & of problem solving.

Brisbane

Currently initiating projects for a "content managment framework" (processes, roles, responsbibilites, etc.) to support 7 whole-of-Government topic-based public-facing websites led by Communities, and for a whole-of-Department service and information directory of internal and external providers.

Whole of Queensland Government Shared Service Initiativie

Diploma, Project Management

Project management—PMBOK based

Bsc, Australian Environmental Studies

Systems and processes; land-use management

Graduate Diploma, Information Systems And Anlaysis

Systems and business analysis; information management; systems security and audit