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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• The Digital Public Service branch supports the Government Chief Digital Officer (GDCO) in the implementation of the Strategy for a Digital Public Service. Working with agencies ensures Digital investment is delivering.
• Develop and maintain a customer-centred consulting model, including customer needs, core capabilities required, and a cross-functional view across the broader Branch.
• Maintain awareness of emerging trends and changes in the Public Service system that will impact the work of the Group; and develop the right strategies and set the right objectives and priorities in response to these.
• Build, lead, and motivate a consulting team, ensuring the appropriate skills, competencies and customer-centric culture is maintained to support effective delivery of services.
• Takes a lead stakeholder management role by actively establishing, building, and maintaining effective relationships with agencies, understanding their needs and driversAchievements:
• Led the organisation and set up of the first Government Digital Hui, bringing together digital leaders from across the public Service for a 1-day event.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
• Lead the delivery of Digital Business Services ensuring operational service levels are met
• Set and implement the digital strategy by working with cross-functional partners to map and transition traditional processes to digital
• Be a digital evangelist, championing the use of digital technology and practices to engender a digital mindset from the top down
• Ensure collaboration, knowledge sharing, and digital best practices between partners and colleagues to help embed a robust digital ecosystem
• Measure ROI on digital projects, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure we're investing in the right tools and resources

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
• Providing technical leadership at the enterprise level and serve an integral role in operations and business development.
• Led the Technology team in identifying, comparing, selecting, and implementing technology solutions and partnerships to meet current and future needs
• Advocating and communicating technology capabilities internally and externally, including leadership, customers, partners, and vendors
• Oversee the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organisation to ensure optimal performance and security.Achievements:

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• GCSB contributes to New Zealand’s national security by providing information assurance and cyber security to the New Zealand Government and critical infrastructure organisations, collecting and analysing intelligence.
• Set objectives and strategies for the ICT department both within GCSB and how it supports cross government and international integration of the intelligence community.
• Plan the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals, operational analysts and other staff within the organisation
• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover new opportunities and threats and identify ways the organisation can gain a competitive advantageAchievements:
• Relocated 5 agencies into a new site, collocating and enabling interoperability. I accomplished this while reducing ICT delivery costs through the implementation of shared services capability, operating at the.
• Implemented big data and analytic solutions, increasing access to data accompanied by secure government agency collaboration through implementing enhanced certificate-based security architecture with policy-based.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Managing a team of software and infrastructure engineers developing specialised business solutions.- Improved reliability, expanded performance, and cut support costs by 30% with consolidation of disparate services and improved development practices using agile development techniques and enhanced quality assurance, testing and release processes- Introduced.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Manager of this bespoke software development and infrastructure Project valued at $600K, from receipt of the initial RFP, devising a bespoke JAVA based technical solution. I managed the proposal development team.
• Major organisational business change involving the restructuring of the New Zealand Law Society, from multiple distributed organisations to a central single society model. This requires significant stakeholder.
• Helped define and migrate many of the Law Societies key systems to a vendor hosted IT environment, reducing their costs while improving resilience and availability
• Development team of 10, including business analysts, developers, Infrastructure engineers, and testers, developing using the Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Successfully managed the response to the RFP including, establishing scope, defining solution, estimating costs, setting budget, determining schedules and submission to Infinity CEO to gain approval to move forward..

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

My family and I Decided that is was time to leave the RAF and build a new career, with a better lifestyle, relocating to New Zealand. My first position in New Zealand was as a Contract Project Management consultant for various organisations in various roles including bespoke software development, IT Systems implementations and general PM services covering.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Assigned as Project Manager to deliver a medical assessment system implemented as a Software as a service (SaaS), providing capability to multiple District Health Boards and the transition to Operations using the ITIL.
• Application and Infrastructure Project involving the establishment of all environments necessary for the system including virtualised hosts, test and development systems.
• Significant Vendor engagement with a vendor from Canada, involving distributed development and the establishment of communications lines between vendor developers and Health Intelligence support staff to ensure ongoing.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I was responsible for the provision of operational service support services to the PeopleSoft capability team, with NZ Post IT department, liaising with vendors to ensure support targets were maintained. In this temporary assignment I was responsible for the management and tracking of Incidents, Problems and Changes through the NZ Post implementation of.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Assigned as PM for a $4.8M application development project, developing an Oracle based extension to the mainframe based, beneficiary financial management system. The Project was in trouble suffering major delays, 8.
• Significant vendor management, involving two major IT vendors, each independently developing separate parts of the system. The Project had suffered from communications breakdown, leading to a lack of momentum and.
• Strong Scope and Budget management to bring the Project back under control and determine the final financial position. Weekly and Monthly financial reporting to CIO and Programme level
• Stakeholder management, including the CFO, a key requirement to ensure user expectations were managed

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)(Hons), Computer Software Engineering

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