Chris Mcfarlane Email & Phone Number

Braddon, ACT, AU

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• Chris is leading internal business works including business development, tender responses and development of a business operating model and processes. more broadly Chris is developing scalable frameworks that enhance.
• organisation and processes
• required skills, resources and training,
• Infrastructure and facilities and,
• current and in-flight investment in technology. To support timeframes for an impending government submission, Chris produced interim one-page reports and infographics to be used by the submission team for drafting in.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• Chris supported the client program manager with the management of the navy guided weapons and munitions sub-program, being a $20B investment in guided weapons over 20 years. He led a team of five staff to provide.
• supported the design of request for information and request for tender document suites, and
• provided strategic advice on managing schedules during request for information and tender activities. Chris maintained project schedules (in Microsoft project) towards achieving the Department of Finance’s two-pass.

Canberra, Australia

• Chris managed the delivery of the MASTIS capability (Navy Primary SATCOM bearer) upgrade. This project consisted of four work packages with a total budget of $51M delivered over 6 years (2017-2023). Chris was.
• led the project from initiation to delivery of initial capability ahead of schedule, and
• successfully led negotiations to correct major delivery challenges.

Canberra, Australia

Chris undertook analysis and developed business intelligence for Department of Health inputs and requirements for the inter-agency data warehouse for aged care records. Chris also provided program management monitoring and control for the Department of Health aspects of the program. A notable achievement was taking lead on the aged care program proposal.

Canberra, Australia

• As the Project Manager, Chris managed the delivery of the Emissions and Energy Reporting System Business Improvement Project delivered over 12 months with a total budget of $3M. Chris developed, managed and monitored.
• monitoring both schedule and cost performance of work undertaken, and
• managing resourcing and providing recruitment recommendations based on schedule demand.

Canberra, Australia

• Reporting to the Program Director, Chris developed a program strategy and objectives for the G20 Taskforce as well as several subsequent work streams, specifically:
• developed engagement plans with state governments and industry groups,
• provided program oversight and advice to dependent projects,
• resolved conflicts between projects,
• coordinated and prepared program readiness and governance reporting for program boards; and
• developed delivery and communication plans for the event.A notable achievement was successfully developing strategic program documents including the G20 Blueprint; a roadmap that was used as a key strategic.

Brisbane, Australia

Chris worked with project managers to ensure project deliverables aligned to program-level objectives and facilitated negotiations to resolve conflict between project-to-project dependencies. A key achievement was developing a forward reporting framework that successfully detected program risk with enough time to mitigate.

Canberra, Australia

• As part of the Workforce Strategy team, Chris led a project to develop a new workforce planning capability by developing key project artefacts including a business case, project plan, implementation plan, benefit.
• functional and non-functional requirements.
• high level process maps and infographics.
• complex process and system maps using Business Process Mapping Notation 2.0 (BPMN).Chris was one of the first project managers in the agency to successfully implement a benefit realisation plan and demonstrate the.

Canberra, Australia

• As part of a team, Chris contributed to the development of the program control framework including:
• Drafting program plans for risk, record management and project delegation frameworks.
• Development of the project benefits realisation plan.Chris was able to produce final drafts of work including written documents and visual infographics that were used as objective quality evidence during the Department.

In the Risk and Audit Section Chris undertook various projects and functions including business planning, audit, business continuity planning and risk assessments. Predominately he: - Conducted internal compliance and performance audits on various functions and programs within the department; and- Conducted risk assessments for various functions and.

Canberra, Australia

As a part of a project team, Chris developed and manage record destruction authorities for various government departments and agencies. Additionally, He was required to provide record keeping best practice advice to other government departments and agencies.

Canberra, Australia

As the Protective Security/Agency Security Adviser Chris assumed full responsibility for the protective security functions for the National Archives of Australia, including physical security, personnel security and agency security policy. In this role Chris supervised two staff at the APS 4 level. These positions were the Protective Security Adviser.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International Studies, Business & Government, Management Communications

Prince2 Foundation Certification, Project Management

Diploma In Project Managemen Bsb51413, Project Management