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Palmerston North, Wanganui-Manawatu, New Zealand

Dublin, Ireland

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Experienced Event technology, strategy, budgets and procurement management professional.

Lead the team responsible for effective delivery of technology services to support Rugby World Cup 2015, including infrastructure, applications, policies and procedures.Responsible for delivery of RWC 2015 supporting Infrastructure across all match venues, International Broadcast Centre and various other tournament locations.Scope of delivery includes all corporate technology systems, telephony, radio and frequency management, networks, Tournament Management System, Audio Visual provision (excluding sports presentation), integration of 3rd party suppliers such as Tournament Information Systems vendor, remote translation systems and mobile telephony.Key accountabilities: Budgets, requirements definition, procurement, contract negotiations, contract and vendor management, service delivery and tournament support.

Christchurch

Responsible for leading and managing the Information Services Team and function for all of CERA, ensuring CERA has the necessary information and communication technology, procedures and policies in place to deliver on it’s goals and objectives. IS strategic and operational planning activity in order to achieve CERA’s required outcomes and outputs by fostering innovation, prioritising IS initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IS systems across the organisation. Definition of CERA’s information services reference architectureIdentify opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in information systems and resources, working with CERAs procurement function to in order to meet, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development needsDevelop, manage, and report on the information services annual operating and capital budgets

Responsible for managing IT & T contracts.Definition, planning, implementation and management of a wide range of IT&T systems and services to the 2011 Rugby World Cup Tournament.Procurement of products, services and systems in the market place to assist in the achievement of the Tournament objectives Role encompasses:Contract negotiation;Requirements definition;Managing high level architecture design for Rugby World Cup 2011;Managing creation of detailed design for Rugby World Cup 2011;Manage key ICT relationships with tournament stakeholders, key ICT suppliers and key ICT customers such as the host broadcaster and media agencies;Manage day to day service delivery requirements and vendors to ensure an appropriate delivery of ICT;

Maintain and manage computer hardware, submit proposals, quotes, and recommendations for new technologies that may benefit the NZRU. Provide helpdesk support to NZRU staff, in person or via the phone, provide NZRU computer users with training, and assistance to ensure that staff are aware of and able to use the resources available. Develop forecasts and budgets for new strategies and proposals, planning upgrades and hardware replacements. Organise and supervise contractors and outside support staff, ensuring that work is carried out successfully and on time. Maintain policies and procedures for NZRU systems including “Best Practice” security policies. Negotiate and manage supplier contracts for all NZRU IT & T requirements including software and hardware, software development, service level agreements, voice, mobile and data provisioning. Ensure that NZRU sponsorship arrangements are not compromised by any of the supply agreements.

Desktop Support

Maintain and manage computer hardware, submit proposals, quotes, and recommendations for new technologies that may benefit the NZRU.Provide helpdesk support to NZRU staff, in person or via the phone, provide NZRU computer users with training, and assistance to ensure that staff are aware of and able to use the resources available.Develop forecasts and budgets for new strategies and proposals, planning upgrades and hardware replacements. Organise and supervise contractors and outside support staff, ensuring that work is carried out successfully and on time.Maintain policies and procedures for NZRU systems including “Best Practice” security policies.Negotiate and manage supplier contracts for all NZRU IT & T requirements including software and hardware, software development, service level agreements, voice, mobile and data provisioning. Ensure that NZRU sponsorship arrangements are not compromised by any of the supply agreements.

Providing the most cost effective IT&T solutions reducing costs associated with the companies IT infrastructure while ensuring that future initiatives can be absorbed with minimal re-engineering.Develop IT&T strategies that support and assist the development of the business objectives of VTNZ. Manage relationships with VTNZ strategic IT&T partners including service levels as well as the two fulltime IT staff at VTNZ.Manage $2+ million IT Budget including equipment leases, hardware and software procurement. Maintain and develop IT Policy and procedures.

7 x 24hr operation of all police Unix Servers (17) and administration of the office automation system. This involved managing backups and restores, application of operating system patches and operating system upgrades. The operating systems involved were HP-UX 9.0 and DEC OSF1.Operation of the NEC AFIS Fingerprint Recognition System mini computer