Chris O'Halloran Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Building inspection is broken, we're fixing it. Currently in stealth.

Striking Homes is a modern Builder, we use technology at our core to optimise efficiencies and customer experience. We specialise in residential and small commercial building projects including renovations, extensions, repairs, new builds and commercial fit-outs.

Coomera, Queensland, Au

As the Principle consultant, I provide project recovery, coaching and advisory to challenged technology and digital transformation projects and programs, with a pragmatic focus on what matters most, given the stage and context of the project's lifecycle. We work with both waterfall and Agile delivery environments to help teams at all stages of their project maturity to turnaround troubles projects and help teams reach peak performance.Our services include:- Project Recovery - Project Assurance Reviews & Audits- Fractional Project Director & Steering Group RepresentativeAgility Engine prides itself in only working with leading project professionals, with a practitioner background, not theorists.Due to the sensitive nature of our recovery work, we do not publish who we work with and can recover projects and programs from the front or behind the scenes.

South Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Directed the program recovery of Virgin Australia Business Flyer program, a strategically critical exceeded target business benefit.Directed the program recovery of the Loyalty Platform Migration Program, VA's largest and most complex program in its history, impacting all Virgin Australia and Velocity Frequent Flyer system and business unit. Oversight and Direction to key strategic Projects and Programs across Virgin Australia's Technology Digital Transformation program, ensuring project management practices are adhered to and improve project maturity.

Striking Project Management offers bespoke turnkey Project Management services to a wide range of global clients and industries. This keeps me current as a Project Manager and Project Director, which allows me to keep my hands dirty (is it me or does ink rub off much easier than you would think?).I specialise in project management, so you do not have to.- Client Side Project Management- Mining & Infrastructure Projects- Construction Projects - Full construct or Client side liaison- Commercial Projects- Signage and Re-branding Projects- Organisation Change- IT Projects- Project Rescues- Government and Private clients- Business process projects- International Business and outsourcing Projects- New Product and Market projectsWe offer full Project Management services utilising best practice methodologies from PMBOK, Prince2 and Agile to ensure projects are delivered on time, Budget, and fit for purpose. So get in touch if you need a project manager or project director.

Joyne was a construction tech startup that automated construction estimating and Bill of Quantities (BOQ) for builders and trade contractors, servicing the construction industry in the United States, Canada & Australia.Founded and built the first takeoff off tool that used Artificial Intelligence to read blueprints and extract quantities. Expanded into the U.S, raised Venture Capital and launched the largest building materials marketplace, tracking over 25 Million material prices daily across every region in the US and Australia.Sadly closed down when impacted following on funding could not be secured during the early days of the uncertainty around the Covid pandemic.

http://sourcechina.com.au is an Australian business specifically built to assist Australian companies to source goods from china successfully. We do this through 2 key services:1. Complete sourcing, quality assurance, logistics and management of your import.2. Tailored business trips to help you personally meet with and negotiate with factories directly.We have been successfully doing this since 2008.

http://ejetty.com.auI founded Ejetty in 2017 to help boat owners and vacant private residential and commercial pontoons to connect. Ejetty grew to be the largest marina in Australia with no assets under direct ownership.Ultimately, the market was too small and I wound down the venture to focus on other projects.

Brisbane, Qld, Au

leading a portfolio of innovation programs across the Australian and Asian business units.Key programs included:- Ultra Class Vehicle Pit Stop Servicing: Modernised the servicing standards and process of ultra class vehicles, reducing average servicing times by 50% using Lean principles and bespoke tooling and infrastructure. Rolled out this standard across Australian and Indonesia.- Drone Capability Program: Developed bespoke drone capability across all Australia mine sites, providing greater ability to derive production performance reporting and safety inspections and monitoring.- Ultra Class Service Structure v2: Delivered an innovation design process to re-imagine the future iteration of the servicing bay infrastructure to further improve servicing times and reduce potential re-work and down time.

Grapple automates project plans and other documents - head over to https://go.grapple.pm to find out more.Grapple's goal is to be the leading project planning tool available, we want to make project planning and documentation simple and effective for anyone managing and delivering projects, whether qualified or not.

South Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Contracted to provide program management support and guidance on one of the countries largest implementations of Adobe Marketing Cloud. Supported the project manager, business leads and advised senior stakeholders on program performance and opportunities for improvement.

South Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Brought in to recover and complete Virgin Australia's flagship IOS Application the "Virgin Australia App".The project involved taking over the project in the critical stages and driving the project through final build, user acceptance testing, bug fixing and Go Live.This was achieved by reviewing the business case planned benefits, current budget, scope, schedule, de-scoping non essential features and managing the buy-in from a wide and complex stakeholder group while driving the project's momentum to achieve Go Live.The project was managed using an Agile Scrum methodology.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Providing Agile coaching support across the DNRM teams to help facilitate improved project and program performance within a complex Prince2 environment.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Provide project management contracting services to deliver the Westfield De-fit project nationally. - Including development of project management plans and approaches.- Management Scope- Management of budget and sub Contractor resources

St. Leonards, New South Wales, Au

Responsible for the project management framework design and integration nationally.Responsible for the governance and directing of all projects and a team of project managers nationally.Achievements:- Introduced a best practice framework for all project managers to follow aligned to PMI & ISO:21500- Reduced the companies exposure to risk and improved project success rates for their clients- Improved visibility with integrated project management systems for project managers and executive teams- Created and integrated a weekly project manager report- Mentored and coached project managers within the organisation- Improved project management maturity through industry certifications- Trained project managers to internationally recognised Diploma in Project Management- implemented best practice aligned project Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)- Developed suit of project planning templates

Ipswich, Queensland, Au

Contract Senior Project Manager delivering various water related infrastructure projects, including:Project recovery - North Pine Water Treatment Plant Upgrade. The North Pine WTP is the states 2nd largest treatment plant. Engaged to rescue a troubled project with schedule delays of over 1 yearProject Recovery - North Pine Water Treatment Plan Fluoride Dosing Point Relocation- Achievements included:- Business Case Review- Preparation of management of open tender- Project delivered on time, under budget.

Supporting the vendor as the Project Director and lead project manager in the business critical project and supplying a full time project manager resource to the project.During this engagement I, mapped their internal Agile framework to the Prince2 framework and aligned to required government standards for project management.Matured the organisation using the PMBoK and Prince2 frameworks to improve project capability.Consulted and directed and project managed the Capital Asset Management System implementation into Unity Water, on a multi million dollar project.Delivered requirements on time and on budget.

We were engaged to deliver and project manage a national advertising campaign for a tier 1 retailer, under significant budget and time constraints, working as the clients project manager.Wide stakeholder engagement, robust risk management framework and collaboration were the key enablers to the success of this project.This project was delivered on tight and under budget despite considerable challenges we delivered this 40% cheaper than previous internal projects!

Pakenham, Victoria, Au

State Project Manager for Qld, Managing department P&L, projects and operations. Key projects included the Gateway Upgrade, Clem7 tunnel and many other road projects through out Queensland.

Au

As the Senior Project Manager, I was resposible for the Design and Delivery of all projects in QLD, as well as many national projects for Government and Blue chip clients. Utilising National and Internation Resources. Some major projects succesfully delivered were;ISUZU UTE - 133 sites through out Australia and Tasmania.Translink - 40 sites accorss brisbane (Qld Government contract)NEC - 6 Star energy rated projectWestfield Robina - External and Statutory signage In addition to these I also introduced a standard Project Management Framework and lead the change on a national Supplier Level Agreement (SLA).

Project Manager on volume residential construction

Building Supervisor in middle to high end residential construction. Project value of $500,000 - $1,000,000. Equalled the companies double story build time and consistenly completed homes on time, budget and to a high quality of finish.

Au

Logistics Supervisor - Internal promotionLead project manager of an internal business improvement project over 10 months for which the following was delivered with consultation from a Business Analyst;Implementation of Business Management Systsm to the logisitcs department - Previously paper based.Increased Delivery In Full and On Time (DIFOT) from 70% - 98%.Increased storage capacity and efficiencies.Introduced virtual trucking systems and increased invoicing capacity up to 30k per day.Implemented RF wireless barcode scanning of finished goods to negate administration and data entry tasks.Reduced administration function through purpose built IT packages.

Au

Project Manager - Commercial & Residential fit outs.As the Project Manager, I worked closesly with the senior management team, targetting higher end commercial projects, increasing our position in the market place and capitalised on a previously un tapped market, dramatically increasing the department revenue.

Infantry SoldierIn addition to this role, I was given the opportunity to lead a small team and manage an internal initiative. The project was designed to bring the families of serving soldiers into the Defence community giving them the ability to stay in contact with serving members along with a support group.No government funding was available for this project and all revenue was raised through the support of local business and holding fund raising events.In this role I was put forward for an Australia Day Award Nomination.

Adv Diploma, Project Management

Master, International Business

Prince 2 Practitioner, Project Management

Building Expert Witness, Building/Home/Construction Inspection/Inspector