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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Full life-cycle Project Management • Manage digital transformation project in Service Control function. Move from manual system to cloud solution; increase efficiency and introduce automation leading to cost-out; cost savings from improved controls; increase customer and supplier satisfaction. • Manage project to migrate Registration system to cloud solution. Increased efficiency leading to cost savings; decreased errors and risk of unregistered vehicles• Manage Data Centre Migration project to Execution phase. Establish project scope, vendor selection via RFP evaluation, multiple vendor agreements, and onboarding

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lead a matrix team of 40 members across multiple geographical locations, cultures and organisations - project managers developers, business analysts, data analysts, testers, and change managers.Manage full-time employees, vendor staff, and partners.Lead, coached and developed internal staff.Partner relationship management.Controlled a multi-million dollar CapEx budget.Prepared consolidated material from project reports for presentation to senior executive stakeholders.Development and ongoing maintenance of project framework and governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking and updating project deliverables.Manage and escalate portfolio and governance risks.Ensure appropriate change control process across all projects in the portfolio.Promoted the use of digital tools and consistent processes.Establish and lead project management best practice community.Lead project selection process including business case preparation and review.R&D tax claim preparation.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Managed multiple IT-enabled application business projects.Managed a large infrastructure project to relocate Data Centre:Physical lift-and-shift and virtual servers transfer15 technologies, 12 external partnersFull risk managementCommunications planning Change management planningEnd-to-end project governance - project management plan, scope, executive steering committee, stakeholder management, Risk & Issue management, budget control, migration event planning and managementSuccessful delivery.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Manage the IT Governance and Risk functionLead initiative to implement an ISMS - ISO27001Established and managed project delivery governance processesWorked closely with senior stakeholders to assess and monitor technology risk and to implement controlsProactively identify emerging risks and provide advice on mitigating themCreate and implement Information security compliance training material and deliver to all staff.

Melbourne, Australia

This role is accountable for the assurance of all IT and SDLC project activity being consistent and compliant with all regulatory and corporate policy and control requirements. Process improvement, SDCL adherence, tollgate adherence.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities: Deliver on IT-enabled projects up to $15 million dollars and 50 people. Full end-to-end project management across the project life cycle. Manage all aspects including estimation, staff, vendor, contract and budget, schedule, stakeholder management, C-level steering committee and executive reporting, issues and risks. Projects are multi-vendor, international, cross-platform.Achievements:• Delivered a new product initiative for a major retailer client. The project formed part of a multi-project release that ushered a new release management approach in the organisation.• Delivered the customer Online Service Centre for GE Money’s 14 in-house and partner cards (Myer, Harvey Norman, Coles) across two countries. A major greenfields and transformational project on an SOA/Websphere/ Portal/Oracle/Mainframe platform that introduced over ten new technologies and laid down new processes through many parts of the organisation (https://gomastercard-online.gomastercard.com.au/access/login). Led six development teams, test and analyst teams, management staff including deployment managers and project managers and 8 third parties (2010)• Delivered Portal Customer User Interface. A portal-based application rolled out to 600 branches via Citrix network, delivering benefits in positive and negative bureau, cross-sell and fraud handling. Established SOA technology platform on which large project pipeline continues to deliver. The success of the project has cemented Portal as the company’s technology architecture standard.(2008)• Lead the Websphere Customer Centre project which implemented the IBM CRM Customer Data Integration solution. Provided GE with a customer-based view delivering immediate risk management capabilities and cost savings as well as establishing a new platform on which a pipeline of customer-focused initiatives has delivered. (2007)

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities: Deliver on IT-enabled projects up to $4 million dollars and 20 people. Full end-to-end project management across the project life cycle from initiation to close. Manage all aspects including estimation, staff, vendor, contract and budget, schedule, stakeholder management, executive reporting, issues and risks. Projects are multi-vendor, international, cross-platform.Achievements:• Lead Citrix branch rollout project from Initiate to Develop phase before handover to colleague. Project goal to deliver cost savings over existing desktop strategy by reducing maintenance, license and support costs. (2006)• Delivered project to launch a transactional-based pricing solution for retail purchases for the New Zealand business. Achieved goal to boost sales volumes to required levels. Vision Plus/Cardpac/Oracle DWH. (2006)• Delivered Customer Information System in an Oracle RAC environment. An initiative to pioneer a customer level view across GE’s many and diverse legacy systems across two countries using Informatica and Oracle development and third party suppliers (2005)• Implement the T-Recs financial reconciliation package across six receivables systems. A high-level of issue-discovery within the financial processes led to creation of program of work which delivered cost-saving process-improvement. (2005)• Delivered major Data Warehouse migration from acquired New Zealand company into GE’s enterprise Oracle data warehouse. Manage three teams across six sites in a change-resistant environment. (2004)