David Farquhar-Smith Email & Phone Number

Perth, Australia

Assisting with the implementation of a new installation of MS project Online and the customisation of reporting using power BI

Joondalup, Wa, Australia

Responsible for the status reporting, risk management, project prioritisation and benefits realisation of strategic and high value projects. • Developed program and portfolio reports and dashboards to present the finances and status to working groups, steering committees and executives.• Developed a simple initiative and project prioritisation methodology to determine the relative merits, future benefits, return on investment and alignment to the University’s Strategic Objectives.• User acceptance testing of a newly implemented installation of MS Project Online.

Perth, Australia

Responsible for building strong relationships across the business environment delivering innovative, efficient and effective IT solutions.

Perth, Australia

Ran the IT PMO with a staff of ten including seven project managers

Perth, Australia

Perth, Wa, Australia

Perth, Wa, Australia

• Business Development Manager researching potential clients and opportunities, while building long term relationships and partnerships. Building Quantec’s brand in Australia, managing sales and marketing of proprietary ground surveys, using geospatial software and preparing quotations, proposals and government tenders to fulfil client requirements.• Successfully built a new client base with a profitable pipeline of work.• Preparing targeted marketing material including conventional advertising material for hardcopy publications, attending technical and investment conferences to represent the company, promoting its services to representatives of the mineral exploration & mining companies to make new relationships and contribute to the reputation of the company.• Built and implemented targeted digital marketing campaigns using emails, newsletters and social media in conjunction using Salesforce, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey and LinkedIn to build and manage relationships.

West Perth, Wa, Australia

Formerly Fugro Ground Geophysics Pty Ltd & Fugro Airborne Pty Ltd• Business Development role managing the sales and marketing of ground geophysical surveys and later airborne, including the preparation of marketing material, creation of advertisements and attending mineral exploration conferences.• Stabilised revenue through increased customer retention and sole-supplier arrangements and reduced risk by diversification of markets.• Development of long term relationships with key clients to provide full solution-based services, from acquisition to the provision of ongoing interpretation and consulting.• Extensive experience with client liaison, costing jobs, planning logistics and surveys using geospatial software, preparing quotations, proposals and tenders to fulfil client requirements followed by monitoring progress, reporting and managing customer satisfaction by undertaking client reviews and facilitating feedback as part of a program of continuous improvement.

Perth, Wa, Australia

• Built business performance indicators to prove the worth of services so that benefits such as the impact on users or the breadth of their usage could be measured. These indicators (some aligned with COBIT metrics) varied considerably from the KPIs which only measure the operational performance rather than the beneficial impact of the service and its alignment with the businesses strategy. • Project managing the Software Procurement & License Management Project, the IT Hardware Procurement Project and the IT Hardware Asset Management Project with a team of 5-10 people within a $42M programme of work. Successfully completed the first all of University software and hardware audit to understand the current state of play. Liaising with end users, administrative stakeholders and vendors to formulate the requirements and process design for the whole of life IT Hardware Asset Management process. Formulated project plans and strategies, documenting requirements and researching implementation options. Working closely with Business Analysts and Infrastructure and Operations teams to keep multiple streams of work progressing in parallel. Maintaining regular communication with the Project Board and stakeholders, managing issues and risks, and monitoring the project budget.• Conducted an extensive exercise of auditing the existing Asset Management Database for accuracy and alignment to business requirements and improve budget forecasts. Researched the components of services provided by IS to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership of IT services provided to the UWA as well as cost per user and cost per device where applicable. This led to a clear understanding of the budget ramifications of continuing to provide services to user bases of varying sizes and forced a serious assessment of the business impact of particular services.

Perth, Wa, Australia

• Researched and formulated policies and standards gathered from stakeholder workshops and collaboration to align devolved environments so that consolidation of processes and procurement could generate business benefits across the University and to enable the key functions of teaching & learning, research, administration and the library.• Researched and workshopped the creation of the long term IT strategic plan and IT technological path incorporating emerging IT trends such as mobility, cloud, sustainability, e-learning and e-research to align the future IT projects with the business objectives outlined in the University’s Strategic Plans.

Perth, Wa, Australia

• Developed standards, processes and procedures, writing and maintaining documentation on systems, hardware, software and agreements.• Managed the complete IT Hardware and Software Asset Lifecycle of equipment for the School. This involved maintaining the Asset Management database; preparing and monitoring the IT budget and reporting IT expenditure forecasts, dealing with vendors and end users.• Managed and supported all aspects of Windows server, workstation and network operations for staff and students with 2 Active Directories, 11 servers including an Exchange server and over 60 workstations and laptops.

• Liaised with clients and providing software, hardware and network support and recommendations. Conducted hardware audits to validate Asset Management database reports and to prepare lifecycle budget proposals. Provided PC, system and network support within Windows workstation and server environments. Installed and trained users in the use of Maximizer CRM software. This included hospitals, medical practices, law firms, multi-nationals, manufacturing plants, warehouses, shops and homes.

Perth, Australia

• Geophysical data processing, inversion, interpretation and analysis.

West Perth, Wa, Australia

•Managed the Perth office of a software and consulting firm selling and supporting GIS, geophysical and imaging software and providing geophysical consulting services to both the mineral and oil and gas exploration industries. Extensive client liaison negotiating contracts and deliverables.

Artarmon, Nsw, Australia

Management and supervision of geophysical data processing, interpretation and hardcopy product creation.

Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

Manage the geophysical requirements, budget and staff of projects within the International Region, principally Argentina, Fiji and PNG with some work on India, Vanuatu, and Canada.

Perth & Adelaide

Subiaco, Wa, Australia

Kalgoorlie, Wa, Australia

Graddip, Computer Studies

Computer Studies Staff Prize for Best Academic Performance in 2005

Bsc, Applied Mathematics, Exploration Geophysics

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