David Gortner Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsible for strategic and operational management for Certus’ digital enablement division.
• Performed a review and then developed a proposal for change for the Division Mission, Strategies, Tactics and Action Plan for board presentation and subsequent approval.o Developed and delivered FY2021 and FY2022.
• Established Product Management practices into Certuso Implemented the adoption and integration of the Aha! product suite into Certus product development workflows which is now used for product planning across Certus.
• Kick-started the development effort for a product which provides a SAAS solution for rapid specific industry-based insights without the need to manage their own operational reporting system and infrastructure. o.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Kick-starting the development effort for a fully-integrated cloud Information Management Platform to leverage the robustness of the Data Vault 2.0 approach and the scalable cloud infrastructure of Azure, and couple it.
• Developed business cases and planning for: feature roadmap, proposed release plans and timelines, team requirements, costs and dependencies, risks and issues.This platform means you can deliver and manage new data in a.
• Greater than 50% reduction of Total cost of ownership than traditional Data Warehouse approaches.
• EDW deployed in weeks rather than months.
• Up to 50% improved speed of delivering new data, with reduced impact of source change.
• Create new business reports in around half the time. The speed to keep up with business process change through Agile and CI/CD.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsible for management of all disciplines of Auckland development scrums delivering to Bravura customers worldwide.
• Accountable for worldwide development of Bravura’s largest ever customer programme of work, accounting for approximately half of current worldwide development capacity.
• Tasked with maturing and growing the development organization from 45 to 75 staff, with a focus on hiring only Top Talent - the most capable personnel and creating high-performing teams.
• Established best practice development paradigms which were rolled out to Bravura Development and Professional Services teams worldwide.

Auckland

• Business transformation case development for Certus’ CEO+ Designed for enterprises with substantial investment in IBM technology who are seeking to re-energize their Domino, Business Analytics and WebSphere systems.+.
• Enterprise Architecture review covering the breadth of the Auckland Transport (AT) organization for delivery to AT’s C-level audience and the Board.+ Facilitated internal customer interviews and workshops to ascertain.
• Enterprise and Solutions Architecture review for Auckland Council covering their Digital systems and platforms capabilities.+ Facilitated internal customer interviews and workshops to ascertain the current state of the.
• Attended the BBD CEO Summit meetings in 2015.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Successfully transitioned an organization struggling to do one dot version release in two years, to a release cycle that is realizing major and minor version SW releases every year within a strong and transparent.
• Implemented changes to Sustaining Engineering teams and processes which resulted in resolving more customer reported issues, improved SLAs, and reducing costs by ~15%.+ Act as Executive Sponsor for Zeacom’s.
• As the BBD Design Champion, I rolled out BBD/Stanford d.think methodologies within Zeacom, which have yielded substantial creative and velocity gains to our new projects, one of which has been heralded as “the most.
• Served as de facto Product Manager in addition to my normal duties while that role was vacant and prior to it being restructured.
• Prepared R&D due diligence materials and participated in SLT preparation for a successful acquisition in 2012 (Zeacom was acquired by North American software enterprise company Enghouse Systems).

• Systems Engineering at Navman was essentially a Business Analysis role
• Member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) where I was regularly tasked to create and deliver key slide show presentations for the Executive Team member’s strategic proposals and world-wide distribution.
• Implemented and managed requirements gathering and prioritization processes for Personal Navigation Devices (PND) Software (SW) features for Mio and Navman brands across Europe, North America, and Oceania regions which.
• Managed and mentored the team tasked with creating functional specifications that detail the integration of hardware and software for PNDs and developed a new global specification format for internal and external.
• Was key point of contact who managed the relationships, communications, deliverables and their schedules with global external firms contracted to provide Usability, Design, and Functional Specifications deliverables on.
• Acted as an impromptu champion for greater focus on strategic deliverables which resulted in formal SMT training and subsequent scheduling of regular off and on-site strategy meetings to break the focus on.

• Member of the SMT where I developed, delivered and presented a three-year SW Roadmap for Personal Navigation Devices to Senior and Executive Management.
• Served as de facto Smartphone Product Manager until one was assigned for BNT’s Smartphone business.
• Provided technical and Product Management analysis and presented to Executive Team which resulted in Symbian and Windows Mobile business moving forward under outsource model.
• Program Manager and then Systems Engineer (B.A.) responsible for delivering SmartST 2005, 2006, and 2007 releases:
• Served as de facto Product Manager for initial three months of Smart ST 2005 Program in addition to my normal duties.
• Delivered the design and design specifications for a major new UI look/feel redesign across multiple product cycles which were bought off by the SMT and Market teams creating a new map centric UI with an icon driven.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States