I am the manager of the CAB Budget service and have a team of seven financial mentors who cover the Wellington area. Our team provides free, private and non-judgmental budget advice for our clients at any of the five CAB locations in Wellington. I also provide budget presentations to companies and large groups.

Volunteer Financial Mentor at the Citizens Advice Bureau

I tutor philosophy students at the School of Practical Philosophy in Aro Valley. I also tutor philosophy classes online using Zoom.

Managing a programme of Government Legislative and legally governed IT projects with a current annual budget of $6M. These IT projects impact all parts of the Telecom/Spark network and include, Fixed Network Data, XT mobile roll out and 4G upgrade, UFB Capability and the national rollout of Wi-Fi capability. Responsibilities also includes:• Working directly with the programme Business Owner• Representing the programme delivery with the Law Enforcement Agencies• Managing the specialists and consultants on the programme• Maintaining the security and discretion of the programme• Dealing with legislative project issues for other programmes within Telecom• Managing the workflow of the other PMs in the programmeNo recommendations

Skanska Networks – Contract Manager, Jan '03 – Sep ‘05 Skanska Networks is one of the six companies who won the right to manage BT’s external network in the UK. I managed their BT external construction and maintenance operation in the Thames Valley, London area with a budget of $40M. Responsibilities also included:• Managing 120 employees and 6 sub contract companies• Vetting and procuring new vendor contract companies• Productivity and Quality delivery for the customer to ISO9001• Running monthly review meetings with contract vendors• Presenting to BT at their monthly delivery review meetings• Adjudicating on escalated customer and Highway Authority issues

Carrier 1 – Contract Project Director, Aug '00 – Dec’02 Carrier 1 was a Telco start-up company based in London Docklands which had just completed its IPO. Reporting to the European Vice President, my role was to manage the network build of Carrier1’s total infrastructure in the UK and regionally manage the Benelux countries. This included, planning and agreeing the duct, fibre and transmission equipment requirements. I also negotiated and set up the third party contracts and ensured the internal and external delivery teams met the company’s required timescales. Responsibilities also included:• Project managing the various work team activities in UK and Holland• Planning and approving the duct, fibre and transmission equipment installations• Agreeing and controlling budget • Auditing delivery progress and quality• Liaising with local councils and highway authorities• Representing Carrier1 UK Delivery at customer and vendor meetings

Based in London, I was a senior project manager working on the introduction of new technology into BT’s network, including SDH and DWDM projects with a value in excess of £6.5M. The main suppliers were Ericsson, Lucent and Marconi. Responsibilities also included:• Creating the project plan• Budgetary control of project • Advising on use of DWDM and agreeing testing parameters• Working on a daily basis with suppliers• Co-ordinating BT activities

Working in the Netherlands with Telfort, (a joint venture between BT and the Dutch NS Railways), my role was to design and manage the contract to build the company’s infrastructure network, throughout the Netherlands. I also managed the customer business orders for Telfort's Bid Engineering teams. Responsibilities also included:• Negotiating on the contract costs and values• Procuring new contract areas and agreements• Running monthly contract meetings with suppliers• Connecting the network to the Mobile base stations • Presenting cost savings to Telfort Board• Designing and implementing Quality Management Processes• Visiting major business customers and councils to verify requirements

I managed the North London Contract Project Office, which was set up to manage BT’s external infrastructure and fibre vendors with a budget of £15M. Responsibilities also included:• Performance measuring of contractors and BT staff • Carrying out audits on vendors • Project managing main build contracts• Adjudicating on contractual and customer issues• Designing and delivering training programmes to staff and contractors

I managed a staff of 13 and controlled the civil contract for infrastructure external repayment works. These costs were rechargeable to Local Authorities or Government and involved main infrastructure and cable build projects in BT’s Northern London Zone. I was also on the National Steering Committee rolling out the new National Contract (CH10) to staff and contractors UK wide. Responsibilities also included:• Project managing the work • Introducing contract quality management processes• Liaison with construction management and local Highway Authorities• Ensuring full documentation and recovery of BT costs to external audit standard

I was part of the national £45M “Breakout” project with Gemini Management Consultants to analyse efficiency issues in BT’s Northern London Build & Maintenance Network. Responsibilities included:• Conducting interviews with staff and managers • Preparing and analysing performance data• Giving weekly feedback to work teams • Presenting Breakout findings to BT Senior Management

Directly responsible for 5 managers and 54 staff. With additional responsibility for:• Leadership & direction setting• Setting performance targets for contractors• Representing London External contracts at UK national level• National adjudication on zone contractors• Resolving escalated contractual issues