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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Sole resource supporting 2x Portfolios (Sustainable & Efficient Charter’s) combined ~$75m/yr delivering technology modernization and automation via generative artificial intelligence (AI).Investment Modelling & Financial Management: Bottom-up creation and submission of resource/non-resource cost and FTE tracking along with on-going recurring forecasting.Benefits Modelling & Management: Targeting internal KPI’s for benefits modelling and prioritization along with tracking via monthly/quarterly benefit delivery reviews.Enterprise Delivery Framework (EDF) Implementation: Guiding key stakeholders with internal delivery tools and mature PMO development.Steering Committee & Delivery Reviews: Portfolio/Program/Project status reporting and tracking among other traditional PMO duties (Risks, Actions, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions).

Sole resource supporting 2x projects (Transaction Monitoring and Models, & Workbenches and Workflows) combined FY2024 $41M budget in project management and financial management activities within the Financial Crime Domain.Financial Analysis: Created a new Domain-wide ($100M/yr) financial reporting tool to provide transparency and actionable information on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.Regulatory Reporting: Facilitating projects via forums to stay on-track for key EU (Enforceable Undertaking) commitments with large ramifications if unsatisfied.Financial Forecasting & Modelling: Repeatedly best performing forecasting variance margin (<1% consecutive months) which provide detailed resource and vendor level costs via NAB’s internal Project Estimation Tool (PET).Executive Reporting: Created new reporting of granular key information not widely available enabling senior management to answer questions that were previously unrealizable.

The most senior analyst in the International Portfolio reporting directly to the Head of Strategy where I focused on strategic planning, insights generation and data analytics in alignment with the broader Corporate and Retail portfoliosPortfolio Segmentation: Created and implemented a strategically unique and data-driven client portfolio segmentation dividing the accounts and relationships into a service-offer tier model aligned with the team’s capability and capacity.Market Share Model: Successfully upgraded the older internal model by building a vastly different market share model with external relationship creation and data sourcing to baseline and compare over/under-indexing performance.Insights Analysis: Data exploration and geospatial analysis for the frontline sales team to forecast customers with expiring insurance & visa policies to proactively communicate, grow and retain.

Communicating insights of the recovery effort within the Strategy & Analytics Division of the newly stood-up government agency following the 2019-2020 Victorian Bushfires.Program Management Reporting & Insights: Developed an effective data collection tool and reporting dashboard broadcasted weekly across the organisation becoming the core program reporting and tracking tool for $170M+ worth of directly funded of initiatives.Data & Product Handover: Successfully overtook all information assets as the sole analyst in the team at the time during a data and product handover of various assets and procedures from external consultants.ETL Data Pipelining & Quality Assurance: Identify metrics and build products in collaboration with product owners and data engineers to answer business questions using Excel, SQL Server, and Power BI.Data Management & Governance: Created data management policies and presented education sessions to relevant data/product custodian/steward/owner stakeholders.

4-month term as Acting Manager whilst the existing manager was seconded to the Director role for offline disaster planning scenario analysis.Team Management: Effectively managed the team of 3 senior data analysts in the Data Analytics & Reporting Team to continue delivering the pipeline of work whilst the broader department was severely depleted of resources.

Program delivering a 3-yr $60M/yr new State-wide IT payments system where I was the primary senior analyst providing scheduling and reporting across all 6 major streams of work.Program Management & Governance: Act as the primary internal custodian (2IC) supporting the Program Director deliver the capability of projects via standardized templates and tools for a clear, transparent and collaborative reporting framework.Program Scheduling: Use Microsoft Project to work directly with the Master Scheduler, Program Director and 10+ Project Managers to have an objective schedule view of the program. Once the Master Scheduler finished their contracted role, I took over as the sole scheduler for the entire program holding weekly meetings producing schedules on program and project deliverables, RAG status, timeline, level 1/2/3 summaries.Program Status Reports: Standardized a new cross-program 1-page dashboard summary highlighting the top 3 deliverables achieved, upcoming deliverables, key milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and forecasts.Executive Support for Steering Committee (SC) and Program Control Group (PCG): Sole and immediate support contact for anything PMO related for Deputy Secretaries, Executive Directors, and other key members of cross-departmental activities.

ITW is an American Fortune 200 manufacturing company where I worked as a project engineer across the retail and commercial division for labour and material optimization.Warehouse Design Upgrade: Created and implemented an 80/20 warehouse product location heat map analysis in combination with a time-and-motion study. This data was then used to remap the majority of the warehouse delivering safety and productivity benefits of +5.1% increase in picked lines per day yielding a $71k/yr saving.Procurement & Project Management: Purchased a $1.5M manufacturing machine upgrade as well as solely sourcing $300k+ machinery internationally.Customer Portfolio Segmentation: Analyzed sales customers data via matrices and implemented recommendations to the sales and finance teams.Financial Risk Rating: Created a standardized structure for credit control to better manage the risk and understand customer credit worthiness.

I helped deliver some of the most unique and dynamic events in Australia (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Drake, Australian Open, A-League, NBL).Delivery: Successfully delivered in a high-paced and time-limited environment during pre/during/post large-scale events.Task & Team Management: Frequently the Second-In-Command (2IC) and would plan and execute strategically via task and resource management.

M.Eng - Master Of Engineering, Structural Engineering

Focused on load-bearing prefabricated engineering systems and high-rise structures.

B.Sc - Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering

Problem-solving fundamentals and people skills focusing on broad engineering fundamentals.

Scholarship: Universitas 21 Exchange Program (U21) - 6Mth

My 2nd semeter-long Masters level university exchange program was in Sweden focusing on heat transfer, steel and timber Structures.

Scholarship: Global Engineering Exchange Program (Ge3) - 6Mth

My 1st semester-long Masters level university exchange program was in the USA focusing on geotechnical design and sustainable construction.