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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

GROUP MANAGER – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ▪ StraitNZ Limited ▪ 2017 - presentAssemble, lead, and mentor a team of project managers, QA engineers, NOC operators, system administrators, and software engineers to reimagine the company’s network from greenfield. Led the implementation of application development initiatives through effective cross-functional collaboration with overseas and local technology teams. Conducted performance assessments and evaluated the architectural infrastructure needs of the business to determine the optimal approach to fulfilling needs and ensuring costs aligned with budgetary limits.

Auckland, New Zealand

Provided the information technology group with guidance and strategic leadership through assessing the existing state of the business and prioritizing technologies to advance the organization’s vision. Consistently sought ways to transform the total infrastructure to enable greater capacity, optimized performance, and resilience, and mitigate security vulnerabilities. Directed the full RFP lifecycle to replace the core TMS and WMS systems, including vendor evaluation and selection. Fostered trusting business relationships throughout the organization with cross-functional teams, senior leaders, and vendors.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Defined, initiated, and managed enterprise-level, customer-facing projects with budgets from $500K to $15M from end-to-end for the delivery of unified communications, route switch, wireless networks, video conferencing, audio-visual, and digital signage solutions for corporate and government entities. Performed comprehensive project resource management assessments to determine the potential need to engage third-party vendors to ensure project delivery obligations could be met in a timely fashion. Conducted cost-benefit analysis against proposed solutions and presented findings to senior leadership for decisioning.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Deployed high precision vehicle positioning solutions to a wide array of clients, including the New South Wales Department of Education, Government of New South Wales, and primary and secondary schools and colleges. Responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing projects with values of up to $1M, including team development and coaching, and collaborating with the software development staff to remediate bugs and ensure quality product development. Accountable for assuming project ownership for failing projects or those which the project leader had left the company and ensured the customer received the same high level of service and timely solution delivery.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Served as an acting Group IT Manager responsible for leading the team across all major Australian centres within a virtually based environment in the delivery of a variety of technology initiatives. Supported the business’ vision to focus on cost savings and systems infrastructure rationalism and managed the core internal projects to rebrand all IT infrastructure assets.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key ResponsibilitiesProvided high level technical support in a largely Citrix environment with IT services being delivered to predominately thin clients within manufacturing and distribution sectors.Planned and coordinated workloads to ensure Service Delivery requirements were met.Team Lead and Mentor for first and second level support to both distribution and manufacturing network environments, including Cellular devices and PABX systems for some 4000+ users.