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Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Success is measured by how much you give. It is my turn to give back to society. I will never retire - I will always be doing something, always busy, just maybe not getting paid for it. Equally, I have significant experience, and I am always open to conversations on how my experience and skills can add value to an organisation or an individual, if there is mutual benefit.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

ACCESS-NRI (Australian Community Climate and Earth-Systems Simulator - National Research Infrastructure) is a multi-party collaborative venture responding to the current and future needs of Australia’s scientific, Government and stakeholder community in the field of Climate and Weather research.AchievementsOrganised from start up to operational level.Took FTE from 2 to 25 through recruitment campaigns, including gender specific, and close liaison with HR.Set up boards and regular meetingsAdditional 5 years funding obtained from NCRIS which guarantees job stability and therefore capability of NRI to work towards targets.Establishment of accommodation including furnishingsMonitored and controlled spend to within budgetFunctionsLead, manage and coordinate corporate services within ACCESS-NRI. Ensure the administrative functions, policies and procedures support the achievement of ACCESS-NRI and align with University strategic goals. Oversee administrative support to ACCESS-NRI’s management team, and ensure administrative systems and practices are set up effectively and efficiently.Focus on the business aspects of ACCESS-NRI, including business planning, reporting, finance, contracts (government, co-investing stakeholders), workforce planning, major project support and secretariat services to the ACCESS-NRI Board and committees.Contribute to the strategy development of ACCESS-NRI. Business management and administration, and liaison with internal areas of the University including Finance, HR, Facilities and Services and the Division of Information, and external organisations including the Commonwealth Government (DESE, DAWE), publicly funded research organisations, agencies and universities across Australia.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Achievements• Deputise for CIO. Leadership provided to ICT team in a time of change at C-level. • Lead Applications & Information Management team. • Establish programme and resourcing plan for AIM team• Negotiate with suppliers to obtain enterprise wide value and substantial savings .• Requested to provide advisory role for reset of major business process transformation programme. Successful initial phases of the Financial Transformation programme led to sign off of subsequent business cases. Provision and management of internal and external resources.• Adopted ICT lead for establishment of Data Lake for ERP/Data Analysis functions. • Established reporting mechanisms – standardisation of weekly reports, Supplier selection Criteria, Dept RAG. Project definition, documentation• CIO Dashboard reporting for board• Identification of templates and preparation of business cases.• Coaching and mentoring junior staff. • Lead IT team meetings.• Cross divisional co-management of tender processes.• Cross divisional co-management of Service delivery analysis.• Brokerage of getting right parties to work together. Functions• IT Business Manager• Oversee the development and maintenance of IT policies, procedures, methodologies, and governance (as well as performance management frameworks and metrics)• Establish and implement continuous-improvement programs• Stay current with developments in new market trends and innovations in technology and the leadership of enterprise IT• Drive and facilitate effective collaboration and communications between the IT organization, user and customer communities.• Direct the preparation, review and consolidation of business plans & budgets• Regularly review IT costs and cost structures for IT services and products• Direct risk evaluation & compliance management processes• Oversee the execution of high-impact, enterprise wide, strategic programs or initiatives• Oversee IT workforce planning, including sourcing of staff

Supporting terminally ill parent in UK, completing subsequent administration.

Canberra, Australia

Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development DirectorateAssisting the CIO in leading overall digital and information technology strategic planning with a view to maximising the value derived from the Directorates digital and ICT investments;Produced methodology and report detailing IT spend, comparative data and analysis, including action itemsDesigned methodology and reported on the Value of ITRepresented directorate at executive and cross directorate CIO meetings to provide leadership and direction to whole-of-government IT and Digital strategies, assess budget initiatives, examine and recommend charging structures for IT services.Participated in workshops to define methodology and prioritisation of strategic IT investment.Developed relationships and produced proposals for IT spend invoicing from a customer and business value perspective.Chaired corporate-wide staff meetingsContract extended

Canberra, Australia

Health DirectorateDeveloped the Business Requirements, Business Case and other required documents to instigate the Canberra Region Cancer Research Hub. Stakeholder negotiation with CRCC, ANU JCSMR, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and ONJ Cancer Centre. Driven by the MOU between ANU, PMC and ACT Health. The CRC Research Hub is scheduled to open in 2024.Developed the Business Requirements, Business Case and other required documents to progress the provision of a cancer genomic diagnostic and clinical service to provide optimal care and personalised treatment for people affected by cancer.Undertook a cancer research stocktake and developed a sustainable process to maintain such a register, and increase the visibility of projects, activity and outcomes.Contract extended, and moved from Canberra Health Services to Health Directorate.

Canberra, Australia

Consulting with clients and providing travel solutions to match and exceed expectations.Achieved rewards for over-target metrics results.Invited to join focus groups to analyse transition from training to production.

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TGA Consulting Engineers, Stevenage May 2016 - August 2017Management Information consultant. Advising and implementing on metrics, financial management and productivity measures, troubleshooting p&l. Implementing PMO methodology and resource planning systems. Providing directors with new thinking on business analysis. Boots Management Services, Watford November 2015 – April 2016Short term contract to provide consultancy and assistance with operations management and customer assistance.Information Services Group (ISG) Inc Guildford May – July 2015Short term contract to provide assistance with several client IT outsource contract spend analysis engagements.• Working with NHS – 3 week period to assess price efficiency of data networks.• National Grid – quantifying market price for IT infrastructure services, • Rolls Royce – assessment of price effectiveness of services provided by BT, • Boeing – provision of high level IT spend and investment metricsPersonal development and skills update, including ITIL 2011Enhanced work with external activities• writing articles for external publicity and internal publications, • working with marketing team on promotional vision for events, • individual interview for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 2015, preparation for 2014/5/6 BBC Promenade concert performances, and additional broadcasts on BBC • mentoring and coaching individuals to achieve their goals, using interactions including mind mapping to achieve improved personal and organisational performance.

Delivery of strategic consultancy and CIO advisory engagements to Board level.Analysis of client spend, process, outsourcing contract and strategy data. BenchmarkingCross-division teamwork with Gartner Research Analysts and Executive Programmes. PMI and ITIL certification.Delivered of over 250 client data analysis engagements of varying duration to international organisations.Consistently high client satisfaction scores.Selected as expert presenter by affiliates in South Africa to give public presentations at Gartner Symposiums and a briefing tour in four cities on strategies for IT planning.Assisted a principal USA network technical specialist with introduction of a budget and planning product launched in UK, Ireland and Germany.Previously registered mentor with PMI Consulting SIG.

Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom

Head of IT department, including infrastructure and desktop project and operations support teams. Management of 25 staff. Focus on team building and development through promoting self-motivation and a people-focused service. Hybrid approach in viewing IT as a business function. Strategic planning of IT environment.

Diploma In Management Studies, Business Administration, Management And Operations

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