David Peters Email & Phone Number

Katikati, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Chair of Uretara Esturary Managers Incorporated, trading as Project Parore.

Katikati

Secretary since founding, and presently also Deputy Chair of Bay Conservation Incorporated, trading as Bay Conservation Alliance. We support community conservation groups in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

Katikati

Owns and manages an avocado orchard and lifestyle block in Bay of Plenty. Also actively involved with Aongatete Forest Project, Bay Conservation Alliance and Project Parore (formerly Uretara Estuary Managers Incorporated.).

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developed project plans and budgets for the implementation of the Woolworths Group Quality Program within EziBuy, and liaised with the Group's Program team to plan for the rollout of a Product Life Cycle Management system.• Developed project plans and a business case for the procurement and deployment of a Merchandise and Financial Planning solution.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Contracted to the Project Management Office managing infrastructure delivery projects to a range of commercial clients.• Customers included Southern Cross Healthcare, Foodstuffs North Island, Foodstuffs South Island, CANON NZ, Instant Finance, Datacom, OBEX, FMA and the NZ Institute of Plant and Food Research.• Projects included Exchange migrations; storage and backup implementations; infrastructure refreshes (virtualisation and thin clients), on Cloud and private infrastructure, business integration (of software company acquired by Datacom), development of statements of work etc.

Auckland, New Zealand

Engaged by the vendor to manage the implementation of Warehouse Management systems into three distribution centres for a major supermarket operator, in Auckland and Rotorua.

Sydney, Australia

Engaged by Object Consulting through its subsidiary, Transacta, to project manage the integration of PCMS Vision Beanstore Point of Sale software for David Jones, for their department store chain in Australia.Also managed two State Government projects for Object.At Lands and Property Information, managed a team who designed and developed multiple web services used to support the State cadastral databases.Project managed the delivery of a strategic systems review and recommendations for the Livestock Health and Animal Pests Authority.

Sydney

Managed an AdvanceRetail team, blueprinting the integration of their POS system with SAP and other applications for Harvey Norman as part of Project Reload. Project Reload is a systems replacement program for Harvey Norman's businesses in Australia, NZ, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Was engaged by the Warehouse to develop and manage a program of work to realise substantial gross profit opportunities by improving the clarity and integrity of customer facing communications. This involved reviewing processes throughout the core merchandising, marketing and operations teams at the National Support Office and all stores nationally, and making recommendations about appropriate future IT investments and development.I lead the development of a proposal for DB Breweries on behalf of RS-AP and REALTECH Ltd to address a competitive RFP for “blueprinting” services for a range of EAI and B2B projects based around the use of SAP PI. I subsequently project managed the delivery of multiple blueprints which spawned several “realisation” projects, for which statements of work were prepared and delivered. I then project managed the “realisation” of these projects, with a core team of 4 senior consultants.DB projects included GS1Net integration, 3PL integration and the re-engineering of several internal applications to migrate them to PI from obsolete legacy EAI solutions. The implementation was based on an Enterprise Systems Bus architecture using Open Application Group OAGIS standards.

Providing independent retail technology, business consulting and project management services to medium and large retailers, their suppliers and other enterprises. Assignments have included :-NZ Institute of Plant and Food Research - Project management of procurement system implementation - Conexa and SAP.Shiseido NZ - Project management of SAP Business One implementation.Kiwi Donuts - Project manangement and business analysis for EDI implementation with large supermarket customer.Farmers Trading Company - Ran two procurement projects - for Workforce Management System and for Enterprise Server Hardware.Noel Leeming Group (NZ) - POS Hardware acquisition reviewReliance Retail (India) - Retail Operations Balanced ScorecardFarmers Trading Company (NZ) - Project Management and Business Analysis for:-> New Point of Sale systems testing and quality assurance > Big ticket purchases - "customer journey" process design> Radio frequency terminal integration to SAP Retail

Contract finalisation, systems integration and pilot implementations of Micros Fidelio Point of Sale, Back of House and above store enterprise management system for Pizza Hut NZ. National Call Centre integration with Back of House (Kitchen).

Responsible for building the retail practice. Specific responsibilities included developing new technology offerings for NZ retailers, product management, customer relationship management and account management. Logical CSI was a premier partner to CISCO, IBM, Microsoft.

Blue Star Consumer Retailing operated around 250 bookshops in several different iconic chains across New Zealand and Australia (incl. Whitcoulls and Angus and Robertson). The company is now called RED Group Ltd.

Information Services Manager (Kmart NZ)Implementation Manager (Kmart NZ)Project Manager (Myer Grace Brothers)Project Director (CM Information Services)Manager Communications (Kmart Australia)Senior Technical Consultant (Kmart Australia)Implementation and Support Manager (Target)Senior Support Analyst (Discount Store Group)

Bachelor Of Arts, Information Science, Economics, Maths, Management

I studied part-time at V.U.W. and then completed my degree extra-murally through Massey University. I graduated from Victoria University.

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