Karen Osborne Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, QLD, AU

Clayfield, Queensland

I had a desire to refresh my experience in private enterprise and to get back in touch with my hands-on experience managing projects as I strongly believe this is a differentiator for me in Portfolio Management positions. I was engaged to deliver two significant projects for the organisation, managing the work of internal staff and integrate the work of.

Brisbane, Australia

• I led a team of project management professionals in delivering the annual ICT Program of Work. I had responsibility for working closely with executive stakeholders in the City Planning and Sustainability division to.
• A transformational program of work phased over… Show more I led a team of project management professionals in delivering the annual ICT Program of Work. I had responsibility for working closely with executive.
• A transformational program of work phased over 5 years to deliver enhanced business capabilities and modern technologies to replace legacy systems for the Brisbane City Council Development Services and Workforce.
• A three-year Spatial Enablement Program to implement critical changes that ensured the availability, reliability of Council’s spatial platforms in the cloud. These spatial platforms supported business operations and.
• Flood Information Online Replacement Solution
• New Urban Growth Model for Brisbane

Brisbane

12 months: Undertaking program recovery services on a Local Government Systems Replacement program, focusing on a redesign and uplift of core Program Governance and a heightened Risk Management methodology. I uplifted risk capability for all delivery roles through hands on training and coaching services and supported the governance groups in executing.

Brisbane, Australia

Reporting to the Manager of City Parklands, I was engaged on a part time short term contract to analyse operations and implement change to increase operational maturity. Highly effective stakeholder engagement and communications skills were required in order to be successful because of the diversification of corporate stakeholders and interested parties..

Brisbane, Australia

Dec 2011 – May 2014 andJan-2010 – Nov-2010Leading and promoting project management methodologies, tools and processes that support the successful delivery of the ICT Program of Work. Ensure that the frameworks are fit for purpose, accessible and maintained. Aligning closely to Council policies, strategies and architecture standards, while not imposing an.

Brisbane Area, Australia

Reporting to the ICT Portfolio Delivery Manager, the ICT Minor Works Program Manager was engaged to develop a repeatable and consistent method of delivering Level 2 ICT changes to Council (ie. low risk, low complexity and low cost requests). This was to be achieved by understanding Council’s PM2 (project management methodology then adapting and connecting.

Brisbane Area, Australia

OPERATIONS MANAGER 2004 - 2008Reporting to the CIO/CFO Karen was accountable for the strategic direction, leadership and effectiveness of technology within the region - including voice and data communications, LAN and WAN administration, desktop computing, midrange computing, mainframe computing, SAP administration, security, web application hosting and.

Adelaide

ABS provide Point-of-Sale and Business Management software to customers in Australia and New Zealand - specialising in supermarket, convenience, department and hardware stores. Reporting to the Managing Director, Karen performed various roles throughout the twelve years, including management of the administration and finance team, management of the.

Certified Safe 5 Scrum Master

Safe 5.1 Product Owner/Product Manager

Leading Safe 5.1

Management Of Portfolio (Mop) Practitioner, Project Management

Masters In Project Management

Itil V3 Foundations

Prince2 Foundations

Post Graduate, Management

Diploma, Management

o Certificate IV in First Line Management o Certificate IV in Management o Diploma in Management

Certified Internet Web Master

Matriculation