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South Melbourne, Vic, Au

Pleasanton, California, Us

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

Fortitude Valley, Qld, Au

TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) is Australia’s largest enterprise software company and one of Australia’s top 200 ASX-listed companies, with offices across six countries. We create solutions that transform business and make life simple for our customers. We do this by providing powerful, deeply integrated enterprise software that is incredibly easy to use. Over 1,000 leading corporations, government departments and statutory authorities are powered by our software.* First to manage go live on the new TechnologyOne platform for local government;* Implementation of all TechnologyOne modules (except Student Management) across all levels of government, healthcare, corporates, asset and project intensive industries; * Delivering the project to agreed scope, to plan and budget;* Building trusted relationships with the customer;* Booking resources early in the project and have the capability (trained) to deliver the require activity;* Ensure the consultants are fully briefed before engaging with the customer;* Proactively manage the risks and issues and ensure timely resolutions;* Providing timely, continual and effective communication to the customer;* Implemented the following modules Property and Rating, Enterprise Asset Management, Strategic Asset Management, Enterprise Content Management (Document Management), GIS/Spatial, Financials, Enterprise Budgeting, SCM, Enterprise Cash Receipting, HRP, Stakeholder Management, Grants, Performance Planning and Corporate Performance Management;* Engaging across the TechnologyOne business (Consulting, Solutions, AMS, Cloud and R&D) to achieve the right outcomes;* Rapid escalation of issues and ownership of the resolution;* Providing regular and accurate status reporting;* Ensuring consultants submit timesheets in a timely manor to enable financial control of the project; and* Act as a coach and mentor to the project team.Note: Break in employment from March - June 2018

Implementing SAP SuccessFactors across the business.

Lightwater, Surrey, Gb

* Project management of HRIS implementations and other projects across the Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, UK and Papua New Guinea with a wide range of industry sectors with company populations of from 100 to 13,000 weekly paid staff;* Extensive whole-life HRIS and payroll project implementation experience; * Management of multiple concurrent projects at various project life stages;* Consultant team overview, monitoring and mentoring;* ISO quality outputs; * Producing all project documentation, communications and reporting for the project lifecycle;* Plan, schedule, monitor and report on the status of milestones; * Financial budgeting and reporting; and* Management all issues and escalation points.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

* Project management of Recruitment, Onboarding and Talent Management solutions for multiple clients;* Providing consultative advice on best practice for recruitment, onboarding and performance;* Producing all project documentation, communications and reporting for the project lifecycle;* Plan, schedule, monitor and report on the status of milestones; and* Management all issues and escalation points.

Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nl

* Business deployment of high profile project;* Strategically planned front office system rollout to over 1,000 users across 4 countries and over 50 offices;* Implemented change management plan across multiple divisions and locations;* Delivered full training program to sales focused user base client with minimal disruption to business as usual process; Management of full project business deployment for in-house built solution;* Managed data migration from 29 disparate systems during business deployment;* Producing all project documentation and reporting for the project lifecycle;* Plan, schedule, monitor and report on the status of milestones;* Management and delivery of project communications, issues and escalation points;* Coaching all Change Managers in roles and responsibilities; and* Manage project resource allocation.

Chicago, Il, Us

* Successfully implemented three projects in a short timeframe to clients located in Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland;* Delivered full training program to large client with strict deadlines;* Management of full project lifecycle for SAAS products from discovery through to deployment and operational handover;* Producing all project documentation and reporting for the project lifecycle; • Plan, schedule, monitor and report on the status of milestones;* Assisting in the co-ordination and management of pre-sales quoting;* Continuous liaison with clients/customers, service delivery and key stakeholders to inform on project status and risks; and* Manage project resource allocation.

Mascot, Nsw, Au

*Promoted from Senior Business Analyst;*Successful implementation of the Loyalty IT programs delivered on 1st July 2008 involving multiple web applications, CRM, back-end * systems and data warehouse enhancements;* Delivery of a staged IT implementation strategy and plan collaborating with multiple vendors and business units to ensure successful implementation of solutions;* Collaborated with vendors and Subject Matter Experts to identify implementation strategy, objectives and goals;* Managed technical implementations and integration with third-party software;* Developed and managed post implementation and BETA testing phrases;* Delivered IT Change Management and Release Management Plans; and* Collected and documented functional and non-functional business requirements for the Web Portal project, as well as investigated and documented technology options.

Macquarie Park, Nsw, Au

* Promoted from Business Process Analyst;* Business Deployment Manager on the company's largest ever transformation program from online and telephone sales through to order fulfilment, billing and data migration; managing scope, deliverables, scheduling, call centre management and IVR, capacity management, traffic handling and overall stream view of the program;* Developed the Business Readiness Test (BRT) Strategy, BRT Detailed Plan and Business/IT Deployment Plans, aligning to the Data Migration Plan; and* Planned and managed post implementation testing phases delivering requirements test matrix, test plans, test cases and scripts using various test tools.

Macquarie Park, Nsw, Au

* Designed, developed and managed post implementation and BRT phases of the Optus Online Shop program releases, as well as end-to-end process delivery for the program;* Drive and deliver end-to-end process initiatives through managing and partnering the business in analysis, diagnosis, design/re-engineering, implementation and control according to efficiency and customer satisfaction requirements;* Manage virtual teams of business representatives to produce the required deliverables for process initiatives. Conduct interviews and workshops with key stakeholders to translate process requirements into system specification requirements;* Ensure new processes are communicated to relevant parties and stakeholders retain business ownership from concept through to implementation and review;* Project manage solution requirements in order to deliver process efficiencies; and* Review new processes on implementation to ensure strategic objectives are being met and redesign as required to ensure limitations are minimised.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

* Delivered the Project Scope, Project Schedule and Project Management Plan for the Taxation Information Management (TIM) program;* Developed new status reports for the TIM program, whereby coordinating and delivering all project status reports for the program on a weekly and monthly basis;* Preparation of weekly and monthly project and financial reports for senior management;* Resource planning, management and reporting; and* Staff training and development of project tools and methodology.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

* Rolled out new reports for Wealth Management financial reporting;* Developed and implemented customised training program for Financial Accountants/ Analysts;* Preparation of weekly, monthly and quarterly project status and financial reports for program and senior management;* Designed and developed the Wealth Management specific project management methodology, tools and templates;* Maintenance of project management tools/templates and any guidelines managed by the Wealth Management Project Office;* Administration and maintenance of project schedules in Primavera and payroll management using CHRIS; and* Process mapping for various projects, in particular the Unit Pricing project taxation component.

Sydney Cbd, New South Wales, Au

* Delivered new project management methodology to CIO Group and related business units within 3 months;* Development and maintenance of the Project Delivery Framework and related processes;* Maintenance of project management tools and templates and any guidelines managed by the Business Program Office;* Project managed and delivered training in project scheduling and Microsoft Project Enterprise 2003 to over 350 staff. This also included an online training booking system and development of training materials and collateral;* Project management training and facilitation;* Ongoing training and training material development of SAP, Microsoft Project Enterprise 2003, Vignette, Documentum and related systems;* Coordination and collation of practice management processes and tools;* Creation and maintenance of the CIO and Business Program Office Intranet sites; and* Creation of ad hoc and regular reports using Microsoft Project Enterprise 2003, SAP and custom in-house reports.

Masters Of Project Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Diploma, Financial Markets

Bachelor, Computer Science

Certificate, Assessment And Workplace Training

Certificate, Information Technology (Pc/Network Support)

Diploma, Information Technology (Pc/Network Support)

Certificate, Accounting