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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Leading a team of delivery specialists and business analysists in the Business Agility practice while also managing overall project responsibilities for various customers as an Accenture Delivery Lead

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Delivery Lead for the Flex card program in the Payments Centre of Excellence.Responsibilities• Ensuring planned agile ceremonies are taking place, running as per objective, and improving where needed.• Ensuring the Financial Reporting processes for the new Flex product are understood, any changes adopted and approved by all impacted parties. • Ensuring all key approval and regulatory processes for the new Flex product were followed and approval to go live obtained.• Tracking and maintain all Project details in Confluence/Jira - Scope / Risk / Backlog / Issues / Change requests etc • Managing all BPIV tasks and approvals across the lifetime of the program across all impacted systems.• Managing the Flex Product Pilot program and subsequent go live to public.• Build and maintain strong relationships with all key stakeholders from the Programs key areas - Servicing, Originations, Technology, Go to Market and Delivery,• Helping coach other teams and team members in Agile techniques as some were in their first agile project, and helping others refine their existing agile skills

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Business and Technology lead features for Westpac’s Regional Banking Brands Internet and Mobile banking platforms via the RBB Explorer Agile Release Train.• Lead, coach and motivate multiple feature(scrum) teams, technical teams, UX, PO and support team members both in Sydney and offshore in India (Mumbai, Hyderabad and Noida).• Senior Stakeholder management via regular agile ceremonies, meetings, digital communications, and face to face contact.• Continuous improvement via regular Retrospectives, reviews, town halls, Kaizen workshops, surveys, and ongoing agile coaching.• Monitoring and maintaining Team Health via regular team health check surveys, team bonding agile ceremonies, team celebrations and forums. And by working alongside the Trains RTE and other technical partners to ensure smooth day to day operations and open communications are maintained.• 12/6/3 month rolling forecasting – consistently reviewing multiple bank programs, funding streams and train continuous improvement programs through strong relationships with the Program Directors and vision of various Westpac budgets to forecast train backlog levels to ensure correct resourcing levels are maintained • Ongoing feature backlog management through regular sync, grooming and prioritisation sessions with Senior stakeholders (GM and HO level) to ensure delivery is aligned with program vision and targets.• Planning, Delivery and Facilitation of Program Increment Planning events (PIP) – I have successfully delivered 26 quarterly PIP events for approx. 140-180 attendees across multiple locations both externally, in house and totally remote. • Consulted and assisted in several other ART’s events and ceremonies and structures within Westpac• Drive cross release train synchronisation with other Westpac bank ARTs• Manage ART funding and cost recovery initiatives. • Attend and assist in co-ordination of and perform testing during platform implementations and roll outs.

Chippendale Nsw Australia

The digital (web/app) project life cycle, from UX to Design through to build planning, functional implementation, content strategies and migration, to go live.Lead, manage and motivate a team of designers, user experience architects and developers (contractors and full time staff, both locally and OS) to deliver high profile projects.Resource management – Including contractor recruitment and ongoing management both in Australia and Overseas.Work with the Sales team to develop proposals, estimates, project scoping and timelines.Manage various clients from large corporate, SME's and not for profit organisations.Provide actual forecast reporting on all project and ongoing work.Manage risk and issues, mitigation planning and documentation.Scrum Master/Agile coach – ensure all projects are run in the Agile Scrum methodology and assist team members in understanding the Scrum process and their roles within it.Technical project experience with Hybrid/iOS/Android mobile platforms, Multiple Web CMS platforms – Adobe AEM, Sitecore, Squiz Matrix, DrupalSocial committee member

Sydney Nsw

My current day to day at Squiz revolves around the following areas: > The Web project life cycle, from UX to Design through to build planning, functional implementation, content strategies and migration, to go live. > Resource management and task allocation - I know what my team can do and how to get the best out of them. > Budget forecasting, management and reporting. > Client management - from day to day support and ongoing sales within my portfolio. Service with a Smile! > Campaign Monitor - Squiz's go to guy for anything email. > UX - not only do I know what it means I understand the processes, functions, reasoning behind it and why its is so important to a good web build. I can knock up a sweet wireframe or two as well. > WCMS - Web Content Management Systems - this is Squiz's bread and butter and what I work in daily > SEO - its not just about your Google ranking > Basic HTML and CSS - Basically I know HTML and CSS basics! > Requirements gathering (UX/Design/Build/Content), quoting and proposal creation. > Occasional office handyman - from lights to flatpacks I'll give it a crack! > Having a laugh - there's always time for a laugh

Sydney, Australia

•Managing multiple concurrent small to medium sized projects and complex client change requests from planning through to completion.•Resource management of various development teams (Web, Email, Midrange, Transformation, Wintel, Imaging) solution architects, Business Analysts and Test teams.•Reporting, budgeting and financial management. •Solution design, quoting and proposal creation and delivery.•Mentoring for a group of junior project managers and analysts – offering support, direction, and guidance on solutions and methodologies.•External stakeholder and 3rd party vendor management.

Current account portfolio includes two tier 1 clients in American Express and Optus/VMA. Services provided are: Print and Mail processing, Scanning, DM, Data Archival, Payment Processing. Generation of strategic account management plans to meet budget expectations, drive growth, generate and convert new business opportunities.Developing solid client relationships to help generate leads and provide internal client backing and referrals to other areas of their business.Drive process re-engineering initiatives to increase revenue versus spend.

Manage and monitor a portfolio of projects for American Express through the entire project life cycle using PMBOK methodologies. To resource and manage, the implementation of new clients and products (On Demand Archive, EBPP-BpayView, Fax/Email/SMS delivery, Stream Serve).To lead significant process, platform, system or technology change programs involving key clients.

To resource and manage, the implementation of new clients and products into production and online systems.Work with the Strategic Account Management teams to prepare and present corporate level tenders, RFI’s, SOW’s and PRI’s. To lead significant platform, system or technology change programs as required involving key clients.

Adv. Diploma Of Business Management, Business Management

High School Certificate, Computer Science