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A highly motivated, results-focused IT professional more than 20 years of project management experience. Successfully delivered a wide range of projects, with a recent focus on software development and systems deployment.Also has experience managing a data centre team responsible for day to day operations of a broad range of technologies while supporting enterprise software project delivery. Worked within project delivery team to improve service management capability to ensure application deployment aligns to service management best practices. Possess strong leadership and successful team building capabilities and excellent technical, communication, presentation, and customer service skills. Resourceful problem solver with proven ability to work collaboratively on challenging projects to achieve desired outcomes as well as build lasting relationships with vendors and customers. Key Achievements• Successfully deployed, configured tested and commissioned three clinical applications into the SJOG Midland Public and Private Hospital • Significantly improved service transition capability of project delivery team resulting in a marked reduction of post deployment incidents• Established disaster recovery capability for critical business information systems across multiple business units, with delegated resources• Successfully relocated a disaster recovery data centre with zero unplanned disruption to operations. This included installation of infrastructure at target location and relocation of servers, storage arrays, networking equipment and tape backup systems• Participated in a multinational email migration project with responsibility for the Australian component of the project• Successfully implemented a multisite access control solution from concept to close-out using RFID and biometric scanning technology to track the movement and manage the access of approximately 8000 staff and contract employees• Obtained Prince2, ITIL and Agile certification