Nathan Hennessy Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Australia

Accountable for the end to end delivery of solutions across Finance systems, cloud web site hosting and Citrix solutions for international staff access to Lion business systems:Responsibilities:· Management of projects within the Group portfolio using internal technical teams and external vendors in alignment with the Lion IT Project delivery methodology;· Delivery of remote application access and network connectivity solutions for the NextGen program for Enterprise Services and IT;· Manage the expectations of senior business stakeholders to ensure timely decisions and change control across the program;· Manage the end to end procurement process including defining the procurement strategy, competitive bidding, vendor assessments and legal approvals;• Negotiation of outage windows for business impacting changes and upgrades; • Organisational change management and Service Transition to Operations for all products to business users and support organisations through structured technical and business change management;

Accountable for the end to end delivery of a portfolio of projects covering gaming, hospitality and food and beverage environments across 3 casino properties and hotels:Responsibilities:• Management of the IT infrastructure portfolio using internal technical teams and external vendors in alignment with the Echo IT Project delivery methodology;• Special project delivery including SalesLogix and Unica CRM system upgrades, Analog to Digital CCTV transition; • Managing the Project Steering Committee of senior business stakeholders to ensure timely decisions and change control across the program;• Project cost/benefit analysis, business case development, approvals and execution;• Manage the end to end procurement process including defining the procurement strategy, competitive bidding, vendor assessments and legal approvals;• Commercial negotiation between multiple vendors in accordance with stated business requirements; • Negotiation of outage windows for business impacting changes and upgrades; • Operational transition of all products to business users and support organisations through structured technical and business change management;

Sydney

Managed the Cloud Transition Program for GPT including the migration of business systems and applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud based infrastructure:Responsibilities:• Project Management of the program of work in alignment with the GPT Project Delivery Framework;• Accountable for the delivery of system, data and business changes required to support the migration of GPT business systems to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform;• Managing the monthly Project Control Group of senior business stakeholders including the CIO, CFO and Heads of Risk and Legal to ensure timely decisions and change control across the program;• Management of a team of solution architect and technical engineers to deliver high level, detailed design, proof of concept and establishment of the Cloud infrastructure platform in AWS using the Agile methodology;• Maintained integrity and security of corporate data during the transition to cloud services by ensuring the new cloud services have an appropriate security model and controls in place;• Managed the design, planning and execution of business critical applications migrations to AWS and email migration to Office365;• Managed the design and transition of core network infrastructure and WAN connectivity for 20 GPT assets to a new service provider.

Brisbane, Australia

Managing a project portfolio of enterprise and site based capital projects across BMC offices and Coal Mine sites including:• Ensure project delivery compliance with BHP Billiton Charter and the BHP Billiton Code of Business Conduct• Project execution performed in accordance with relevant HSEC legislation with a proactive approach to HSEC management • Promote the application of BHPB & IM governance policies, standards and procedures.• Manage the implementation of Production and Enterprise systems and infrastructure. • Provide governance of the IM program of work ensuring compliance requirements are met and relevant project governance forums are operated.• Establish and ensure compliance to an agreed IM projects methodology• Provide management reporting of IM program of work• Facilitate the transition of projects into Operations.• Maintain knowledge and promote optimal usage of BMC's applications, ensuring alignment with BMC’s applications and infrastructure strategy.• Establish and manage effective relationships with the all stakeholder of the systems and infrastructure deployed to ensure appropriate ongoing benefits realization and support.

Management of a portfolio of enterprise and site based technology projects for Bluescope Steel, Illawarra Coal, CSC Australia, BMA and BMC Coal including:• Fuel Management Information system definition, implementation and business process integration.• Data Centre migration within planned outage schedule with no production impact. Project involved new technology, critically short and constantly changing cutover windows, multiple vendors, negotiation wiht difficult mining stakeholders etc.• Establishment of BHP IT services at new remote office locations.• Work supervision of contractors at BMA and BMC mine sites to ensure the safe execution of all project deliverables.• Engagement with stakeholders from all levels of the business to ensure project success.• IT Security Transformation projects.• T&M infrastructure projects in line with organizational standard practices and ITIL processes in a 24x7 production environment.• Managing IT projects for critical customer plant maintenance days.• IT Server Audit Log Assurance and Backup Migration Projects.• New business proposal management.• Implementation of new services for customer application and infrastructure deployment, process development and service desk readiness.• Implementation of desktop vendor transition including hardware verification, procurement and supporting processes.• Delivery of network design and strategic roadmap projects.

• Managing New Zealand based Next Generation Network (NGN) projects for TNZ Voice migration program including: • Delivery of Sales and orders exceeding $10M• Tendering and bid management• Stakeholder requirements and expectation management.• Project Scope negotiation and definition. • Customer solution feasibility studies.• Project scheduling for multiple projects and deliverables.• Resource requirements definition, procurement and utilisation.• Management of procurement activities including supply chain and logistics for on time delivery of project resources.• Management of third party sub-contractors including statement of works definition, negotiation and supervision.• Management of Software development, Test and production projects.• Management of site infrastructure and building projects.• Budget estimating, cost tracking and control.• Risk management• Project team and stakeholder communications management.• Human resource management including headcount requirements and training.

Sydney Area, Australia

Software Verification Manager - Alcatel Australia Ltd - Sept 2000 – Jan 2004Test Project Supervisor - Alcatel Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia - Jan 2000 - Sept 2000System Verification Tester - Alcatel Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia - May 1998 - Dec 1999Customer Support Assistant (Call Centre) Alcatel Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia - May 1996 – April 1998Hardware Technical Support Alcatel Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia - September 1995 - May 1996Manufacturing Production Line Supervisor Alcatel Australia Ltd, Sydney, Australia - February 1995 - September 1995