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providing programme governance across a number of Projects

Melbourne, Australia

Project manage the implementation of Sage Intacct for Expression Australia.

Short term assignment to:- Provide the Board with recommendations regarding the replacement of their aging Salesforce system with Salesforce or Dynamics.- Undertake a review of the current ICT Managed Service Provider (MSP) and make recommendations to replace them.- Provide recommendations on an ICT Strategy.

Melbourne, Australia

Initially a short-term contract role for the Project Management of replacement Payroll, HR & Rostering systems (Sage People, Sage MicroPay & Carelink). This was extended to include additional Projects including the demerger of a subsidiary business and the implementation of an IT Governance forum. Due to an unplanned vacancy, I was asked to perform an.

Project Management of the requirement gathering, configuration and customisation of the Fred Pharmacy solution inclusive of Retail, Hospital and Finance into the Ramsay Pharmacy Group

Project Management of a contemporary Rostering, Time & Attendance system for the MFB.

Fixed term contract to manage the ICT operation of Wesley Mission while completing the Project Management of the Finance system.

Project Management of the implementation of the Technology One Finance System (OneCommunity).

Undertaking various operational reviews for the Mission on a part time pro bono basis with a focus around the Mission's ICT environment.Project Management of the implementation of a new Finance System (Technology One). This is a part time, hands-on role ensuring that the system is able to be implemented in the required time frame.

ICT consisted of 23 team members and operated with a budget approaching $6 million. The ICT function was seen to be under performing and the required synergies across the group had not been achieved.Key achievements:- Undertook a redesign and tendering process to replace 5 under-performing data centres. The tendering process resulted in a proposal to.

IT consisted of 130 team members with an operating budget of $20million and a capital budget of $4.5 million. There was also a Project portfolio budget approaching $20 million operating under a Project Management Office (PMO) to which Technology provided services.Key achievements:- Improved the relationship between Technology and the PMO which had become.

Key achievements:- Developed and gained agreement for an IT Strategy which addressed the Firms needs for the next 3 years.- Developed a Business Continuity Plan and an aligned IT Disaster Recovery Plan including a substantial investment in IT Infrastructure in order to support the Firms recovery objectives.- Reduced operational risk through the improving.

Mandate was to review the IT operation and to facilitate the improvement to a level that would be considered benchmark. The team roles, responsibilities and processes had grown organically over time rather than in a planned way. This resulted in a general lack of process, little or no knowledge of standard IT practices, no measurement or performance.

The role required me to participate as an active member of the Regional IT function, with specific responsibility to deliver IT capabilities to the Australian and New Zealand businesses. The focus was to allow the businesses to operate flexibly and uniquely within their markets. This was to be achieved while ensuring alignment to global IT standards and.

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