Patrick Berry Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, Sa, Au

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• Day to day management of team jobs and objectives• Managing a multi-disciplinary team of professional engineers• Escalation management• Resource planning• Managing business skill requirementsAchievements:• Updating service procedures• Centralising and standardising documentation• Improved reporting and team accountability

Adelaide, Australia

Short term contract role ending in October 2015.Responsible for:• Day to day maintenance of local IT systems• Coordination of IT support activities• Ensure systems are operationalAchievements:• Establishing document control process• Setting up SharePoint environment for document control• Setting up shared document repository across locations

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• Managing the Support team• Ensure systems are operational• Ensure disaster recovery procedures are up to date and functional• Manage the budget for the IT department• Implement IT projectsAchievements:• Relocating the business on time and on budget• Designed and implemented a high tech training room• Commissioned a video conferencing solution across three sites• Commissioned a telephony system across the business, including multiple call queues• Updated the reporting to a more statistically accurate model• Upgraded switching and security equipment to the industry standard• Consolidated reporting of IT from information from a single source• Instigate training based on team skill gaps• Scoped, and implemented a SharePoint installation on time and on budget• Improved other departments reporting with automation scripts• Set up a Document Repository for Policies, Procedures, and Forms• Implemented process to use the document repository• Implemented IT policies and procedures based on the Medicare Local Accreditation Standards

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• IT Development and Management• IT Business Analysis for Strategic Projects• Innovate and Improve business process• IT Policy and Procedures• Managing the outsourced IT supportAchievements:• Completed studies based on sound engineering principles for the down selection of the Electronic Medical Record system• Organised and conducted reviews of potential solutions with vendors and stakeholders• Improved reporting accuracy by using improved statistics and increasing sample size

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• Managing operational and capital budget• Managing the IT team• Instigating training activities• Managing projects• Providing IT solutionsAchievements:• Increasing the efficiency of the team• Instigating training programmes based on gap analysis• Improving the reporting of the team• Updating documentation of key IT functions• Analysis of IT tickets to better allocate resources• Sound management of Capital and Operational budgets• Successful implementation of a new gaming system• Successful upgrade of heavily IT reliant gaming.• Commissioned systems that were crucial to product delivery

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• Technical leadership for projects• Participating in process audits and process improvement• Gathering needs, generating requirements, writing test procedures• Organising formal testing at remote sites• Project close out including physical configuration audits• Deputy design authority for hardware changes across the businessAchievements:• Part of successful teams delivering results to the project sponsor• Successful audited for following internal processes by our internal auditors, which in turn contributed to the company’s auditors• Managed a team of up to 10 hardware and systems engineers• Designed innovative engineering solutions

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for:• Requirements gathering and needs analysis• Updating requirements / software / tests for product updatesAchievements:• Successful User Acceptance Testing on customer’s premises (South African Air Force Base) during difficult circumstances• Joined the Configuration Control Board reviewing design and code changes

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Responsible for:• Managing resources for field support of satellite communications of Swedish embassies in Africa and AsiaAchievements:• Implemented a DR solution for the paging system• Implemented trouble shooting guides for Swedish users• Implemented procedures to make support more repeatable

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible For:• Integrating and testing certain applications of the software suite on to the Australian Army’s Standard Operating Environment• Providing advice to software teams on consistence approaches to the testing methodsAchievements:• Introduced automation techniques for some of the regression testing• Instigated the practice of the integration team joining the software team meetings to be better informed of issues, areas of coding concern, and timing of testing activities• Implemented automation and scripting of lab setup and tear down

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible For:• Needs gathering, requirements writing, design, coding, reviews, and testingAchievements:• Successful delivery of software products with ongoing support • Deployed to work in client premises in DSTO Adelaide and Sydney (HMAS Watson).• Managed a small team of developers

Graduate Diploma Of Systems Engineering, Business Analyst, Gpa 6.0

The course work involved the various aspects of Business Analysis, gathering stakeholder needs, turning them into requirements, building.

Masters, Information Technology And Telecommunications

A masters degree in 5 years which included credit from the 3 years of the Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering.

Bachelor, Electronic Engineering

3 years of the 4 year bachelors degree.

High School Certificate