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Canberra, Australia

Managing and supporting project delivery, mentoring staff and improving business processes.

Canberra, Australia

Canberra, Australia

Managing ICT Project delivery, mentoring staff and improving business processes.

Canberra

Responsibilities/Achievements:Assess new business opportunities, conduct feasibility assessments of land and development options.Provide consultation and review of plans for land and building developments.Review and support mitigation options.

Canberra, Australia

Independent FMA agency that administers the Renewable Energy Target, including the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target and the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme.Responsibilities/Achievements:Worked with, supported and mentored project managers and associated stakeholders to set up program release management within the agency.Commenced monitoring and reporting on program and project inter dependencies - included check and verification of project status reports, and ensured required assurance activities performed as required.Prepared program status reports as required.Supported the resolution of program / project risks and issues when required.

Canberra, Australia

Australian government department with a diverse portfolio responsible for managing migration, humanitarian and citizenship policy and programs; and responsibility for Australia’s border management.Responsibilities:Worked in the Business Transformation Services Division (BTSD) to provide program release management - included negotiating and setting high level program release schedules and release co-ordination for a Systems for People program of work and Change Release programs of work.Managed all program monitoring, project inter dependencies, ratified programs of work within a release; managed project risk and delivery issues; prepared program status reports.Achievements Successfully turned around troubled projects as well as delivering several legislative projects well under budget and time estimate - e.g. Super yacht Crew Visa project (estimated at $1.5 M, delivered for $0.58 M in five months); Enforcement Visa project (estimated at $0.9 M delivered for $0.38 M in four months); Student One Stage Permission to Work project delivered all business requirements for .34m.Worked with the business to identify faster, more agile solutions to problems on several occasions - e.g. Student Visa Project initially requested an online password reset facility on top of legislative changes. Since password reset was a ‘whole of government major project’ and not funded in this project, I worked closely with the business, and reviewed architecture to identify an alternative which to achieved the desired login outcome while meeting security requirements. Achieved an increase in student logins from 200 to more than 1000 per week - with no major redevelopment required. Also reduced the need for clients to visit state and regional shop fronts saving money.Assisted with redefining program release management processes which significantly improved tracking and visibility, and minimised/simplified project artefact reporting and tracking.

Canberra, Australia

Responsibilities:Provided project management advice, as well as mentoring and support for Systems for People projects - Image Acquisition and Processing within IT Services and Security Division, Information Services Branch, Records and Information Governance Services.Provided project management mentoring and support for compliance area projects within the Strategic Policy Group, Program Services Office.Participated in Program Service Office Operational meetings and business planning workshops; provided PM and general support.Achievements:Successfully delivered several projects under budget and within tight time constraints - included Health Initiatives Projects, Super Yacht Crew Visa, Enforcement Visa, Student One Stage Permission to Work, and other smaller projects.Supported delivery of projects including PALM014 - Bridging Visa E (BVE) Task force; PALM023 - Compliance MSI Review; and PALM072 – Regional Compliance Capacity. Improved quality assurance and reporting from BVE task force.Performed a high level stock take of all DIAC Migration Series Instructions (MSIs) establishing ownership and status. Produced a detailed report, ‘Analysis of DIAC position with regard to the Palmer Rec 7.2’ and provided to all Division for review and comment.

Canberra, Australia

Australian government department responsible for public health, health promotion, disease prevention, medical research, therapeutic goods regulation, national drug abuse, and services for the aged.Responsibilities/Achievements:Contracted to Strategic Management Branch (SMB), Program Management & Information Solutions Section to make improvements in program management through improved governance models, monitoring and project management.Reviewed and improved several processes - included accrual costing to record/monitor project financials; project issue and risk tracking and recording; project status reporting to improve visibility and management.Prepared COO capital funding submissions.Prepared Request For Advise (RFA), seeking technology group web service capacity assessment.Participated in Branch planning workshop - prepared next 12 month work plan and 3 year (rolling plan).

Canberra, Australia

Established to deliver more efficient and quality Whole-of-Government services across the ACT Public Service.Responsibilities/Achievements:Successfully delivered 30+ IT infrastructure related projects - managing large numbers of projects concurrently (over 15) for seven different government departments - included major business relocations, IT application and hardware implementations.Implemented Citrix Form and Secure Access Gateway to provide ACT whole of Government use.Built a project time track tracking and reporting sheet that facilitated cost effective management of concurrent projects and billing.Provide a range of Project Management services; taking projects from initiation briefs through to completion certificates. Responsible for project estimates, proposals, scheduling and status reports, manage client relationships, purchase of IT and communications equipment, resources (internal and external) to deliver project outcomes.

Canberra, Australia

Department focused on people and the services they may need at different stages of their lives.Responsibilities/Achievements:Provide leadership, support and business analysis skills to the Web Content Management System Project team; as well as process management support to the Enterprise eSolutions group to facilitate development of appropriate practical business processes.Founded Technical and Business staff development forums and actively participated in the PM forum.

Canberra Area, Australia

The Commonwealth Government's main revenue collector, and the statutory authority responsible for the administration of Australia's taxation system.Responsibilities/Achievements:Contracted for various projects throughout this period to manage and lead CP2 development and production support teams - successfully delivered corporate outcomes in the form of new government initiatives, major and minor maintenance releases. Made continuous business improvements, though involvement in the Planning Portfolio, Communication Portfolio, Business Analysis Forum, Leadership Groups and other activities.Delivered a Generic Accounting System to support superannuation business (and reduce seven separate accounting systems to one, reference data driven system).Developed and maintained a number of project monitoring registers, i.e. a high-level risk register, project register and monitored new work candidates.Assisted in merging six teams into one large system support team and created sustainable processes.Assisted in strategic planning and development of a range of Infrastructure Business Plans.Developed numerous metrics and information mechanisms to support day-to-day operations.Represented my teams/group at user groups, Business System forums and other forums as required.Set up maintenance defect tracking and prioritisation system to enable effective system maintenance work to be delivered in a timely and effective manner.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Deputy Delivery Manager to assist with Project Management coordination across 3 Y2K projects (in the United States of America).Team Leader for Data Conversion software project for a Health Insurance Company (in the USA).