Senior Project Manager with 12+ years experience in the successful delivery of large IT and business projects within Wellington's public and private sectors.Specialist Project Manager experienced in working in all phases of systems implementation. Skilled in all aspects of Business Case preparation, RFP's and Procurement Processes through project planning, pricing, contract negotiation, project onboarding and startup through management of large systems integration projects.I have a deep understanding of formal procurement processes and have developed successful business cases reviewed and approved by SSC and Treasury. I enjoy building professional relationships with governance groups, business partners, and across government agencies. My project delivery expertise spans managing budgets up to $8M, executing large systems integration projects, and implementing business change.I’ve worked in large systems multi-year systems implementations in IRD, Immigration NZ and at the Department of Conservation.At DOC the major project work consisted of Embedding our SAP S4Hana Asset Management systems and processes as well as implementing a number of new enterprise applications and business change projects.
Department Of Conservation
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Senior Project ManagerDepartment Of ConservationWellington, Nz
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Senior Information Technology Project ManagerThomas Project Management Jul 2024 - Present
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Senior Project ManagerDepartment Of Conservation Feb 2015 - Jul 2024Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandEmbedding SAP - An 18 month project to complete the upgrade to SAP S4/Hana. The project's purpose was to complete 15 work packages including data migration activity, report building, bug fixing and a massive SAP training element covering the motu. The workstream also implemented KPI reporting mechanism using SAP reporting toolsets. DOC Treaty Settlements. DOC has approx 10,000 commitments to fulfill.A project to implement an improved understanding of DOCs treaty settlement obligations via an excel based 'system' holding the commitments, training and education of Treaty Settlements and principles of Te Tiriti.Mahi Oranga - Work prioritisation process.A six step work planning and prioritisation process was developed, trained and implemented across DOC's 43 districts as a means of ensuring all district staff had an understanding of their roles in planning, prioritising and execution of their work. This 'best practice' process transformed the way districts managed their increasing workloads.DOC GIS Systems move to AWS. (March - Sept 2017).All DOCs systems (Dev, Test, Prod) were transitioned to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The role required planning with the GIS specialist team of 30 and managing the technical build, testing and implementation cutover. Timefiler Time Recording Application Replacement. August 2015 - March 2017This was a critical project within DOC as it impacted all 2500 employees and their fortnightly pay. Fusion5 was contracted to deliver a technical solution and I managed all aspects of the Project from writing the business case, negotiating contracts, leading the requirements gathering, configuration and testing. The rollout required a rolling transition, region by region from the old solution to the new.Storage move to Revera SaaS. (Feb - July 2015). 70 TB Production storage, 186 Virtual Machines.The project required an internal business case, technical proof of concept and completion.
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Senior Project Manager - Fixed Term ContractInland Revenue Nz Jun 2014 - Dec 2014Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandResponsibility for the completion of a SAN storage transition project. The project consisted of a technical and release management team coordinating storage migration events in conjunction with Inland Revenue IT staff and vendors. The role required the completion of multiple vendor contracts, the coordination and planning of the migration schedule and the completion of Inland Revenue's project management processes, deliverables and reports. -
Senior Project ManagerDatacom Jun 2012 - Jun 2014WellingtonDatacom Project Manager on Immigration New Zealand's Global Management Systems (IGMS). The first phase was the development and implementation of an on-line student visa application.Responsibilities included the management of the Data security workstream ensuring compliance with NZISM controls for the first IGMS component go-live, managing the completion of the agile 'Student visa' development workstream and coordination of the systems build and deployment process. -
Senior Project Advisor/Project Manager - ContractorInland Revenue Nz May 2006 - May 2012Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandAdvisor/Project Manager for the Student Loan Redesign Project which commenced in 2006. Cap Gemini consultant then independent contractor assisting Inland Revenue with the student loan redesign business case, progressing through successful funding application, requirements and RFI/RFP processes and vendor selection.Managed the Oracle integration workstream successfully integrating with MSD/StudyLink to provide a single source of student loan account information - IR's on-line services - My Student loan. -
Manager Data Management Systems (Secondment)New Zealand Health Information Service (Nzhis) Aug 2005 - Feb 2006Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandResponsible for the management of the Data Management Operations group, primarily IT Operations of the Business Intelligence, data warehousing and reporting function within NZHIS.Managed the team of 25 staff over a period of organisational re-structuring ensuring the maintenance of high quality BI outcomes and exceeding KPI targets.
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Cap Gemini Project Manager At Acc - Oracle Advanced Collections ImplementationCap Gemini Mar 2004 - May 2005WellingtonResponsible for the management of the first NZ implementation of Oracle's Advanced Collections (debt management) application.Successfully managed 4 concurrent workstreams, multi vendor relationships and deliverables.Project attained a 4.6 of 5 OTACE (On time and above customer expectations) score in meeting planned release dates.
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Project Manager - Acc Oracle Financials ProjectCap Gemini Jan 2003 - Dec 2003WellingtonCap Gemini NZ Project Manager for the implementation of Oracle Financials in ACC. Management of multiple concurrent workstreams delivering 5 Oracle modules, development of interfaces to internal and external systems, modifications and data conversion activities.Successful implementation of multi vendor/stakeholder systems into ACC.
Peter Thomas Education Details
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Project Management InstitutePmp -
New Zealand Institute Of Chartered AccountantsAccountant Specialising In It Audit And Assurance -
Accounting And Economics
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Peter Thomas attended Project Management Institute, New Zealand Institute Of Chartered Accountants, University Of Canterbury.
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