Rakesh Advani Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Leadership of the Portfolio delivery function including Project Management Office (PMO), Program Management, Business Analyst, Change and Security teams to fund and deliver major initiatives.
• Management and delivery of Strategic Portfolio valued at $180m.
• Alignment and prioritisation of portfolio in line with Strategy.
• Definition of an PMO framework including portfolio/ program/ project management, financial management, planning, resource estimations, benefits realisation, requirements analysis and change.
• C level executive and senior stakeholder engagement & reporting.
• Organisational Change Management & Service Transition to ensure effective delivery, quality assurance, change control and post implementation reviews.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Leadership of the global planning function including Project Management Office (PMO), Process development, finance and Program Management teams to establish, fund major change programs and projects
• Ownership & management of global Capital and related Operational (CAPEX and OPEX) expenditure budgets across all technology units of ~180M USD.
• Project Director of global Cloud transformation project including strategy, design and transition of workloads
• Global leadership of PMO processes including program management, definition and uplift of PMO processes, planning, resource estimations and priority definition.
• Delivery of complex transformational technology initiatives within a cross-functional matrix environment following best practice methodologies including Agile, Prince2, Waterfall and DevOps
• Leadership of transformation and change initiatives including continuous improvement of budgeting, policy, process, staff retention/ satisfaction, governance and risk functions

Melbourne, Australia

• Leadership of the Planning & Delivery group including Project Management Office (PMO), Process development, Solution Architecture, DevOps and 6 infrastructure technical teams to fund and deliver major change programs.
• Project Director of global Cloud transformation project including strategy, design, transition of on prem workloads to Cloud.
• Ownership of global capital and related operational (CAPEX and OPEX) expenditure budget of 50M.
• Definition of Global PMO framework including program/ project management, planning, resource estimation and priority definition processes.
• Delivery of complex technology initiatives within a cross-functional matrix environment following best practice methodologies including Agile, Prince2, Waterfall and DevOps methodologies.
• C level executive and senior stakeholder engagement & reporting

Melbourne, Australia

• Leadership of the PMO and Transformation teams.
• Delivery of complex technology & business initiatives within a cross-functional matrix environment in line with organisational and departmental strategies.
• C level business stakeholder engagement & reporting.
• Organisational Change Management to ensure effective delivery, inclusive of resource management, stakeholder engagement and facilitation of project activities.
• Overarching management of Incident, Change & Problems for Planning & Delivery teams.
• Management of regulatory, audit and compliance activities

Melbourne, Australia

• Leadership of the Consulting team including Business Analysts, Project Managers and solution architects.
• Management of numerous & concurrent customer facing engagements including business/ technology transformation, process engineering and maturity development initiatives
• Engagement lead across all consulting projects to ensure quality, customer satisfaction, scope and contract compliance
• Full cycle involvement including Pre-sales/ sales, Planning and Execution
• Line management, leadership and mentoring of resources
• Executive reporting on team health, Quality of Service and profitability

• Management of numerous & concurrent customer facing engagements including business/ technology transformation, process engineering, strategy development and maturity development initiatives
• Engagement lead across all consulting projects to ensure quality, customer satisfaction, scope and contract compliance
• Full cycle involvement including Pre-sales/ sales, Planning and Execution
• Line management, leadership and mentoring of resources
• Executive reporting on team health, Quality of Service and profitability
• Development of institutional governance frameworks including the creation of business and technical policy, procedure and work instruction documents

Melbourne, Australia

• Broad consulting exposure to Point Of Sale, Merchandise Budgeting, Warehouse Operations, Supply Chain Management and Store Management
• Business Analysis and Project Management
• Data migration from legacy systems to the new environment, including the development, testing and execution of migration scripts into test and production systems
• Pre-sales activities including product demos and development of tender documents
• Planning and performing software installations/ upgrades
• End user training and post implementation support

Melbourne, Australia

• Primary support for 3 mission critical systems – Sportsbet (fixed odds betting), Trackside (Simulated fixed odds horse racing) and MISER (Reporting tool)
• Management of all problems, incidents, changes, and service outages
• Reporting on application health and sales trends