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Nsw

AI influenced Agile & Lean coaching and mentoring. Focus is on 'Learn by Doing'.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Help create a shared understanding that puts technology at the core of business strategy.

Systems thinking when applied to government is required before Agile and Lean approaches can succeed. Applying systems thinking before implementing agile and lean may make possible enduring and effective change. Without it, the best you can hope for is success at the program or project level.

Canberra, Australia

Introducing agile principles and practices to the Department by helping coach an agile team on an exciting new project and recommending a number of experiments to help manage dependencies between projects and improve portfolio planning.

Canberra, Australia

Currently working with IntegrationQA to help the Technology Delivery Uplift program provide agile and lean coaching to a number of teams across the Department. My work includes helping a team working on a cross-agency first pass business case complete a value stream map for key export industries as part of the agile/lean coaching I am doing.

Tuggeranong, Act

Supporting the Child Care Subsidy team in implementing a single subsidy payment to families that is enabled by an effective, easy to use integrated IT systems. My work focuses on:• Assisting the teams in working more effectively by implementing appropriate Agile & Lean practices• Identifying options to stop doing work that provides little business value• Helping the teams to remove blockers

Canberra, Australia

Responsible for managing two projects including a Proof of Concept Office 365 projectAchievements:• Actively contributing Agile insights to the IT teams at Austrade• Recommending to the CIO the use of a Kanban Sandwich approach to manage the total Austrade Portfolio spend, Scrum for projects and Kanban for IT BAU • Providing Agile coaching advice and support to the IT Program Management Office including outlining a RACI for using Prince2 project boards to oversight Agile projects

Single Grants Administration Program

Responsible for managing two Scrum Teams delivering the Hub Administration Systems and Services Portal. It is a key element of the Community Grants Hub which will deliver a simpler, more consistent approach to the administration of grants across the Australian Government.I have been a successful advocate for using Scaled Professional Scrum (Nexus) to plan and manage the dependencies between the program Scrum Teams. We have been adopting Nexus incrementally with the aim of taking a rolling three-month window approach to manage dependencies at the feature and user story level.

Since successfully implementing the Departmental CRM using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Agile/Scrum I helped establish a Scaled Professional Scrum (Nexus) based integration team to support and continue development of the business.gov.au website and related Departmental websites. The Nexus framework provides a way to ensure that professionally managed scrum teams can work from the same Product Backlog list.

Canberra, Australia

My work included leading the development of a new Prince2 / Agile approach to deliver the Single Business Profile project using Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The CRM went to production after 4 months all AusIndustry staff have been trained with the take-up significantly higher than anticipated. The development team was managed using Scrum with four weekly releases to production. The team provided training, support and change management services and provided a two sprint handover to the Department's CRM capability team where they shadowed the development team for a sprint before taking the lead for the final sprint in the project. The capability team are now using the Scrum processes developed for the project to manage the CRM product backlog list ensuring that development continues.It was a great project to work on as it has required working out the touch points between the Project Board and the scrum development team and was a very successful example of using an Agile approach to using Prince2 to manage a fully Agile/Scrum project.

Logisitics Systems Branch, Joint Logistics Command

Responsible for the development and implementation of the Logistics Systems Governance Framework at the Department of Defence

Department Of Defence Of Australia

Lead the Requirements team in the Directorate of Logistics Information Systems Management, Strategic Logistics Branch, Joint Logistics Command. Coordinated the development of a LIS Governance Framework and used an agile delivery framework to develop a SharePoint based workflow for managing the on-boarding process of new Logistics ICT systems within Defence.

Working as a Technical Project Manager at the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) has involved working closely with the business to develop the business case and initial analysis and design work for a four year, $50 million business transformation project. My work has involved managing a blended team of DVA subject matter experts, DVA staff and contractors and Curam developers and business analysts. We developed a Proof of Concept which demonstrated that a client focused tri-Act system could be developed for the Rehabilitation and Compensation program at DVA. The second component of my work has to be develop and provide cost estimates for the ICT components of the business case.

Working at Daon I was the Technical Project Manger and Team Lead for the Professional Services Team for Daon Australia. I managed all the biometric projects that Daon was undertaking with government agencies in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. The biometric solutions that Daon provide are specialised applications that are designed to work with large populations of people with our largest client requiring a solution for five million people. My work included managing two large projects and three to four smaller projects concurrently. During 2011 I managed the Daon team that implemented the Biometric Refresh for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. This work involved doubling the capacity of the system, upgrading the Daon Engine, data migration from DB2 to Oracle.In 2010-11 I managed the delivery of the New Zealand Department of Labor biometrics research and development using Agile/Scrum. Using Scrum enabled us to re-prioritise the key deliverables based on the feedback from the Department's Product Owner. The flexibility that Scrum provides resulted in much more targeted outcomes than were outlined in the original Statement of Work.

VRM Knowledge provided consultancy advice including preparing business cases in the local government and health sector for using broadband communications as an enabler for improving service delivery.Contracted to prepare local government and health sector ICT business cases based on shared service models, broadband enabled regional health services, and whole of state approaches to improved service delivery using a combination of broadband enabled services.

Australian Local Government Association (position funded by Department of Communications and the Arts). In this position I represented local government on the National Broadband Strategy Implementation Group (cross-sectoral committee established by the Online and Communications Council. My work included preparing a report which highlighted the innovative approaches councils across Australia had taken when supporting the deployment and effective use of broadband in their regions.

• Established and managed the Local Government Interoperability Framework program• Project Manager of the Local Government Interoperability Framework program and oversaw fifteen projects undertaken nationally to enable local government to improve its ability to provide shared services within local government and with other levels of government• ALGA representative of important cross-jurisdictional ICT committees including Online and Communication Council Officials Committee and the National Broadband Strategy Implementation Group• Contracted by the Australian Government Information Management Office to research and write the Better Rural Service Report