Rob Oldfield

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Program Director at Oracle @ Oracle
redwood shores, california, united states
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Northcote, Victoria, Australia, Australia
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Rob is a versatile Agile and Waterfall IT delivery professional with an outstanding record of successful delivery across business and ICT domains. He has extensive end-to-end experience across all phases of the program and project delivery lifecycle. He combines a strong business focus with deep understanding of a broad range of technology areas. Rob has strong leadership experience, a pragmatic hands-on approach and is experienced at reporting and communicating at all levels (up to 0-1). In recent times, he has managed major initiatives in telecommunications & finance and prior to that held senior roles for an international software vendor. Rob has a keen interest in business transformation and the role that technology can play as an enabler.• 10+ years in program/project management• Full lifecycle management projects $10m+• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with focus on Technology Management• Certified Prince2, PMBOK & ITIL • Enterprise software and infrastructure • Multiple streams in complex environments• Business analysis and documentation• Change management planning and implementation• Vendor and system integration • People planning, coaching, mentoring• Financial control, risk evaluation & reporting• Strong delivery focus on business outcomes• Stakeholder management to senior executive level• Create consensus/vision across diverse groups• Strong business acumen & alignment strategic vision• Excellent communication and presentation• Resilient, engaging, positive mannerIndustry Experience• Telecommunications – Telstra, Optus• Finance – NAB, ANZ Bank, InfraRisk, CGU Insurance• Utilities – Country Energy, Solid Energy• Education – University of Melbourne• Aviation – Qantas• Mining/Oil & Gas –WorleyParsons, BP • Manufacturing – Fosters, Gates (Asia, US)• Vendor & Consulting – Oracle, Oakton• Government – Dept. of Human Services, Dept. of Natural Resources, Dept. of Treasury and Finance, Dept. of Primary Industries, Dept. of Infrastructure, Dept. of Education, MFB, BOM

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Oracle

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Program Director at Oracle
redwood shores, california, united states
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oracle.com
Employees:
184101
Rob Oldfield Work Experience Details
  • Oracle
    Program Director - Enterprise Planning Efficiency
    Oracle Jan 2024 - Present
    Australia
    Program Director for the Enterprise Planning Efficiency program. This initiative is seeking to overhaul, optimise and transform the planning and development processes followed by 2.2K global development staff in the Infrastructure Industries GBU. Role involves taking the lead on process analysis and design, locking in Executive support for the changes and leading the implementation of the changes across the organisation.
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  • Oracle
    Program Director - Smart Construction Platform
    Oracle Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
    Australia
    Program Director for the Oracle Smart Construction Platform (see description below). The role involves liaising with key stakeholders (to Senior Vice President level), supervision of the PMO team, oversight of Solution & Delivery Trains and management of the various governance functions required.
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  • Oracle
    Senior Manager Program Management
    Oracle Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
    Australia
    Senior Manager responsible for Program Management of the Oracle Smart Construction Platform (see below) along with Program Management of development of the CDE and Digital Twins products within Oracle. Player/Coach role involves Program Management but also managing a small team of Program Managers involved in delivery of these initiatives, along with reporting on progress to Executive management.
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  • Oracle
    Program Manager - Smart Construction Platform
    Oracle Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
    Australia
    Program Manager for the Oracle Smart Construction Platform. This program involves integrating the various construction and engineering related products acquired by Oracle to create a SaaS platform of tightly coupled capabilities and services (along with coordination of the various Oracle go-to market functions to deploy the platform to the market). A key element of this program involves working with Oracle product, development and go-to-market teams in the US, Europe, India and Australia to promote greater organizational integration, along with consistent Agile ways of working, including Release and Solution train delivery approaches.
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  • Fire Rescue Victoria
    Senior Project Manager
    Fire Rescue Victoria May 2020 - Dec 2021
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Senior Project Manager supporting the integration of the MFB and CFA into the new essential services agency, Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV). Leading a portfolio of high profile IT infrastructure, software and networking initiatives across the state to enable the mission critical technologies that empower our fire fighters and keep our community safe. Building business cases, procuring goods and services and then coordinating multi-discipline technical teams and commercial partners to deliver on time. Getting buy-in from a diverse range of stakeholders from senior management to front line fire fighters and the industrial body and facilitating the organisational change required to keep things on track.
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  • National Australia Bank
    Program Manager / Senior Project Manager
    National Australia Bank Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
    Melbourne, Australia
    Responsible for establishing and running an AWS and Azure Cloud migration planning and technical architecture function, as part of a broader $35M+ companywide Cloud migration program. Leading a team of Project Managers and Cloud Technical Architects and reporting on progress to SteerCo (GM Level). Building and maintaining SAFe Agile delivery processes in alignment with NAB standards. Coordinating the decommissioning of Apps once had been migrated to the Cloud. Establishing a delivery team and framework to coordinate $100M+ IT network procurement activities with key external telecommunications suppliers.
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  • Telstra
    Program Director
    Telstra Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
    Melbourne, Australia
    Leading a major cloud re-implementation of the most important and widely used applications at Telstra, from initiation to through to go-live. Used by up to 85,000 users, the application underpins the incident, problem, change processes that support Telstra's customers. With multiple vendors (SIs) involved, the role involved retiring complexity, creating a more streamlined user experience, migrating to the Cloud and managing all of the organizational and business process impacts that come with such a significant change. A technically complex digital initiative with impacts across the company and CIO sponsorship. Full end to end life-cycle role including business case development.
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  • Department Of Education And Training, Victoria, Australia
    Senior Project Manager
    Department Of Education And Training, Victoria, Australia Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
    Melbourne Area, Australia
    Senior Project Manager managing a diverse portfolio of medium sized applications and infrastructure projects for the Department of Education. Project's included upgrading MS-Exchange for the Department’s 80,000 email users (one of the largest MS-Exchange sites in the Southern Hemisphere), uplifting the financial reporting capability on Oracle Financials, and Oracle BI Foundations Suite and replacing the Department’s OHS and Workers Compensation IT systems with a new COTS application (multiple business units involved across the organization). The role involved the usual project governance activities (including maintaining schedules, budgets, risks/issues, reporting etc), however the key opportunity was getting troubled projects back on track with clear, achievable plans. There was diverse range of stakeholders involved, in both the business and technology domains in this large, complex organization.
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  • National Australia Bank
    Service Delivery Manager
    National Australia Bank Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
    Melbourne, Australia
    Service Delivery Manager for a supplier, managing the delivery relationship with the bank and overseeing the implementation and then handover of the application to NAB. Role involved transitioning the supplier engagement at NAB (key account) to a more predictable commercial and delivery framework. Was accountable an extended team of senior consultants working across multiple program streams. Also Project Managing the key Automation stream of work within the program (NAB role). Role involved driving to aggressive timelines in a highly complex Oracle technical environment. A key element of the role was to build the profile of the company within NAB and manage multiple Director/Senior level partner relationships within the program, including Oracle, Accenture, InfoSys and IBM.
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  • Metropolitan Fire Brigade
    Project Manager
    Metropolitan Fire Brigade Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
    Melbourne, Australia
    Project Manager at MFB managing a portfolio of IT projects across diverse technologies in an government agency under significant pressure to deliver a critical community service. Projects included managing system assurance activities across MFB’s core dispatch systems and managing project teams engaged in the build, implementation, testing and deployment of new IT systems (including SAP modules and Microsoft development technologies such as .net & SharePoint). The role involved managing politically sensitive relationships with other Victorian Government agencies to support smooth delivery of inter-agency initiatives. Multiple vendor relationships were also managed as well as a large number of internal business relationships.
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  • Cgu Insurance
    Senior Project Manager
    Cgu Insurance Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
    Melbourne, Australia
    Senior Project Manager at CGU Insurance leading a key strategic IT transformation change initiative. Project involved building and deploying a Salesforce CRM system and associated change framework into the Sales and Underwriting areas. Managing both technical and business project streams with a team of 30 involved in system design/build/test activities as well as business change (change/training/communications). Management of multiple vendor relationships was required. Project was delivered to within 1% of agreed $6M+ budget and as per business agreed time-frames. A large and complex project delivered successfully to aggressive timelines.
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  • Telstra
    Program Manager
    Telstra Nov 2008 - Jan 2013
    Melbourne, Australia
    • Program and project managing a major systems implementation and business change initiative identified by the Telstra Board as a ‘game changer’. Full end to end lifecycle role.• Building multiple business cases with associated cost/benefits models and managing them through to approval (total costs of $29M+ CAPEX/OPEX, benefits $60M+)• Taking a leading role in the negotiation of vendor licence, hosting and services contracts worth $10M+, including a software licence deal for 20,0001 users• Guiding the creation of the change elements of the program, including project managing the team (12 staff) creating the training, communications and change collateral required for deployment (engaging external specialists)• Project Management of multiple build iterations of a core IT system for Telstra. This included recruiting and managing an IT operations team (15 staff) and systems design build and test activities (role included guiding the creation of supporting ITIL compliant processes). • Program managing multiple deployment iterations of an IT system and change framework to 20,000 Telstra users both onshore and offshore. This included managing up to 11 project managers and project teams in Australia and the Philippines (extended deployment team of 80+)• Architecting the organizational structure of the program and creating the PMO. Ensuring that the correct programmatic and project management disciplines where applied correctly and consistently across the program• Managing the expectations of a complex array of various level stakeholders in an large organization in a state of flux (stakeholders across Telstra Consumer, Retail, Digital, Operations, IT, Billing, TIPM, Credit, Offshore)• Successfully working with business stakeholders to raise the profile of coaching and performance as a key driver leading to an improved customer experience in a contact center, field support or retail shop environment
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  • National Australia Bank
    Agile Project Manager
    National Australia Bank Nov 2007 - Nov 2008
    Melbourne, Australia
    Key activities:• Scrum Agile Project Management using Microsoft technologies • Working onsite at NAB managing development and implementation of a new finance/risk application for 6000 business bankers• Leading a project team of 20 business analysts, developers, testers and project managers based in Australia and around Asia.• Providing leadership in the use of Agile (SCRUM) and PMBOK project methodologies. Preparing project plans in MS-Project.• Assuming full budget accountability for the successful delivery of development stream of activity.• Creating ITIL compliant software support process and procedures and ensuring team discipline around these processesAchievements:• Building a system to aggressive timeframes that was deemed by the business owner to be of the “highest quality and to the highest standards of build” seen in the bank.
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  • Oracle
    Pmo Manager / Program Manager - Cloud Services
    Oracle Nov 2003 - Nov 2007
    Key activities:• Managing a team of project managers servicing the Asia Pacific region (projects in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China, India & Singapore)• Managing simultaneous high visibility and strategic Oracle/PeopleSoft infrastructure projects (hardware, network, OS and database implementation from $500K-$2.2M) across the Asia Pacific region. Delivering these projects on time and budget in line within Prince2 frameworks• Managing simultaneous implementation & upgrade projects with Oracle e-Business suite, Oracle database and Peoplesoft HR systems on UNIX and Windows platforms for local and offshore Government, Banking/Finance, Retail, Utilities, Manufacturing, Tertiary Education and Telecommunications clients• Managing large cross functional teams of up to twenty team members, including offshore resources in various Asian countries, Europe and the US. • Engaging in complex global stakeholder management from the level of technical resources up to senior executive.• Providing leadership in discussions around systems architecture.• Creating project management frameworks and providing program leadership• Engaging in pre-sales and bid related activities and helping build the Oracle business in AsiaAchievements:• Implemented project disciplines that saw Asia Pacific project timeframes decrease by 40% and all projects delivered within 5% of budget in 06/07.• Augmented the existing Oracle Outsourcing SEMP project methodology with Prince2 principles in a manner that led to more predictable project outcomes.• Built and managed a high performance team of project managers to deliver projects that consistently exceed customer expectations in satisfaction surveys.• Provided project management training and guidance to Oracle project managers across the Asia Pacific region.• Built strong relationships with the Oracle Outsourcing sales teams across the Asia Pacific region to ensure that sales expectations were closely aligned with project delivery.
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  • Oracle
    Ict Operations Manager
    Oracle Nov 2005 - Nov 2006
    Melbourne, Australia
    Key activities:• Managing of a team of technical specialists providing Peoplesoft/JD Edwards/Siebel managed services to a range of customers including Country Energy (Utilities) and the ANZ Bank.• Project managing delivery of system enhancements and upgrades• Managing the relationship with clients on behalf of Oracle• Engaging in high level technical risk/issue management as required• Recruiting new staff to the team and developing operational frameworks to ensure consistent delivery outcomesAchievements:• Increased the delivery capacity of the AMS team by 200% by recruiting new local staff and assisting in the recruitment of offshore staff.• Developed new ITIL operational processes that delivered reliable and scalable service outcomes for clients• Improved team morale (following the Peoplesoft acquisition by Oracle) by ensuring key staff were retained• Built a delivery platform to maintain and grow the existing AMS customer base by 25% in nine months
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  • Oracle
    Technical Project Manager/Technical Architect
    Oracle Jul 2000 - Oct 2003
    Melbourne, Australia
    Key activities for this role included:• Technical Project Manager on one of the most technically complex Oracle e-Business ERP suite implementations in the world at the time (University of Melbourne, 25,000+ users). The project ran for 20 months and was delivered on time and with minimal issues.• Working as on-site consultant for Oracle Support Consulting Services in Melbourne performing project management and technical activities for Victorian Government, Banking/Finance, Retail, Utilities, Tertiary Education and Telecommunications clients• Implementation and upgrades for Oracle e-Business suite, Oracle Database and Oracle Middle-Ware on UNIX and Windows platforms Achievements:• Helped the sales team to win this account then succeeding in increasing the Oracle revenue footprint by introducing new Oracle consultants as required.• Completed a detailed IT operations assessment report for Coca-Cola Amatil management around their support of the Oracle products that they owned. This report led to a number of significant operational changes by the client.• Wrote a report for senior Oracle management on Oracle’s consulting performance on the Optus account. This report involved interviewing a range of stakeholders from the Oracle team members to various customer representatives. The report’s recommendations resulted in changes to the Oracle team’s structure and operating practices.• Billed continuously
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  • Oracle
    Oracle Database Technical Specialist
    Oracle Mar 1999 - Jul 2000
    Melbourne Area, Australia
    • Providing specialist technical advice and engaging in advanced problem management to Oracle customers around the globe• Top performer in closing customer service requests for the RDBMS team.
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Project Delivery Stakeholder Management Business Analysis Business Process Program Management Project Management Management Change Management Vendor Management Telecommunications Ms Project Outsourcing Cloud Computing Agile Project Management Team Leadership Oracle Prince2 Business Intelligence Pmbok Visio Leadership Oracle E Business Suite Recruiting Preparation Of Business Cases Itil Certified Scrum Linux Financial Modeling Contract Negotiation Contract Management Clarity Microsoft Project Microsoft Visio It Infrastructure Management Software Product Management Oracle Rdbms Oracle Application Express It Operations Management Microsoft Technologies Unix Operating Systems Project Communications Mysql Competitive Analysis Sharepoint Designer Technology Integration Salesforce.com Implementation

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