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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Leading a team of 130 project professionals responsible for delivering multi-million dollar transformation initiatives. This includes Portfolio Management, Programme and Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Business Analysts, Service Design and Change Management.

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Established a new Change Management Practice at Police, with staff responsible for delivering major transformation initiatives impacting 14,000 frontline and operational staff, as well as public and sector impacts.Built a team of 4 Change Practitioners to 17 within a year. Responsible for recruitment, resource allocation, capability and development, performance management and team culture.Led and designed an enterprise view of change for the executive and business understand change impacts.Developed an enterprise Change Management Framework with tools and templates to ensure consistency across the practice and organisation.Established and chair an enterprise-wide Change Community of Practice as a forum to share knowledge and insights with over 30 active members. Developed a Change career progression framework to develop internal capability and talent, as well as attract and retain new staff.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

(Maternity cover)Management of all new and existing initiatives across the Digital Workplace portfolio (IT), assessing new work and the impact on people, and advising on resourcing requirements. Helped recruit and support a team of 12 change professionals, including reviewing work and coaching junior members of the team. Led several BAU change projects including Microsoft Whiteboard deployment to 15,000 people, and the creation of a new enterprise change champion network. Other responsibilities included representation on key change forum boards, training in tools and systems, and adoption activities.International Awards:1. Digital Workplace of the Year 2020 2. Digital Employee Experience Gold Award 2021

Melbourne, Australia

Supported and led several major technology and process changes within the ICT projects team:1. Part of the change team to move 100,000+ staff and students from using Google Suite to Office 365, including delivering the change to international campuses in Vietnam and Europe. 2. Change lead on a new eSignature solution, DocuSign during COVID lockdown.3. Established an enterprise wide change champion network for Office 365, and led adoption campaigns.4. Change lead on a new ServiceNow platform for HR advisors to manage complex and confidential cases.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Worked on a complex transformation programme within the IT branch, impacting 300+ people. This involved application cloud migration, standing up an IT operations centre, introducing a new ITSM tool, in conjunction with a new operating model.Responsibilities included drafting communications, creating support material, consultation planning, briefing sessions, and transition support for impacted staff. Also managed project reports, schedules, budgets and resources. Held regular updates with CIO and C-Suite executives, and was key liaison point between Integrated Team (NZDF & KPMG).Separately, was requested to analyse all enterprise wide technology changes and projects to present a heat map for the CIO to prioritise and set the yearly strategy and budget.

London, United Kingdom

Worked on major commercial construction project turning a gallery into a leading events space.Coordinated a national rollout of a CRM system (Tessitura) to 5 museums across the UK.Project manager of the Annual Science Museum publication.Supported both the Finance and Commercial Director with scheduling, communications, events, and reports.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Part of the Enterprise Projects Delivery team, coordinating the largest government client account.