Scott Rodgers Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Link Consulting is a collaboration of independent management consultants. We are all senior consultants with considerable experience and longevity in strategic, commercial and technology management. See http://www.linkconsultinglimited.com

Wellington

I have been seconded into the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) ICT Assurance team for six months to implement the all-of-government ICT Assurance framework and to kick-off the capability build for the unit. This new function has cross-government ICT programme/project and operations assurance oversight in conjunction with existing monitoring functions at Treasury. While this unit has an explicit oversight, reporting and escalation role, the unit will also help agencies to build their capability in ICT risk and assurance and support their efforts with independent analysis, advice, and guidance.

Wellington

The Manager Service Management has two distinct roles:1. Responsibility for the Product Management of the core All-of-Government common technology services where DIA has lead agency responsibility 2. Responsible for continuous improvement of GTS' service delivery. I manage teams responsible for Client Service Management, Service Assurance, Change Management, Release Management and the ICT Service Desk.

Wellington, New Zealand

As the Manager Technology Management I was responsible for all ICT technology for the department and, initially, for All of Government services. This is a large and complex operation, with responsibility for all ICT assets, all operational ICT security, a large operational budget and, at times, 80 staff and more than 40 contract personnel. I established a structure to allow for demand driven growth when the National Library and Archives technical teams joined the group. Taking a value-for-money approach to team structure and activities I reduced cost and lifted performance across the teams.

Maven is an independent business and IT consulting company that was founded in 1998During my time with Maven I led teams of consultants delivering programme and project management; I delivered project assurance and rescued troubled projects; I developed and implementation business and ICT strategies; I acted as a temporary manager to lead ICT teams faced with significant structural or cultural change; and I helped and mentored senior leaders of a number of public and private sector organisations.I delivered 32 assignments in my nine years with AMR/Maven.

Acting manager for the IS teams as they went through the creation of the new NZTA from two separate agencies - Transit NZ and Land Transport New Zealand. Interesting and challenging roles working with great people in a healthy culture.

At the NZQA I led 30 staff members working in three delivery teams. I introduced a number of structural changes to form a single IS Operations group and recruited leaders for the teams. Soon after the operations group was formed, a major restructure of the entire IS group was announced. I provided leadership and direction to the teams through the change period and when the contract was complete I left a stable and well performing team for the new operations manager. Approximately one year later I was invited back to manage, and support, the operations group through another restructure.

I managed vendor relationships for part of the UK IT operations, ensuring delivery of outsourced facilities management and application development services. Systems supported include SAP (Finance and HR), a bespoke web-based customer master file (CRM) system, and the implementation and management of mission critical hotel management systems.

I was the account manager responsible for establishing EDS’ business relationship with the New Zealand Department of Corrections. I was successful: winning and delivering one of the largest, and more complex, IT contracts signed in New Zealand during 1998. The Department required a new infrastructure to support the roll out of a central offender management system. This required 70 LANs across 212 sites, supporting 5,000 devices (PCs, Notebooks and Printers) - all installed and running within three months of the contract start. The delivery of this involved installing new cabling in all sites, the sale and configuration of the LAN equipment and the centralised management of secure LANs and host servers (Mainframe and UNIX systems).

IBM PC Company, 1993-1995. I was responsible for sales of IBM PCs to remarketers and end user customers in the lower North Island.IBM General Business (SME) 1995-1997. I had responsibility for the IBM relationship with existing minicomputer and mainframe SME customers in the lower North Island.

Bachelor Of Business Studies Bbs, Business Administration And Management, General

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