Stephen Bennett Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Review business requirement for a start-up company, establish internal systems approach and implementation planning.Develop EOI response and Implementation Proposal.Develop Roles and Responsibilities, Training and Development requirements. Establish elements of onboarding procedures.Establish QA, help desk and escalation requirements and customer survey.

Melbourne, Australia

• Practice Director – Oracle Consulting Services (OCS) CRM – responsible for supporting and developing business opportunities, resourcing / recruiting, oversight of Project Governance. On the acquisition of Siebel.
• working with Licence and Consulting Sales to identify and engage on opportunities
• forecast revenues and resource requirements, recruitment (local and overseas)
• contract negotiation, development of statement of work, navigate approvals process
• direct engagement with clients, project governance
• manage project financials, review invoice generation, accounts receivable

Melbourne, Australia

• Siebel prior to acquisition by Oracle
• Client Delivery Manager responsible as Project Manager for the first implementation of Siebel at a major Australian Bank. Successfully completed the first implementation into telesales and referrals.Responsible as.
• Client Delivery Manager for Siebel’s involvement in a major business transformation program for a major Australian Telecommunications company.

Melbourne, Australia

• PeopleSoft prior to acquisition by Oracle
• Post the acquisition of J.D. Edwards by PeopleSoft, appointed Solution Delivery Director – Southern Region responsible for all major projects (implementation, upgrade, optimisation) for all of PeopleSoft’s product.
• Additional temporary responsibility of Acting Business Development Manager – Southern Region responsible for all professional services related business development activities.
• Direct reports included all project managers and project directors (total 11) in Southern Region.

Melbourne, Australia

• J.D. Edwards prior to acquisition by PeopleSoft and then Oracle
• Commenced as the Project Director responsible for the Wine Industry Module development project. The project was experiencing significant issues, lack of momentum, poor project governance and on the verge of legal.
• Appointed Consulting Services Manager – Southern Region responsible for all professional services business development, implementations, upgrades and consulting services. Manufacturing, Distribution and Transport.

Melbourne, Australia

• Evaluation and selection of a payroll solution for major Health Services Organisation. Assessment of in-house implementation against business process outsourcing.
• Evaluation Of Enterprise Wide footprint of SAP Software Solutions for a major Distribution organisation.

Melbourne, Australia

• Business Development & Delivery Manager dedicated to a major Australian Bank.
• Project Manager for the successful preparation of the tender response for a major Australian Bank. The response required a documented RFP for 12 separate functional areas for a major Australian Bank.
• National Industry Consulting Lead for Financial Services. Responsibilities included developing an industry consulting capability for banking and insurance industries within Australia.
• Project Director for the successful prime contract implementation of the IS-U/CCS (Customer Care System) application at Electricity Utiulity Company. CCS is a call centre, billing and collections application suite.

Melbourne, Australia

• KPMG Barents Group Australia
• Associate working as part of the technology sub-team of a global business strategy for a multi-national Bank.

Melbourne, Australia

• Associate Director within Information Solutions Professional Services responsible for banking technology. Member of Banking & Finance Focus Group and Banking & Finance Executive Committee for Melbourne practice.
• During this period I led or participated in numerous reviews and projects for 15 different companies and organisations, mostly Banks, financial institutions including Superannuation and Insurance.

Melbourne, Australia

• As a consultant to Treasury System software developer) I commenced with responsibility for a single client site of the Global Trading System – Unix based investment management system. At the conclusion of the contract.
• Development of a Conversion and Testing Strategy as part of the Global Payments Project at a Major Canadian Bank. The proposed conversion was of the London Branch Operations from an existing local MIDAS implementation.
• As a consultant to Hogan Systems Inc post Hogan's acquisition of GDK Systems., I managed the 'vendor responsibilities' of installing and implementing the International Money Management System (IMMS) at a Major U.K. Bank.
• As a Senior Consultant to GDK Systems, author of the International Money Management System (IMMS), I managed the 'vendor responsibilities' of installing and implementing the International Banking product in a leading.
• Major components of IMMS are Customer Information System (CIS), Multi Currency Accounting (MCA), Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Market (MM), Credit Risk(RSK) and Commercial Loans (CL).Technical skills: IMS DC CICS.

Brisbane, Australia

• Install an EFT Bureau for the Queensland Building Societies, based in Brisbane. The application was implemented using, Olivetti CPS32 and Pacer ON/2 from Shared Financial Systems of Dallas. New premises were.

Melbourne, Australia

• Project Leader within the Card Processing System Project responsible for Credit Authorisation. This was part of the ANZ Credit Card repatriation project from Charge Card Services Limited (CCSL).

Perth, Australia

• Develop and implement a shared ATM network between six building societies in WA based on the First American National Bank (FANB - FDP) product marketed by IBM in Assembler language
• Represented the AAPBS on the SAA sub committee 'IS/5/3 EFT, MESSAGE FORMAT AND CONTENT'. Developing AS2805 based on ISO8583.

Perth, Australia

• On joining Datec in Australia, was assigned a conversion project, modifying a previously developed personnel system to the requirements of the Colleges of Advanced Education in Brisbane. The work was carried out on the.
• On arrival in Perth, WA, was assigned to help complete a statistical analysis reporting system for the Australian Iron and Steel's Kwinana Furnace site. The analysis was of the element distribution within steel batches.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Implementation of the Hoskyn's Sales Ledger package to several companies based at Trafford Park, Manchester running on the companies IBM 3033 MP with extensive communications and remote facilities located in Stafford.
• Prior to migrating to Australia I was involved in the development of an on-line job ticketing sub-system as part of a Manufacturing and Engineering Cost Analysis SystemIBM COBOL, IMS DC, CICS Command Level, TSI/ISPF.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Develop a corporate Gas Service and Distribution system requiring specialist standards incorporating common COBOL elements for use across a range of ICL and IBM mainframes. The development carried out was on North West.

Runcorn, Cheshire U.K.

• Commenced as a trainee computer operator. During a two year period I gained a comprehensive knowledge of the operation of ICL 1900 series mainframes, rising to Senior Data Processor in an installation comprising 2 x.
• On transferring to the development section, I became a member of a team of programmers responsible for the development and maintenance of a suite of programs written in COBOL producing Employment Statistics