Vince Colaci

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Snr Project, Quality, Transformation & Delivery Manager - IT Governance & Assurance Frameworks, Policies & Procedures @ AusNet
Vince Colaci's Location
Doncaster East, Victoria, Australia, Australia
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About Vince Colaci

Highly resourced, outcome-driven IT Professional supplying effective IT solutions for over 30 years as a Program, Project, Data, Test, Release or Change Manager within the Utilities, Finance, Government, Insurance, Digital Retail, Telecommunication and Consultancy sectors.Offers strong delivery leadership skills with diverse technology and product development expertise to workshop, cost, plan, schedule, build, motivate & mentor high performing disperse application and infrastructure teams to repeatedly deliver timely, high quality, low-cost complex project solutions.Brings customer-focused results-driven strategic problem-solving techniques, strong analytical critical thinking. risk assessment, planning and scheduling skills to assess requirements and capabilities to achieve benefits definition and realisation. Strives for continuous improvement developing IT strategies with Waterfall, Agile and V-Model processes governance frameworks. Has strong presentation and communication expertise chairing boards and building trusting relationships managing and influencing Stakeholders, Vendors, Partners and Customers. Highly effective senior guide and advisor for executives developing business cases, mitigating risk or consulting Quality, Project, Release and Change Management best practices.

Vince Colaci's Current Company Details
AusNet

Ausnet

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Snr Project, Quality, Transformation & Delivery Manager - IT Governance & Assurance Frameworks, Policies & Procedures
Vince Colaci Work Experience Details
  • Ausnet
    Enterprise Project Management (Pmo365) Quality Consultant
    Ausnet Feb 2024 - Present
    Southbank, Vic, Au
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  • Protegic
    Senior Quality Assurance Consultant
    Protegic Feb 2024 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
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  • Colaci.Com
    Company Director
    Colaci.Com Oct 1997 - Present
    Doncaster East, Victoria, Au
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  • Redzed
    Program Test Manager
    Redzed Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
    Melbourne , Victoria, Au
    Oversee Program Test Services for RedZed Lending:• Greenfield SAP S4 HANA Cloud for Banking (C4B) solution • Data Migration (ETL) from Tango legacy financial system to C4B• C4B Integration to Salesforce and internal bespoke systemsRole also required PM, Financial and Stakeholder Management capabilities • Drafting/reviewing Test strategy, Test plan. Test & Defect / Triage processes and reporting to Stakeholders• Engage and manage multiple SAP streams including vendor partners, • Seamless governance of SIT,UAT, Regression and non-functional test cycles – including complex ageing of records• Traceability of FIT-GAP analysis, Business requirements and Technical requirements documents• Upskill and mentor over 20 business staff as testers.• Complex hardship scenarios and General Ledger Reports• Phased functional and data migration implementation.
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  • Energyaustralia
    Change Acceptance - Governance & Quality Practice Lead
    Energyaustralia Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Implement and support governing frameworks and processes for the Change Acceptance team to formally accept and recommend IT services solutions for business operations. Conduct Portfolio, Program & Project Health checks, audits & reviews.• Implemented Enterprise-wide Test and Release governance framework and policy to agreed internal and industry (CoBit and ITIL) standards and regulations, scalable to project complexity with stage gates and supporting Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies• Maintained ServiceNow and SharePoint to store extract, report, facilitate and communicate the Enterprise Release Calendar & Governance framework process• Worked closely across Portfolio, Project Office teams, Platforms & COEs, in the release planning phase, reducing Release & Environment Management conflicts, Isolating projects for CyberSecurity and Operational Readiness triage activities.• Enriched reporting, exception process, trend analysis, KPI Metrics, utilising data analysis, PivotTables and SQL skills, tracing pipeline from PPM to ServiceNow Release, Change and Incident modules• Champion continual improvement findings for significant cost efficiency savings and improved quality, conducting and contributing to PIRs
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  • Iag
    Iteration Manager – Cyber Security
    Iag Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
    Sydney, New South Wales, Au
    Scrum Master, Plan Iteration & Sprint Manager - Cyber Security / Risk GroupDeliver complex Cyber Security solutions managing Identity, Access & Threat Management teams utilising TAM, TIM, SAR+, ISAM, D1IM, SSO, Webseal, DDOS, SSL Certificate, ACL, Firewalls, DNS, VPN, Penetration, MaaS360.• Initiated innovative solutions utilising Confluence to automate Security Designs into JIRA story creation for work backlogs• Grouping backlog work for lean sprints, higher quality & boosting team velocity.
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  • Metropolitan Fire Brigade (Mfb)
    Iteration Project Manager
    Metropolitan Fire Brigade (Mfb) Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
    East Melbourne, Vic, Au
    Senior Project Manager Infrastructure & Applications IT projects Manage politically sensitive relationships with other Victorian Government agencies to support smooth delivery of inter-agency initiatives. Manage multiple vendor relationships and internal business relationships to successfully deliver: • Applications - >$200k inc. SAP Enhancements• Infrastructure - Firestation Telephony $800k (Saving $135k) - Audit, Tender & Upgrade Fire Station Telephony Infrastructure - Vendor Management for cabling & Cisco IP telephony development & infrastructure, VLAN upgrades• MFB Emergency Dispatch Systems >$300k - - ESTA Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Upgrade - - Firecom I, II & STO and supporting applications
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  • Sp Ausnet
    Sap Project Manager - Eam - Data Migration
    Sp Ausnet Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
    Southbank, Vic, Au
    Project manage the data migration and associated processes of SP Ausnet's ($6b+) infrastructure assets under a change management program from Spatial Data Management SDM GIS, AM/FM GIS, Maximo 5 & 6, Q4 & 100s of legacy & bespoke systems into SAP sec ERP / EAM modules • Identified over 60 asset matching rules, mitigating common root causes • Maintain assets to operational tolerable levels & SAP data mitigation targets• OCR and Geocoding data from asset photos to expatiate verification of over 20,000 assets.
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  • Telstra
    Senior Business Solutions Specialist - Call Centre
    Telstra May 2013 - Aug 2013
    Sydney, Nsw, Au
    Provided customer development & support to Sensis (Call Centre Technology Refresh CCTR program) conducting Business Analyst duties. Call Centre solution consisted of: CPE Genesys SIP Solution with: Inbound Routing, Genesys Voice Platform (GVP) IVR, Outbound Campaign (Preview & Predictive), RightFax (3rd Party Fax gateway), Interaction Workspace (Genesys Softphone) InfoMart and Interactive Insights & Workforce Management and Verint Quality Management
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  • Energyaustralia
    Program Test Governance
    Energyaustralia Mar 2010 - Dec 2012
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Test Governance - UAT Defect Manager/HP Quality Center QC Administration & Technical Lead/Program, Test Process & Reporting Implemented and supported Test Governance process and together with the UAT Test Manager, developed the Master & Test Plan & strategy across the program for IBM and Business to follow • Established & chaired daily IBM/TruEnergy Joint Defect Management Committee• Administered HP ALM QC, implemented Change & Release Control Processes, maintained traceability matrix, mitigated Program Test Entry and Exit criteria risks & issues, trained over 100 business users HP ALM with UAT test processes & standards• Acknowledged and appreciated for linking business and technology, simplifying information and processes, introducing initiatives and enabling progress and producing tangible, efficient and usable change, analysis and reports within a complex and demanding environment
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  • Sensis
    Program Test Governance
    Sensis Mar 2008 - Nov 2009
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Responsible and accountable to operationally coordinate and report daily test and defect management program activities transforming the business from the existing legacy system to a new complex Digital retail platform. Plus, operational, managerial and executive reporting.
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  • Ge Money
    Test Quality Assurance Portfolio Manager
    Ge Money Jan 2006 - Mar 2008
    Norwalk, Ct, Us
    Portfolio Test Manage internal, offshore & multiple 3rd party vendor based projects to accreditation, compliance, deployment & launch, including Australia & New Zealand MasterCard, Visa, Baycorp, Veda & other Consumer Finance solutions & Risk initiatives $2m - Harvey Norman Go Card, Myer Card. Plus Compliance, new products launches, product enhancements and initiatives. • Platforms including Infrastructure, Servers, Networks, Diallers, IVR's, PABX, Vision +, Cardpac, Falcon, DWH, E-Commerce and Internet related systems. • Test vendor selection & financial management of test portfolio and projects
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  • Ge Money
    Project Manager And Test Consultant
    Ge Money Aug 2004 - Jan 2006
    Norwalk, Ct, Us
    Within 6-weeks produced Business Case and obtained board approval to implement a global Test Quality Management tool. Resulting in the approval of US$2M for the purchase of HP's Application Lifecycle Management Suite proving time & quality efficiencies, as well as QA running cost savings of 75% over current practices • Installation and global rollout of HP ALM to 20 countries, at the time the largest QC ALM installation in the world.• Established global QA intranet for GE Test best practices, standards & procedures• Developed and conducted HP ALM training courses in Melbourne, Sydney & Hyderabad India - totaling over 300 attendees.• Closed the project proving the 75% QA operational savings.
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  • Alinta
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Alinta Dec 2003 - Jul 2004
    Sydney, Nsw, Au
    Managed Melbourne & Perth system test analysts through Unit, System, Performance, Load, Stress, Disaster testing, validating & achieving REMCo WA Gas deregulation Industry & market compliance
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  • Atoc
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Atoc May 2003 - Aug 2003
    Strategic hands-on Risk Manager liaising and managing stakeholder expectations (26 train operators) for the new Rail Ticket apportionment system, mitigating and managing key risk and issues towards final acceptance & implementation phases.
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  • Aon
    Project Manager
    Aon Jul 2001 - Mar 2003
    London, Gb
    Provide project management skills & services to 4 Aon relationship managers introducing the new processes, benefits & support to over 15 sponsor insurance companies. • Relationship manage users, clients & developers conducting project risk management including conduit to Aon's Legal department resolving corporate law risks such as Branding, Governance & Limit of Liability• Manage 3 insurer policy developers standardise policy wording & related questions for 15 Insurers under Version & Change Control.
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  • Logica
    Project Office Manager
    Logica Jun 2000 - May 2001
    Montreal, Qc, Ca
    New Electricity Trading Arrangement (NETA) program Responsible for implementing & managing a Project Office for the final Pre-Production testing phase. • Manage 3 project and test analysts coordinate business participants & developers resolving risk & issues, manage the entry & exit sign off criteria, Service Level Agreements & Contractual arrangements• Data analysis of Pre-Production & later Production success factors, building reports for presentation to Senior OFGEM executives & DTI minister.
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  • Hyder Managed Services
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Hyder Managed Services Apr 2000 - Jun 2000
    User Acceptance Manager of an Oracle client/server settlement system with a team of 2 Business & 2 Test analyst.
  • Seeboard (Now Edf Energy)
    Project Manager
    Seeboard (Now Edf Energy) Apr 1999 - Apr 2000
    Implementation of a Gas meter aggregation & billing system developed by CMG UK. Liaise with 3rd party developers, managed & appraised 3 Oracle developers, 1 test & 2 business analyst.
  • Seeboard (Now Edf Energy)
    Program Manager
    Seeboard (Now Edf Energy) Oct 1998 - Apr 1999
    Program Manager representing several business sectors in the delivery of Year 2000 compliant systems.
  • Seeboard (Now Edf Energy)
    Program Manager
    Seeboard (Now Edf Energy) May 1998 - Oct 1998
    Program Manager representing several business sectors across business, support, technical & testing areas implementing UK 1998 Electricity Deregulation systems.
  • Seeboard (Now Edf Energy)
    Project Manager
    Seeboard (Now Edf Energy) Dec 1997 - Apr 1998
    For the UK 1998 Electricity Deregulation – Supply division, Project managed a team of 5 business analysts & 3 UNIX & Oracle developers deliver a client/server solution for the generation & management of Electricity Pool transactions, as part of the preparation for full market opening later in 1998. Achieved early accreditation & delivery of the IT solution with major operational savings and early ROI
  • Department Of Social Security
    Various It Project Management And Analyst Roles
    Department Of Social Security Feb 1987 - Nov 1997
    • Release Change Manager – Release Management - Jan 1996 - Oct 1997• Test Manager – Security Systems Feb 1995 - Jan 1996• Business Manager – Data Warehouse - Apr 1991 - Jan 1995• Secretariat Manager – Income Security Project Office - Feb 1990 - Apr 1991• Business Analyst – Various Applications - Feb 1987 - Feb 1990Technical Skills - Over the 10 year period utilised tools & techniques including –• CASEwise Corporate Modeller, Data Communication, Data Conversion/Mapping, Data Warehousing/Reporting, ERD, Hyperstation (Mainframe Automated Testing Tool), HTML, ITIL, Lotus Notes, Lotus Smart Suite, Mainframe, Model 204, MS Access, MS Excel (Pivot tables), MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Visio, Novell Netware Operating Systems, ODBC, Primavera P3, PRINCE2, RDBMS, SAS, Software Distribution, SQA Team Test & Robot (Automated Testing Tools), SSADM, TCP/IP, Teradata, TQM techniques, Version Control & Configuration Management, Windows Non-NT, Video Broadcasting

Vince Colaci Skills

Release Management Test Management Requirements Analysis Quality Center Data Analysis Software Quality Assurance Defect Life Cycle Sdlc Prince2 Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Change Management Ms Project Project Planning Project Delivery Program Management Risk Management Sql Metrics Reporting Data Warehousing User Acceptance Testing Business Analysis Business Requirements System Testing Test Planning Integration Quality Assurance Testing Business Process Test Strategy Regression Testing Governance Stakeholder Management Meter Data Management Business Transformation Pmo Process Management Business Process Improvement Process Improvement Metric Development Metrics Definition Agile Methodologies Software Testing Life Cycle Test Management Tool Itil Service Strategy Odbc Logical Data Modeling Call Centers Ivr Crm

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Vince Colaci works for Ausnet

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Vince Colaci's current role is Snr Project, Quality, Transformation & Delivery Manager - IT Governance & Assurance Frameworks, Policies & Procedures.

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