Career highlights Summary

1. Experienced ICT Project Manager and
Practitioner :
Career Highlights and Achievements

2. Computing Infrastructure & Server & Hardware Refreshes : Local and
Telecommunications National.
Data Centre Fit-outs, Migrations & Facilities IT and personnel relocations Specialist.
Upgrades. Logistics
Project Rescue & Turnaround Specialist Applications Data Migrations & Upgrades
Network Upgrades and Redundancy Disaster Recovery & Risk Management
PMO & Program Management, Project Customer Relations Management & Conflict
Governance Resolution Win-Win
Project to BAU Transitioning Business & End-User Focus
Desktop and servers rollouts. Win 7 rollout. Situation & Crisis Management
Data centre migration. Operational Risk Governance and
Office fit-out power, cabling, facilities. Management
Transition Planning and Training co- Business transformation and IT integration.
ordination. Office Audio Visual Specialist for
Exec presentations project communications conferencing, Wi-Fi fit-out, meeting rooms
and milestoning. and training room facilities.
Computer room design. Aircon. UPS and Testing management and co-ordination
power. Banking and Finance background
Vendor selection. Hardware, architecture and design JAD.
Cloud (IaaS) and virtualization. Bid management and sales growth.
Opportunity management.
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3.  ITIL Service Management focus
 PMBoK (Project Management Book of
Knowledge) practitioner
 MS Project and Primavera.
 Project budget setting and progress tracking.
 Scope and Variance control.
 Project collaboration and meetings.
 MS Sharepoint, MS EXCEL, Oracle Financials.
 Tailored project progress reporting and
accountability for execs and operational
levels.
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4.  EDS/ Commonwealth Bank of Australia
 Vodafone Australia
 Thales Australia (Naval, Air Systems)
 Westpac Banking Corporation
 Jetset Travelworld Group
 QANTAS Business Travel
 ACT Energy and Water
 Australian Securities and Investments Corporation
 The GPT Group
 IBM Australia
 Franklins Supermarkets
 Dell Computer
 NSW Government
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5.  CBA/ EDS Technology and Staff Relocations
Program (E3) (2001-2002):
 Relocated over 700 Sydney CBD bank staff over 3-month period
including IT and related services. Achieved relocations for high
profile bank business units with high uptime needs within timeframe.
 Innovation. Developed methodology to facilitate the relocation of
users’ IT, fax, internet and telephony services to the new locations.
Redefined EDS’ project support methodology and support model, for
onsite day 1 support post relocations.
 Logistics and co-ordination expertise across multiple diverse vendors.
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6.  Jetset Travelworld Group / Qantas Holidays/
Qantas Business Travel/ World Aviation/
Travelscene (2011-2012)
 Completed 3 major relocations for Sydney, Perth and
Brisbane for approximately 200 travel staff including
servers, desktops, technology and telephony.
 New meeting rooms and training facilities, Wi-Fi and
audio visual.
 Flat screen wallboards call stats integration.
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7.  CBA / Colonial Bank Transformation &
Integration (2000-2001):
 Led a successful high profile technology and systems
transformation and integration (mainframe and
midrange systems) supplementing the merger of the
CBA and Colonial Banks.
 Migrated $1Bill systems and customer records and
databases from IBM GSA to EDS Burwood without
incident or data loss and within strict timeframe.
Merger of mainframe and midrange systems of two
entities seamlessly merged into the CBA centrally
managed IT data center, for Australia and New
Zealand business.
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8.  IBM Australia (Jan-June 2010):
 Successful transition and transformation of major
Australian icon supermarket retailer to new Win/ AIX
hardware, as part of a new outsourcing arrangement
with IBM.
 Transition from previous outsourcer.
 Successful data migration for Oracle and BI systems.
 Exchange and AD integration.
 Infrastructure, systems and databases migration from
competitor outsourcer.
 BAU Integration and DR into IBM data center.
 Facilitation to meet customer business deadlines.
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9.  Jetset Travelworld Australia (March-May
2012):
 Data and applications systems migration to
new blades hardware.
 User testing and data validation.
 Escalations management.
 Vendor management.
 Facilitation to meet customer business
deadlines.
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10.  World Aviation Services into Jetset
Travelworld Group Australia (September
2011-May 2012):
 Network MPLS Integration and upgrade.
 Server and telephony integration into JTG.
 IP telephony upgrade.
 Server room fit-out and upgrade.
 Vendor management.
 BAU integration to JTG IT support structures.
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11.  IT Audit Manager for Australian Guarantee Corporation (Westpac
Subsidiary). Australia and Papua New Guinea (1990-1991).
 Internal auditing. Forensic accounting, internal/ external
auditing, evidence and fraud investigation for court appearances
or disciplinary action (1986-1989).
 Established IT Audit and data security function at Sydney
University(1986).
 Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (1987-1990).
 Accounts payable management. Financial statements auditing for
Government enterprises 1975 to 1983.
 Recognition of long service award from CPA Australia (2012).
 Fellow CPA Australia (1998 to current).
 Financial statements audit. (1975-1977)
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