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Dee Teal

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Senior Project Manager with 10+ years of experience delivering complex enterprise-scale digital solutions. Expert in Agile methodologies, including Scrum Master certification, with proven success managing cross-cultural remote teams across multiple time zones.


Highly skilled at building client trust through transparent communication and consistent delivery. Demonstrated excellence in commercial management, risk mitigation, and scope optimization while maintaining project profitability.


Adept at translating business requirements into technical specifications and guiding teams through successful implementation.


Passionate about building cohesive teams that consistently exceed performance expectations.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Evolution7
01.2023 - Current
  • Leveraging my 10+ years of experience in digital project management to enthusiastically take responsibility for leading the successful delivery of complex digital projects for a diverse portfolio of clients.
  • Straddled the intersection of strategy, design, and technology, to deliver award-winning digital solutions on time, within budget, and to the highest quality.
  • Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
  • Role centred around being primary client liaison, joyfully building strong relationships both internally and externally to execute strategy-led, human-centered outcomes and output
  • Collaborative and transparent management of active tasks and work in progress
  • Regular client communication through regular WIPs and frequent updates
  • Rigorous quality assurance and testing processes
  • Instituted flexible delivery methods tailored to project requirements
  • Built long-term client relationships through exceptional service
  • Provided dedicated Customer Success support
  • Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.

APAC Delivery Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
06.2022 - 10.2022
  • Served as line manager, coach/mentor for regional Project Manager cohort - including feedback, performance, progression
  • Identified knowledge and capability gaps in the discipline and helping to bridge them
  • Collaborated with the commercial stakeholders to devise delivery strategies for new inbound opportunities and with delivery teams, to identify new organic growth ones
  • Contributed to strategic decision making regarding the delivery of client engagements
  • Ensured that standards of practice are being met by delivery teams
  • Served as a point of escalation for project risks and issuess

PM Discipline Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
10.2020 - 06.2022
  • Developed PM performance management criteria and process
  • Set delivery standards of practice and maintenance of documentation, tools and templates
  • Aligned Project Management Discipline progression to Radford Progression framework
  • Served as line manager for global Project Manager cohort - professional feedback, performance, growth and progression
  • Produced and developed the PM handbook documentation and playbooks
  • Applied deep knowledge of Agile and project management best practices to support delivery teams
  • Created and collaborated on activities to build culture and within the company to build remote connection and relationship growth.
  • Helped identify and hire talent across the PM Discipline

PM Team Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
03.2018 - 10.2020
  • Served as line manager for global Project Manager cohort - involving professional feedback, performance, growth and progression
  • Produced and Developed the PM handbook, documentation and playbook
  • Fostered collaboration and connection between PMs to reduce silos and create support networks within the discipline
  • Maintained a shared focus between development of the management practice alongside ongoing responsibility for projects still under my management

Senior Project Manager

Human Made Pty Ltd
10.2016 - 03.2018
  • Supported teams delivering large, complex technology/web projects with significant budgets using project appropriate Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
  • Created and maintained a team culture that facilitated a shared responsibility for successful delivery
  • Coached teams on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project
  • Collaborated to define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements
  • Prepared and facilitated workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs, facilitating meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing
  • Removed impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
  • Assessed the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate
  • Capacity Planning and allocation of resources to project
  • Tracking and Reporting project burn
  • Identifying and tracking Risks and Issues.

Project Manager

XWP Pty Ltd
04.2015 - 01.2016
  • Contracted to XWP as a contributor to the agile migration project in which News Corp's metropolitan and regional mastheads were moved from a legacy CMS to WordPress.
  • Hands on building of 2 of the metro sites (Perth Now and the Herald Sun) building site's pages, ensuring the site layouts were up to spec with design instructions and were successfully ingesting content from the API
  • Moved from the metros to manage the project to migrate the regional mastheads as liaison between the client and the XWP team responsible for building the 7 regional sites

Owner/Operator

The Web Princess
04.2005 - 04.2015
  • Developed and implemented WordPress websites for both small and large Australian businesses
  • Advocate for the Genesis WordPress framework, community contributor
  • Provider of maintenance contracts for websites across medium to enterprise businesses
  • WordPress meetup organiser managing speaker roster, sponsorship, and comms/social media
  • Achievements: Maintained and supported Digital Pulse, a (then) custom WordPress website published by PwC.

Education

Master of Digital Communication and Culture -

University of Sydney
01.2009

Bachelor of Theology - undefined

Southern Cross University
01.2008

Skills

  • Project planning and execution: Senior Level Scrum Master with 10 years experience as a servant leader of agile development, running enterprise scale websites and application development and maintenance projects
  • Client Relationship Management and relationship building dedicated and engaging client liaison, building strong relationships through clear communication, facilitating workshops and meetings to gather requirements, identify growth opportunities, and translate business needs into project specifications
  • Team leadership and coordination: Servant leader of teams across a timezone spread of 65 hours with a cohort of contributors representing 12 different ethnic backgrounds and at least 7 different first languages
  • Commercial management: Oversee project profitability by tracking financial performance, managing scope changes, developing accurate estimates, and contributing to new business development by identifying organic growth opportunities
  • Quality Management: Ensuring deliverables meet benchmarks through robust testing, documentation, and seamless transition to support Maintaining industry best practices and accessibility standards
  • Coaching: Servant leadership of up to 10 individual Project Managers globally through professional development, performance improvement, and agile delivery contribution
  • Talent acquisition: initiating and establishing hiring criteria and evaluation for global agile, digital, project management needs Over 4 years, hired 7 PMs with 1-4 years ongoing tenure
  • Technological Skills: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket, Zenhub, Asana, Forecast, Harvest, Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides), Github, Slack, Zoom, Claude AI, Gemini, ChatGPT

Accomplishments

Led a contract development team that implemented the complex greenfield reimagination of Fairfax’s (Nine Media’s) editorial content system as part of the Fairfax Blue project, a headless WordPress implementation; one of the most significant digital transformations in the Australian media landscape.


Successfully rebuilt client trust by implementing transparent communication, clear project tracking, defined team roles, and consistent status updates. Resulted in a 3 year contractual commitment for ongoing engagement with payment terms 12 months in advance, and maintenance contracts being increased in scope across multiple clients.


Building relationship, and a cohesive team as an empathetic leader in a region that spans a timezone spread of 6.5 hours, which doubled in size over a 12 months from 10 to 20 contributors, and represents 12 different ethnic backgrounds and at least 7 different language groups.


Release Co-ordinator for WordPress v5.6 - facilitator of the all-women and non binary team that released WordPress v5.6 ‘Simone’


Core contributor to the development of PM Discipline as part of the company global leadership team. Responsible for driving skill identification and development, hiring and management of contributors. Close collaboration with the Delivery Director to implement vision for delivery across both professional and product teams.


Created a program to support remediation of an underperforming team member, coaching them through development of their skills, helping them overcome cross cultural boundaries to see them become one of the most consistently high performing PMs in the cohort.


Instrumental in ensuring the 7 regional website migrations for the News Corp SPP regionals project (The Advertiser, The Mercury, NT News, etc.) were delivered on time and to spec.

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master | Scrum Alliance (2012)
  • Facilitation Short Course | Groupwork Centre
  • Leadership Development Coaching | VMAX Consulting
  • Cert IV Workplace Education and Training - BSZ40198
  • Asana Certified Workflow Specialist | Asana

Interests

I’ve been a long term participant in and contributor to the open source community around WordPress which has been a catalyst for both personal and professional development This has allowed me to expand my public speaking and presenting skills, formed relationships that have turned into a career and abiding friendships, and allowed me to leave my fingerprints on WordPress, the software that runs around 43% of the web


There’s something just so uplifting about joining one’s voice with a cohort of others to make melody and harmony It’s good for the soul as well as the ears Singing brought me to Australia from NZ and honing my voice here, learning how to craft harmonies, and blending with a choir of singers has been a bedrock of skills and team development In a choir you learn to listen to everybody, hear when someone needs tuning, and coach the individuals, and then the group to become one voice


If I’m not hiding my office with a Zoom background you’ll see my ridiculous collection of tabletop games on the shelves behind my desk They are beautifully designed, both in terms of game play, and of course to look at, but exploring the worlds they contain are object lessons in strategic thinking, risk management, forward planning, and if we’re playing a co-op, collaboration and working together


I have restored, and use as my daily driver, a 1967 Riley Elf car that I imported from New Zealand… that’s just for fun

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Evolution7
01.2023 - Current

APAC Delivery Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
06.2022 - 10.2022

PM Discipline Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
10.2020 - 06.2022

PM Team Lead

Human Made Pty Ltd
03.2018 - 10.2020

Senior Project Manager

Human Made Pty Ltd
10.2016 - 03.2018

Project Manager

XWP Pty Ltd
04.2015 - 01.2016

Owner/Operator

The Web Princess
04.2005 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Theology - undefined

Southern Cross University

Master of Digital Communication and Culture -

University of Sydney

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