A highly motivated and successful Senior Project Manager with over twenty five years' experience, primarily within the Financial Services, Banking and Telecommunications, industries. A proven track record in leading high performing teams ensuring successful delivery of outcomes
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Commonwealth Bank
05.2015 - Current
End to end project delivery, Stakeholder management, Financial management, Collaboration with internal and external provider groups and vendors to achieve successful project and business outcomes,
Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
Divestments Transition Management - General Insurance Sale to Hollard Day 1.5 Program - Delivered environment connectivity across both organisations, supported Bank Dev teams with new Front and Back end product builds and embedded a very effective Defect triage process across both organisation delivery teams.
Divestments Transition Management - Colonial First State Day 1 program - Collateral and Correspondence Technical Stream Lead - tasked with identifying then updating all Digital and Print.
Divestments Transition Management - Colonial First State Day 1 program - Collateral and Correspondence Technical Stream Lead - tasked with identifying then updating all Digital and Print.
ITD&A – Compute Team I managed a number of End of Support and Risk projects across a range of platforms, Wintel X86, SUN Solaris, HP NonStop and Mainframe, Retail and Wealth (RaW) 2015 resilience program is major systems resilience initiative to reduce operational and business risk while reducing the cost for the business
Senior Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Enterprise Services
11.2008 - 05.2015
Manage end to end project delivery of CBA projects for its infrastructure service requirements, Stakeholder management to Account team and Project Steering Groups, Liaise with CBA and its other vendors such as EMC, Telstra, and Verizon to achieve successful project and business outcomes, Project reporting for status, issues, risks, cost and change, Perform project reviews and provide mentoring to team members for quality project outcomes, Upgrade of CA Workload Automation AE (Autosys) Mid-Range Batch Scheduling software from R4.5.1 to R11.3.6
Project included total environment hardware and software refresh and data migration, Branch Server Decommission Program – Centralised all the infrastructure functions and applications hosted on the branch servers and then decommissioned 1030 branch servers, Core Banking Modernisation – End State Infrastructure - Successfully implemented 3 x IBM series systems and 130+ Unix AIX Virtual servers in a 6 month period, Completed the IBM pSeries transition – refreshed 4 x IBM pSeries systems, including workload consolidation all without critical incidents or service outages to any high profile applications (SAP, Datastage, QualityStage, and Banking Payment Hub), Group Property Relocations Program – managed a team of resources delivering transitions and relocations into the CBA Group Property team.
Senior Project Manager
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
04.2000 - 08.2008
EDS was a major world leader in IT outsourcing and consulting
It was bought out by HP in late 2008
My tenure at EDS during this time period was in the Project/Program Management delivery organisation
I managed a number of the larger Core Infrastructure projects to its customers across the Asia Pacific region
My experience spans the full spectrum of Project/Program management and provision of services to customers, from project origination and scoping to solution implementation, including integration into leveraged IT environments
Technologies include LAN/ WAN, VPN, server, desktop, mainframe/midrange, SAN, internet, data comms, voice and video
Clients included Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Bank of Queensland, Dow Chemical, Westpac, and EDS.
Education
Certifications
Skills
Business outcome approach to problem-solving
Strong communicator both written and oral
Analytical ability and attention to detail
Structured and methodological approach to effective business outcomes
Customer focused and solutions driven
Affiliations
PMP - Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) (2005-current)
Professional Statement
A highly motivated and successful Senior Project Manager with over twenty years' experience, primarily from within the Financial Services, Banking and Telecommunications, industries. A proven track record in leading high performing teams ensuring successful delivery of outcomes.