Tara Brennan
Brisbane
Summary
Proven Project Manager with a passion for improving the life of all Queenslanders through expert delivery practices.
Overview
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Certification
Work History
Portfolio Delivery Lead - Commercial and Functions
Rio Tinto
- Overall responsibility for delivery of Commercial and Group Functions ICT initiatives across Rio Tinto's APAC East Region
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery leadership, including governance establishment, team resource planning, recruitment and mobilisation, budget and performance management, plan development and management
- Drive meaningful risk and change management controls, identifying, mitigating, and communicating on program risk and dependencies. Establish regular cadences for management review and action.
- Drive engagement and motivation through a strong sense of team, motivating individuals and groups to achieve personal and strategic goals
- Strong stakeholder management; this portfolio is diverse with subject matter ranging from finance and human resources, to commercial applications, group legal and group risk
- These multi-year programs are transforming Human Resource, Central Finance and Core systems globally.
Security Operations Program Manager
- Shape and drive the Cyber Security Program - provide transparency and rigour through the establishment of effective governance - undertake application rationalisation - develop service levels - champion culture and values.
Portfolio Delivery Lead, Accenture
- Responsible for the overall delivery of Accenture Managed Services Technology Projects at APAC East and West hubs at a global mining company
- These hubs deliver complex solutions all over the world, supporting a multitude of businesses.
Delivery Lead, Avanade
- Client Service Manager for a major global mining company, responsible for Collaboration Services application suite service levels (including Application Delivery as a Service & Project Delivery as a Service)
- Successfully delivered business improvement projects, including demand and project management process improvements, and implementation of a project pipeline, while working within strict and complex contractual boundaries
- Successfully led the delivery of robotics process automation, infrastructure improvements, and global SharePoint migration projects.
Program Manager, Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
- Established and led the Child and Family Reform Program Office: a leading office responsible for driving the implementation of 100+ recommendations from the Carmody Inquiry into Queensland
- The Program had a budget of 405m over 5 years, with complex interagency engagement requirements
- Developed the budget submission to cabinet for funding of an ICT Program to support the implementation of associated digital requirements (42m)
- This submission was approved and a program was established and delivered.
eHealth Queensland - Projects Manager
- Responsible for the successful delivery of optimisation projects for the single instance state-wide consolidated medical record (largest instance globally)
- These projects impact thousands of stakeholders State-wide, from doctors, nurses and hospital administrators, to the large majority of the Queensland population, providing vast and measurable benefits to Queenslanders
- The role was also the Delivery Lead for COVID-19 Vaccination contingency solutions stream
- These solutions were required in lieu of readiness of the mass-vaccination solution and supported the Queensland Pfizer hubs to go live from the end of February 2021, meeting all legislative and operational requirements for the federally nominated Cohorts.
Delivery Lead, Residential Tenancies Authority
- Responsible for defining, leading and delivering multiple projects including HR Payroll, Procure-to-Pay, Workforce Management and Robotic Process Automation
- Established and delivered HR Payroll Systems Replacement Project, with Green Go-Live letters of Support from KPMG (external Go-Live assurance) and Crowe Horwath (Internal Audit provider).
Skills
- Program Leadership
- Excellent Communication
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Governance establishment and execution
- Delivery Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
Industries
- Resources
- Government
- Finance
- Transport
- Retail
- Program and Project leadership
- Stakeholder engagement, influence and negotiation
- Strategic planning and execution
- Change & communications
Passionate About
- What else is possible? Always being curious and seeking to find alternate ways to solving perceived problems
- continual growth and improvement - my own and that of our teams
- delivering with purpose - being connected to the end-game and buying in support to drive successes
Certification
PMBOK
PRINCE2
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
Professional Scrum Master (PSMI)
Timeline
Portfolio Delivery Lead - Commercial and Functions
Rio Tinto