Experience

Selected Interventions

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director - Australia

  • Aug 2022 - Present



SUEZ

• France
• Environmental Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Project Portfolio Management

  • Feb 2016 - Present

  Accountable for managing a portfolio of multi-million-dollar IT projects, to transform the SUEZ business across Sales, Customer Service and Operations, using digital technology to replace ageing on-prem systems with cloud-based technology. Part of the IT strategy and leadership team, my responsibility is working with the executives across the Water, Waste and Energy businesses to understand their strategy and develop a portfolio of projects each year, enabling continuous improvement and business transformation. I also successfully lead the merger of systems, for several business acquisitions. Responsibilities include recruiting and managing multiple project teams of IT staff, business SME’s and vendors. My team are responsible for managing and working with executive sponsors and stakeholders to develop business cases, project planning, budgeting, steering committee and working group engagement, ongoing reporting, business process transformation and change management.Applications include SAP (all modules), Salesforce (all modules), Infor, Data Warehouse, various logistics applications Show less

• Program Manager

  • Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

  Managing multiple projects to integrate the SUEZ Water and Waste business. Migrating the SUEZ Water plant maintenance systems to Infor (Cloud solution) and interfacing to SAP for Procurement, AP and FICO.



BOC South Pacific

• Australia
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Services Manager - Australia and New Zealand

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

  Responsible for IT Systems Infrastructure and Applications, across Australia and New Zealand. Transforming the service management team, aligning to the business strategy, reducing SAP and CRM system outages and increasing SAP system performance.Executive level stakeholder management - understanding business strategy and leveraging IT to increase productivity and add value to CustomersManaging multiple vendors to deliver according to contract, in a fully outsourced environment and invoking penalties when SLA's were not met. Management of Significant incidents in South Pacific, utilising a multi functional team, across Malaysia, India and GermanyDriving ongoing service improvements and managing system enhancements and changes, utilising ITIL processes.Managing infrastructure and software applications projects and enhancements Show less

• SAP Programme / Senior Project Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Oct 2013

  Accountable for managing various multi-million dollar SAP projects, including programme Manager for the data migration and senior project manager across various SAP modules for a major SAP implementation.Responsibilities included executive level stakeholder management, managing multiple project teams, budget accountability, project planning and reporting, vendor and change management, business transformation and project cutover. Programme / Project management also included, developing business cases, project costing, resource recruitment, risk analysis and ongoing risk and issue management, reporting at steering committee meetings, implementing a sustainable support process following go-live and measuring the business benefits.Achievements included:Reducing project cost exposure by changing the data migration strategy and converting all legacy data in an aggressive 6 month time-frame, from design to implementationAbility to take on failing projects / teams and re-motivate them to deliver in a pressurised environment against a tight project scheduleFinalist in RSP busines awards for delivering project excellence Show less



Afrox

• Senior Project Manager

  • 2005 - 2008

  Accountable for managing various SAP projects, including a Greenfields SAP implementation, replacing the legacy Amsoft (American Software) EPR System. This was a staggered implementation of SAP modules, whilst interfacing into Amsoft until the full SAP deployment was complete.Responsibilities included managing multiple project teams, significant change management, vendor and stakeholder engagement, business case development, project planning and budgeting and ongoing reporting, against plan and budget to Steering committee. Achievements:Implemented JIT warehouse management system, reducing inventory costs by 20%.Implemented Product costing and COPA, which provided Customer profitability analysisUpgraded manual plant maintenance system to SAP PM, fully integrated with asset managementAbility to take on Failed Projects / teams and turn them around Show less

• Business Process Improvement Manager

  • 2003 - 2005

  Accountable for IT applications support and enhancementsResponsibilities included regular meetings with business stakeholders to prioritise enhancements and support issues, agree budget and report on progress. Managed team of functional consultants to provide system enhancement specifications and also managed the system support and security teamsAchievements:Implemented methodology to prioritise enhancements across business, based on cost and overall business benefit. The process was agreed and endorsed by the MDLed the winning team on an executive management mini MBA program (ILead) and won a holiday for my family.Developed an IT strategy to align IT to the business strategy Show less

• e-Commerce Project Manager

  • 2000 - 2003

  Responsible for developing an e-commerce strategy and project managing e-commerce projects to assist the business with maintaining a competitive advantage, using new technologyResponsibilities included working closely with the Corporate Communications, Marketing and Key Customer directors to understand the business strategy and align the IS e-commerce projects.Meeting with Customers to understand their requirements and project managing delivery of e-commerce solutions. Vendor engagement and management to deliver technical web based solutions. Managed team of functional consultants to provide system enhancement specifications, web design and EDI solutionsAchievements:Implementation of EDI (automation of orders and invoices between Customers systems and Afrox’s systems), led to a $200k per annum reduction on staff costs at the Customer Service CentreImplementation of an Accounts Payable Vendor Invoice scanning system, reduced Accounts payable staff costs by $100k per annumConsidered EDI industry expert and regularly asked to present at Industry seminarsImplemented an internet webshop, which allowed Customers to place orders, retrieve invoices, pay accounts etc. 24 x 7, which provided a competitive edge over our competition Show less



Life Health Care

• EDI Project Manager

  • 1995 - 2000

  Implement Electronic Data Interfaces to enable Hospital and Patient accounts to be submitted electronically, using middleware (webmethods), to Medical Aids. Automating the ordering of pharmaceutical products, from vendors, based on inventory levels in hospital dispensaries. Implement Electronic Data Interfaces to enable Hospital and Patient accounts to be submitted electronically, using middleware (webmethods), to Medical Aids. Automating the ordering of pharmaceutical products, from vendors, based on inventory levels in hospital dispensaries.



Ciba-Geigy

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• End-User Computing Manager

  • 1992 - 1995

  Established an end-user computing department, providing support for all PC's and software applications and training users on PC based applications Vendor Management of all hardware and software suppliers Automation of manual systems Established an end-user computing department, providing support for all PC's and software applications and training users on PC based applications Vendor Management of all hardware and software suppliers Automation of manual systems