Experience

ReleasePoint

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Consultant

  • Jul 2007 - Present

  Chris' role is extremely varied and requires a hands-on approach to managing client relationships. His role is to provide strategic and operational expertise to ReleasePoint clients. He assists our clients to develop resourcing strategies, which are aligned to their business goals, and design resourcing blueprints and transformational roadmaps. As their trusted advisor, Chris ensures suitable resourcing solutions, enabling clients to achieve cost savings, implement best practice processes and establish scalable, innovative, testing delivery structures. Show less



ReleasePoint/Dep't of Child Protection

• Project Manager - Testing

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2009

  The main responsibilities associated with this role were to: - Define and implement the Test Strategy and Approach. - Estimate the associated team effort and technical resources required, acquire and assign resources. - Develop/maintain the Project Testing schedule. - Review and optimise testing strategies according to issues, risks, business benefits and opportunities that arise throughout the course of the project. - Build and maintain stakeholder relationships. - Supervise/undertake the testing preparations (planning/writing test cases) and test execution efforts. - Provide technical expertise with the design of deliverables and the associated procedures. - Focus on business risks and benefits when prioritising the applications to be tested. - Report on testing progress, the quality of the components tested, the number of errors found and resolved, testing productivity, risks, issues and performance against schedule and budget. - Liaise closely with the Project Director and Project Manager, to provide direction in resolving issues, active involvement in the end to end delivery of the application. - Control the scope of the Testing, ensuring that all applications progress through the system and user acceptancetesting phases. - Maintain testing records according to Procedures and Standards. Show less



ReleasePoint/Murdoch University

• Test Coordinator

  • Mar 2007 - Jun 2007

  The main responsibilities associated with this role were to: - Assist with defining and implementing the Test Strategy and Test Plan. - Develop/maintain the Project Testing schedule. - Build and maintain stakeholder relationships. - Verify requirements have been met, end-to-end business processes supported and deployed systems “fit for purpose” - Supervise/undertake the testing preparations (planning/writing test cases) and test execution efforts. - Determine business risks and benefits when prioritising the applications to be tested. - Report on testing progress. - Liaise closely with Project Manager, to provide direction in resolving issues, in the end to end delivery of the application. - Control the scope of the Testing, ensuring progression through the system and user acceptancetesting phases. Show less



Fujitsu

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant/Test Manager WA Police Service

  • Jul 2005 - Mar 2007

  The main responsibilities associated with this role were to: - Define and Implement the Test Strategy and Approach. - Estimate the associated team effort and technical resources required, acquire and assign resources. - Develop/maintain the Project Testing schedule/budget. - Review and optimise testing strategies according to issues, risks, business benefits and opportunities that arise throughout the course of the project. - Build and maintain stakeholder relationships. - Supervise/undertake the testing preparations (planning/writing test cases) and test execution efforts. - Provide technical expertise with the design of deliverables and the associated procedures. - Have a focus on business risks and benefits when prioritising the applications to be tested. - Report on testing progress, the quality of the components tested, the number of errors found and resolved, testing productivity, risks, issues and performance against schedule and budget. - Liaise closely with the Project Director/Project Manager, to provide direction in resolving issues, active involvement in the end to end delivery of the application. - Control the scope of the Testing, ensuring that all applications progress through the testing phase. - Maintain testing records according to Procedures and Standards. Show less

• Consultant/Systems Delivery Analyst WA Police Service

  • Feb 2005 - Jul 2005

  The main responsibilities associated with this role were to: - Perform requirements gathering and elicitation with the business owners and users. - Investigate security and auditing requirements for the relevant system. - Perform a current situation assessment on the relevant system. - Construction of Report Design and Unit Task documents. - Negotiate with business owners over the scope of work being committed to and consequently, documented in Project Deliverables. - Provide business support to the SQL/DTS programmer, Report Developer and Mainframe Developer. - Provide business process and use case scenarios to the testing team. - Delivery of project deliverables on time and to required quality level. - Development of quality components that meet the documented requirements. - Development of positive working relationship and rapport with business owners and users benefiting the project. Show less