Experience

EMA Advisory

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Consultant - Commercial

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  As a Principal Consultant I will be working directly with government and non-government clients to assist them to manage commercial risk across the capability and procurement life cycles. I will provide commercial advice to clients assisting them with tasks including procurement, contracting, and commercial support. As a Principal Consultant I will be working directly with government and non-government clients to assist them to manage commercial risk across the capability and procurement life cycles. I will provide commercial advice to clients assisting them with tasks including procurement, contracting, and commercial support.



Projects Assured

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Oct 2018 - Nov 2022

  David is a senior consultant at Projects Assured, providing strategic and complex procurement, contract management, commercial management, and project management support to a range of federal government clients in the National Security and Law Enforcement domain. David’s engagements include the provision of strategic and complex procurements supporting the Australian Government in maintaining a number of critical technology and logistic contracts and services. David provided management and facilitation of the approach to market, the development of all procurement lifecycle documentation, and the facilitation and management of strategic negotiations to finalise the contracts in time critical processes and with limited existing documentation. Recently David designed and planned a large logistic strategic procurement including review of the existing contract and its previous procurement approach. David drafted the strategic approach to identify the key issues and lessons learned, and the procurement options for the new services. Once endorsed, David then drafted the procurement planning documentation, the service requirements, the statement of work, the initial services contract, the tender evaluation approach and criteria, and the request for tender documentation. David as part of the Projects Assured Procurement and Contract Management Team identified a number of existing arrangements requiring contract management actions to extend or vary these contracts, including one where a new approach to market was required before the end of the financial year. David’s activities included analysing the approach to market, procurement strategies and methodologies, cost modelling, procurement evaluation, developing tender documents including contract documentation (non-legal), reviewing services levels and key performance indicators, David facilitated negotiation planning and contract finalisation. Show less



XTEK Limited

• Australia
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • May 2017 - Sep 2018

  Project Management of the Land 129 Acquisition Project for XTEK. David played a significant role in a complex and challenging end to end project to deliver a new Defence Small Unmanned Aircraft System capability to the Australian Armed Forces. He successfully managed the project and its deliverables including the management and coordination of the US sub-contractor manufacturing the drones and also the Defence Project Team and its requirements. David developed all of the required documentation deliverables and managed the project schedule, risks, issues and reporting requirements. David drafted and negotiated the contract variations for the prime, support and sub-contractor agreements to ensure all services, deliverables, key performance indicators and the quality of works required were met. Show less



Cogent Business Solutions

• Australia
• Security and Investigations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Jun 2015 - May 2017

  Key Responsibilities• ICT Project Management;• ICT Contract Management;• ICT Procurement; and• Business Operations.

• Senior ICT Project and Operations Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Sep 2016

  Project Focus – ICT System Support and Maintenance, Application and database Development and enhancementKey Responsibilities:o operational management of the commercial team providing through life support to the Pharmaceutical Benefits System, and in the development of new capabilities and enhancements; o design and implementation of the project and team methodologies and processes;o design and implementation of the project's documentation deliverables;o provision of level 2 and 3 maintenance and support to the system including Level 2 Help Desk and interface to Level 1 support operations;o tracking and managing support issues and providing resolution to service level agreementso implementation of major changes and enhancements including business analysis; design; application and database development; system and integration testing; user acceptance testing documentation, assistance, training and support; and deployment documentation, packaging and support;o project risk and issue management and reporting;o change and configuration management;o providing project reporting including written and oral briefings and presentation to management and stakeholders as required; ando stakeholder communications and management. Show less



Queensland Health

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior ICT Contract Manager

  • Dec 2009 - Jun 2015

  Industry Engagement, Procurement and Contract Services (IEPCS) provides the Health Systems Information Agency (HSIA) with specific expertise relating to GITC contracts, external supplier contract administration and contract management services including the negotiation of software licensing, software development and other service and support arrangements. IEPCS provides assistance to business areas through skills and experience in: • business contract drafting and review; • business contract variation drafting and review; • business contract operational issues resolution; • business analysis; • portfolio and program management; • project management; • provision of assurance to executives and delegates on procurement and contracts activities being undertaken; • procurement strategic and operational planning; • procurement operations advice, assistance, drafting and review; • business analysis and requirements review; • ICT support operations analysis and advice; and • ICT project operational support and advice. Show less



Cogent Business Solutions

• Australia
• Security and Investigations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Apr 2006 - Nov 2009

  Key Responsibilities • ICT Project Management; • ICT Procurement; and • ICT Requirement and business analysis; Significant Roles • Management of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) ICT Support Tender providing outsourced support and operations to the ACCC. Responsibilities included developing requirements, statements of work, service level agreements, facilitating the tender evaluation and contract negotiations; • Management of the ACCC Fuelwatch Tender including developing requirements, statements of work, service level agreements, facilitating the tender evaluation and contract negotiations; • The provision of ICT procurement advice and assisted for tender processes for Defence, Immigration, ComSuper, AHM and AusTrade; and • The developed as part of a team, standard data definitions for Defence enterprise management systems. Show less



Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

• Canberra, Australia

• ICT Project Manager

  • Apr 2005 - Mar 2006

  Project Focus – ICT System Development Key Responsibilities • manage the project, resources and stakeholders; • design and implementation of the project governance structure and its project management methodology and processes; • drafted key requirements documents and the project’s statement of work; • design and implementation of the project’s documentation deliverables; • financial planning, budget modelling and reporting; • project finance and process administration; • project risk and issue management and reporting; • change management; • configuration management; • quality management; • planning and management of the project’s acquisition and source selection processes including the management of the tender process, evaluation and contract negotiations; • providing project reporting including written and oral briefings and presentation to management and stakeholders as required; and • stakeholder communications and management. Show less



InTACT

• Canberra, Australia

• Project Manager ICT Infrastructure

  • Jul 2004 - Apr 2005

  Project Focus – ACT Government ICT Infrastructure Upgrade and Replacement Key Responsibilities • management of ICT infrastructure projects in accordance with InTACT project methodologies; • development and coordination of business solutions for ACT Government Agencies; • development of processes and procedures for dealing with small projects; • development and implementation of project plans including schedules, budget estimates and invoicing, and reporting; • project risk and issues management, change management and quality management; • management and coordination of matrix resources; and • customer and stakeholder management. Show less



Logistic Solutions Australasia

• Canberra, Australia

• Installation Project Manager

  • Apr 2004 - Jul 2004

  Project Focus – Defence EDRMS Deployment Key Responsibilities • management of installations of Defence Records Management System (DRMS), using contract and civilian personnel, in accordance with DRMS project methodologies; • development and implementation of project plans including schedules, support, training, configuration management, risk management, quality management, data migration and documentation; • coordinate the activities of the implementation team, including the conduct of the scoping activities, infrastructure installation, business analysis, training and data migration; • manage the resourcing requirements for each DRMS implementation; and • manage the commissioning of the DRMS capability including ensuring the update of system documentation and the transition into support. Show less



Logistic Solutions Australasia

• Canberra, Australia

• ICT Project Manager

  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2004

  Project Focus – Defence ICT Database Management System Development, Operations and Support Key Responsibilities • be responsible to the project executive for the management of the Army Capability Management System (ACMS) Project and ensure that the ACMS project produces the required products, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost as stipulated by the project executive; • ensure that the project products are capable of achieving the benefits stipulated in the approved business case, and the approved functional requirements documents; • ensure the project is managed in accordance with relevant government and departmental standards and policies and those processes and practices stipulated by the Defence Material Organisation (DMO); • manage the project, resources and stakeholders; • design and implementation of the project governance structure and its project management methodology and processes; • design and implementation of the project’s documentation deliverables; • financial planning, budget modelling and reporting; • project finance and process administration; • project risk and issue management and reporting; • change management; • configuration management; • quality management; • providing project reporting including written and oral briefings and presentation to management and stakeholders as required; and • stakeholder communications and management. Show less



Australian Army

• Australia
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Commissioned Officer Australian Regular Army

  • 1982 - 2002