Experience

FMI Building Innovation

• New Zealand
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Services

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the Head of Services role takes overall accountability for the R&D, Testing, Product Development, Technical Services and IT / Software Development teams at FMI Building Innovation.Head of Services responsibilities and priorities:• Create and lead a culture of customer centricity and service.• Ensure customer needs are understood and met and the overall objectives of the business are supported and achieved.• Capably lead a diverse and experienced team of technology, product and customer facing professionals, ensuring all team members are engaged, developed and achieving their individual and team goals.• Proactively manage strong working relationships with both key internal and external customers, ensuring a deep understanding of the needs of the business and the translation of these needs to technical and product solutions to be provided by the teams.• Contribute to the strategic plans of the business from a technology and product perspective and create resultant strategies and roadmaps to framework delivery.• Lead the delivery of all technical, product and business process solutions – from the internal teams or outsourced providers - including advice, infrastructure, systems and products, business and process flow improvements, projects and security.• Develop and manage to a budget that aligns to and supports the overall objectives FMI Building Innovation.

• Head Of Innovation

  • Nov 2019 - Jan 2021

• Head Of Information Technology

  • Oct 2019 - Nov 2019

• Group IT Manager

  • Jun 2019 - Oct 2019



Fairview Windows and Doors

• New Zealand
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group IT Manager

  • Dec 2002 - Oct 2019

  Previous role managing Telecommunications, Infrastructure, Business Systems and IT policy for the Fairview Group of Companies. Peter is an experienced leader who focuses primarily on complex IT projects and implementations. He recently successfully completed the project management and implementation from proof of concept to go-live of our new group wide ERP System (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3). As Customer PM and key Technical lead on this project: • Ultimately responsible for the overall delivery of Dynamics AX ERP to the Fairview Group. • Full and complete ownership of implementation project budget and financial resourcing and reporting. • Responsible for overall governance of the project, reporting directly to senior level stakeholders. • Liaised with internal clients and external consultants during analysis and design workshops. • Defining and documenting the Fairview business integration requirements. • Designing Integration model to integrate Dynamics AX with internally developed business systems. • Data migration (via DIEF) and data cleansing services. • Designed Infrastructure Architecture for Dynamics AX solution (Virtual Services / Scaling & Disaster Recovery Design). • Instrumental in the design, configuration and setup during Fit/Gap Analysis for Finance, Trade & Logistics and integration services. • Setup & Configuration of Fairview Manufacturing process in AX (i.e Production Planning for both BOMs & Routes, Machining, Assembly & Inventory Control). • Full security setup (Process Cycle / Record level security). • Lead on Integration and Infrastructure Track. • Microsoft SureStep Agile implementation methodology & Coaching, • POC design and presentation to the Business Leaders. Additionally, Peter has lead the implementation of the LiSEC glass manufacturing software for the Glass Relate business. Peter's professional background is as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Systems & Exchange) and has a Bachelor of Information Systems.



Diageo

• United Kingdom
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer (Contract)

  • Sep 2001 - Nov 2002

  Contract role based in the Technical Services Division of Global Functions for Diageo plc (FTSE: DGE). Diageo is the largest Alcoholic drinks manufacturer in the UK and a FTSE Top 100 company. Role involved providing 3rd-level systems support for the 'child' companies of Diageo, these being United Distillers and Vintners (UDV), Guinness, Smirnoff and Burger King to name a few. Core duties of the role involved monitoring servers, performing Exchange restores and disaster recovery (when required) and maintaining and building W2K and Citrix servers within the environment. Technical lead consultant on a Cognos business application performance testing project



Smiths Group plc

• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Technical Support Consultant

  • Mar 2001 - Sep 2001

  Contract role assisting in a Company merger of Information Systems into one site. Smiths Group PLC (FTSE Top 100) acquired TI Group and integrated both IT systems. Primary role was providing technical support with a complex Intra-Organisation Exchange 2000 migration. Other tasks included NT/Windows 2000 server admin and support and Exchange & Backoffice administration. During the contract Peter was the Exchange Divisional Administrator for the Smiths Group and a member of the messaging steering committee whose responsibility was overseeing proper controls and configuration practices were in place for the company wide Smiths Group e-Mail system.



Fletcher Building

• New Zealand
• Building Materials
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Administrator (CIS)

  • 1998 - 2001

  Full time role as a systems engineer within the ISG team, responsible for the daily network and server operations of all Fletcher building (Concrete Division) sites. Performed server provisioning, maintenance and disaster recovery. Managed multiple-site Windows Domain / Exchange environment. Primarily Windows NT/2000/Citrix and Exchange 5.5/2000 Environment. Full time role as a systems engineer within the ISG team, responsible for the daily network and server operations of all Fletcher building (Concrete Division) sites. Performed server provisioning, maintenance and disaster recovery. Managed multiple-site Windows Domain / Exchange environment. Primarily Windows NT/2000/Citrix and Exchange 5.5/2000 Environment.