Experience

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  Progressive Politics

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Supporter, Volunteer

    • Jun 2007 - Present
    • Sydney, Australia

    Life is more than just paid work. It's what you do with your other time that probably counts more.

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  Endpoint Consulting

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Senior Technical Analyst

    • Sep 2012 - Jan 2015
    • Sydney, Australia

    Working on project for a water distribution and services company.Bringing phone services inventory under control, achieving major cost savings.

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  PoolWerx Pymble

  • Owner, Manager

    • 2001 - Aug 2008

    Independent Franchisee of Pool Service Business. Up to 3 mobile service vans.Providing regular and on request service, maintenance, repairs, and new equipment for domestic and real estate clients.Dealing with all the standard issues of a small business and an independent franchisee, providing service to a large number of high value, professional domestic customers.Sales, Logistics, People Recruitment & Management, Accounting, Marketing, Business & Commerical Management and Administration

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  QM Technologies

  • Lead Project Manager/Business Analyst

    • 2000 - 2001

    - Established small group, and roles of Professional Business Analyst and Project Manager, between IT group and Sales/Customer Support. - Developed professional process, procedures, policies, models for projects and analysis. - Leader and de-facto manager of group, as well as practicing Project Manager and Senior Business AnalystQMT were transitioning from being an offline print house for bulk/volume business documents (invoices, statements, share documents etc) with very informal IT control, to being connected, with email and internet for output, and job communication with the customer, and a strong emphasis on IT capabilities.Customers included NRMA, Chubb, Caltex, GE Finance and similar large organisations.

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  Praxa

  • Project Manager, Client Engagement Manager (Sydney)

    • 1999 - 2000

    Project Manager for a number of Telco related projectsClient Engagement Management (various sectors of Optus, IBM GSA)Sales Support, Major system Proposals to NZ telco.Significant contribution to development of Praxa Project Methodology & Quality system.

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  Grange Systems

  • Consultant, Project Manager

    • 1998 - 1999

    Corporate Project Management Systems (Artemis – Management by Projects)Pre-Sales consulting, proposals etc to a number of major prospects – Telstra, AMP, NAB, RTA

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  CPS Systems

  • Sales Support, Project Manager, BA

    • 1997 - 1998

    Systems Integration Specialist, e-commerce.Flexible Resource – Project Manager, Consultant, Sales & Pre-Sales, Marketing- Sale of redevelopment of Re-insurance system, with new development tool set.- Pre-Sales Consulting, Presentations, Proposals across several products/projects. Systems Integration, internet, middle-ware. To major corporate and govt clients.- Marketing – Corporate Brochure, Company Video, Product Brochures- Analysis work on • e-Integration / Interaction between Corporate Finance Giant, Agencies and End-Customers. • National Security Applications for Foreign Governments • e-Integration/transaction facilitation for multi-corporate projects- Also significant contributions to Quality Management and Project Methodology.

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  Fujitsu Australia

  • United Kingdom
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Consultant, BA, Project Manager (Sydney)

    • 1991 - 1997

    Major systems integrator, hardware, services. In rapid market transistion from Mainframe Hardware Supplier to Integrated Solutions Prvider.Over 6 years key driver to re-engineer the sales and marketing business process to match the changed business environment.1991-93 Business Applications Consultant, & Software Business Unit Strategic Planning, in National Sales Operations. Part of small National Sales team, changing sales force to providing business solutions, not just IT. Evaluated packages and partners, and developed business plans for software business units acquired, and other prospective and actual acquisitions and partnerships.

  • Consultant, Project Manager, Business Analyst (Sydney)

    • 1991 - 1997

    1996-97 Sen Business Analyst / Project Manager for Requirements to Implementation of Sales division usage of new, externally provided ERP systems (Masterpack). Including Sales oversight of complete system, especially Project Management, Contracts, Services requirements/modules. Formal BPR methods1995-96 Consultant, BA, Project Mgr in IT Strategy group. Consulting with sales divisional managers and business controls management for business requirement, service agreements. Accredited as Sen PM.Established “template” Service Level Agreement models etc to be used by Fujitsu.1993-95 Business Systems Manager (Sales), Senior BA, Project Mgr in National Sales Ops – Drove new Sales business processes and systems to support business change from Mainframe to client/server systems, services etc. Lead member of BPR team and package selection team. Formal training as BPR Consultant, Project Manager.Implemented interim systems for quotation, prod mngmnt, sales funnel mngmnt and reporting.

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  IBM

  • Consultant / Lead Business Analyst (Sydney)

    • 1990 - 1991

    Consultant / Lead Business Analyst. User Requirements, Design of new sales / ordering / pricing / distribution / billing system for new market high volume products. Prime responsibility for Customer, Sales and Pricing processes.External Contractor brought in for expertise in Sales Process.Provided leadership role to less experienced internal Business Analysts.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Senior BA, Project Manager, Sales BA (Sydney)

    • 1987 - 1990

    Senior BA, Project Manager. Internal systems for sales. Including sales bonuses system, high volume products, contract pricing, sales Data Warehousing.External Sales Support – wide range of Business Applications. Including sales systems.

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  Hoskyns

  • Business Analyst, Pre-Sales, Sales, PM (Sydney)

    • 1984 - 1986

    Major UK Software/Systems House.Introduced, Sold (Quota), Marketed & Supported ABT Project Workbench. BA, Pre-Sales, Sales, PM for major ERP Application for major customers – Esso, Burns Philp, Maritime Services, EPT

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  Computer Technology (Australia)

  • Sales Exec

    • 1983 - 1984

    Major ASP, Service provider.Sales of service and hardware solution to specialist Retailers.Most successful sales person in experienced national team.Also Bureau Service for Accounting.

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  Independent Contractor

  • Business Analyst/Programmer, IT Department

    • 1981 - 1983

    Sold own services and contracts, as independent BA/developer. Local Government, Air Freight, Customs, Manufacturing Printer – including Estimating, Quotation, Job Costing/Monitoring & Sales Reporting systems.Major Development of Comprehensive Enterprise System for Interpack (Manufacturing Printer - subsidiary of Unilever sold to Visyboard).Was recognised as Assistant Accountant for managing major changes in Accounting Methods.

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  PACE (Australia)

  • Support Manager; Sales BA

    • 1980 - 1981

    Integrated ERP systems, mid-size businesses. Also Credit Union systems. Team Manager and Lead BA of Implementation and Support Team. Client Management, Sales Support

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  Datec Pty Ltd

  • Sydney

  • Business Analyst, Project Leader (Sydney)

    • Aug 1977 - 1980
    • Sydney

    Consulting and Development Systems House.Variety of Projects, for a variety of customers.Typically - Business Analysis, then on-site Project Leader for development and implementation of package based comprehensive accounting and inventory systems.

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  Software Sciences

  • Junior Consultant

    • 1972 - 1974

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  Canoe Polo, Sydney,NSW, Australia, International

  • 1982 - 2004, Chief Organiser, Player

    • 1901 - 1901

    Was introduced to the sport around 1982. At that time it was very much a fun, recreational activity.By 1984 I was in charge of the sport in NSW and Australia. Changed it into a real, highly competitive, fast growing sport. Including driving or managing changes to Rules, Equipment, National and Local Competitions, Organisation, Promotion, Sponsorship, Refereeing etc. As well as local level management and involvement.During 1985 to 1987 I drove the development of international rules for the sport, acceptance by the International Canoe Federation.Drove international competition, managing Australian Teams to Europe and Hong Kong, and organising international competitions in Australia.With the achievement of World Championships from 1994 I stepped back my involvement, but remained invovled when needed up to around 2000. Last played around 2004, though still have ambitions of playing in the 2009 World Masters Games in Sydney.