Organisation:
 
 
 

AMP

Project:

Wealth Protection

 

Role:

Portfolio Manager

 

Overview:

To remain competitive, AMP need to regularly review their insurance (Wealth Protection) products to ensure they meet customer requirements and stay ahead of the competition   

Tasks:

·      Work with product manager (Business Owner) to define and implement changes to insurance (Wealth Protection) products.

·      Manage requirements for, and present to, Steering Committee.

·      Facilitate workshops (brainstorming sessions) with the business to gather new ideas for conversion into initiatives.

·      Liaise with IT NZ and IT Australia to implement changes to internal software.

·      Manage requirements for other internal stakeholders including product, actuarial, marketing and legal.

·      Manage relationship with external stakeholders including software vendors, mail house and web designers.

·      Manage a team of BAs.

·      Manage project in line with AMP project management methodology.

 

Organisation:

Project:

Salesmart

  

Role:

Project Manager

  

Overview:

The BNZ captured information pertaining to investments and insurance within a registry system called Talisman. Management required BI reporting on the performance of the business.

  

Tasks:

·      Liaise with BNZ management on budgets and project requirements.

·       Facilitate workshops .

·       Manage stakeholder communication within BNZ.

·       Manage team to deliver front end, database, ETL and reporting requirements.

·       Production of project management reports including Gantt charts, progress summary, etc.

·       Oversee design of data warehouse.

·       Oversee design for Business Objects universes.

  

 

Organisation:

Project:

LoanCare

  

Role:

Project Manager

  

Overview:

LoanCare was the final module of the Talisman application. The BNZ had made several attempts to install the final module, but had been forced to shelve the project as incomplete. Dominic was the 8th project manager to attempt implementation. In particular the relationship with the external software vendor had become strained and Dominic brought a new focus and approach to the project enabling it to succeed on schedule.

  

Tasks:

·      Manage BNZ team.

·       Advise on technical strategies for implementation.

·       Manage communications for both internal and external stakeholders. These included BNZ’s core banking and billing teams, external mail house, external software developers, and BNZ’s DBAs and developers.

·       Report to steering committee together with production of appropriate progress reports.

 

Organisation:

Project:

Enterprise Transformation Programme – Operational Reporting

  

Role:

Project Manager

Overview:

Housing New Zealand Corporation have embarked on a major enterprise transformation programme which includes implementing new software to manage assets, financial, and customer/tenant interfacing. Many tasks that were previously manual (spreadsheet) have now been automated and as a result there is a new requirement for operational reporting from the various systems.

  

Tasks:

·      Create project charter

·       Develop terms of reference

·       Scope size of project

·       Engage stakeholders

·       Conduct workshops

·       Manage BA/Developer resource

·       Manage different phases of project

  

  

Organisation:
 
 
 

Lexel

Project:

Mail House IT Project Management

 

Role:

Project Manager

 

Overview:

Manage multiple mail house IT projects for major clients, simultaneously, for a Lexel client.

 

Tasks:

·      Initiate projects.

·      Build and manage project teams including BAs, TAs and production.

·      Develop project artefacts.

·      Manage schedules, budgets, issues, risks and other key PM activities.

·      Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

·      Manage SDLC from initiation through to final print and mail processing utilising PRINCE2 principles and processes.

 

 

Organisation:

Project:

BI Reporting

  

Role:

Project Manager

  

Overview:

  

Meridian Energy implemented Business Objects and required assistance with production of universes, reports, and standard templates for moving forward within the organisation.

  

Universes were created on top of the data marts that had been developed by Synergy. Standard templates were then deployed, in a structured environment, so that all of Meridian’s reports had a standard look and feel to them.

  

Dominic’s team were also contracted to produce some of the more complex reports. Particularly the board report which covered areas such as lake levels, transmission summaries and overall performance.

  

Tasks:

·      Facilitate workshops for requirements-gathering.

·       Manage development team.

·       Liaise with external vendors including Synergy.

·       Advice on development of standards.

·       Advice on technical aspects of project.

  

 

 

 

Organisation:

Project:

COMPASS

  

Role:

Project Manager

  

Overview:

The initial project was to track air freight for the NZ Post distribution network. This was, and still is, a national implementation of strategic importance to New Zealand Post.

  

Eventually COMPASS went on to also manage surface freight and transfer billing, all of which were projects in their own right.

  

Tasks:

·      Develop documents to respond to tender.

·       Manage team of BAs, developers, and testers.

·       Manage communication with stakeholders such as NZ Post transport management, NZ Post Logistics management, and Datacom.

·       Supervise requirements-gathering workshops.

·       Oversee development of specifications .

·       Manage changes to requirements.

  

 

 

 

Organisation:

Project:

Jetbet Optimisation

  
Role:

Project Manager

  
Overview:
  

Jetbet is NZRBs core wagering system and all channels, whether directly or indirectly, interact with the system for wagering related processing. The system was originally developed in 1979.  Although the system runs extremely well, from time to time emergency patches are required and Dominic was employed to uncover the reason for these arising and put in place measures to prevent.

  

This was a short term assignment where, having identified what was required, Dominic would stand-up a project that would implement measures to solve the existing issues and put in place a sustainable framework to prevent them occurring in the future.

  
Tasks:

·      Interview stakeholders

·       Identify initiatives to solve existing issues (64 in total)

·       Model initiatives to prioritise

·       Workshop estimation and prioritisation with development team

·       Develop stand-up project plan to be implemented using Agile methodology

·       Initiate use case documentation of high risk processes by business analysts

·       Initiate test script audit by test analysts

·       Hire project resource

  

 

Organisation:

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Project:

Implementation of application to gather HR data from disparate government departments for feeding into staging

  

Role:

Project Manager

  

Overview:

Project was for a government department that is collating data into a central database for BI utilisation.

  

Tasks:

·      Manage requirements gathering phase.

·       Oversee development of use case and other pertinent documentation.

·       Advice on technical architecture.

·       Manage BA and developer.

·       Assist with technical aspects of database build.

·       Liaise with management and DBAs.

·       Production of plan and ongoing progress reporting.

  

  

Organisation:

Go to Statistics New Zealand homepage.

Project:

Enterprise Data Warehouse Programme

  

Role:

Project Manager / IQA

  

Overview:

Statistics New Zealand has a major transformation project underway with many upgrades to existing applications as well as a consolidation of data sources. In particular, their enterprise data warehouse is being restructured to provide greater access and understanding of data.

  

Tasks:

·      Work with programme manager to review project artifacts.

·       Engage stakeholders to ensure programme heading in the right direction.

·       Work with architecture and project managers to ensure future direction clearly socialised.

·       Plan for next phase of programme (requirements, resourcing, etc)

·       Develop charters for the next phase.

·      Identify any issues with the programme.

  

  

Organisation:

Project:

Contract Management System

  
Role:

Project Manager

  
Overview:
  

Te Mangai Paho produce tenders for companies to make various radio and television productions reflecting the Maori culture.

  

Extensive meetings were held with key stakeholders to define the current process and to document the various stages undertaken throughout the contract lifecycle. Initially a high level scope document, reflecting the initial tender decision process through to contract negotiation and final contract monitoring and milestone completion, was developed.  The various modules were then prioritised as to the current risk in not having automation and, as a result, how the application should be delivered.

  
Tasks:
  

·      Facilitate workshops to gather requirements.

·       Management of BA to develop high level scoping document, use cases, etc.

·       Creation of WBS to reflect work packages.